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SUMMARY:Impromptu writing online via Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly akin to being together in “real life” (!!) and offers the added bonus of seeing each participant as though we are sitting across from each other. \nWe do short\, timed writings together from writing prompts (or from words drawn from the magic word pouch!). We read our impromptu work out loud and receive good\, specific feedback from the group\, words or phrases that strike people\, images\, feelings the work evokes. (There is no critique\, no advice for strengthening the writing\, because this is spontaneous writing\, not polished work.) This is a great chance to encourage agile writer’s minds\, to stretch\, to bypass our critic and censor\, practice sharing our impromptu work\, grow larger in ourselves. I think you’ll find these online sessions can be surprisingly warm and filled with lovely connections. 🙂 \nRegister here on Meetup:\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Desert-People-Writing-Together/events/265241826/ \nAbout the leader of this session\, Riba Taylor\nI’m in my 18th year of teaching community college English and have been leading on-the-ground spontaneous writing groups for the past 2-1/2 years at the Cathedral City library (near Palm Springs). For more details about me and writing\, please scroll down on this page to “About the retreat leader”:\nhttps://499words.org/retreat/ \n(All times are Pacific time.)
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:SoMa Lurk Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join on First Friday. \nBook description:\nSoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents\, channels\, and writes from the many physical\, cultural and economic changes the Bay Area has undergone since 2015. \nAbout the author:\nJosé Vadi is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and producer based in Oakland\, California. His previous poetry chapbooks include Marrow (Discantbelife Press). His work has been featured by the PBS NewsHour\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, McSweeney’s\, New Life Quarterly\, and Catapult. (josevadi.com | @vadiparty)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soma-lurk-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Project Kalahati\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T230000
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SUMMARY:Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book\, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a small reading and a big party. \n“Whether writing about dry-cleaned gorilla suits or stillborn infants\, cigarettes or hammers\, moonshine or ashrams\, Sarah Kobrinsky balances with grace on a tightrope strung between the human platforms of the ridiculous and the sublime. Honest\, lyrical\, irreverent\, and profound\, these are poems honed by the blade of awareness and engraved with empathy. ” \n-Elizabeth Rosner\, author of Survivor Cafe\, and the Speed of Light
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nighttime-on-the-other-side-of-everything-book-launch/
LOCATION:Jered’s Pottery\, 5743A Horton St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T150000
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SUMMARY:50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt
DESCRIPTION:50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\nSunday\, November 3\, 2pm – 3pm \nPegasus families\, come join author Wendy Gorton for an afternoon of adventure with your littles! \nWe will: \n-Read an adventure storybook\n-Read a local map\n-Plan our adventure!\n-Take photos and identify scavenger hunt plants out front and try a fun identification app on a phone\n-Trace plants and sketch in a provided nature journal\n-Read “”50 Hikes with Kids” to plan your next adventure!\n-Sign books \nA Love of Nature Starts Here! \nCalifornia kids live in a magnificent natural playground\, and 50 Hikes with Kids California helps them explore its beaches\, deserts\, mountains\, and forests. Scavenger hunts for every hike make it fun for families to learn about the region’s geology\, flora\, and fauna. For successful adventures with even the youngest trekkers\, award-winning author Wendy Gorton includes a detailed map\, trustworthy and intuitive directions\, a difficulty rating\, restroom info\, and places to grab a snack nearby for every trip. \nWendy Gorton holds a master’s degree in learning technologies and is a former classroom teacher. She has worked as a National Geographic Fellow in Australia researching Tasmanian devils\, a PolarTREC teacher researcher in archaeology in Alaska\, an Earthwatch teacher fellow in the Bahamas and New Orleans\, and a GoNorth! teacher explorer studying climate change via dogsled in Finland\, Norway\, and Sweden. Today\, she is a global education consultant who has traveled to more than fifty countries to design programs\, build communities\, and train other educators to do the same. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, November 3\, 2019 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/50-hikes-with-kids-reading-and-nature-scavenger-hunt/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T183000
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SUMMARY:Raina Telgemeier
DESCRIPTION:Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT\n\n\n\n\npresents Guts\, a true story from the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile\, Sisters\, Drama\, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny tale about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–her fears. \nThis event is now SOLD OUT. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRaina Telgemeier has been captivating readers young and old for years\, and once again she brings us a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–your fears. She is the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile and Sisters\, which are both graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts\, and is the adapter and illustrator of four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels. Telgemeier lives in the Bay Area. To learn more\, visit her online at goRaina.com. \nDuring this evening event\, sponsored by Mrs. Dalloway’s and Berkwood Hedge School\, Telgemeier will give a dynamic presentation and answer audience questions\, and ticketholders will have the opportunity to meet her and take a photo together after the event. \nBooks will be distributed at the event\, including a special signed book plate. Those who wish to pick up their books before the event can do so at Mrs. Dalloway’s\, 2904 College Ave in Berkeley\, (510) 704-8222. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way @ Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raina-telgemeier/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 5\, 2019 at 6:30pm\nJane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres\nA Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club\n2101 Webster St.\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\nPoems in Defense of Our Planet: Please join us at Sierra Club’s national headquarters in Oakland\, CA as we hear two insightful poets read their inspiring work to support Sierra Club’s mission to protect the world we love. Beer\, wine\, and small bites will be served. \nRSVP and Donate Here \nCan’t make it? To make a tax-deductible donation through Sierra Club Foundation\, click here. Thank you. \nJane Hirshfield’s ninth\, forthcoming poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf\, 2020)\, centered on the crises of climate and biosphere\, and on our interconnection with one another and all beings.  She is the founder of #PoetsForScience\, a project originating with the first March For Science in D.C. in 2017\, and the author of two now-classic books of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as Poetry Center and California Book Awards. The Washington Post has named her “among the modern masters” and the New York Times called her last book\, The Beauty\, “a deep well of wisdom.” \nEllery Akers is the author of two award-winning poetry books\, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth. Her new poetry collection\, Swerve: Environmentalism\, Feminism\, and Resistance\, is forthcoming in January from Blue Light Press.  She has won thirteen writing awards\, including the Poetry International Prize and an Independent Publisher Book Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in such journals as Poetry and The New York Times Magazine.  She is also the author of a children’s novel\, Sarah’s Waterfall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ellery-acres-a-benefit-reading-for-the-sierra-club/
LOCATION:Sierra Club National Headquarters\, 2101 Webster St\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\, CA - California
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 6\, 730pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nTamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50\,000-Year History of Human Culture\, Conflict\, and Connection. \n  \nABOUT \nFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history\, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age \nTraveling across millennia\, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant\, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won)\, geographic (farmers thrive)\, or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. \nMany thousands of years ago\, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness\, we began inventing stories–to organize for survival\, to find purpose and meaning\, to explain the unfathomable. Ultimately these became the basis for empires\, civilizations\, and cultures. And when various narratives began to collide and overlap\, the encounters produced everything from confusion\, chaos\, and war to cultural efflorescence\, religious awakenings\, and intellectual breakthroughs. \nThrough vivid stories studded with insights\, Tamim Ansary illuminates the world-historical consequences of the unique human capacity to invent and communicate abstract ideas. In doing so\, he also explains our ever-more-intertwined present: the narratives now shaping us\, the reasons we still battle one another\, and the future we may yet create. \nPRAISE \n“A beautifully written world history focused on the stories different civilizations have told about who we are. It ends with a fundamental question: In today’s extraordinary world\, can we build new narratives that are inclusive and global enough to encourage worldwide cooperation in the task of building a better future for humanity?”―David Christian\, distinguished professor\, Macquarie University\, Sydney\, Australia\, and author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History and Origin Story: A Big History of Everything \n“Tamim Ansary has done it again\, writing an expansive\, wonderfully readable account of our present world. With deft examples drawn from across history\, he skewers the idea that there’s anything pure about culture or race. Ideas have blended and meshed across space and time to make the modern world what it is. Ansary is a charming guide to this blesh of civilizations\, and to the world’s permanent-and hopeful-capacity for change.”―Raj Patel\, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System \n“Brimming with essential insights and yet always approachable\, this is the global history we need now.”―Lynn Hunt\, author of Writing History in the Global Era \n“Weaving together multiple complex strands of the human experience into a single compelling storyline\, Ansary delivers-in his usual down-to-earth yet erudite style-an engaging global ‘narrative of narratives’ informed by decades of critical study\, reflection\, and personal transcultural experience. A deeply enriching\, highly relevant read from an important\, unique voice of our day.”―R. Charles Weller\, Central Eurasian and Islamic world history\, Washington State and Kazakh National University \n“The Invention of Yesterday is an insightful guide into human civilization packed with information that shows how we have been connected globally since the beginning of history. Tamim Ansary unpacks complicated theories to make sense of how we became who we are today.”―Fariba Nawa\, author of Opium Nation: Child Brides\, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey through Afghanistan \n“Ansary offers a remarkable big-picture synthesis that draws upon geography but resists determinism\, and celebrates diversity while embracing humanity’s commonalities.”―Booklist \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nTamim Ansary is the author of Destiny Disrupted and Games without Rules\, among other books. For ten years he wrote a monthly column for Encarta.com\, and has published essays and commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon\, Alternet\, TomPaine.com\, Edutopia\, Parade\, Los Angeles Times\, and elsewhere. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show\, Bill Moyers\, PBS The News Hour\, Al Jazeera\, and NPR. Born in Afghanistan in 1948\, he moved to the U.S. in 1964. He lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, November 6\, 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/tamim-ansary-discusses-the-invention-of-yesterday/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Monica Youn
DESCRIPTION:Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems\, most recently BLACKACRE (2016)\, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award\, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Her book IGNATZ (2010) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and a Stegner Fellowship\, among other awards. She teaches at Princeton and in the MFA programs at NYU and Columbia. She is a former lawyer\, a daughter of Korean immigrants\, and a member of the curatorial collective The Racial Imaginary Institute.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monica-youn/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T220000
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SUMMARY:Julia Scheeres hosting Q & A with author Mary Merv Ladd
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer\, invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty. Infused with a contagious lust for life and exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \n· A uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\n· Covers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\n· Illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has brain cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-scheeres-hosting-q-a-with-author-mary-merv-ladd/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Perch Coffee House and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S.  They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with musician and artist Walter Steding. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Mary Mackey (Berkeley)\, Julian Mithra (Oakland)\, Guy Biederman (Sausalito)\, Carol Dorf (Berkeley)\, Kit Kennedy (Rossmoor\, CA)\, Cathyann Cusimano (Mountain View\, CA)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea to call your very own. \n  \n Release party for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nBirds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea \n  \na reading by \nMary Mackey\nJulian Mithra\nGuy Biederman\nCarol Dorf\nKit Kennedy\nCathyann Cusimano\nRichard Loranger\nand Jane Ormerod \nplus a brief open mic \nhosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nMary Mackey became a poet by running high fevers\, tramping through tropical jungles\, dodging machine gun fire\, being caught in volcanic eruptions\, swarmed by army ants\, stalked by vampire bats\, threatened by poisonous snakes\, making catastrophic decisions with regard to men\, and reading. She is the author of 14 novels\, one of which made The New York Times bestseller list; and 8 collections of poetry including Sugar Zone\, which won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence\, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 to 2019\, which won a 2018 CIIS Women’s Spirituality Book Award and the 2019 Erich Hoffer Award for the Best Book Published by a Small Press. You can contact her at https://marymackey.com. \nJulian née Sara Mithra’s first book If the Color Is Fugitive (Nomadic Press\, 2018) traces queer desire on the frontier of the American West and was a finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. They eke out a living in Oakland encouraging young people to write. \nGuy Biederman is the author of Soundings and Fathoms (Finishing Line Press). He has won awards in Exposition Review’s Flash 405 contests\, and his stories and poems appear in journals such as Carve\, Flashback Fiction\, and Sea Letter. Guy hosts This Day Afloat on Radio Sausalito\, lives on a houseboat with his wife and two mutinous cats\, and walks the planks daily. \nCarol Dorf has two chapbooks available: Some Years Ask (Moria Press) and Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry appears in Bodega\, E-ratio\, About Place\, Glint\, Slipstream\, The Mom Egg\, Sin Fronteras\, Surreal Poetics\, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics\, Scientific American\, Maintenant\, and The Other Side of Violet (great weather for MEDIA). She is poetry editor of Talking Writing and teaches math in Berkeley. \nKit Kennedy serves as Poet in Residence of SF Bay Times and Poet in Residence of her church. She has published six collections of poetry. She regrets little except she never (to date) has skateboarded but she is an avid pickleball player. \nCathyann Cusimano’s work has a way of making the ordinary speak as if it were a stop along a traveler’s journey. She is at once academic and undisciplined\, is rebellious and constrained by the polite dance of her own way of seeing. Cathyann has published four books of poetry: Being Myself on Fire\, The Soul Made Visible\, The Main Content\, and Ordinarily Divine. \nRichard Loranger is a multi-genre writer\, performer\, musician\, visual artist\, and all-around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the founder of Poetea\, a monthly literary conversation group. His publications include the books Sudden Windows\, Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, nine chapbooks\, and work in over 100 magazines and journals. He curates the reading series Babar in Exile\, and the queer talk and reading series #we. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology-2/
LOCATION:Perch Coffee House\, 440 Grand Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran\, Rachel Howard\, and Nathaniel Popkin
DESCRIPTION:Parents and Children\, Hope and Despair: Three Novels \nJoin Wolfman Books for an evening of fiction with Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy)\, Rachel Howard (The Risk of Us)\, and Nathaniel Popkin (The Year of the Return). Each author will give a reading\, followed by a discussion of their work and a book signing. \nThis event is free and open to the public! \n* * * * * \nAbout the authors: \nShanthi Sekaran is a writer and educator from Berkeley\, California. Her recent novel\, Lucky Boy (Putnam/Penguin)\, was named an IndieNext Great Read\, and an NPR Best Book of 2017. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, Salon.com\, LA Review of Books and Huffington Post. She teaches creative writing and literature at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nRachel Howard earned her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College and is the author of a novel\, The Risk of Us\, and a memoir\, The Lost Night. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship\, and her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, ZYZZYVA\, and other journals. She lives in Nevada City\, California. \nNathaniel Popkin is a nationally recognized writer and editor of fiction and non-fiction\, film\, criticism\, and journalism. He is the author of three books of non-fiction and two novels\, including Everything Is Borrowed (New Door Books) and Lion and Leopard (The Head and The Hand Press)\, which reimagines the life and tragic death of the first American genre painter\, John Lewis Krimmel. Lion and Leopard was a finalist for the Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Award. He is also the co-editor of a recent anthology\, Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press). In 2018\, he turned his attention to the ecological crisis\, describing the present era as an “age of loss” in a short essay in The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-rachel-howard-and-nathaniel-popkin/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T213000
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SUMMARY:Danny Fingeroth presents A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
DESCRIPTION:About A Marvelous Life \nThe comprehensive biography of STAN LEE\, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS\, beloved comic book writer and editor\, and former president and publisher of Marvel Comics\, by Lee’s colleague of over four decades. \nStan Lee co-created SPIDER-MAN! And IRON MAN! And the HULK! And the X-MEN! And more than 500 other iconic characters! His name has appeared on more than a billion comic books\, in 75 countries\, in 25 languages. His superheroes have starred in multibillion-dollar grossing movies and TV series. This is the story of how Stanley Martin Lieber\, a poor kid from Washington Heights became STAN LEE\, international legend. \nDanny Fingeroth (comics industry veteran\, author\, and longtime Stan Lee friend and colleague) writes a comprehensive biography of this powerhouse of ideas who changed the world’s understanding of what a hero is and how a story should be told\, while exploring Lee’s unique path to becoming the face of comics. \nWith behind-the-scenes stories and sourced with exclusive\, new interviews with Lee himself and other legendary comics and media figures\, A Marvelous Life has insights and revelations that only an insider like Fingeroth can offer. \nFingeroth\, himself a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics and now a lauded pop culture critic and historian\, knew and worked closely with Stan Lee for over forty years. Fingeroth is able to put Lee’s life and work in a context that makes events and actions come to life as no other writer could.\nAbout the Author: \nDANNY FINGEROTH is a native New Yorker\, comics world insider\, writer and editor\, and pop-culture critic and historian. He is famous for his books on comics and superheroes and offers informed\, insightful observations about the psychological motivations of the people who create our popular culture. He grew up in the first generation of Marvel-loving kids and has had a career in comics for 40 years\, working closely with Stan Lee on numerous projects\, seeing him as both an icon and a colleague. Fingeroth was involved in the writing and editing of Spider-Man\, Iron Man\, the X-Men and The Avengers at Marvel Comics. For more information\, please visit http://dannyfingeroth.com/. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, November 12\, 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/danny-fingeroth-presents-a-marvelous-life-the-amazing-story-of-stan-lee/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191107T074936Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Henry hosting Q&A and book-signing with author Mary Ladd
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author Sarah Henry. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer\, invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty. Infused with a contagious lust for life and exemplified by hilarious anecdotes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-henry-hosting-qa-and-book-signing-with-author-mary-ladd/
LOCATION:Rakestraw Books\, 3 Railroad Avenue\, Danville\, 94526
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
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SUMMARY:Peter Jan Honigsberg
DESCRIPTION:Peter Jan Honigsberg\n\n\n\n\nlaunches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo\, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay\, inspiring future generations to never repeat the human rights violations of the detention center. \n“The definitive account of what happened at Guantánamo in all of its chilling and horrifying detail. What makes this book unique and compelling is that it is the story of what it does to people’s lives to create ‘a place outside the law.’ Through his countless interviews\, Professor Honigsberg describes the impact of Guantánamo on those who have been part of it: soldiers\, medical personnel\, lawyers\, interrogators\, torturers\, detainees. It is the story of what happens when a country abandons the rule of law.”–Erwin Chemerinsky\, UC Berkeley\, School of Law \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of A Place Outside the Law by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, November 13\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLaw scholar and Witness to Guantánamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll\, not only on the detainees and their loved ones but also on its military and civilian personnel and the journalists who reported on it. \nHonigsberg conducted 158 interviews across 20 countries so that the people who lived and worked there could tell their heartbreaking and inspirational stories. In each one\, we face the reality that the healing process cannot begin until we start the conversation about what was done in the name of protecting our country. These are a few of them. Many alleged operatives in Guantánamo were purchased by the United States for ransom from Afghan and Pakistani soldiers. Brandon Neely\, a prison guard who processed the first group of suspected operatives to arrive in Cuba\, flew to London to embrace the detainees he guarded after leaving the military. Navy whistleblower Matt Diaz covertly released the names of 500 detainees by sending them in a greeting card to a lawyer in New York. Journalist Carol Rosenberg committed the past 17 years of her career to documenting life at Guantánamo. And Damien Corsetti\, an interrogator who came to be known as the “King of Torture\,” received ribbons and awards for the same cruel actions for which he was later prosecuted. \nIn startling\, aching prose\, A Place Outside the Law shines a light on these unheard voices\, and through them\, encourages the global community to embrace humanity as our greatest tool to make the world a safer place. \nPeter Jan Honigsberg is a professor at USF School of Law and the founder and director of Witness to Guantánamo. His research and teaching focuses on the rule of law and human rights violations that occurred in the detention center in Guantánamo\, as well as on the study of terrorism and post-9/11 issues. His books include Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror and Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir. Honigsberg lives in Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-jan-honigsberg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191030T210847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191030T210847Z
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”\, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go right on singing despite it all. Presiding over the departed will be Vampyre Mike Kassel (1953-2008)\, who will be honored with the release of Bat Flower\, a new compilation of his mixed-genre work by Deborah Fruchey and Last Laugh Productions. Representing the living will be Chris & Deirdre Trian\, original denizens of the Café Babar readings who have been partnered for 47 years. Fantastic and skilled performers\, they will each do a set of poetry and (if we’re lucky) song\, and Chris will also be displaying some of his paintings during the event. We’ll have multiple genres\, media\, and states of being\, meaning something for everyone on this fine autumn eve. With\, as always\, our fab open mic\, which for this occasion will ask participants to read one poem from a departed Babarian along with their own. Books will be available to read from. \nSo come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \n  \nBabar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part\na revival of the Cafe Babar\, Paradise Lounge\, and Club Chameleon reading series \n  \nfeaturing \nChris Trian\nDeirdre Trian\nand the work of Vampyre Mike Kassel \nand you\, in our spooky open mic \n  \nHosted by Richard Loranger and Paul Corman-Roberts \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nChris Trian was born in Hollywood\, CA\, and raised in San Francisco. He is a veteran of the bars and cheap hotels and poetry readings of North Beach. He has a full-length collection of poetry\, When There’s No More Room in Heck\, the Darned Will Walk the Earth\, published by Zeitgeist Press\, and has pieces in Howl magazine and the Street Spirit newspaper. He lives and writes with Deirdre Trian. \nDeirdre Trian was born in Oakland\, CA\, and grew up in San Francisco after spending her first five years in Berkeley. She wrote from an early age since her great aunt and mother both wrote. Since her mother was blinded by spinal meningitis before she was born\, Deirdre helped her to write by correcting spelling\, et al. She has been writing since then with Christopher Trian\, with whom she’s spent 47 years. She has been going to poetry readings with Chris throughout that time. \nBorn in 1953 in Boston\, “Vampyre” Mike Kassel moved to San Francisco in 1974 and was given his nickname by an audience at the Mabuhay Gardens who called for “Vampire Mike.” In 1980 Mike’s play Bat Soup\, a musical comedy version of Dracula\, ran for 86 performances at the Hotel Utah. His bands included The Hellhounds\, The Fabulous Dumonts\, The Bones of Kryptos\, the Welfare Cheats\, and the ‘60s homage band The Mysterious Icewyrms. He established himself as a spoken word powerhouse in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s at the Cafe Babar and the Above Paradise Lounge. He had seven books\, including Going for the Low Blow (Zeitgeist Press\, 1989); I Want to Kill Everything (Zeitgeist Press\, 1990); Graveyard Golf (Manic D Press 1991); The Worlds According to Loki (Valknot Publishing\, 2001); and Toxic Vaudeville (Ajax Press of San Francisco\, 2007). His work has been translated into German\, Czech and Russian. He also wrote for the Western Edition newspaper\, the quarterly Yggdrasil\, and the Sunday magazine of the San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner. Mike died suddenly of pneumonia on March 22\, 2008. Two posthumous books have emerged\, The Dead Poet Talks Back (Zeitgeist Press 2009) and the newly released Bat Flower: Poems\, Plays\, and Other Perversions (Last Laugh Productions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile-21-till-death-do-we-part/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
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SUMMARY:Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press\, 2019). Now after a month\, it’s finally here in Oakland\, CA at Wolfman Books or one night only. I mean the book will be there afterwards (if it isn’t sold out!) but she won’t\, so please join us for this launch event featuring readings from Ren Cook\, Alexandra Naughton\, Brent Reichenberger\, and Jesse Prado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-ivanna-baranova-confirmation-bias-launch-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T230000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191107T170817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T170817Z
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SUMMARY:The Oakland Poetry Slam Ft. L7
DESCRIPTION:We’re back and better than ever! Come join us at our new venue\, The Flight Deck\, conveniently located in Downtown Oakland near 19th St BART Station . Bring your poetry\, your music\, your dance\, you art\, but most importantly bring yourself! \nOur feature for the night is non other than Chris Cuadrado aka “L7!” \nChris “L7” Cuadrado is a culture worker & propagandist from Inglewood\, CA. L7 uses words\, sights\, and sounds to further radical and critical thought. L7 draws from the aesthetic and political traditions of revolutionaries\, agitators\, and poor peoples movements from across the globe. L7 is committed to creating work that reflects the struggle of colonized and oppressed people\, while aligning with their movements for liberation\, self-determination\, and decolonization. \nL7 is also founder and co-host of the Poets of Color Podcast. \nLive Stream Provided by Berkeley Poetry Slam! \nDoors Open at 7 pm\nWorkshop @ 7:20\nSign up lists go out at 7:15 pm \nShow starts at 8:15 pm! \n💲Cover💲 \n$5 for performers \n$10 for audience \nPlease email oakslambooking@gmail.com for any questions regarding the space\, accessibility and accommodations!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-oakland-poetry-slam-ft-l7/
LOCATION:The Flight Deck\, 1540 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic":MAILTO:oakslambooking@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191107T170439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T170439Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka
DESCRIPTION:WENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said\, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to dance. The lives she sketches flame underfoot so the soles of your feet are ‘burned like little suns’ and when we read this book of grace and empathy ‘we are assured there will be sparks\, then blasts and blowups\, offerings of flame and dust…’”Her publications include the full-length books Reading Berryman to the Dog and Discount Fireworks\, plus five chapbooks\, most recently They Went Down to the Beach to Play. Her work is in anthologies such as In Plein Air\, Untold Arkansas\, and 50/50: Poems and Translations by Womxn Over Fifty. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in the Arkansas Ozarks.\n\nKIMI SUGIOKA’s brand new poetry book is Wile & Wing. Anne Waldman said\, “Kimi Sugioka is a poet with a lot of guises: maternal\, witchy\, passionate\, detached observer…She moves through the female cycle confidently\, poised\, strong in her observance and power.” Born in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley\, California\, Kimi Sugioka is a poet\, songwriter\, and educator. She performs her work frequently throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in public education for decades\, and earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-taylor-carlisle-kimi-sugioka/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191118T074237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T074237Z
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SUMMARY:David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation
DESCRIPTION:In Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation Asian American young adults deal with difficulties such as depression\, suicide\, and coming out within the larger social context of race\, immigration\, and sexuality. \nThe New Yorker’s Hua Hsu writes: “There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. It’s a step toward imagining lives that we might be the authors of\, with endings that we write ourselves.” \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. \nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley & Ethnic Studies \nFree and open to the public; The ESL has an ADA accessible front entrance and access to two ADA accessible restrooms | asiabookcenter.com | 510-548-2350
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-l-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library\, 30 Stephens Hall\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191107T172005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T172005Z
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SUMMARY:Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung
DESCRIPTION:The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices\, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Fifty-two percent of Chinese Americans report having no religious affiliation\, making them the least religiously identified ethnic group in the United States. Family Sacrifices reveals that Chinese Americans employ familism\, not religion\, as the primary narrative by which they find meaning\, identity\, and belonging. \nDr. Russell M. Jeung is Chair and Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. The author of books and articles on Asian Americans\, religion\, and race\, he’s a community activist and church leader in East Oakland\, CA. Dr. Jeung’s memoir\, At Home in Exile\, shares his family’s six generations in the U.S. and his life with refugees. \nCo-sponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, and San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/family-sacrifices-book-talk-with-dr-russell-jeung/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191107T172249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T172249Z
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SUMMARY:Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic + free (except for restaurant purchases) 7pm. 11/18/2019\nJoyce E. Young is the author of How it Happens\, published by Nomadic Press. Her writing has been nominated for both a Pushcart and a California Book Award\nand has appeared in Smith Alumnae Quarterly\, WORDPEACE\, riverbabble\, The New Poets of the American West\, and elsewhere. She has received grants from the California Arts Council\, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and Writers on Site residency program at the Oakland Museum and Oakland Public Library through\nPoets & Writers\, Inc. Joyce has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for\nthe Creative Arts\, Hedgebrook\, Soapstone and Vermont Studio Center. She works as a Writing Consultant at John F. Kennedy University\, teaches writing privately\, and is currently at work writing poetry\, essays\, and Parallel Journey\, a novel.\nJoyce maintains regular Yoga and Chi Gung practice and is a semi-retired Afro\nCuban folkloric and modern dancer. She keeps lots of music in her life\,\nparticularly Jazz\, Salsa\, Reggae\, Samba\, and combinations of notes that defy \ncategory. In reality\, though\, she really doesn’t like to assign categories for music. \nBecause \nLike angels are supposed to\nYou don’t do it because\nyou want to be good\,\nget candy\, or ice cream \nYou do it because you love\nAnd forgetting all else\nYou tend to her or him\,\nwatching\, waiting\, praying\nfor life\, health\, the best\nfor that person or persons \nyou love
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-e-young-at-poetry-express-nov-18/
LOCATION:Poetry Express\, 1585 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191112T075628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T080101Z
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SUMMARY:East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the East Bay release of “Disasterama”\, Alvin Orloff’s fantabulous new memoir of ’90’s SF wild club kid\, AIDS-activism\, agitprop performance\, and homocore culture. He hit it spot on with both wit and gravitas. \nAlvin will read from the book\, of course\, preceded by shiny crew Sam Sax\, Dena Rod\, Richard Loranger\, Vernon Keeve III\, & Anna Allen. Clearly a gathering that is not to be missed. \nI’ve made a second invite for this because Facebook\, in all its culture-crushing wisdom\, won’t let me send the original to more than 30 people or so. This one won’t even let me invite more than 50. I’ve tried to avoid repeats\, but if you’ve received both\, my apologies. If you can\, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD. 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/east-bay-release-for-disasterama-at-badass-bookworms-lit-loft/
LOCATION:The Legionnaire Saloon\, 2272 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Power Unit 17":MAILTO:hello@richardloranger.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191107T172855Z
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SUMMARY:Big Familia Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:I am both thrilled & nervous to announce the book release party for 💥Big Familia!! on November 19 at East Bay Booksellers / Diesel. \nIt’s a reading & conversation with Nancy Au. \nDrinks & mingling & celebration. \nKid Friendly (though it’s a school night!) \nTOMAS MONIZ edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019\, he released a chapbook with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel\, Big Familia\, on Acre Books\, will be out in November . He has stuff on the internet but loves letters and penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nNancy Au’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and The Pinch\, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-familia-book-launch/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191118T072334Z
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SUMMARY:Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim
DESCRIPTION:CO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST \nMARILYN CHIN’s new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said\, “Marilyn Chin’s poems excite and incite the imagination through their brilliant cultural interfacings\, their theatre of anger\, ‘fierce and tender\,’ their compassion\, and their high mockery of wit.” Born in Hong Kong\, currently living in San Diego\, she is the author of four previous poetry collections and a novel. Widely anthologized\, in Best American Poetry\, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women\, and elsewhere\, her honors include five Pushcart Prizes\, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award\, and fellowships from the United States Artists Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. \nGENNY LIM—San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, born in San Francisco—is the author of the poetry collections Winter Place\, Child of War\, and Paper Gods and Rebels. She also wrote the plays Paper Angels and Bitter Cane and the children’s book Wings for Lai-Ho\, among other works. Winner of the American Book Award in 1981\, she founded the theater company Paper Angels Productions\, later known as XX Theater\, and produced many experimental performance pieces. Recipient of the Bay Guardian Goldie for Local Discovery in 1991\, she went on to record and collaborate with musician-composers Jon Jang\, Francis Wong\, Anthony Brown\, the late Max Roach\, and Herbie Lewis. Her new poetry book KRA! is a power house political and historical\, biographical work invoking figures such as James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Francisco X. Alarcon\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor\, and is a salute to Flint\, Michigan\, Standing Rock\, and Black Lives Matter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marilyn-chin-genny-lim/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T230000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191118T074824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T074824Z
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Slam with Asha!
DESCRIPTION:Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999\, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! \nhttp://berkeleyslam.org/\nTwitter: @berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam\nPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nWe’ll be bringing Asha to feature for slam this week! \nAsha is an artist\, educator\, and revolutionary. Originally from LA\, she worked as a community organizer for workers/tenant rights\, and anti-police brutality\, as well as a coach with the non-profit Playworks in East-Oakland. Her passion for social justice informs her work educating youth and prospective teachers. She is currently an 8th grade teacher and adjunct professor at USF. As a performer\, she has toured London showcasing her poetry\, including at the famous Troy Bar\, Emceed the San Jose Womxn’s March in January 2017 and performed in 2018\, as well as performed at the March For Our Lives Event in 2018. She has also Emceed the San Jose Womxn’s Showcase for all 3 years\, featured at Cinequest Film Festival in 2017 and 2018\, and graced the cover of South Bay’s CONTENT magazine in August of 2017. KQED created a short documentary on Asha and her artistry. Her music\, art and spoken word act as a mirror into the passion and activism she lives out daily. \n—————�————-\nUPCOMING\n11/27: No slam\n—————�————- \nTHE STARRY PLOUGH\n3101 Shattuck Avenue\, 510-841-2082\n(1 block uphill from the Ashby BART).\nEVERY WEDNESDAY\n$7 – $10 sliding scale (most nights)\nCash Prizes!\nWorkshop: 6:30 p.m. Sign-up: 7:30 p.m. Show: 8:15 p.m.\nALL AGES before 10 p.m. \nDon’t have cash or Venmo? Like being extra prepared? Get a presale ticket while you can!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-slam-with-asha/
LOCATION:The Starry Plough\, 3101 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191002T000335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T000335Z
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SUMMARY:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart\n\n\n\n\n(and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino’s new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. \nA soulful\, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river.”–Lauren Collins \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Seine by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nElaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine\, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea\, and the cities\, tributaries\, islands\, ports\, and bridges in between. \nSciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman\, a riverbank bookseller\, a houseboat dweller\, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana–the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name–and follows the river through Paris\, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police\, rows with a restorer of antique boats\, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river\, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art\, literature\, music\, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way\, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of five books\, including The Seine\, The Only Street in Paris and La Seduction. Sciolino was decorated as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor\, the highest honor of the French state\, in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. She and her husband have lived in Paris since 2002. \nThad Carhart is the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Finding Fontainebleau. A resident of Paris for 25 years\, he now lives in San Francisco. \nL. John Harris is the author/illustrator of Cafe French. He lives in Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-sciolino-in-conversation-with-thad-carhart/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191107T173357Z
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nFYI the 10 slot open mic list starts at 7:30 and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway). \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T183000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191118T073950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T073950Z
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SUMMARY:Moscow Conceptualism: New Translations from the Russian
DESCRIPTION:Official Site:\nhttp://slavic.berkeley.edu/moscow-conceptualism-new-translations-from-the-russian/ \nA spate of new translations is bringing the writers and artists of Moscow Conceptualism to an English-language readership for the first time. Even as they drew on currents in western art\, the Moscow Conceptualists (1970s-1980s) were distinguished by a singular focus on the Soviet experience\, from the legacies of the avant-garde to the official culture of the Era of Stagnation. Serving as an ironic commentary on the entire arc of Soviet history\, Moscow Conceptualism continues to exert a powerful influence on performance art in Putin’s Russia. \nSchedule is as follows: \n1.30 p.m.\nWelcome: Prof. Harsha Ram\, Slavic Languages and Literatures \n1.45-3.00 p.m.\nThe Poets and their Verse\nModerated by Matvei Yankelevich\, editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse\nAinsley Morse and Bela Shayevich read Vsevolod Nekrasov\nYelena Kalinsky and Brian Droitcour read Andrei Monastyrski\nSimon Schuchat reads Dmitrii Prigov\nMatvei Yankelevich reads Lev Rubinstein \n3.15 p.m.\nMonastyrski and Prigov\nModerated by Prof. Edward Tyerman\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\nChristina Schwarz\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\n“Remontnye Raboty: Anamnesis in the life- writings of Andrei Monastyrski” \n3.40 p.m.\nProf. Olga Matich\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\n“Conceptualist Total Art Prigov” \n4.30-5.30 p.m.\nRoundtable Discussion\nModerated by Prof. Alexei Yurchak\, Anthropology \n5.30 p.m.\nProf. Lyn Hejinian\, English\n“The Eros of Russian-American Poetic Exchange” \nAll will take place in the Geballe Room at the Townsend Center for the Humanities\, 220 Stephens Hall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moscow-conceptualism-new-translations-from-the-russian/
LOCATION:Geballe Room at the Townsend Center for the Humanities\, 220 Stephens Hall\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
CREATED:20191002T140046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T140046Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe In Common Writers Series moves across the Bay\, to Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley\, for what will be a powerful evening featuring poets Vanessa Angélica Villareal\, joining us from Southern California\, and—from Puerto Rico via Philadelphia\, Raquel Salas Rivera. The In Common Writers Series\, now in its second year\, is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Both this event and a reading and conversation by both poets the prior evening at The Poetry Center are free and open to the public. Join us! \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo: Self-portrait. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Paloma Alicea. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Paloma Alicea. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nThursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Moe’s Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-and-raquel-salas-rivera-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T091849
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SUMMARY:Egypt + Holiday Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Holidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band together for an early evening\, relaxed community celebration on Sunday and break bread together before the end of 2019. Publisher J. K. Fowler will share a few photos of\, and stories about\, his recent community-funded trip to the Tanta international festival of poetry. \nBring one of your favorite dishes\, a dish that speaks to a favorite book of yours\, or try your hand at an Egyptian dish: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15039/world-cuisine/african/north-african/egyptian \nWine and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/egypt-holiday-potluck/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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