Virtual Get Lit #73
We're in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time...
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Saturday Night Special presents: Roots
online CA, United StatesJoin SNS this month, for a reading about ROOTS. For our April writing challenge, you are invited to explore an origin story, history, or ancestry...
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CWC WORKSHOP: How To Submit Your Poetry With Keith M. Gaboury
VirtualThis workshop led by poet Keith M. Gaboury will focus on a step-by-step process of how a poet can submit their poetry to a wide...
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Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America’s Forgotten History
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents AVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration Aviva...
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Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel
online CA, United StatesJoin us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel's full-length collection of poetry, Low Rent Prophet. Readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, James Tracy, and...
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See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
online CA, United StatesThis is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our...
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Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
onlineWhen bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our...
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When Everything Falls Apart, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China, Tolstoy, and the Power of Art, with Adam Hochschild
online CA, United StatesOrville Schell, Adam Hochschild, Yiyun Li In a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano, eyes closed, playing “Jesu,...
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Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
online CA, United StatesVendela Vida, Cherilyn Parsons, Carol Edgarian From the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover, San Francisco has always been a city in...
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Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
online CA, United StatesWednesday, May 5, 2021, 2:00pm via Zoom Ismail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer, a staff writer at the Millions, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, and a board member at...
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Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail
online CA, United StatesAnnalee Newitz, Nathaniel Rich, Bonnie Tsui More than 150 years ago, long before intimations of a warming planet had begun, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a prescient statement:...
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Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece, Shuggie Bain
online CA, United StatesDouglas Stuart enraptured readers worldwide in 2020 when his heart-stopping debut novel, Shuggie Bain, took the world’s top literary award, the Booker Prize. While Stuart may...
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How to Dream the World You Want: Nnedi Okorafor and Jeff VanderMeer on Resistance and Transformation
online CA, United StatesForget the new normal. What we need right now is literature that turns the whole concept of “normal” on its head, building worlds that put...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #57
online CA, United States90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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Love, Loss, and Meaning in Life: World-Renowned Therapist Irvin Yalom with Joyce Carol Oates
online CA, United States“Mourning is the price we pay for having the courage to love others,” opens the extraordinary memoir by renowned psychiatrist Irvin Yalom (Love’s Executioner) and...
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Splitting the World Open: An International Roundtable of Dangerous Women Writers
online CA, United StatesIn 1968, poet Muriel Rukeyser famously wrote, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” More...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #58
online CA, United States90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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CWC Speaker Series Panel: Race as Context: BIPOC California Writers
VirtualWe are so excited to offer a unique opportunity for members to join in this timely discussion. Panelists are California BIPOC writers from many vantage...
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Virtual Get Lit #72
onlineWe're in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time...
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Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #35
onlineA Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #59
online CA, United States90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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Learn WordPress: A Workshop with Karma Bennett
VirtualAt last month's meeting we gave you tips on improving your website, now we'll teach the skills to do it, in a hands-on workshop on...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #60
online CA, United States90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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JoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch:What We Don’t Talk About: Sex, Authority
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a Zoom event: JoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch What We Don't Talk About: Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #61
online CA, United States90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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Mick LaSalle & Richard Wolinsky: Dream State: California at the Movies
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Mick LaSalle & Richard Wolinsky: A Zoom Event DREAM STATE: CALIFORNIA IN THE MOVIES Dream State is a freewheeling journey...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #62
online CA, United States90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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David & Margaret Talbot: By the Light of Burning Dreams
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event: David & Margaret Talbot By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Second American Revolution Hosted by...
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Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #36
online CA, United StatesA Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom...
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diluvium // a bluejay release
online CA, United StatesA reading to celebrate the release of Isabel Bezerra Balée's debut book of poetry diluvium // a bluejay, out on Dogpark Collective June 15. Alongside...
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