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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:reading from Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical\, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes.\n\n\nFrom the best-selling author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. \nRose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903\, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later\, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes\, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together\, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and\, over the next dozen years\, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman\, Big Bill Haywood\, Eugene V. Debs\, John Reed\, Margaret Sanger\, Jack London\, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country’s earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control\, earning her notoriety as “one of the dangerous influences of the country” from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw\, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began. \nBy a master of narrative nonfiction\, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich\, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time.\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nADAM HOCHSCHILD is the author of ten books. King Leopold’s Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as was To End All Wars. His Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“Although the stuff of fairy tale—penniless immigrant factory worker marries old-money millionaire\, then uses her fortune and influence to fight for the laboring classes—the story Adam Hochschild tells in Rebel Cinderella is as taut and true as a well-tuned violin.  Rose Pastor Stokes comes alive as a woman of passionate conviction and rare imaginative power\, restored by Hochschild to her rightful place in the history of America’s rise to world prominence in the first decades of the twentieth century.”\n––Megan Marshall\, author of Elizabeth Bishop \n“Through the lens of a remarkable marriage\, Adam Hochschild draws a vivid portrait of the Gilded Age – of immigrants\, sweatshops\, tenements\, strikes\, enclaves of patrician privilege\, and a ‘citadel of socialism’ on a private island.  At the center of it all is Rose\, whose extraordinary story ends as anything but a fairy tale.”\n––Jean Strouse\, author of Morgan: American Financier \n“Adam Hochschild recounts the incredible story of Rose Pastor Stokes\, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who toiled in a cigar factory\, met and married a rich socialite\, and became an infamous socialist firebrand. The book is chock-full of fascinating characters and stories\, with Stokes and her comrades often recounting their dramatic lives in their own words.”\n––Tyler Anbinder\, author of City of Dreams \n“Lucidly written and painstakingly researched\, this is a joy to read\, cementing Pastor in her rightful place with other progressive figures of the time.”\n––Library Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Judy Halebsky & Susan Briante at East Bay Booksellers
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, March 15th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by Judy Halebsky & Susan Briante. \nJudy Halebsky’s new book of poems is Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)\, was a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Katy Peterson says\, “Under the spell of Bashõ’s haiku\, but written in a voice entirely its own\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) is the first book of poetry I’ve read in years that makes civilization look good. It makes me want to make dinner\, make love\, make noise.” She’s the author of three previous collections\, the first of which\, Sky = Empty\, won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Originally from Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, she moved to the Bay Area to study poetry. Then\, after college\, she received a fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture to study Japanese literature at Hosei University in Tokyo\, She lives now with her family in Oakland and directs the low-residency MFA program at Dominican University. \nSusan Briante’s latest book of poems is The Market Wonders. Juliana Spahr said of it\, “Poetry’s conventions tend to assume that poetry does not need to bother itself with the economic machinations of something like the Dow. These conventions are wrong and Susan Briante’s The Market Wonders proves it. This is poetry that is only the richer for how it weaves the economics that shape our daily lives into it.” She’s published two previous collections\, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and Utopia Minus. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and coordinates the writing program Field Studies Southwest\, which brings MFA students to the U.S.-Mexico border to work with community-based environmental and social justice groups. She hosts the radio program Speedway and Swan and lives in Tucson\, Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/judy-halebsky-susan-briante-at-east-bay-booksellers/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Sierra Crane Murdoch: Yellow Bird w/Lauren Markham
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Sierra Crane Murdoch to read from her new book\, Yellow Bird:Oil\, Murder\, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country on Tuesday\, March 17th at 7pm. She will be joined in conversation by Lauren Markham. \nWhen Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009\, she found her home\, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota\, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence\, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition\, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests\, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later\, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker\, Kristopher “KC” Clarke\, had disappeared from his reservation worksite\, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone\, and few people were actively looking for him. \nYellow Bird traces Lissa’s steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke’s disappearance. She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe\, changed by its newfound wealth\, and that of the non-Native oilmen\, down on their luck\, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption\, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is an exquisitely written\, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart\, funny\, eloquent\, compassionate\, and—when it serves her cause—manipulative. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation\, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nSierra Crane Murdoch\, a journalist based in the American West\, has written for The Atlantic\, The New Yorker online\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Orion\, and High Country News. She has held fellowships from Middlebury College and from the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is a MacDowell Fellow. \nLauren Markham is a writer based in Berkeley\, California. Her work has appeared in VQR\, VICE\, Orion\, Pacific Standard\, Guernica\, The New Yorker.com\, on This American Life\, and elsewhere. Lauren earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been awarded Fellowships from the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism\, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship\, the Mesa Refuge\, and the Rotary Foundation. For the past decade\, she has worked in the fields of refugee resettlement and immigrant education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sierra-crane-murdoch-yellow-bird-w-lauren-markham/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #58 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
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LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T183000
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-julian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T193000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-15/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, March 18\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us as the fourth group of our 2nd year graduate students read their work. Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students\, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary’s College. \n\nSarah Benjamin (Poetry)\nElli Levin (Fiction)\nVicky Quistgaard (Creative Nonfiction)\nRachel Telljohn (Poetry)\n\n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graduate-student-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nancy Au\, Alexandra Mattraw\, Tiff Dresson\, Tomas Moniz Readings
DESCRIPTION:NANCY AU’s essays and stories appear in many journals including Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Foglifter\, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at CSU Stanislaus\, and is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art unschool. Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, in The Vestal Review as the winner of their 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize\, and has won Redivider’s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her full-length collection\, Spider Love Song & Other Stories\, is longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. www.peascarrots.com \nALEXANDRA MATTRAW is a Berkeley poet and critic who has authored several books. small siren is available at Cultural Society (2018)\, and two of her chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press (2013\, 2017). Other poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Jacket2\, Interim\, Volt\, and elsewhere. A mother and ecofeminist\, Alexandra curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its ninth year. We fell into weather is her second full-length book of poems. \nTIFF DRESSEN lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary\, a (slender) full length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019\, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time\, they enjoy playing the role of urban flâneur as well as setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book. \nTOMAS MONIZ edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and released his debut novel\, Big Familia. He’s the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and was awarded the 2018 SPACE Ryder Farm residency in NY. He was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Novel. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-au-alexandra-mattraw-tiff-dresson-tomas-moniz-readings/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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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. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM 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).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-4/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200321T190000
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SUMMARY:THERE 32
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 21 2020\, at East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland\, featuring Julia Flynn Siler\, Devi S. Laskar and Sunisa Manning\, plus musical guests Kate Brubeck with Geoff Van Lienden and Allen Samelson. \nTHERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco Chronicle! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. For more than four years. Doug hosted it on the (usually) third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015! But sadly\, the Octopus was forced to close its doors in August ’19\, so now THERE is relocating to East Bay Booksellers in the Rockridge district of Oakland\, resuming February 22\, 2020.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-32-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Fire Thieves Honor Sacred Ground
DESCRIPTION:The 10th edition of the Fire Thieves makes it’s only foray into the East Bay at The Chapel at the Oakland Peace Center with featured performers Avotcja\, Thea Matthews\, Cassandra Dallett\, Christine No\, with guest performer Mahealani Uchiyama and more poets TBA. \nThe Fire Thieves is an inter-sectional & inter-generational poetry series produced by San Francisco poet laureate Kim Shuck\, with a different venue every month with 2 established poets\, 2 mid-career poets and 2 younger poets. \nThis event made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Bird & Beckett Books. \nFire Thieves #10 event photo courtesy of Erik Calvino
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fire-thieves-honor-sacred-ground/
LOCATION:Oakland Peace Center\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200322T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200322T150000
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Synchronicity by Tureeda Mikell
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we continue our Oakland celebration of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine by Tureeda Mikell at the nation’s oldest black bookstore\, Marcus Books. \nReadings by TBA. Music by TBA. \nDonations for Marcus Books and Nomadic Press will be gathered\, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-celebration-synchronicity-by-tureeda-mikell/
LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Omnidawn Spring Books 2020
DESCRIPTION:Our Omnidawn book parties are legendary! Join us to get a first look at their latest titles. Hear great readings and meet the poets: \nDesirée Alvarez RAFT OF FLAME\nwinner of Omnidawn’s Lake Merritt Book Prize\,\nselected by Hoa Nguyen \nhttps://www.omnidawn.com/product/raft-of-flame-desiree-alvarez/ \n“The poems in Raft of Flame address inheritance haunted by colonial violence and genocide. The ghosts in the archives speak inside the poems\, addressing heritage next to loss. ‘I don’t see my face\, owl says before soaring\, / as the future is born of slave and colonizer / on the ledge of the window.’ Here we have the mysteries of mixed culture through the art made by the artists of the ancient Americas and Spain. Here a speaker asks\, ‘I’m here to see where / I come from to stop the din of not knowing.’ The poems time-travel across regions\, cultures\, and centuries. Alvarez frets history\, speaks to historical image-making\, religion\, and art. The poems invent new perspectives\, speak in masks\, present cinematic panoplies\, are many-tongued\, always clear-eyed. Richly they assemble\, speak to story with mythic address as they sing and range. These poems are fire.”\n–Hoa Nguyen\, author of Violet Energy Ingots and Judge of Omnidawn’s Lake Merritt Prize\n~~~~~\nAnthony Cody BORDERLAND APOCRYPHA\nwinner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize\,\nselected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\nhttps://www.omnidawn.com/product/borderland-apocrypha/ \n“Read Cody’s investigations\, these beyond-poems\, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848\, Mexican Indian lands\, the untold occupations of America — as if you are hanging on that open-air killing tree. Notice the vortex of existence\, yours\, ours\, the trapezoids of punishments\, the dotted lines and splattered shapes of skin-text and the searing howls cut down the middle of the word bodies\, usurpation\, rape and theft bursting across the emptiness pages\, terminations and exiles pinned on the Race Grid. Open these scrolls and peer at half-humanity America cutting you down\, dangling — there is no wall after all\, just a mirror of executions\, “reach for the hand of a friend” “in a dream”\, you are the “savage captured\,” the “KickingSingingKickingSinging chant”\, you are the segmented ink-jitters on Cody’s pages\, you are the “atomic” Brown radiating yourself out of the 1850’s into this present of border mania. Read Cody ’s script\, like no other — a photo-zoom of tragic roots and revelations\, cartographies of “power and control\,” and the transcendence of innocent bodies\, somehow — American soul. Cody presents what has not been revealed\, what must be said. This one-of-a-kind-book settles all cases against all border-crossers. It is possible: a brave\, bold syntax\, an unseen intelligence of ourselves\, a new America. Bravo for these compassionate and brutal time-spaces\, this brisling land voice— an exemplar of a bursting literature. Everything starts over now.”\n—Juan Felipe Herrera\n~~~~~\nJennifer Hasegawa LA CHICA’S FIELD GUIDE TO BANZAI LIVING\nhttps://www.omnidawn.com/product/la-chicas-field-guide-to-banzai-living-jennifer-hasegawa/ \n“In the West\, the word “banzai” was mostly recognized as the WWII battle cry of kamikaze pilots\, but in truth\, the word literally means 10\,000 years and is associated with wishes for long life and celebration. It is a word that is both complex and compelling. The same could be said for the poems in Hasegawa’s La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living. The collection takes us from Hawai‘i to the U.S. Continent to Babylon to outer space\, and Hasegawa’s use of story is both empowering and arresting. . . . What I admire most about Hasegawa’s poems is how she uses darkness to reveal what the world today desperately needs—the presence of light.”\n—Lisa Linn Kanae\, author of Sista Tongue\n~~~~~\nDavid Koehn SCATTERPLOT\nhttps://www.omnidawn.com/product/scatterplot-david-koehn/ \n“David Koehn’s Scatterplot is a book full of names and near-misses best described by its attention to narrative…when it is the narrative we associate with dreams! Or as Koehn himself says\, “I was stumbling around the aisles of a dream.” This line in particular has everything to do with what I love most about this book. Every poem throws itself headlong into litanies of images reminding us that\, even when we are lost or dying or anxious\, we are still very much alive.”\n—-Jericho Brown\, author of The Tradition\n~~~~~\nCraig Santos Perez HABITAT THRESHOLD\n(Rusty will present Craig’s work as he requested; he is very sorry not to be able to attend! HABITAT THRESHOLD will be available tonight for purchase)\nhttps://www.omnidawn.com/product/habitat-threshold-craig-santos-perez/ \n“Craig Santos Perez returns poetry to its ancient vocation: not only to sing of the dark times\, in a public voice\, but to sing in and against the darkness. Always exquisite in his attention to the placement of words for power\, beauty\, and insight\, with Habitat Threshold Perez raises poetry to earth magnitude: his pastorals\, odes\, sonnets\, haikus\, recyclings\, occasional verse\, lullabies\, and chants sing plainly and with great precision of the vast and intricate inequalities in and through which world-ecology enmeshes us. These are songs of protest\, to be recited in places of public debate and decision\, and to be learned by children\, but also love songs\, for family\, place\, plant and animal\, celebrating the many-hued lifeways of humans and their others. The poems find music in inconvenient truths\, with a sobering and detailed indictment of our Capitalocene footprint. Habitat Threshold asks us to change our lives: it is motivating\, necessary\, and inspiring work.” –Jonathan Skinner\, poet\, editor\, and founder of Ecopoetics.\n~~~~~\nLM Rivera AGAINST HEIDEGGER\n(LM Rivera has made a short film for the Moe’s/Omnidawn night attendees’ viewing pleasure and provocation. We are very grateful. AGAINST HEIDEGGER will be available tonight for purchase)\nhttps://www.omnidawn.com/product/against-heidegger-l-m-rivera/ \n“Offering unexpected sojourns in thinking\, Rivera’s whirlwind of well-weighted words is filled with surprising\, beautiful\, and haunting linguistic collisions and juxtapositions. Rivera’s postmodern poetry helps disclose what Heidegger meant when he proclaimed that we don’t speak language; language speaks us. I thus hear Rivera’s ‘against’ less as ‘opposed to’ and more as ‘leaning on’—leaning on or into ‘an abundant emptiness’—in the quest to go further\, ‘again and again\,’ into those questions we grow into and beyond\, as the answers we embody generate new questions\, opening pathways perhaps (‘with all ambiguity intact’) into a future we might still share.”\n–Iain Thomson\, author of Heidegger\, Art\, and Postmodernity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omnidawn-spring-books-2020/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Phyllis Grant in Conversation with Julia Cosgrove
DESCRIPTION:discussing Grant’s just-published book Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. \n\n\n\n\n“What a beautiful\, rich\, and poetic memoir this is. Phyllis Grant writes of longing\, suffering\, celebration\, family\, and food with such delicate power. Like the best chefs\, she knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth\, taste\, poignancy\, and love. This is a wonderful book.”–Elizabeth Gilbert \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Everything Is Under Control by speaking to a bookseller or order online by clicking on the cover image below. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 24\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEverything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes\, goes\, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant’s story follows the sometimes smooth\, sometimes jagged\, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard\, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City\, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California\, where her children are born. All the while\, a sense of longing pulses in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city into that of a mother now sustaining a family herself. \nWritten with the transparency of a diarist\, Everything Is Under Control is an unputdownable series of vignettes followed by tried-and-true recipes from Grant’s table–a heartrending yet unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of young adulthood\, motherhood\, and a life in the kitchen. \n\nPhyllis Grant is an IACP finalist for Personal Essays/Memoir Writing and a three-time Saveur Food Blog Award finalist for her blog\, Dash and Bella. She has cooked in world-renowned restaurants\, including Nobu\, Michael’s\, and Bouley. Her essays and recipes have been published in a dozen anthologies and cookbooks\, including Best Food Writing\, 2015 and 2016. Her work has been featured in Esquire\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times\, Real Simple\, Saveur\, HuffPost\, Time\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Food52\, and Salon. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phyllis-grant-in-conversation-with-julia-cosgrove/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:#we : queer perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the eighth installment of #we\, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two writers\, musicians\, or performers from various segments of the queer spectrum\, who each give a talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness\, along with a reading or performance of their creative work. \nFor our eighth event\, poet Shilpa Kamat will speak on “Walking Between Worlds” and will read some relevant verse; and stand-up comic and biologist Nina Maryn will present a piece titled “Fuck it\, it’s 2020: Navigating the Gender Landscape of the 21st Century”\, mixing comedy with her discussion. \nNote that #we has a new home through 2020 at ProArts Gallery in downtown Oakland. We try to start promptly at 7 pm. Q&A and chat time will follow. \nAbsolutely all are welcome to this sharing of perspectives. The venue is wheelchair accessible\, and ASL translation for the deaf is available on request\, with a two-week notice preferred. \n  \n#we: queer perspectives\na talk and performance series \nfeaturing\nShilpa Kamat\nand Nina Maryn \nHosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nShilpa Kamat is a writer\, educator\, and healing arts practitioner with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She was a finalist for the 2018 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize\, and her chapbook\, Saraswati Takes Back the Alphabet\, was published by Newfound in 2019. Her writing is informed by ecology\, global mythologies\, and her diverse/intersecting identities; centralizes in-between and underrepresented experiences; and has an orientation towards healing and connectivity. \nNina Maryn is a queer stand-up comic\, storyteller\, and UC Berkeley PhD student from New York City. Her stand-up mostly comprises loving anecdotes highlighting the contradictions and irony of cosmopolitan liberalism. She’s performed at the Broadway Comedy Club in NYC\, and White Horse Inn and Welcome to Queer Mountain since moving to the Bay Area. She’ll be telling the story of moving from New York to Berkeley and navigating the differences in dating cultures on the East and West Coast\, being queer and single in your 20s in the 2020s\, and following with a discussion on how we define sexual orientation in an era when we’re renegotiating gender identity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-queer-perspectives/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, 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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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Scandalous" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Scandal is “an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.” Whether it’s the short skirt your mom wore\, or the shocking things your dad said\, something Voldemort tweeted\, or maybe it was that thing you did – we want to know! Write it down and bring your best for the next SNS! \nMarch featured writers: Rebecca Foust & Halim Madi \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 28\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nRebecca Foust’s books include The Unexploded Ordnance Bin (2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award) and Paradise Drive (Press 53 Poetry Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement\, Washington Review of Books\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere and in literary journals including the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. Recognitions include the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes\, and fellowships from The Frost Place\, Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Foust was Marin County Poet Laureate in 2017-19 and works now as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change\, an assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine\, and co-producer of a new series about poetry for Marin TV\, Rising Voices. \nHalim Madi grew up in Beirut\, Lebanon. He left at 17 to study in Paris. Worked in London and Sao Paulo. And eventually landed in San Francisco. He fundraised money from friends to write a book called “Flight of the Jaguar” last year. Then actually wrote it and sent it to his friends. Recently he took his friend’s money again to write a book called “In the Name of Scandal.” He’s working on getting that one out. You can find his work on his website halimmadi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-scandalous-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Antioch Reading Series no.2
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Antioch Reading Series is a quarterly reading series curated and sponsored by alumni of Antioch University MFA Program in Creative Writing. \nBAARS no.2 features\nKaty Avila\nJeffrey Clarke\nJesus Sierra\nAlex Simand\nMireya Vela
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-antioch-reading-series-no-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin: The Blue Absolute
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Blue Absolute\, just out from Nightboat Books. Other works include: Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books\, 2017)\, The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press\, 2015)\, and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems\, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays\, 20008). His writing has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies\, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts\, The California Arts Council\, The San Francisco Arts Commission\, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ+ studies and innovative verse\, Shurin is the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-the-blue-absolute/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters: Linda Sarsour / We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents an evening with Women’s March co-organizer Linda Sarsour​ for her memoir\, We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. Please join us! \nPlease note: This event is ticketed and will be at First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are on sale now. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged to ensure admission. Unless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nOn a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn\, nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour stared at her reflection\, dressed in a hijab for the first time. She saw in the mirror the woman she was growing to be — a young Muslim American woman unapologetic in her faith and her activism\, who would discover her innate sense of justice in the aftermath of 9/11. Now heralded for her award-winning leadership of the Women’s March on Washington\, in We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders Linda Sarsour offers a poignant story of community and family. \nFrom the Brooklyn bodega her father owned\, where Linda learned the real meaning of intersectionality\, to protests in the streets of Washington\, DC\, Linda’s experience as a daughter of Palestinian immigrants is a moving portrayal of what it means to find one’s voice and use it for the good of others. We follow Linda as she learns the tenets of successful community organizing\, and through decades of fighting for racial\, economic\, gender\, and social justice as she becomes one of the most recognized activists in the nation. We also see her honoring her grandmother’s dying wish\, protecting her children\, building resilient friendships\, and mentoring others even as she loses her first mentor in a tragic accident. Throughout\, she inspires readers to take action as she reaffirms that we are not here to be bystanders. \nIn his foreword to the book\, Harry Belafonte writes of Linda\, “While we may not have made it to the Promised Land\, my peers and I\, my brothers and sisters in liberation can rest easy that the future is in the hands of leaders like Linda Sarsour. I have often said to Linda that she embodies the principle and purpose of another great Muslim leader\, brother Malcolm X.” \nThis is her story. \n\nLinda Sarsour is an award-winning civil rights activist\, community organizer\, and mother of three. A Palestinian Muslim American born and raised in Brooklyn\, New York\, she is the former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and the cofounder of the first Muslim online organizing platform\, MPower Change. She is also a founding member of Justice League NYC\, a leading force of activists\, artists\, youth\, and formerly incarcerated individuals committed to criminal justice reform through direct action and policy advocacy.\n​\nSarsour served as national cochair of the largest single day protest in US history\, the Women’s March on Washington. Named among 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world\, she was also cited as one of Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders\, and featured as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. She has won numerous awards for her activism\, including a Champion of Change award from the Obama Administration. She is a frequent media commentator on issues that affect Muslim communities\, Middle East affairs\, and criminal justice reform. She is most recognized for her transformative intersectional organizing work and movement building. \n\nPlease note: \n>> Presentation to be followed by a Q&A. Important signing details to follow.\n>> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n>> If you cannot attend the event and would like to order a signed copy of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders order below and be sure to put your request in the special field.\n>> This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the cost of admission would be a financial hardship that might prevent you from attending\, please let us know. \nFacebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-linda-sarsour-we-are-not-here-to-be-bystanders-2/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: A Memorial for Sean Bonney
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-a-memorial-for-sean-bonney/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield / Ledger
DESCRIPTION:reads from her new volume of poetry Ledger\, a book of personal\, ecological\, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named “among the modern masters” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 1\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows\, and has edited and co-translated four books of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ledger/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-mary-jo-bang/
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:20200404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T170000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\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 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-11/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T190000
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SUMMARY:D. A. Powell and Paola Capó-García
DESCRIPTION:Paola Capó-García is the author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME (Rescue Press\, 2018)\, selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of Rescue Press’ 2017 Black Box Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Volta\, Puerto Rico en mi corazón\, Latino Book Review\, jubilat\, Poetry Society of America\, Academy of American Poets\, and others. Originally from San Juan\, PR\, she now lives in San Diego\, CA\, where she teaches 12th grade English. \nD. A. Powell’s books include Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys and Repast\, both from Graywolf Press. He received the 2019 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-a-powell-and-paola-capo-garcia/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173211
CREATED:20200215T031715Z
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Harris - - Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit w/Robin Sloane
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Malcolm Harristo read from his new book\, Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit on Tuesday\, April 7th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation by Robin Sloane. \nFrom the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality\, student debt\, and exploitation have come to define our lives \nOur economic situation\, political discourse\, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said “Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit” to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? \nMalcolm Harris\, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics\, tackles these questions in over 30 new and selected pieces\, examining everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism–and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way\, he cops to being the guy who tricked protestors into thinking Radiohead was playing Occupy Wall Street; investigates why the robots that will replace us so often look like sex objects; and\, most comfortingly\, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we’re in. \nRarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside-down that we can finally understand it for what it really is\, but Harris’s wry and biting essays do just that\, and help us laugh at what we see. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nMalcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic\, Bookforum\, the Village Voice\, n+1\, and the New York Times Magazine. His first book was Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. He lives in Philadelphia. \nRobin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet. He is the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/malcolm-harris-shit-is-fucked-up-and-bullshit-w-robin-sloane/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173211
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SUMMARY:MFA Alumni Reading Featuring mai c. doan & Aiden Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted Mills graduate students\, followed by readings. \n\n\nmai c. doan is poet and writer from Southern California. Her first full-length collection\, water/tongue\, was published by Omnidawn in 2019. She has published and performed her work though the National Queer Arts Festival\, RADAR Productions\, Entropy Magazine\, Mixed Up!: A Zine about Mixed Race Queer and Feminist Experience\, and more. She holds an MFA from Mills College\, where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\nAiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Originally from Oakland\, California\, they now make their home in Portland\, OR. As a queer\, trans Latinx\, Aiden advocates strongly for diverse representation in all media. Aiden’s debut novel\, Cemetery Boys\, is a Dia de Muertos paranormal romance about Yadriel (a gay\, trans brujo) who accidentally summons the wrong ghost. Cemetery Boys is forthcoming from Macmillan in July 2020.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-alumni-reading-featuring-mai-c-doan-aiden-thomas/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173211
CREATED:20200203T225222Z
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SUMMARY:Aya De León: Side Chick Nation
DESCRIPTION:Aya De León is a writer\, activist\, educator\, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series. The Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People\, she teaches poetry and spoken word at UC Berkeley and is an alumna of Cave Canem\, VONA and Harvard University. She is a winner of the International Latino Book Award and a two time winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards\, and her extensive writing credits include Guernica\, Essence\, Ebony\, The Huffington Post\, VICE\, Ploughshares\, Woman’s Day and Bitch magazine\, among many other websites and publications. De León first came to national attention as a spoken word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and a hip-hop theater artist. Visit her online at ayadeleon.com\, on Twitter @AyadeLeon\, or on Facebook.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aya-de-leon-side-chick-nation/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173211
CREATED:20191120T050827Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 15\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us as the fifth group of our 2nd year graduate students read their work. Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students\, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary’s College. \n\nSterling Farrance (Creative Nonfiction)\nMelissa Landucci (Creative Nonfiction)\nNatalie Savio (Fiction)\nClayne Zollinger (Poetry)\n\n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graduate-student-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173211
CREATED:20200203T224737Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Terrill: Great Balls of Doubt w/ Jon Langford
DESCRIPTION:Mark Terrill’s new book of poems\, launching tonight\, is Great Balls of Doubt\, a collection of poems and prose poems with illustrations by Jon Langford\, hailed by Anne Waldman as “a solid collection from a vigilant compañero of the real work\, an ally of the Zen wing of the New American Poetry of observation & witness.” Born in Berkeley\, Terrill has lived for many years in Germany\, publishing numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including Bread & Fish (The Figures\, 2002) and Diamonds & Sapience (Dark Style\, 2017). His work has appeared in over a thousand journals and anthologies\, including City Lights Review\, Bombay Gin\, Empty Mirror\, Jacket\, Diagram\, Rattle\, RHINO\, and Talisman\, and been translated into French\, German\, and Portuguese. \nJon Langford is a musician and visual artist who first came to prominence with art/punk music collective the Mekons. He has also released many recordings as a solo artist and with other bands (the Three Johns\, the Waco Brothers\, Four Lost Souls\, and more). Tonight he will accompany Terrill’s reading on guitar and also perform songs from his own extensive repertoire. Langford’s art has been collected in two books\, Nashville Radio and Skull Orchard Revisited\, and in 2015 he was artist in residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame\, which commissioned him to paint a series of portraits for its exhibition “Dylan\, Cash\, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-terrill-great-balls-of-doubt-w-jon-langford/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T173211
CREATED:20191227T165931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T165931Z
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SUMMARY:PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
DESCRIPTION:Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet\, an open mic and great drinks and treats! \nHosted by Alameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month-3/
LOCATION:Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden\, 1223 Park St.\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julie's":MAILTO:julie@juliestea.com
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