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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Shauna Shapiro / Good Morning\, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm\, Clarity\, and Joy with Eve Ekman
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Shauna Shapiro\, Ph.D. for her new book\, Good Morning\, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm\, Clarity\, and Joy. \nIn Good Morning\, I Love You\, Dr. Shauna Shapiro — one of the leading scientists studying the effects of mindfulness on well-being — shows us that acting with compassion toward ourselves is the key. \nIn short\, lively chapters\, Dr. Shapiro explains the basic brain science and offers numerous mindfulness and self-compassion practices. Stories from her life and research demonstrate how this powerhouse combination alleviates anxiety\, boosts creative thinking\, and enlarges our sense of belonging and purpose. \nWe can see it on brain scans. Negative and critical thoughts (and the vast majority of our thoughts are negative) cause the part of the brain responsible for learning to literally shut down. Kind and self-compassionate thoughts\, by contrast\, turn on the parts responsible for growth and change. With practice\, we can literally rewire our brains for greater feelings of calm\, joy\, and possibility. \nTry it and see  even if it makes you squirm. When you wake up tomorrow\, take a deep breath\, hand on heart\, and say\, Good morning\, I love you. Then try it the next day. And the next. See what happens. \n——————-\n​\nShauna Shapiro\, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. She is a widely published scholar whose TEDx talk\, The Power of Mindfulness\, has been viewed over one million times. She is a professor at Santa Clara University and a fellow of the Dalai Lamas Mind and Life Institute. Dr. Shapiro lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information\, visit drshaunashapiro.com.    ​ \nEve Ekman\, Ph.D.\, MSW\, is the GGSC’s director of training. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher who has had meaningful collaborations with her father\, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman\, including on The Atlas of Emotions\, an online visual tool commissioned by the Dalai Lama to teach emotional awareness\, and Cultivating Emotional Balance\, an intensive\, evidence-based training for compassion and mindfulness. \n​\n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-shauna-shapiro-good-morning-i-love-you-mindfulness-and-self-compassion-practices-to-rewire-your-brain-for-calm-clarity-and-joy-with-eve-ekman/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Dan Bellm and Alicia Suskin Ostriker
DESCRIPTION:Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s latest book of poems is Waiting for the Light. Daisy Fried says\, “Ostriker so loves the world\, its griefs\, traumas\, praises\, mysteries\, and joys\, that she teaches us to love the world with her—sometimes  desperately\, heartbrokenly\, never despairingly. Ostriker is an essential poet\, writing at the height of her powers.” Both poet and critic\, she is the author of many previous collections\, most recently The Old Woman\, the Tulip\, and the Dog\, The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems\, 1979-2011\, and The Book of Seventy\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Among other honors\, she’s received the Paterson Poetry Prize\, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Her forthcoming collection\, The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems\, 2002-2019\, will be published in September. \nDan Bellm is both poet and translator. His recent poetry book is Deep Well. David St. John says of Deep Well\, “These lyrics of memoriam and these deep songs (in Lorca’s sense) of mourning seem almost to etch themselves onto the air. Keep this book at hand; hold its passages close. This is an essential collection of poetry.” Dan Bellm has published three previous books of poems\, One Hand on the Wheel\, Buried Treasure\, winner of both an Alice Fay Di Castangnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize\, and Practice\, the 2009 California Book Award-winner. His latest translation is Central American Book of the Dead\, by Mexican poet Balam Rodrigo; others include Speaking in Song\, by Mexican poet Pura López Colomé\, and The Song of the Dead\, by French poet Pierre Reverdy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-dan-bellm-and-alicia-suskin-ostriker/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Andy Warner presents Spring Rain
DESCRIPTION:Andy Warner presents and signs copies of Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love\, Madness\, and Revolutions. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nAn intimate graphic memoir by a New York Times–bestselling writer about his semester abroad in Beirut as he grows close to a crowd of mostly LGBTQ students\, and suffers a mental breakdown while the city erupts into revolution. \nIn 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut\, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend\, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city\, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students\, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different cultures and embracing the freedoms of the multicultural city. Warner and his friends party\, do drugs\, and hook up\, even as violence breaks out in the city—the scars of a fifteen-year civil war reopening with a series of political assassinations and bombings. As the city descends into chaos and violence\, Warner feels his grasp on reality slowly begin to slip as he confronts traumas in his past and anxiety over his future. \nIllustrated in beautiful and intricate detail\, Spring Rain is an absorbing and poignant graphic memoir of a young man’s attempt to gain control over his life as well as a portrait of a city and a nation’s violent struggle to define its future. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nAndy Warner is the NY Times Best Selling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects and This Land is My Land. He is a contributing editor at The Nib and teaches cartooning at Stanford University and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. \nHis comics have been published by Slate\, Fusion\, American Public Media\, popsci.com\, KQED\, IDEO.org\, The Center for Constitutional Rights\, UNHCR\, UNRWA\, UNICEF\, and Buzzfeed. He was a recipient of the 2018 Berkeley Civic Arts Grant and the 2019 Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Artist-in-Residency. \nHe works in a garret room in South Berkeley and comes from the sea.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andy-warner-presents-spring-rain/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:First Friday Teen Open Mic & Children's Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:Our February First Friday Children’s Storyteller Series and Teen Poetry Open Mic is filled with literary magic. \n6pm-7pm\, featuring:\n– Children’s Storytelling with children’s book author Lashon Daley\, who will be reading from her book Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\n– Chapter 510 young author Aida Ndiaye\, reading aloud from one of her published children’s books: Evil Burrito and the FBI\n– Recently awarded young authors from Oakland’s own We Write Here contest ! \nLashon A. Daley is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research focuses on performances of Black cultural expressions in the U.S. As a scholar\, dancer\, storyteller\, and choreographer\, Lashon thrives on bridging communities together through movement and storytelling. Her children’s book\, Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\, was released in February 2016. Lashon is also the creator of Stories&Slams\, a podcast that focuses on every day stories. \nAida Ndiaye is ten years old and in the fifth grade at Piedmont Avenue Elementary. She loves to write\, read and go places (specifically Jack London Square). She believes she can fly. She dreams that she will write and publish 2\,000\,000 books. \n6pm-7pm:\nTeen Poetry Writing Workshop with Gabriel Cortez in our Room of Infinite Possibilities!\nFree and open to writers 13-19 years old \nGabriel Cortez is a poet\, educator\, and organizer. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, National Public Radio and Huffington Post. Gabriel is a VONA fellow\, grant recipient\, and winner of the Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize! Gabriel Cortez currently works as Lead Poet Mentor at Youth Speaks\, one of the world’s leading presenters of spoken word performance\, education and youth development programs. \n7pm-9pm:\nTeen Poetry Open Mic\nSign ups begin at 7pm\nShow starts at 7:30pm \nFeaturing local poet\, Quinn Edlin: \nQuinn Edlin is a poet from Berkeley\, California. She is a Queer\, mixed Black woman who roots her work in the exploration of existing at the intersection of her identities. She was a finalist of the 2019 Teen Poetry Slam and performed at the Sydney Goldstein theatre for the 21st annual “Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\,” and at the Brava theatre for the 2019 Queeriosity showcase. \nCome out and share your story on the mic! \nDoors open at 6pm. There will be tiny bookmaking activities for the whole family\, smooth jams spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX and food available from Two Mamacitas pop up kitchen! \nThe Dept. of Make Believe store will be open for business as well. \nFREE FOR ALL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-teen-open-mic-childrens-storyteller-series/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel & Shazam at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A WOMEN-ONLY open mic featuring poet Jan Steckel and singer-songwriter Shazam. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. \nSinger\, songwriter\, and consummate musician Suzanne Cimone\, aka Shazam\, is a magical weaver of music and words for healing. She is a member of the all-female California original country-rock band\, the “Bad Ass Boots.” Shazam can improv anything with her voice\, keyboard\, horn\, and harmonica. She is a delight to see and hear perform. \nOther wonderful artists will entertain and delight you!!\n$7 to $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of eight special prizes. Come celebrate with us! Adult women only please. Cis and trans women welcome. \n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\, Fireside Room \nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser. Produced by Linda & Carolyn Zeiser. For information or to sign up to perform\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com. \nWorks In Progress is a creative space for women artists: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving. \nWIP is scent-free and wheelchair accessible (no accessible bathroom).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-shazam-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Brenda Shaughnessy
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections\, most recently The Octopus Museum. She’s the recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She is currently writing an opera libretto for the composer Paola Prestini\, commissioned by The Atlanta Opera. Shaughnessy is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-brenda-shaughnessy/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T203000
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SUMMARY:Jean Day and Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Jean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Triumph of Life was published last spring by Insurance Editions. Her Late Human will follow from Ugly Duckling in 2021.Recent poems can also be seen in Brooklyn Rail\, Chicago Review\, The Delineator\, Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French). Earlier works include Daydream (Litmus\, 2016)\, Early Bird (O’Clock\, 2014)\, and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books. She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, a scholarly humanities journal\, and does advocacy work for members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE). \n  \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist from San Francisco. Works he has authored include The Sissies (Futurepoem); Terra Firmament (Krupskaya); and a chapbook\, Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-and-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jeneé Darden at Alameda Authors Series IV
DESCRIPTION:Details:  \nThe fourth annual Alameda Authors Series\, sponsored by\, AAUW Alameda and the Friends of the Alameda Free Library\, returns with award winning journalist and book author Jeneé Darden. \nMs. Darden will speak about her book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, a collection of poetry and essays that reflect her journey through Black womanhood. With heart and humor\, Darden engages us in conversations about race\, love\, sex\, and mental health. Like a rose\, being a Black woman in this society comes with its thorns and beauty. Darden brings that complexity to every page.  \nReservations requested: \n https://jeneedarden-aauw2020.eventbrite.com \nPraise for When a Purple Rose Blooms: \n“When a Purple Rose Blooms is more than a series of essays and poems. Jeneé Darden’s debut collection is a homegrown Oakland spellbook\, a womanist battle cry\, a spiritual incantation of Black joy\, self-love\, and healing for contemporary African American sistren.” \n– Aya de León\, author of Uptown Thief\, The Boss\, and The Accidental Mistress\, and director of Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley \n“A wealth of wisdom\, humor\, grit\, warmth\, and sensuality. When a Purple Rose Blooms candidly shows a Black woman’s quest to embrace her entire self while navigating contemporary America. Very few works spit fire and water like this one. Darden gets to the core of what it means to feel without apology\, love radically\, and get Queened up while honoring the Queen in others as well.” \n– Lyndsey Ellis\, writer\, editor\, and award recipient of 2018 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund \n“Jeneé Darden’s When a Purple Rose Blooms is a daring book of poems and essays\, depicting family\, pop culture\, self-love\, racism\, and other issues\, especially those that impact women. This truth-telling book heralds with allusions\, historical references\, blues\, East Oakland\, and inter-generational camaraderie\, praise\, and ‘God’s Image.’ These poems and essays tell us what’s happening\, and display much intelligence.” \n– Lenard D. Moore\, author of The Geography of Jazz\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Mount Olive \nAbout the author: \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, author\, public speaker\, mental health advocate and proud Oakland native. She covers stories about East Oakland at KALW News 91.7 FM and hosts the arts segment Sights & Sounds.  Jenee has reported for NPR\, Time\, The LA Times\, Ebony and other outlets. She also hosts the blog and podcast Cocoa Fly. Her first book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, is a womanist collection of essays and poetry about her personal experiences with race\, mental health and love as a Black woman. Jeneé holds a BA in ethnic studies from UC San Diego and a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact AAUW Alameda at alameda-ca@aauw.net or see our Web site at http://alameda-ca.aauw.net/ \nEvent telephone: 510.463.4966 Kevis Brownson (leave message)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenee-darden-at-alameda-authors-series-iv/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meng Jin - Little Gods
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Meng Jin to read from her new book\, Little Gods on Wednesday\, February 12tht at 7pm. \nOn the night of June Fourth\, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan\, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past\, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. \nWhen Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later\, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya\, who grew up in America\, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her\, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead\, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen\, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China\, and Yongzong\, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist\, an ambivalent mother\, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. \nA story of migrations literal and emotional\, spanning time\, space and class\, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams\, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory\, history\, and self. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meng-jin-little-gods/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile will be ending in May\, and for its penultimate installment we proudly feature a lineup of queer readers who will take a close look at all our lives. Two of our features honed their chops at the original Café Babar and remain performers of towering skill\, and the third is blazing a trail as we speak. Three-time SF Slam Team member and former Lake County Poet Laureate Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga will share some of his Filipino American gaze\, while special educator\, Union activist\, and longtime Berkeley resident Tim Xonnelly will endow us with some true Bay Area queerness. And “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen will vibe us with some next-gen activist energy. \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 #22: Up Close and Personal\na revival of the Cafe Babar\, Paradise Lounge\, and Club Chameleon reading series \nfeaturing\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga\nTim Xonnelly\nand “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen \nand you\, in our all-inclusive open mic \nHosted by Richard Loranger and Paul Corman-Roberts \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nThree-time SF Poetry Slam team member\, Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga honed his poetic and spoken word skills at Cafe Babar on a weekly basis. Gonzaga is an esteemed member of the arts\, activism\, and healing communities. The sixth Poet Laureate of Lake County\, former bookstore co-owner\, and resident of Harbin Hot Springs\, Gonzaga was displaced by the devastating Valley Fire in 2015. He has recently returned to San Francisco where he is working on his first novel. Born in the Philippines and raised in the East Bay\, Gonzaga has been a dervish\, minister\, writer\, freelance journalist\, editor\, social justice activist\, arts educator\, youth mentor\, and martial artist. He states: “Giving expression and voice to our grief\, rage\, hopes\, and joys serve the healing of an individual\, and in turn\, a community.” \nTim Xonnelly is a special educator and Union activist living in downtown Berkeley since 1991. He’s recently had poetry published in Be About It\, Naked Bulb 2018 Anthology\, the-fabulist.org\, 11 Eleven\, Cross Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel. \nBorn in Stockton\, CA\, Anna Allen has been writing fairy tales and tragedies since childhood. Her work has appeared in various literary mags and journals. You can read some of her work on Sparkle and Blink\, Chronically Lit\, The Scribelrus\, and Little Death Lit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile-22-up-close-and-personal/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T080000
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Petri: Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. \nIn essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns\, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years\, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe— and terrify — readers who have died laughing to ClickHole\, the Onion\, Stephen Colbert\, Jon Stewart\, or Veep. \n—– \nAlexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. \nPlease note: \n​Doors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis 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 absolute best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-petri-nothing-is-wrong-and-here-is-why/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Rebecca Radner
DESCRIPTION:Clearly Meant presents: a poetry reading\, interview\, and discussion\, featuring Rebecca Radner. \nRebecca Radner\, a Berkeley poet\, is the author of What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011 (Class Action Ink).  Her poems have appeared in Harvard Magazine\, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, The Iowa Review\, and The New England Review\, as well as the anthology What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle. She has read her poems recently as part of the Bay Area Generations reading series and at the Berkeley Art Center. \nA free chapbook of Rebecca Radner’s poems will be available at all BPL locations starting in January. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-rebecca-radner/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Synchronicity by Tureeda Mikell
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated release of Tureeda Mikell‘s first full-length collection of poetry\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine. Location to be announced soon. \nPreorders help small presses gauge print runs\, so grab your copy before the event! www.nomadicpress.org/store/synchronicity \nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a poetic-prose journey into the revelation of sun medicine that shows up like a rhyme in time to forewarn and sign the body and the mind. Filled with questions\, answers\, wordplay\, interspecies connection\, religious\, scientific\, and political satire\, and prose about the Black Panthers\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine connects readers with the universal ear that takes them on a healing journey into the mysterious interwoven nature of humans\, birds\, stars\, and those from beyond. \nJames Cagney\, author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory\, winner of the 2019 Josephine Miles PEN Oakland award says: “Be careful casual reader—cold hard truths lie within. These are not poems—they are corrective sermons written to turn you around to look squarely in the face of logic and reason. Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a double-barreled book blasting holes clean through your assumptions and understanding of nature\, spirit\, history\, and race. It aims to disassemble language down to its barest elements to help readers rebuild common sense from scratch. A veteran teacher and master storyteller\, Tureeda Mikell is a lyrical wonder digging deep into the words and symbols we too often take for granted. There’s a reason events rhyme and repeat\, there’s a grander purpose behind those synchronistic events and occurrences linking like a chain around you. The answers you need are lit and laid open at your feet. The journey is yours to take.” \nAdditional readers and the musician will be announced soon. Gnosh and drinks will be provided. \nDonations will be collected throughout the evening\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-synchronicity-by-tureeda-mikell/
LOCATION:East Side Arts Alliance\, 2277 International Blvd.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:World-Renowned Poets Ellen Bass\, Jane Hirshfield and Marie Howe to Give Poetry Reading in Support of the Courageous Students of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund for Maasai Girls
DESCRIPTION:On February 15\, 2020\, three renowned poets will join voices to offer and unforgettable evening of poetry in support of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund for Maasai Girls. This event will be a rare opportunity to hear three of the greatest voices of modern poetry in one event. Bass\, Hirshfield and Howe are or have been Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Their poems have summoned a generation of poets into a terrain of uncompromising honesty at the interface between the holy and the human. \nOn February 15\, their power will bring people together to change the lives of young women in Kenya through donations to the S.H.E. Fund. \nAbout the Poets \n“Ellen Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral\, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. Following her musings on suicide and generosity\, desire and repetitionit becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.” Briana Shemroske\, Booklist \n“Jane Hirshfield\, in poems described by The Washington Post as belonging among the modern masters and by The New York Times as passionate and radiant\, addresses the urgent immediacies of our time. Ranging from the political\, ecological\, and scientific to the metaphysical\, personal\, and passionate\, Hirshfield praises the radiance of particularity and the consequence of the daily. Her poems and essays traverse the crises of the biosphere and social justice\, abiding in the intersections of facts and imagination\, desire and loss\, impermanence and beauty – all the dimensions of our existence within what one poem calls ‘the pure democracy of being.'” The Steven Barclay Agency \n“Marie Howe‘s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long\, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit\, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” Stanley Kunitz \nKim Rosen\, Founder and Executive Director of the S.H.E. Fund and poet will also be speaking at the event. \nAbout the S.H.E. Fund \nThe Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund provides girls of the V-Day Safe House in Narok\, Kenya with college\, university or trade school education in order to support these young women to become change-makers in their communities and stop the cycles of oppression of women (Female Genital Mutilation\, Early Childhood Marriage and the refusal to educate females) in their culture and on our planet. \nProceeds from the event will support students like Salula\, who was rescued at the age of eight from a forced marriage to a 46 year-old man; Eunice\, who rode on the back of an older boy’s bike through the night to get to the Safe House to avoid being married off; and Agnes and Mercy\, two sisters who fled FGM together\, hid for three days in a police woman’s house\, then were taken to the Safe House. Today these students are going to college and living their dreams. They and other S.H.E. students are the first people in their villages to get a college education. Their example is changing what it means to be a woman in their tribe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/world-renowned-poets-ellen-bass-jane-hirshfield-and-marie-howe-to-give-poetry-reading-in-support-of-the-courageous-students-of-the-safe-house-education-s-h-e-fund-for-maasai-girls/
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley\, 1 Lawson Rd\, Kensington\, 94707
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="The S.H.E. Fund":MAILTO:info@shecollegefund.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T140000
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel on Poetry and Activism
DESCRIPTION:On February 16th the California Writers Club – Berkeley branch welcomes award-winning poet and activist Jan Steckel as a featured guest of the club. Steckel will speak on how poets and writers can effect change through their writing. She will speak on advocacy\, representation\, and documenting social conditions. Steckel has experience to share on using your writing to inspire empathy and using your notoriety to draw attention to injustice. She will share the ways poets and writers can participate in acts of resistance and move others to action. \nSteckel will briefly survey activist poets of the past. Many poets who rarely wrote overtly political poetry have felt moved to do so over the last few years. Online and print venues for political poetry have recently multiplied; a list of 22 journals that publish poetry about current events\, including poems that take a political stance\, will be provided. Local and national organizations of activist poets and publishers and ways to be an activist poet will be discussed. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. She is an activist for bisexual people’s\, disabled people’s and immigrants’ rights. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Rise Up Review\, Poetry Reading the News\, The New Verse News\, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland\, California and works as a medical editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-on-poetry-and-activism/
LOCATION:Robinson Classroom A\, 1204 Preservation Park Way\, Oakland\, 94612-1201
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T170000
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SUMMARY:Gish Jen's The Resisters Book Talk with Helen Zia
DESCRIPTION:A moving and important story of an America that seems ever more possible\, The Resisters is also the story of one family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value–as well as their very existence. Gish will be in conversation with Helen Zia\, activist/author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams. \n“The Resisters is palpably loving\, smart\, funny\, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” –Ann Patchett \nGISH JEN is the author of four previous novels\, a story collection\, and two works of nonfiction\, the latest of which was The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nCo-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Bay Area Chapter\, Asian Health Services\, and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nFREE\, $3-5 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gish-jens-the-resisters-book-talk-with-helen-zia/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Swap!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our semiannual Book Swap at Novel Brewing Co.! \nHow does it work?\nBring a book\, or a few books. We prefer ones from home that you finished reading and would like to share with others \nAND/OR come in to find the next book you want to read! \nEach book included in the Book Swap needs a BOOKMARK!\nBookmarks and writing utensils are provided. Please write (1) your first name and last initial\, and (2) the top 2 reasons someone should read the book. Place the books\, with the bookmark in it\, on the Book Swap Book Cart. \nNovel Brewing Company’s Book Swap host (Teresa) will push around the Book Swap Book Cart from 4 to 6 pm to get each book a new home! \nSuccess = Extra $1 off your next pint!\nIf your book is selected by someone to take home\, the bookmark will be given to the beer server SO ASK if you have a bookmark behind the bar during your next pint purchase to redeem an extra $1 off your pint! \nIf books remain at the end\, no worries\, they will be put in the Lending Library over the next few months. \nHave fun and READ MORE in your daily life!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-swap/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Conor Dougherty - Golden Gates w/Nellie Bowles
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Conor Doughertyto read from his new book\, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America on Monday\, February 17th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation by Nellie Bowles. \nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today\, however\, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. \nWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting\, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter\, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. \nTo tell this new story of housing\, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \nSweeping in scope and intimate in detail\, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nConor Dougherty is an economics reporter at The New York Times. He previously spent a decade in New York covering housing and the economy for The Wall Street Journal. He grew up in the Bay Area and lives with his family in Oakland. \nNellie Bowles is a reporter for the New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conor-dougherty-golden-gates-w-nellie-bowles/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters: Thom Hartmann / The Hidden History of the War on Voting
DESCRIPTION:In today’s America\, only a slim majority of eligible voters register to vote and a large percentage of registered voters don’t bother to show up for elections. Is this their responsibility alone\, or is it the insidious result of policies made by our elected officials? Thom Hartmann unveils the hidden war on voting in America\, offering answers as to why the wealthy elite want to block people from voting\, where the idea that only smart people should vote originates\, and why convicts aren’t allowed to vote. Is voter fraud really that common\, or is it just a ploy to make it harder for people to vote? And most importantly\, how can we make voting easily accessible to every citizen? With a perspective that stretches all the way to the founding of our republic\, Hartmann shows how the war on universal suffrage has been waged for centuries—and is far from over. \n​——————- \nThom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkers magazine named him America’s most important progressive host and has named his show one of the top ten talk radio shows in the country every year for over a decade. A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award\, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four books\, translated into multiple languages. \n​\nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-thom-hartmann-the-hidden-history-of-the-war-on-voting/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Lewis Watts - Harlem of the West
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Lewis Watts to read from is new book\, Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era on Tuesday\, February 18th at 7pm. \nIn the 1940s and 50s\, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment\, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block-radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants\, pool halls\, theaters\, and stores\, many of them owned and run by African Americans\, Japanese Americans\, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians\, Harlem of the Westcaptures a joyful\, exciting time in San Francisco\, taking readers through an all-but-forgotten multicultural neighborhood and revealing a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist\, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lewis-watts-harlem-of-the-west/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T213000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit # 57: (Music by: GALA)
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: GALA \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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-57-music-by-gala/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Oakland Poetry Slam and Wide Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at our new home! There will be music\, a writing workshop\, and Luka’s has 1/2 off burgers! You should come eat\, drink\, and be merry. And of course\, hop on our open mic or poetry slam list to flex your skills. \nYour Feature for the night is D’mani Thomas \n7:00 PM Doors Open \n7:20 PM Writing Workshop led by Tino V.H. Jr. \n7:30 Open mic and Slam lists open \n8:15 Show Begins! \nAbout the Feature: \nD’mani Thomas (he/him/they) is a writer\, horror film enthusiast\, and dance lover. A graduate of UC Berkeley\, D’mani is a two-time member of CAL Slam ( 2017 & 2018)\, earning the “Best Writing As a Team” accolade in 2018. They were a 2019 Pink Plastic House Resident\, a 2019 WUS GOOD Black Hogwarts workshop participant\, and will be a 2020 SHOW US YOUR SPINES resident as well as a 2020 Alley Cat resident . Their work can be found in Cerurove literary journal\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, and is forthcoming in Foglifter and elsewhere. \n$Cover$: \nGeneral Admission: $10 \nPerformers (door only): $5 \nBring yo friends\, Bring yo family\, Bring yo date\, but most importantly\, Bring YOSELF!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-poetry-slam-and-wide-open-mic/
LOCATION:Luka’s Taproom & Lounge\, 2221 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:20200218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T210000
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SUMMARY:Devi S. Laskar discusses The Atlas of Reds and Blues
DESCRIPTION:Devi S. Laskar will be joined in conversation by Vijaya Nagarajan\, Christine O’Brien\, and Elizabeth Stark\, to celebrate the paperback release of The Atlas of Reds and Blues. \n  \nAbout the Book: \n“Devi S. Laskar’s The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal. In prose that moves between cushioning characters’ falls and ushering our understandings of characters’ utopias\, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating. I’ve never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages. Laskar has changed how we will all write about state-sanctioned terror in this nation.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \n“The entire novel takes place over the course of a single morning\, as Mother lies waiting for help\, and the effect is devastatingly potent.” —Marie Claire \nWhen a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs\, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades\, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No\, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants\, she finds that her answer—Here—is never enough. \nMother’s simmering anger breaks through one morning\, when\, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home\, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound\, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India\, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters\, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home. \nThe Atlas of Reds and Blues grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience\, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace\, and a sister\, a wife\, and a mother to daughters in today’s America. Drawing inspiration from the author’s own terrifying experience of a raid on her home\, Devi S. Laskar’s debut novel explores\, in exquisite\, lyrical prose\, an alternate reality that might have been. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDevi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Tin House and Rattle\, among other publications. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and is an alumna of The OpEd Project and VONA. The Atlas of Reds and Blues is her first novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nVijaya Nagarajan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Feeding A Thousand Souls: Women\, Ritual and Ecology in India\, An Exploration of the Kolam (Oxford University Press\, 2019) \nChristine O’Brien’s lyrical essays and short stories have appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile Magazine\, among other publications. Her memoir\, CRAVE\, A Memoir of Food and Longing\, released in 2018\, was hailed as a “page turner” by Booklist and “a 20th Century fairytale” by The New York Times. She is currently an adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s College of California where she has taught composition for nine years. \nElizabeth Stark is host of the Story Makers Show podcast. She produced the 2019 film Lost in the Middle\, the documentary FtF: Female to Femme\, and the film short\, Little Mutinies. She has taught at UCSC\, Pratt\, St. Mary’s and more\, and is currently teaching at SonomaCountyWritersCamp.com and BookWritingWorld.com. Look out for Optical Illusions\, a forthcoming novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devi-s-laskar-discusses-the-atlas-of-reds-and-blues/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Steve Almond Q&A with Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 19\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 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\nQ&A and discussion with Steve Almond\, author of William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life. The plot of the John Williams’s 1965 novel Stoner is straightforward enough—“Stoner\, the only son of subsistence farmers\, attends college\, unexpectedly falls in love with literature\, and becomes a teacher; he endures a disastrous marriage\, a prolonged academic feud\, and a doomed love affair\, then falls ill and dies\,” Almond writes—but in William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life\, the author sees the novel as a personal reckoning\, a catalyst for sharing his own struggles as a writer\, father\, and husband grappling with his own mortality. \nSteve Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Against Football and Candyfreak. His short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, the Best American Mysteries\, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, and elsewhere. He hosts the New York Times “Dear Sugars” podcast with Cheryl Strayed. Steve lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. \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/steve-almond-qa-with-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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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-14/
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:20200219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T210000
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SUMMARY:Month of Love: February Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Bring a date to this lit reading by five Northern Californian writers. We are feature local talent along with refreshments and a book store cat. All free!! Come enjoy and warm your winter bones. \nAntmen Pimentel Mendoza\nGrace Loh Prasad\nApollo Papafrangou\nWill Preston\nLisa Rosenberg \nHosted and curated by Sharon Coleman \nantmen pimentel mendoza (he\, him\, his & she\, her\, hers) is a scorpio\, bakla\, and writer. antmen is based in Huichin Ohlone Land (the San Francisco Bay Area) where he talks about pop music nearly all day and plays with friends. She works at a cultural center where she conspires with undergraduate students of color toward more free and just worlds\, manages a community lending library\, and geeks on curriculum development and workshop facilitation. \nApollo Papafrangou is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Wings of Wax (Olive Leaf Editions\, 2016) and the story collection Concrete Candy\, published by Anchor Books/Doubleday in 1996\, with French and Danish editions. He has also written for HBO Films\, which optioned the film rights to his story The Fence (2000-2004). His fiction and poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA magazine\, Oakland Review\, The Bookends Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and the Simon & Schuster anthology Trapped. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nGrace Loh Prasad was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey and Hong Kong before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grace received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College\, and is an alumna of the VONA workshop for writers of color along with residencies at Hedgebrook and the Ragdale Foundation. Her essays have appeared in Longreads\, Catapult\, Jellyfish Review\, Ninth Letter\, Blood Orange Review\, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine\, Memoir Mixtapes\, The Manifest-Station\, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is a contributor to the anthology Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration\, Identity and Coming to America and has work forthcoming in Panorama\, and the anthologies Ms. Aligned 3 and Chrysanthemum: Voices of the TaiwanesDiaspora\, Vol. II. Grace is a member of The Writers Grotto and Seventeen Syllables\, an Asian Pacific American writers collective. She is currently finishing her memoir entitled The Translator’s Daughter (www.translatorsdaughter.com). \nWill Preston was born in Oakland where he is now a middle school teacher\, and will complete the MFA program in creative writing at St. Mary’s College where he is also the Senior Fiction Editor for the literary journal Mary. His short fiction appears in Milvia Street. \nPoet and recovering engineer\, Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics\, winner of the Red Mountain Poetry Prize. She holds degrees in physics and creative writing\, and worked for many years in the space program. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford\, she served as the 2017/2018 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Lisa’s poems explore natural and cultural landscapes\, the art of making\, and the drive to question inherited models. She was recently named a MOSAIC Fellow with Sangam Arts\, and has been awarded a 2020 Djerassi Residency for Scientists and Artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/month-of-love-february-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T223000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Slam ft. Terry Taplin!
DESCRIPTION:THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST!\nBringing 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/\nhttps://twitter.com/berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nGet ready for our feature Terry Taplin! \nTerry Taplin holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College where he served as the Lambda Literary Fellow. He is the former Poetry Editor of MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, and is Social Media Managing Editor at Fruity Feline Press. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \n—————�————-\nUPCOMING\n2/26: Ashia Ajani\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: 8:30 p.m.\nALL AGES before 10 p.m.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-slam-ft-terry-taplin/
LOCATION:The Starry Plough\, 3101 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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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! \nAlameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane hosts. All attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the Alameda Food Bank that night to support those needing help this holiday season. \nAs Charles Dickens wrote\, “it is a time\, of all others\, when Want is keenly felt\, and Abundance rejoices.” Let’s all rejoice by sharing our cultures\, our words\, and our hearts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month-2/
LOCATION:Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden\, 1223 Park St.\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Christine Carter / The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present the launch for the new book by Christine Carter\, Ph.D.\, The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction. \nTodays teenagers and preteens are growing up in an entirely new world\, one that is defined by social media and mobile devices. This has huge implications for our parenting. Understandably\, many parents are paralyzed by new problems that didn’t exist less than a decade ago\, like social media and video game obsession\, sexting\, and vaping. \nA highly acclaimed sociologist and coach at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and the author of Raising Happiness\, Dr. Christine Carter melds research — including the latest findings in neuroscience\, sociology\, and social psychology — with her own real-world experiences as the mother of four teenagers. In The New Adolescence\, you’ll find realistic ways to help teens and preteens find joy\, focus\, ease\, motivation\, fulfillment and engagement. \nInside\, find practical guidance for: \n>  Providing the structure teens need while giving them the autonomy they seek\n>  Helping them overcome distractions\n>  Teaching them the art of strategic slacking\n>  Protecting them from anxiety\, isolation\, and depression\n>  Fostering the real-world\, face-to-face social connections they desperately need\n>  Effective conversations about tough subjects including sex\, drugs\, and money \nThe New Adolescence is a realistic and reassuring handbook for parents. It offers road-tested\, science-based solutions for raising happy\, healthy\, and successful teenagers. \n——————-\n​\nChristine Carter\, PhD\, is the author of The Sweet Spot (2017) and Raising Happiness (2011). A sociologist and Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center\, Carter draws on the latest scientific research in psychology\, sociology and neuroscience and uses her own real-world experiences to give parenting\, productivity and happiness advice. A sought-after keynote speaker and coach\, Dr. Carter also teaches online classes that help people live their most fulfilling lives. She lives with her husband\, four teenagers\, and dog\, Buster\, in Marin County\, California. \n​\nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-christine-carter-the-new-adolescence-raising-happy-and-successful-teens-in-an-age-of-anxiety-and-distraction/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Elwin Cotman\, Vernon Keeve\, Adrienne Oliver\, and Alexandra Mattraw Reading
DESCRIPTION:Local writers Elwin Cotman\, Vernon Keeve\, and Adrienne Oliver read from their work. \nElwin Cotman grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, whee the post-industrial landscape was a great inspiration for him. He is a writer of urban fantasy. He is also the author of two collections of speculative short stories\, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP and Hard Times Blues. His work has appeared in Grist\, Weird Fiction Review\, Black Gate\, The Thought Erotic\, The Southwestern Review\, and Cabinet des Fees\, among others. His third collection\, Dance on Saturday\, is being published by Small Beer Press in 2020. \nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia born writer. He currently lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives\, sharing their experiences\, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from CCA\, and a MA in Teaching Literature from Bard College. His full-length collection of poetry\, Southern Migrant Mixtape\, was published by Nomadic Press in 2018 and is the recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. \nAdrienne Danyelle Oliver is a poet-educator currently living in Oakland\, CA. Her previous work has appeared in Digital Paper\, The Womanist\, Storytelling\, Self & Society (Wayne State University Press 2018) and The Musuem of African American Diaspora’s poet corner. A Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) alumna\, Adrienne enjoys writing about intergenerational healing and 1930s era history leading up to the civil rights era. When she is not writing\, Adrienne is reading or watching documentaries. She also leads a monthly writing and healing circle for Black women.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elwin-cotman-vernon-keeve-adrienne-oliver-and-alexandra-mattraw-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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