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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200331T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T193000
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T210000
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui
DESCRIPTION:presents Why We Swim \n“A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book.” —Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \nHumans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it’s an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It’s also one route to that elusive\, ecstatic state of flow. These reasons\, among many others\, make swimming one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nBonnie Tsui lives\, swims\, and surfs in the Bay Area. A longtime contributor to the New York Times and California Sunday Magazine\, she has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her last book\, American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Her website is bonnietsui.com.\n\n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. I was enchanted.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n“The only thing better than reading Bonnie Tsui’s writing about swimming is swimming itself—and both are sublime. Why We Swim is an aquatic tour de force\, a captivating story filled with adventure\, meditation\, and celebration.”\n—Susan Casey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and Voices in the Ocean \n“This is a jewel of a book\, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it.”\n—James Nestor\, author of Deep: Freediving\, Renegade Science\, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves \n“Magnificent. Only a truly great story can hold my attention and Why We Swim had me nailed to the chair . . . I love this book.”\n—Christopher McDougall\, bestselling author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes \n“Why We Swim is a gorgeous hybrid of a book. Bonnie Tsui combines fascinating reporting about some of the world’s most remarkable swimmers with delightful meditations about what it means for us naked apes to leap in the water for no apparent reason. You won’t regret diving in.”\n—Carl Zimmer\, author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers\, Perversions\, and Potential of Heredity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bonnie-tsui/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T220000
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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-3/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T173446
CREATED:20191227T174415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T174415Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wetmore
DESCRIPTION:reads from her debut novel Valentine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWritten with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver\, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. \nMercy is hard in a place like this . . . \nIt’s February 1976\, and Odessa\, Texas\, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity\, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. \nIn the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day\, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house\, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive\, one of the town’s women decides to take matters into her own hands\, setting the stage for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. \nValentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race\, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear\, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart\, this fierce\, unflinching\, darkly funny\, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability\, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nElizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch\, Kenyon Review\, Colorado Review\, Baltimore Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Iowa Review\, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas\, she lives and works in Chicago. \n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“Fierce and complex\, VALENTINE is a novel of moral urgency and breathtaking prose. This is the very definition of a stunning debut.”\n— Ann Patchett \n“It is nearly impossible for me to believe that Elizabeth Wetmore is a first-time novelist. How can a writer burst out of the gate with this much firepower and skill? VALENTINE is brilliant\, sharp\, tightly wound\, and devastating. Wetmore has ripped the brutal\, epic landscape of West Texas out of the hands of men\, and has handed the stories over (finally!) to the girls and women who have always suffered\, survived\, and made their mark in such a hostile world. These are some of the most fully realized and unforgettable female characters I’ve ever met. They will stay with me.”\n— Elizabeth Gilbert\, New York Times bestselling author of City of Girls \n“My goodness\, what a novel. I clutched this book in both hands and by the end I could feel the dust of West Texas on my skin. Elizabeth Wetmore understands the nuances of the human heart better than almost any writer I’ve read in recent years\, and I rooted for these women with everything I have. There is violence here\, and despair\, but in the end the story is a testament to quiet courage\, to hope\, to love. Every person should read this extraordinary debut.”\n— Mary Beth Keane\, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again\, Yes \n“Valentine is a screaming flare shot into the night sky: a blazing debut that’s as tender and subversive as it is powerful. From the opening moment\, I could not look away; the characters are so complex\, so gritty and determined\, that I had the sense they were carrying me aloft\, that they wouldn’t release me until we were safe. Elizabeth Wetmore captures a place and story that’s both expansive and suffocating\, counterfeit and raw\, brutal and beautiful\, all the vivid contradictions. Wetmore is a new literary powerhouse\, and Valentine is quite simply one of the best books I’ve ever read.”\n— Jeanine Cummins\, author of American Dirt \n“Elizabeth Wetmore shows us the vivid and complex culture of Odessa\, Texas. The women in this book move through their difficult lives with strength and surprising grace. The landscape and characters are rendered with precise and lyric prose. Valentine is a beautiful book written with compassion\, understanding\, and deep honesty. A remarkable debut.”\n— Chris Offutt\, author of Country Dark \n“In Valentine\, Elizabeth Wetmore cracks open West Texas and lays bare what beats inside: a world at once ferocious\, fragile\, and furious\, where women and girls fight menace from every fanged quarter—land\, animal\, human. But fight they do\, for themselves\, for each other\, for what’s right. Wondrously\, amid the sorrow\, Valentine thrums with the most staggering beauty\, a compassion and tenderness as vast as the sky. You’ll read this book like a letter from a lost love\, clutched in your hands\, heart in your throat. You’ll carry it with you forever.”\n— Bryn Chancellor\, author of Sycamore \n“In outstanding prose\, Wetmore has created a handful of extraordinary women out of the dust of West Texas\, 1976. They are all so real\, with their hard lives lived with absolute humanity. Valentine is both heartbreaking and thrilling\, I loved it.”\n— Claire Fuller\, author of Our Endless Numbered Days \n“Stirring. . . . Wetmore poetically weaves the landscape of Odessa and the internal lives of her characters\, whose presence remains vivid after the last page is turned. This moving portrait of West Texas oil country evokes the work of Larry McMurtry and John Sayles with strong\, memorable female voices.”\n— Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“Drawing comparisons to Barbara Kingsolver and Wallace Stegner\, Wetmore writes with an evidently innate wisdom about the human spirit. With deep introspection\, she expertly unravels the complexities between men\, women\, and the land they inhabit. Achingly powerful\, this story will resonate with readers long after having finished it.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-wetmore/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T173446
CREATED:20200306T214456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T214456Z
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SUMMARY:The Black (W)hole
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, every member of the now award-winning Destiny Arts Center Youth Performance Company knew someone killed by violence. How they began to ask\, do we remember the “gone too soon”? It’s a question at the heart of The Black (W)hole\, a new\, multidisciplinary performance commissioned by Destiny Arts Center in collaboration with members of Oakland’s vibrant arts community that will premiere on April 17 at The Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center at Laney College. \nThe Black (W)hole combines hip hop and vertical dance\, poetic elegies\, video installations\, and mixed-media public artworks to honor six young people who died before age 32 in and around Oakland. “We commissioned Marc Bamuthi Joseph to come home to Oakland and help us create a new\, embodied language to memorialize youth in our city who have died too-soon. The Black (W)hole is a vehicle for resistance and spiritual renewal that will show how public rituals can affirm cultural memory and help us mourn and heal\,” explains Sarah Crowell\, the Center’s Artistic Director. \nThe Black (W)hole includes the Award-Winning Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC)\, together with Marc Bamuthi Joseph\, Brett Cook\, and Yoram Savion of YAKfilms\,The Elders Project\, and BANDALOOP\, DAYPC Co-Artistic Directors Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari\, and a team of powerful collaborators\, performance and art installations and a dance/theater piece for the six young “gone too soon” ancestors\, that have been guided by conversations with their family members.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-whole/
LOCATION:Laney College\, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center 900 Fallon St\, Oakland\, 94607
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Destiny Arts Center":MAILTO:info@destinyarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T173446
CREATED:20200203T230301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T230326Z
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SUMMARY:For Young Adults! Dallas Woodburn in Conversation with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Launch and discussion of her new novel\, The Best Week That Never Happened\, “a poignant and gripping heart-tug of a page-turner filled with heart and hope. –Jennifer Niven\, author of All the Bright Places \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Best Week That Never Happenedby speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below to order online. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 21\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter her parents’ bitter divorce\, family vacations to the Big Island in Hawaii ceased. But across the miles\, eighteen-year-old Tegan Rossi remains connected to local Kai Kapule\, her best friend from childhood. Now\, Tegan finds herself alone and confused about how she got to the Big Island. With no wallet\, no cell phone\, purse\, or plane ticket\, Tegan struggles to piece together what happened. She must have come to surprise-visit Kai. Right? As the teens grow even closer\, Tegan pushes aside her worries and gets swept away in the vacation of her dreams. But each morning\, Tegan startles awake from nightmares that become more difficult to ignore. Something is eerily amiss. Why is there a strange gap in her memory? Why can’t she reach her parents or friends from home? And what’s with the mysterious hourglass tattoo over her heart? Kai promises to help Tegan figure out what is going on. But the answers they find only lead to more questions. As the week unfolds\, Tegan will experience the magic of first love\, the hope of second chances\, and the bittersweet joy and grief of being human. \nDallas Woodburn is a recent John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She won first place in the international Glass Woman Prize and second place in the American Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and won the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award. She is also the founder of Write On! Books (www.writeonbooks.org)\, an organization empowering youth through reading and writing endeavors. \nStephanie Kuehn is the author of many books for young adults including Charm & Strange\, Complicit\, and Delicate Monsters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/55466/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
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SUMMARY:Nina Renata Aron: Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men's Souls
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Nina Renata Aronto read from her new book\, Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls on Tuesday\, April 21st at 7pm. \n“The disease he has is addiction\,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend\, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic\, urgent\, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long\, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together\, K starts using again\, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens\, she stays\, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction\, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K\, has she failed him? \nWriting in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic\, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction\, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral\, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions\, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency\, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing\, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity\, enabling\, and love. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nNina Renata Aron is a writer and editor living in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere..
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-renata-aron-good-morning-destroyer-of-mens-souls/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T213000
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CREATED:20200126T204858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T204858Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #59 (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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-59-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T153000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nChris Feliciano Arnold will explore how creative nonfiction can blend genres and forms in mysterious\, illuminating ways. To begin\, we will discuss brief samples from a few daring books\, focusing on intersections of memoir\, lyric essay\, journalism\, history\, poetry\, criticism and more. From there\, through generative writing exercises and small group discussions\, students will deconstruct one of their own nonfiction ideas\, examining their subjects from a multitude of angles to discover new potential shapes that defy quick categorization. Our goal is for all students to leave with a heightened sense of possibility—and an energizing idea for a new piece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-chris-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys 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:20200422T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T173446
CREATED:20200126T011255Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Lynn Xu
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-lynn-xu/
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:20200422T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T173446
CREATED:20200221T010912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T010912Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nCyrus Cassells is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry and two books translated from Catalan. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas\, and To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, which is forthcoming in 2021. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow\, he also recieved a Lannon Literary Award\, two NEA grants\, and a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys 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:20200426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T180000
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SUMMARY:The Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nSunday\, April 26\, 2020 – 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nHacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr. in Moraga.\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThe Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder \nSunday\, April 26 from 4:00 – 6:00pm.\nCelebrate National Poetry Month with a reading\, conversation\, and q and a with poets and Saint Mary’s College MFA professors Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder. Cassells\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, an NEA fellowship\, a William Carlos Williams award\, and a Lamba Literary Award\, and Zapruder\, a Guggenheim fellow and former editor of the New York Times Magazine poetry page\, will read from their latest collections. After the reading they will be in conversation about their poetry and process\, and will gladly entertain questions from the audience. Free and open to all ages\, and a reception in the Hacienda garden to follow. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-irresistible-beauty-of-all-things-a-reading-and-conversation-with-poets-cyrus-cassells-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Hacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr.\, Moraga\, CA\, 94556\, 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:20200502T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T173446
CREATED:20191219T071209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T071209Z
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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-12/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Noir
DESCRIPTION:Editors (and Moe’s workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic’s latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue! \nBerkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir\, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. \nBrand-new stories by: Barry Gifford\, Jim Nisbet\, Lexi Pandell\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Mara Faye Lethem\, Thomas Burchfield\, Shanthi Sekaran\, Nick Mamatas\, Kimn Neilson\, Jason S. Ridler\, Susan Dunlap\, J.M. Curet\, Summer Brenner\, Michael David Lukas\, Aya de León\, and Owen Hill. \nJerry Thompson is a bookseller\, poet\, playwright\, and musician. His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the James White Review. He is the coauthor of Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including Voices Rising\, edited by G. Winston James\, and Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing\, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of both Oakland Noir \nOwen Hill is the author of two crime novels\, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double\, and he coedited The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-noir/
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:20200506T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T153000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThis event was postponed due to the planned PG&E power outage but has been rescheduled to May 6th at 2:30pm in Hagerty Lounge! \nWhether your parents read you bedtime stories\, or you watched a lot of television growing up\, (or both)\, you were unknowingly imprinting on story structures that reflect the culture you are from. What’s more\, the ending of those stories taught you to feel that a certain kind of resolution just seems more complete. In this talk\, we will take a look at western fairy tales and eastern fairy tales. We will see over and over how the stories overlap\, but resolve differently\, reflecting very different worldviews. The beauty of this kind of story analysis is that it can not only give us an appreciation for stories outside the usual grab bag of patterns we turn to\, but also may open us up to take greater creative risks\, and expand our understanding of what it means to be human. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, “Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\,” examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys 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:20200506T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T193000
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses Death In Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel\, Death In Her Hands.\nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphan \n  \nt blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Timesbestseller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-discusses-death-in-her-hands/
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:20200506T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T210000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSoda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines the role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society. \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/creative-writing-reading-series-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys 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:20200507T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T125000
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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