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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Aatif Rashid | Portrait of Sebastian Khan
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nSebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major who’s as much a connoisseur of members of the opposite sex as he is of Pre-Raphaelite paintings\, Sebastian starts dating Fatima\, a Muslim American determined to transition smoothly from campus life to a stable white-collar professional career. Sebastian’s membership in Model United Nations\, though\, takes him to college campuses all around North America\, testing his commitment to Fatima and his readiness for adulthood. PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN KHAN is a humorous coming-of-age novel about a charismatic but emotionally stunted Muslim American Don Draper\, who wins as many hearts as he breaks. \nAatif Rashid is the author of Portrait of Sebastian Khan. He’s published short stories in The Massachusetts Review\, Metaphorosis\, and Arcturus\, and nonfiction in The Los Angeles Review of Books as well as online on Medium. He currently writes weekly for The Kenyon Review Blog about fiction writing and literature. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-aatif-rashid-portrait-of-sebastian-khan/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 15\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics & 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. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 15\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-10/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Journalist and Anti-Death Penalty Activist\, Michael Kroll
DESCRIPTION:Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces\, some award-winning\, most of which focus on our own criminal justice system and\, in particular\, the death penalty. Hear him read from his works and discuss his varied interests and memoir-writing experiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-journalist-and-anti-death-penalty-activist-michael-kroll/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES
DESCRIPTION:    \nInsideStorytime QUIDDITIES\, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater)\, Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes)\, Vincent Chu (Like A Champion)\, Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility)\, and others\, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday May 16th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-quiddities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Tony Horwitz: Spying on the South
DESCRIPTION:The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America’s greatest landscape architect\, Frederick Law Olmsted. Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Tony Horwitz for a discussion and book signing of his long-awaited new release\, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. \nFree to attend. \n \nAbout Spying on the South \nIn the 1850s\, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift\, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey\, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. \nFor the Connecticut Yankee\, pen name “Yeoman\,” the South was alien\, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months\, by horseback\, steamboat\, and stagecoach\, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners–white and black\, free and enslaved\, rich and poor–were revelatory for readers of his day and have endured as classic texts for the study of America on the brink of cataclysmic break-up. \nYeoman’s remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape. As a rebuke to the caste-bound ideology of the South’s master class\, Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted’s path-breaking career as America’s foremost landscape architect. \nTony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the angry discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers\, and his own adventures\, Horwitz follows Olmsted’s tracks and often his mode of transport: through Appalachia\, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers\, into bayou Louisiana\, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. \nVenturing\, as Olmsted did\, far off beaten paths\, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges of the Cotton Kingdom and strange new mutations that have sprung from its roots. Spying on the South is also a penetrating and poignant study of Olmsted\, whose destiny was forged by his Southern odyssey. Horwitz’s wise\, intrepid\, and often hilarious journey\, through an outsized American landscape\, is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains\, Bad Land\, and the author’s own classic\, Confederates in the Attic. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 17\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-tony-horwitz-spying-on-the-south/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Amanda Moore\, Ken Haas\, Janey Jennings\, and Barb Reynolds\, curated by Barb Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Amanda Moore\, Ken Haas\, Janey Jennings\, and Barb Reynolds\, 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-amanda-moore-ken-haas-janey-jennings-and-barb-reynolds-curated-by-barb-reynolds/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by Carla Williams-Namboodiri\, open mic\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by Carla Williams-Namboodiri\, open mic\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-carla-williams-namboodiri-open-mic-hosted-by-bruce-bagnell/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Megan Griswold discusses The Book of Help
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 21\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nMegan Griswold discusses and signs copies of The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK OF HELP \nThe Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love\, connection\, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies\, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil\, to academia\, the Ivy League\, and the study of Eastern medicine. \nMegan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture ––  at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later\, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail\, Megan must accept that her many certificates\, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be\, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest\, most growth-insisting journey of her life. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMegan Griswold went to Barnard College\, received an MA from Yale\, and went on to earn a licentiate degree from the Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture. She has trained and received certifications as a doula\, shiatsu practitioner\, yoga instructor\, personal trainer\, and in wilderness medicine\, among others. She has worked as a mountain instructor\, a Classical Five Element acupuncturist\, a freelance reporter\, an NPR All Things Considered commentator and an off-the grid interior designer. She resides (mostly) in a yurt in Kelly\, Wyoming. \n  \nPRAISE\nGriswold’s debut…provides an exhaustive look at alternative treatments\, but wrapped up in that narrative is a personal tale about her own quest to find comfort and healing from the scars of her youth and the tragedy of her divorce….As remedies\, the results were decidedly mixed\, but vicariously living them through her telling makes for a fascinating book. Soul-searching has never been more comprehensive.\n–Kirkus  \nWhen Griswold discovers that her husband has an addiction to phone sex and prostitutes\, her mother tells her this is all good material. Given this\, readers won’t likely blame the author for seeking her own answers….This [book] will appeal to like-minded seekers.\n–Booklist \nGriswold’s vulnerability and deeply honest writing will captivate and bolster readers in their own search for improvement.\n–Publishers Weekly \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n“Megan Griswold’s fantastic memoir is part-medicine for our time\, part-balm for our collective wounds\, part-instruction manual. Unexpectedly hilarious\, self-deprecating\, moving\, and a story for all women in this time\, I couldn’t put it down. I read it aloud to my fiancé\, to our daughter\, to my friends. It’s the book that makes you jog the elbow of the person sitting next to you and say\, ‘You’ve GOT to read this.’ You’ve got to read this. Megan is in touch with where the rest of us may have limped off course.”\n–Alexandra Fuller\, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Before the Rains Come \n“The Book of Help is a homecoming of healing. If you think you know what a memoir is\, this book subverts everything you know. In her honest\, openhearted prose\, Griswold examines her life through remedies\, from the simple to the wild. This book is a tender\, and at times\, a heartbreaking account of what it means to have relationships\, from your parents to your spouse. The Book of Helpwill split you open\, wrench your heart\, and offer a kind of redemption. Griswold’s compassion and humor is on every page\, as she logs her various endeavors to be a loving human in the world. This book is not about being lost and found\, it’s about the voyage our lives take. You are her fellow pilgrim on her journey of grace. A brave and insightful debut.”\n–Nina McConigley\, author of Cowboys and East Indians\, winner of the PEN Open Book Award \n“An inventive\, deeply original plummet into self-exploration that is part emotional repair manual\, part memoir and entirely wonderful. You’ll be wiser for having read it\, feel less alone in the world when you’re done\, and endlessly grateful to Megan Griswold for creating her one-of-a-kind life that lead to this one-of-a-kind book.”\n–Amanda Stern\, author of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life. \n“The Book of Help is a bright\, self-effacing\, celebratory\, gut-wrenching and hilarious chronicle of one woman’s attempt to heal both herself and the parts of the world she intersects. It reminds us\, in these dizzyingly corrupted times\, of the redemption to be found in good friends\, good dogs\, and good therapy\, and urges us to make the world we want to live in. This book is an all-night sleepover ouija board/tarot card/magic eight ball session of delight.\n–Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek  \n“By turns funny and aching\, The Book of Help is Eat\, Pray\, Love on speed. Not even the Buddha was as determined as Griswold to find inner peace.”\n–Patricia Marx\, author of Let’s Be Less Stupid \n“Megan Griswold’s intimate\, chatty\, marvelous voice scooped me up on the first page of The Book Of Help and she never left my side until the last. This open hearted\, soul searching\, intensely readable memoir reminds us that we are far from alone on our journey and how ever much we might want them – there are no finish lines\, just resting stops where we can heal\, learn\, gather strength and\, most importantly\, keep going.”\n–Isabel Gillies\, New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-griswold-discusses-the-book-of-help/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Susie Linfield discusses The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
DESCRIPTION:Cultural critic Susie Linfield presents her lively intellectual history of the political left\, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky. In conversation wtih Steve Wasserman\, publisher and executive director of Heyday. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout The Lions’ Den: \nIn this lively intellectual history of the political Left\, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism\, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political\, the book includes philosophers\, historians\, journalists\, and activists such as Hannah Arendt\, Arthur Koestler\, I. F. Stone\, and Noam Chomsky. In their engagement with Zionism\, these influential thinkers also wrestled with the twentieth century’s most crucial political dilemmas: socialism\, nationalism\, democracy\, colonialism\, terrorism\, and anti-Semitism. In other words\, in probing Zionism\, they confronted the very nature of modernity and the often catastrophic histories of our time. By examining these leftist intellectuals\, Linfield also seeks to understand how the contemporary Left has become focused on anti-Zionism and how Israel itself has moved rightward. \nSusie Linfield teaches cultural journalism at New York University. A former editor at the Washington Post and the Village Voice\, she has written for a wide variety of publications\, including the New York Times\, the Nation\, Dissent\, and the New Republic. Her previous book\, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \nSteve Wasserman\, raised in Berkeley and a graduate of Cal\, is Heyday’s publisher and executive director. He is a former editor-at-large for Yale University Press and editorial director of Times Books/Random House and publisher of Hill & Wang and The Noonday Press at Farrar\, Straus & Giroux. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 22\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susie-linfield-discusses-the-lions-den-zionism-and-the-left-from-hannah-arendt-to-noam-chomsky/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: Cooperman | Kaupang | Ronda | George Bagdanov
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 23\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nPegasus Books Downtown welcomes Matthew Cooperman\, Aby Kaupang\, Margaret Ronda\, and Kristin George Bagdanov\, for a night of shared poetry from their collective works. \n— \nMatthew Cooperman is the author of\, most recently\, Spool\, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press\, 2016)\, Disorder 299.00\, w/Aby Kaupang (Essay Press\, 2015)\, the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World\, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press\, 2013)\, and numerous other books. A Professor of English at Colorado State University\, he is also co-poetry editor for Colorado Review. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife\, the poet Aby Kaupang\, and their two children. \nAby Kaupang is the author of Disorder 299.00 (w/Matthew Cooperman)\, Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me\, Absence is Such a Transparent House\, and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable. She holds Master’s degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy and lives in Fort Collins where she served as the Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. \nMargaret Ronda is the author of two books of poems\, For Hunger (Saturnalia 2018) and Personification(Saturnalia 2019)\, and a critical study\, Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal\, The Columbia Poetry Review\, Pool\, Gulf Coast\, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of California-Davis. \nKristin George Bagdanov earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Colorado State University and is currently PhD candidate in the literature program at U.C. Davis. Her poetry collection\, Fossils in the Making was a finalist in the 2017 National Poetry Series and will be published by Black Ocean in March 2019. Her poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review\, Boston Review\, Zone 3\, Ninth Letter\, Denver Quarterly\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 23\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-cooperman-kaupang-ronda-george-bagdanov/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Nomadic Press Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:The Nomadic Press Open Mic presents six open-mic slots filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis with to-be-announced music and features curated and emceed by Rene Vaz\, fourth Friday of every month\, Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Avenue\, $10 sliding scale\, sign up list opens 7:00 sharp\, 7:00-9:00 (www.nomadicpress.org)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nomadic-press-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Robert Eastwood & Peter Weltner
DESCRIPTION:May 24\, 2019: Robert Eastwood & Peter Weltner\nRobert Eastwood lives in San Ramon\, California. He is the author of Romer (Etruscan Press\, 2018)\, and Snare (Broadstone Books\, 2016). His prize-winning poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies\, such as Oxford Magazine\, New Zoo Poetry Review\, Ekphrasis\, The Dirty Napkin\, Wild Goose Poetry Review\, Full Of Crow\, Legendary\, Up The Staircase Quarterly\, Literary Yard\, Kentucky Review\, Bird’s Thumb\, The Hartskill Review\, Spry\, Loch Raven Review\, Halfway Down the Stairs\, Steel Toe Review and others. His chapbooks include Over Plainsong\, The Welkin Gate\, and Night of the Moth\, published by Small Poetry Press. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. \nPeter Weltner grew up in New Jersey and North Carolina\, graduated from Hamilton College\, and received a Ph.D. from Indiana University.  He taught English Renaissance poetry and prose\, and modern and contemporary British\, Irish\, and American fiction and poetry at San Francisco State University for thirty-seven years\, retiring in 2006. He has published six books of fiction\, most recently The Return of What’s Been Lost (Marrowstone Press\, 2017)\, and fourteen books or chapbooks of poetry including\, most recently\, The Light of the Sun Become Sea(BrickHouse Books\, 2017)\, Unbecoming Time (Marrowstone Press\, 2017)\, and You Wait For Me Where Mountain Peaks Are White As Your Hair (Marrowstone Press\, 2018).  His newest book\, Antiquary: Poems and Stories\, was release this April by Marrowstone Press. His work has been selected for numerous anthologies\, among them two O. Henry’s. He lives with his husband in San Francisco by the Pacific. \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/robert-eastwood-peter-weltner/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190528T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190528T213000
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SUMMARY:Pablo d'Ors: Biography of Silence
DESCRIPTION:Spanish priest and Zen disciple Pablo d’Ors shares insights from his first English translation\, Biography of Silence\, at Pegasus Books Downtown. A publishing phenomenon in Spain\, Biography of Silence is a moving\, lyrical\, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence. \n\n\n\nABOUT BIOGRAPHY OF SILENCE \nWith silence increasingly becoming a stranger to us\, one man set out to become its intimate: Pablo d’Ors\, a Catholic priest whose life was changed by Zen meditation. With disarming honesty and directness\, as well as a striking clarity of language\, d’Ors shares his struggles as a beginning meditator: the tedium\, restlessness\, and distraction. But\, persevering\, the author discovers not only a deep peace and understanding of his true nature\, but also that silence\, rather than being a retreat from life\, offers us an intense engagement with life just as it is. Imbued with a rare beauty\, Biography of Silence shows us the deep joy of silence that is available to us all. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nPablo d’Ors is a Spanish priest and writer. He was ordained in 1991 and received a doctorate in theology in 1996. In 2014\, he founded the Amigos del Desierto foundation with the aim of\npromoting the practice of meditation. In the same year\, Pope Francis made him a consultant of the Pontifical Council for Culture. He has published many books\, both fiction and nonfiction. This is his first English translation.\nPRAISE \n“In accessible language reminiscent of Thomas Merton\, d’Ors’s enchanting book\, a bestseller in Spain\, channels his Catholic spiritual heritage into a persuasive meditation guide for Western readers.” —Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \n“Biography of Silence invites us to stop and catch our breath. Each chapter inspires a hunger for the contemplative silence the author has come to love with such contagious affection. The word ‘God’ is mentioned only a handful of times\, but few books have rendered me more vulnerable to a divine encounter. Pablo d’Ors has given us a literary and spiritual gift.” —Brian D. McLaren\, The Great Spiritual Migration \n“Biography of Silence is a poetic yet baldly honest account of what it means to persevere with meditation.” —Lion’s Roar \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 28\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\ngh silence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pablo-dors-biography-of-silence/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
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SUMMARY:Congresswoman Jackie Speier discusses UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 30\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nCongresswoman Jackie Spier discusses her inspiring and powerful memoir\, Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back. \n“Few people embody resilience like Jackie Speier. She faced unthinkable trauma with courage—and came through it with an unshakable sense of purpose. UNDAUNTED is a remarkable story of survival and strength.” —Sheryl Sandberg\, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.org and OptionB.org \n“Jackie Speier’s life has been nothing short of harrowing and triumphant. UNDAUNTED will move women to persist and have their voices heard in government. It will inspire young women to be our future leaders who serve with conviction and compassion.”\n—Amy Tan\, author of The Joy Luck Club \n“Jackie Speier has lived an incredible life and has passionately dedicated much of it to public service. UNDAUNTED is honest\, eye-opening\, and truly inspiring.”\n—Congressman John Lewis\, civil rights leader\n \nAn inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier. \nJackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan’s delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple in Jonestown\, Guyana. Ryan was killed on the airstrip tarmac. Jackie was shot five times at point-blank range. While recovering from what would become one of the most harrowing tragedies in recent history\, Jackie had to choose: Would she become a victim or a fighter? The choice to survive against unfathomable odds empowered her with a resolve to become a vocal proponent for human rights. \nFrom the formative nightmare that radically molded her perspective and instincts to the devastating personal and professional challenges that would follow\, Undaunted reveals the perseverance of a determined force in American politics. Deeply rooted in Jackie’s experiences as a widow\, a mother\, a congresswoman\, and a fighter\, hers is a story of true resilience\, one that will inspire other women to draw strength from adversity in order to do what is right—no matter the challenges ahead. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 30\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/congresswoman-jackie-speier-discusses-undaunted-surviving-jonestown-summoning-courage-and-fighting-back/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190601T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190601T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
CREATED:20190430T020328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T020328Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2019:\n \n June 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\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)\n\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 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-7/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190601T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190601T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
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SUMMARY:Enrique Chagoya: Aliens
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Jun 01\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nUpstairs on the 4th floor\, at More Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPlease join us upstairs at More Moe’s as we celebrate the publication of Aliens (Kelly’s Cove Press\, paperback\, $25.00). Mr. Chagoya will speak and autograph copies of the book. \nAliens is a timely new monograph of art and pithy texts by the eminent San Francisco artist and Stanford professor Enrique Chagoya. The 128-page book features paintings\, drawings\, lithographs\, and twelve of Chagoya’s singular codices\, with sixteen foldout pages. \nAliens explores some of the artist’s pioneering themes: “Reverse Anthropology” and “Reverse Modernism\,” and is filled with the artist’s brash\, spot-on humor. Aliens is divided in halves\, with two front covers. One half proceeds from left to right and showcases single-page works\, while the other half unfolds from right to left\, in the traditional manner of codices. Although the book is printed on heavy stock in a wide\, landscape format\, it sells for twenty-five dollars. \nChagoya’s art reminds us that we are all aliens; it speaks directly to the absurd and horrifying return to tribalism in our time\, as many lives are threatened and numerous freedoms curtailed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/enrique-chagoya-aliens/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190602T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190602T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
CREATED:20190501T225252Z
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SUMMARY:Ed Coletti poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:Ed Coletti poetry reading
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-coletti-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190602T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190602T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Kit Robinson and James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Kit Robinson’s newest book of poetry is Thought Balloon from Roof Books. Other works include Leaves of Class (Chax\, 2017)\, Marine Layer (BlazeVOX\, 2015)\, A Mammal of Style(with Ted Greenwald\, Roof\, 2013)\, Determination (Cuneiform\, 2010)\, The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems\, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry\, 2009) and more than 20 other books. \nJames Sherry is the publisher of Roof Books\, and has published many books by Bay Area writers\, including Brandon Brown\, David Brazil\, David Buuck\, and Caleb Beckwith. \nHis recent books are Entangled Bank (Chax)\, an experiment in environmental poetics\, and\nThe Oligarch (Palgrave Macmillan)\, a rewriting of Machiavelli that addresses current global politics. He will read from his current work-in-progress\, Selfie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-kit-robinson-and-james-sherry/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
CREATED:20190606T031955Z
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SUMMARY:Catherine deCuir and Robert Schoen present The Rabbi Finds Her Way
DESCRIPTION:About the Book: \n“This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it’s all about.” \nA year after graduating from rabbinical school\, Pearl Ross-Levy lands the job of her life. As Associate Rabbi at Lakeshore Temple in Oakland\, California\, Pearl begins to learn what being a rabbi is all about. \nThrough compelling\, inspiring\, and often funny episodes\, the young rabbi meets a cast of quirky characters and discovers what it means to become a leader in the synagogue community. As Pearl faces the challenges of her new role\, we witness her kindness and compassion as well as her resourcefulness and courage. \nWhether it is caring for her high school classmate (the victim of a serious car accident)\, struggling with the anguish of a man who believes he’s committed a murder\, or bringing the community together to help a lonely cancer patient feel not so alone\, the rabbi teaches us how a little love and caring can affect people in wonderful ways. \nThe Rabbi’s strength and faith grow as she continues to see that God does\, indeed\, work in strange ways. \nAuthor Bios: \nRobert Schoen is the author of On God’s Radar—My Walk Across America and the award-winning book What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nCatherine deCuir is a cantorial soloist\, jazz vocalist\, and fiction writer. She lives in Albany\, California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, July 11\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books on Solano\n1855 Solano Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94707
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catherine-decuir-and-robert-schoen-present-the-rabbi-finds-her-way/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190605T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
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SUMMARY:Poetry of Witness: Documenting what we see and feel
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: MK Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, Judy Bebelaar\, Mary Mackey. 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/poetry-of-witness-documenting-what-we-see-and-feel/
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:20190607T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190607T200000
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SUMMARY:Saretta Morgan and Asiya Wadud
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Jun 07\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nSaretta Morgan is the author of the chapbooks\, Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs\, 2017) as well as a forthcoming full-length collection Plan Upon Arrival (Selva Oscura/Three Count Pour\, 2020). Her work considers privacy and physical space in narrative. Her most recent writing considers Black migration to the southwest\, particularly as it relates to natural resource management\, indigenous erasure and contemporary border policies. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation\, Arizona Commission on the Arts\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, among others. She lives in Phoenix\, Arizona where she volunteers with Mariposas Sin Fronteras and No More Deaths Phoenix. She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. \nAsiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird\, published by Nightboat Books in 2018 and recently completed a collaboration of songs and poems\, day pulls down the sky… a filament in gold leaf\, with Okwui Okpokwasili. Her book Syncope (Ugly Duckling Presse) will be out later this year and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body will be out in 2020. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and leads an English conversation class for new immigrants at the Brooklyn Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saretta-morgan-and-asiya-wadud/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190607T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190607T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
CREATED:20190501T230203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T230203Z
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SUMMARY:Obi Kaufmann - - The State of Water
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Obi Kaufmann to discuss his new new book The State of Water: Understanding Californi’as Most Precious Resource on Friday\, June 7 at 7pm. \nObi Kaufmann\, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas\, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State’s single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book\, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California’s water infrastructure and ecosystems\, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources–a history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. Yet this built world depends upon the biosphere\, and in The State of Water Kaufmann argues that environmental conservation and restoration efforts are necessary not only for ethical reasons but also as a matter of human survival. Offering nine perspectives to illustrate the most pressing challenges facing California’s water infrastructure\, from dams to species revitalization\, Kaufmann reveals pragmatic yet inspiring solutions to how water in the West can continue to support agriculture\, municipalities\, and the environment. Interspersed throughout with trail paintings of animals that might yet survive under a caring and careful water ethic\, Kaufmann shows how California can usher in a new era of responsible water conservation\, and–perhaps most importantly–how we may do so together. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, June 7\, 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/obi-kaufmann-the-state-of-water/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190608T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190608T220000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
CREATED:20190603T135235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T135235Z
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress Women's Open Mic (WOMEN-ONLY event)
DESCRIPTION:WORKS IN PROGRESS\, An Open Mic for Women\na WOMEN-ONLY event\nFeaturing singer/songwriter Karen Mullally \n$7 – $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of 10 prizes\n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance \nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser\, Produced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser. To reserve your open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, in advance. Poetry\, prose\, music\, performance art\, comedy\, all women welcome. Bathroom is unfortunately not accessible\, but the rest of the venue is. Scent-free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/works-in-progress-womens-open-mic-women-only-event/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linda Zeiser":MAILTO:ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190608T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190608T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
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SUMMARY:Faith G. Harper: Unf#ck!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Jun 08\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nMoe’s welcomes Faith G. Harper\, author of Unf#ck Your Brain and Unf#ck Your Adulting\, as well as This is Your Brain on Anxiety and Depression\, and ( just out from Microcosm Publishing) Unf#ck Your Intimacy and Coping Skills. \nFrom the Author: \nHi\, I’m Faith. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and board supervisor in the State of Texas\, experienced with individual\, family\, and group work in both community mental health settings and partial hospitalization programs. I am also a certified sexologist and nutritionist. \nI adhere to both state regulations for Licensed Professional Counselors\, the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics\, and the NBCC Code of Ethics. \nMicrocosm Press has published many of my zines on various topics\, and they are also publishing my books UNF**K YOUR BRAIN and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON ANXIETY. I also write for Dysfunksion Magazine and for Out in SA Magazine as the Intimacy Dr. I am also responsible for the TedX talk “Shame\, Sex\, and Silence\,” which can be found on YouTube. \nI am married to the writer Joseph E. Green. He likes fideo and bunnies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/faith-g-harper-unfck/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190610T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
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SUMMARY:New Literary Genre--Senior Adult--launches in Rossmoor
DESCRIPTION:With his 16th novel\, “The Third Half of Our Lives\,” Jon Foyt\, age 87\, will launch his book and with it a new literary genre for senior writers and readers–Senior Adult\, at the Historic Dollar Clubhouse in the 10\,000-population active adult retirement community of Rossmoor in Walnut Creek on June 10th at 5 PM. The Rossmoor Drama Club will  perform an extract.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-literary-genre-senior-adult-launches-in-rossmoor/
LOCATION:Stanley Dollar Clubhouse\, 1015 Rossmoor Parkway\, Walnut Creek\, 94595
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Published Writers of Rossmoor":MAILTO:jonfoyt@mac.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190610T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Jun 10\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nJoin us for a very special early Father’s Day event. Michael Chabon will read from “Pops”\, due out soon in paperback. \n“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani\, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt\, humorous\, insightful\, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood. \nFor the September 2016 issue of GQ\, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon\, then thirteen\, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style\, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season; Chabon Sr.\, whose interest in clothing stops at “thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties\,” sat idly by\, staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing was a massive waste of time. Despite his own indifference\, however\, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and from fashion shows was a deep respect for his son’s passion. The piece quickly became a viral sensation. \nWith the GQ story as its centerpiece\, and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction\, Pops illuminates the meaning\, magic\, and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-pops-fatherhood-in-pieces/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190610T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190610T200000
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special early Father’s Day event. Michael Chabon will read from “Pops”\, due out soon in paperback. \n“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani\, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt\, humorous\, insightful\, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-pops-fatherhood-in-pieces-2/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190612T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T193934
CREATED:20190603T134728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T134728Z
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SUMMARY:An evening with Ishmael Reed
DESCRIPTION:Time is a pendulum. \n  \n Not a river.  \n  \n More akin to what goes around comes around. \n  \n–Ishmael Reed\, Mumbo Jumbo \n  \nIshmael Reed has asked Theo Konrad Auer to organize a poetry reading with him\, and also to make it good. \nAuer has carefully thought about it and decided to have a group reading rather than just Reed and himself. Auer aims toward addressing the culture and decontextualizing history. With that in mind\, he has approached several leading lights from the fervent literary community\, those being Ishmael Reed\, Maw Shein Win\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Paul Corman- Roberts\, and some of Ishmael’s students. Among them\, there is a Guggenheim fellow\, a couple of laureates\, an American Book award winner and a guy who helped start the Art Murmur. \nThis group of people\, younger writers\, elders and those who are firmly mid-career\, hope to serve as an informal survey of this place and time. \nPro Arts & COMMONS is honored to co-host the group of intellectuals with Kalahati Projects. The poetry reading is on Wednesday\, June 12\, 7- 9 PM. It’s free and open to public. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-ishmael-reed/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:Louise Aronson\n\n\n\n\npresents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. \n“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy\, transcendence\, and meaning\, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight\, philosophical wisdom\, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.”–Abraham Verghese \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Elderhood by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 13\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than 5\,000 years\, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood\, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before\, we’ve made old age into a disease\, a condition to be dreaded\, denigrated\, neglected\, and denied. \nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks\, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients\, and draws from history\, science\, literature\, popular culture\, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy–a vision full of joy\, wonder\, frustration\, outrage\, and hope about aging\, medicine\, and humanity itself. \nElderhood is for anyone who is\, in the author’s own words\, “an aging\, i.e.\, still-breathing human being.” \nLouise Aronson\, MD\, is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness and a geriatrician\, educator\, and professor of medicine at UCSF\, where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, Dr. Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work\, teaching\, educational research\, and writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations\, her articles and stories have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, Lancet\, and Bellevue Literary Review. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-aronson-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Adam David Miller
DESCRIPTION:Adam David Miller reads his poems\,\nfollowed by an interview and discussion \nAdam David Miller has worked in northern California for four decades as a teacher\, writer\, poet\, editor\, publisher\, and radio and television producer. He has won many awards\, including the Bay Area Writing Project’s Teachers as Writers Lifetime Achievement Award. Elise Peeples will be joining her husband for this presentation. \nA free chapbook is available at Berkeley Public Library branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-adam-david-miller/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Ingersoll":MAILTO:gingersoll@cityofberkeley.info
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