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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and prose: apples and oranges? Decide for yourself at Perfectly Queer East Bay “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose” Wednesday\, May 23\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore in Oakland. Poets Vernon Keeve III & Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and novelists Dale Chase & Hilary Zaid all read new work. Author signing follows. Free\, tasty refreshments! Thematic door prizes at 7pm. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia-born writer that California molded into an educator. He 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 California College of the Arts\, and a Masters in Teaching Literature from Bard College. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press\, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). Her work can be found in Third Coast\, Granta\, Quarterly West\, DIAGRAM\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She serves as poetry editor for Foglifter Press and lives in sunny Oakland\, California. \nDale Chase has been writing gay men’s erotica for 20 years. To date nearly 200 of her stories have been published in magazines\, anthologies\, and collections. The Great Man is her third novel. Her first\, Wyatt: Doc Holliday’s Account of an Intimate Friendship\, was published in 2012\, her second Takedown: Taming John Wesley Hardin\, in 2013. Hot Copy: Classic Gay Erotica from the Magazine Era\, a collection of Dale’s stories written for the magazines over a decade ago\, was published in 2015. More at www.dalechase.com \nHilary Zaid is a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online\, including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and works as a freelance editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-contrasts-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release / Bad Luck of the Draw Club
DESCRIPTION:details TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-bad-luck-of-the-draw-club/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Geoffrey G. O'Brien\, Jane Gregory\, and Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She is a Grant Writer in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & 2 senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions & Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was published by Spoilsport Editions – an online press she started with the writer Oki Sogumi – in 2017. Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, Fall 2018) is her first full-length book of poetry. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nJane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of My Enemies (Song Cave\, 2013) and Yeah No (Song Cave\, 2018)\, and co-co-editor of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien’s next book\, Experience in Groups\, will be out from Wave Books in April 2018. He is the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave\, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets(Minus A Press\, 2012). O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoffrey-g-obrien-jane-gregory-and-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180524T190000
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SUMMARY:Kim Malcolm presents A COUNTRY WITHIN
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Kim Malcolm to the store to discuss her book\, A Country Within: A Journey of Love and Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece\, on Thursday\, May 24th at 7pm.  \nA Country Within shares a professional woman’s life-changing journey to Greece to work with refugees arriving from the Middle East and Asia. The story begins on the island of Lesvos where overloaded boats of refugees landed on local beaches\, and moves to Athens where the author unexpectedly becomes a member of a family of refugees from four countries. \nThis timely portrayal describes the effects of geopolitics on people escaping war\, the generosity of the people of Lesvos and how love transcends culture\, religion and experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-malcolm-presents-a-country-within/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Jane Mead and Carol Muske-Dukes
DESCRIPTION:Jane Mead’s new book of poems is World of Made and Unmade. C.D. Wright said\, “As the laundry room floods and the grape harvest gets done; as Michoacán waits for another time\, her beautiful\, practical mother is dying. Ashes are scattered in the pecan groves of her own Rincon\, her own corner of the world\, and the poet\, in elementary script\, draws a sustaining record of the only feeling worth the struggle.…” She’s authored four previous collections\, most recently Money\, Money\, Money | Water\, Water\, Water\, and her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers Award\, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. \nCarol Muske-Dukes’s new book of poems is Blue Rose. Linda Gregerson says\, “Scathing intelligence and an open heart: the most difficult combination in the world\, and bountifully manifest on every page. In the birth room\, at the death bed\, beneath the falling ash of a California wildfire\, before the whole\, hurt spectacle of an imperiled and beloved world\, these poems remind us what it’s truly like to see and feel.” Author of eight poetry collections\, including Sparrow\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, she’s also published four novels\, two collections of essays\, and co-edited Crossing State Lines: An American Renga with Bob Holman. She was California Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2011.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-jane-mead-and-carol-muske-dukes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ted Scheinman
DESCRIPTION:reads from Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan\, a raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations\, tailored gowns\, and tipsy ballroom dancing. \n“A treat for any Jane Austen fan . . . a fascinating window into a man’s experience in a largely female world. Scheinman is a wonderful guide to the world of Austen\, and this honest and thoughtful discussion of the role Austen’s works have played in his family will delight any Janeite.” —Booklist \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Camp Austen by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar\, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating Yorkshire pudding\, singing in an Anglican choir\, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind\, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp\, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. \nWhile the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E. M. Forster\, it is at the conferences and reenactments where Janeism truly lives. In Camp Austen\, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world and his struggle to shake his mother’s influence while navigating hasty theatrical adaptations\, undaunted scholars in cravats\, and unseemly petticoat fittings. \nIn a haze of morning crumpets and restrictive tights\, Scheinman delivers a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir\, academic savvy with insider knowledge\, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can also be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings\, culinary etiquette\, and scandalous dance partners\, this is summer camp as you’ve never seen it before. \nTed Scheinman is a writer and scholar based in Southern California\, where he works as a senior editor at Pacific Standard magazine. He has taught courses on journalism\, satire\, and poetry at the University of North Carolina and has written for The New York Times\, the Oxford American\, Playboy\, Slate\, and many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-scheinman/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The 2nd annual Bay Area Queer Zine Fest is coming back September 9! What better way to get people pumped about zines than to have a reading. We’re partnering with our dear friends at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore to bring you a night of zine magic. \nInterested in reading? Email baqzfest@gmail.com \n** ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION FORTHCOMING ** \n#BAQZF2018 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/450401675397832/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-queer-zine-fest-fundraiser/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180526T190000
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SUMMARY:MARY Journal Release Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, May 26th\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing will be holding a release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! Join us from 7pm – 9pm at Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland for a night of celebration and literary readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-journal-release-reading/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Cotton Candy by Jeremy Fernando
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Jeremy Fernando’s full-length poetry collection\, Cotton Candy! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the star of the evening\, Jeremy Fernando. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($12 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-cotton-candy-by-jeremy-fernando/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Salty" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Is it summer yet? At SNS we’re feeling SALTY and we’re ready to sweat\, so bring us your sexiest\, SALTIEST\, summer stories\, poems\, songs\, stand-up\, (whatever) on our theme: \nSALT·Y\nof language or humor: down-to-earth; coarse. \nsynonyms: earthy\, colorful\, spicy\, racy\, risqué\, naughty\, vulgar\, rude;\ninformal: tough; aggressive. \nUrban Dictionary: The act of being upset\, angry\, or bitter as result of being made fun of or embarrassed. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic).\n\nOur featured readers for May are Christine No & Melissa Stein\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, May 26\, 2018\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nChristine No is a Korean American writer\, filmmaker and native Los Angelino. She is a Sundance Alum\, VONA Fellow\, two time Pushcart Prize Nominee and Best of the Net 2017 Nominee. You can find her work in: The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, Apogee\, Atlas And Alice\, and various anthologies. Christine is the Assistant Features Editor at The Rumpus and a contributing writer at Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. She also sits on the Board of Quiet Lightning\, a Bay Area based literary organization. She looks good on paper; but\, she spills a lot. Like a baby. She lives in Oakland with a pit bull named Brandy. Say hi\, here: christineno.com​ \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, 2018) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she’s received fellowships from the NEA\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Yaddo\, and the MacDowell Colony. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-salty-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maji: An Afro Futurist Community Newspaper Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:details TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maji-an-afro-futurist-community-newspaper-launch-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Fridays at Nomadic Press!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by 4-5 Nomadic Press authors in our intimate space amongst the hustle at 23rd and Telegraph Avenue. Come early and catch our authors reading on a street stage just down the block at 6:30 PM. This month features readings by TBD and music by TBD. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are asking for suggested donations of $10-15 at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-fridays-at-nomadic-press-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY 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)\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\n\n\n\n\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-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:MICHAEL POLLAN presents HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: ​What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us ​About Consciousness\, Dying\, Addiction\, Depression\, ​and Transcendence
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, June 4\, 2018\, 7pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\nTickets available now! \n​When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression\, addiction and anxiety\, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life\, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into the experience of various altered states of consciousness\, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s\, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. \nA unique and elegant blend of science\, memoir\, travel writing\, history\, and medicine\, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying\, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind\, the self\, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan’s “mental travelogue” is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how\, in a world that offers us both struggle and beauty\, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives. \n–​\nMichael Pollan is the author of seven previous books\, including Cooked\, Food Rules\, In Defense of Food\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire\, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine\, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2010\, TIME magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. \nPlease note: \nEach ticket includes one copy of How to Change Your Mind. Signing and additional details coming soon. \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/michael-pollan-presents-how-to-change-your-mind-%e2%80%8bwhat-the-new-science-of-psychedelics-teaches-us-%e2%80%8babout-consciousness-dying-addiction-depression-%e2%80%8band-transcendence/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw\, Norman Fischer\, and Tiff Dressen
DESCRIPTION:This is a book launch and celebration for Alexandra Mattraws new book\, small siren. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, was published this spring at Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nAbout small siren: \n“When good poetry hits\, it animates the actual\, it becomes the actual. That’s small siren: a serious romp of constructive music that is what it says. Science and nature unlock their mysteries by being precise; in small siren the words — cut\, spliced\, compressed — form units of attention enacting the physical world so precisely that even the sun and the moon ride their arcs untroubled. Across cities and seas\, Alexandra Mattraw’s language isn’t attached to images; it comes out of them\, like a birthright. The authenticity is declarative and unmistakable: ‘A sign is a block\, an island\, a cloud\, a clock.’ She makes it real.”\n— Aaron Shurin \n“Though cradled by earth\, Mattraw’s poems wander through a new human condition. Or are the songs of spirits who won’t tiptoe around their biographers. Through the unregistered versions of ourselves\, we can read these poems and worry about having regular bodies later. Here is a beautiful lesson or wager that on a page you can risk your dreams.” \n—Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“In Alexandra Mattraw’s much-awaited first book\, small siren\, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: “when is a voice a piano\,’ “repetition needs to believe\,’ “what grew before you could speak’ build a kind of groundswell where Mattraw puts her ear to the hardscape of 21st century America and its global environs: Sao Paolo\, Iceland\, New Zealand. Ultimately\, notions of country and categories break down. What we find is heresy\, hearsay\, and yes\, wishes. Throughout\, what survives is a relationship of love and courage\, of errors and triumph. A human relationship of lovers\, of family. This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down\, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw’s boat.” \n—Gillian Conoley \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are (poetry) any would be if (Chax\, 2017) and Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015). Forthcoming in 2018 from PURH in France is his serial poem On a Train at Night. And from Talisman the poem Untitled Series: Life As It is. His latest prose works are What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects. His books are distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley\, CA. \nTiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press\, 2014) is their first full-length collection of poetry. They recently migrated from Oakland to the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco and work in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. They are the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions\, 2005)\, Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press\, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash\, 2011). Their work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing\, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics\, and YewJournal. They enjoy spending time at the SF Center for the Book honing their typesetting and letterpress printing skills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-norman-fischer-and-tiff-dressen/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 5\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nJazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories. \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, June 5\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Charlie LeDuff presents SH*TSHOW!
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Charlie LeDuff to the store to discuss his new book\, Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great\, on Wednesday\, June 6th at 7pm.  \nA daring\, firsthand\, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America\, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy’s ranch to Donald Trump’s unstoppable campaign for President–at every turn\, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy\, Charlie LeDuff was there \nIn the Fall of 2013\, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency\, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes\, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The whole country is bankrupt and on high boil. It’s a shitshow out there. No one in the bubbles of Washington\, DC.\, New York\, or Los Angles was talking about it–least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But\, then\, perhaps on a whim\, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called\, “The Americans\,” and\, along the way\, ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of The American Dream. \nFor three years\, LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars\, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and watching the children of Flint get sick from undrinkable water. Racial\, political\, social\, and economic tensions were escalating by the day. The inexorable effects of technological change and globalization were being felt more and more acutely\, at the same time as wages stagnated and the price of housing\, education\, and healthcare went through the roof. The American people felt defeated and abandoned by their politicians\, and those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the occasion. The old way of life was slipping away\, replaced only by social media\, part-time work\, and opioid addiction. \nSh*tshow is that true\, tragic\, and distinctively American story\, told from the parts of the country hurting the most. Old-school\, gonzo-style reporting\, LeDuff confronts the darkest parts of the American psyche and a desperately-needed reminder of the country’s best instincts. \nAbout the Author \nCharlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist\, formerly at the New York Times and the Detroit News\, and currently on Detroit’s Fox 2 News. He was one of several reporters who worked on the New York Times series “How Race Is Lived in America\,” which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. LeDuff has covered the war in Iraq\, crossed the border with Mexican migrants\, and chronicled a Brooklyn fire house in the aftermath of 9/11. The author of Detroit\, US Guys\, and Work and Other Sins\, he lives near Detroit. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, June 6\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great (Hardcover)\n\nBy Charlie LeDuff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9780525522027\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Press – May 22nd\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrowse For Books\n\nPeruse our shelves \n\n\n\nBestsellers\n\nFiction & Poetry Bestsellers \nNonfiction Bestsellers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletter\n\nSign up \n\n\n\nAudio\n\nYour audiobook needs await you at Libro.fm \nCouldn’t make it to an event? See here for audio! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHours & Directions | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Return Polic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-leduff-presents-shtshow/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mostly Flash With a Dash of Haiku
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Sara McAulay\, Amos White\, Jon Sindell\, Jacqueline Doyle. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mostly-flash-with-a-dash-of-haiku/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180606T203000
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SUMMARY:ANDREW WEATHERS/ROOTLESS/FOREST FLORO
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of relaxing ambient electronic music and dreamy acoustic sounds by Andrew Weathers (TX)/Rootless (LA) / and Oakland’s own Forest Floor. Doors open at 7:20. Show at 7:30. 5-10 dollar donation NOTALOTOF \nAndrew Weathers:\nhttps://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-tree \nRootless:\nhttps://cabinflooresoterica.bandcamp.com/album/cfe-66-sculptures-deep-within-the-cave \nForest Floor:\nhttps://forestfloorpragmatism.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-weathers-rootless-forest-floro/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180607T193000
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SUMMARY:Tapestries of Shadow and Light: Three Writers and the Legacy of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Meet authors Rachel Hall\, Elizabeth Rosner and Hilary Zaid as they read from their work and discuss how the Holocaust continues to resonate in their lives and in their writing. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Laurel Book Store. \nMore about the authors: \nRachel Hall is the author of Heirlooms (BkMk Press)\, which was selected by Marge Piercy for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize. Winner of the Phillip McMath Post Publication Award\, Heirlooms was also the runner-up for the Edward Wallant award\, and finalist for the Balcones Prize for Fiction\, the Montaigne Medal\, and the Eric Hoffer Award. It was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. Rachel’s short stories and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including Black Warrior Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Gettysburg Review\, Guernica\, and New Letters\, which awarded her the Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction. She has received other honors and awards from Lilith\, Glimmer Train\, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences\, Ragdale\, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts\, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Her family’s wartime papers and photographs\, the inspiration for these stories\, are housed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, DC. \nElizabeth Rosner is an internationally award-winning novelist\, poet\, and essayist\, whose books have been translated into ten languages. Her national-bestselling first novel\,The Speed of Light\, won Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize of 2001\, judged by Elie Wiesel. Her second novel Blue Nude and her third novel Electric City were named by The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR among the best books of 2006 and 2014\, respectively. \nBorn in Schenectady\, New York\, Rosner is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors\, and much of her work is inspired by the impact of their experiences on her imagination and identity. Her newest book\, Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, published in fall 2017\, was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and in The New York Times. She holds degrees from Stanford\, UC Irvine\, and the University of Queensland in Australia\, and she lives in Berkeley. \nHilary Zaid is the author of Paper is White\, a novel. A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, she is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tapestries-of-shadow-and-light-three-writers-and-the-legacy-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180607T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T043945
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SUMMARY:Medea Benjamin Inside Iran: The Real History & Politics of Iran
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM & Project Censored present \nMEDEA BENJAMIN\nInside Iran: The Real History & Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran \nHosted by Mickey Huff \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access \nMedea Benjamin\, one of America’s best-known and most effective activists\, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange\, is the author of Drone Warfare and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S-Saudi Connection. In 2012 she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize\, and in 2014 the Gandhi Peace Award. \nNow Medea has written the first general-audience progressive book on Iran’s history and politics\, recounting Iran’s history from the pre-colonial period through the CIA-engineered coup that in 1953 overthrew the country’s democratic leadership\, to its emergence as the only nation (other than Russia\, of course) both Democrats and Republicans regularly denounce. Benjamin draws upon her firsthand experiences with Iranian politicians\, activists and everyday citizens to provide a deeper understanding of the extraordinary complexities of Iranian society and the national role in the region. \nIn 1979 the Iranian Revolution brought a Shia theocracy to the 80 million inhabitants of the Middle East’s second largest country. In the decades since\, bitter relations have persisted between the U.S. and Iran. Yet how is it that Iran has become the primary target of American antagonism\, when Saudi Arabia – a regime far more repressive – has become one of America’s closest allies? \nTackling the contradictions in Iran’s system of government\, its religion\, and its citizens’ way of life\, Inside Iran cuts sharply through the inflammatory rhetoric surrounding U.S.-Iranian relations to present a realistic and hopeful case for the two nations’ future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/medea-benjamin-inside-iran-the-real-history-politics-of-iran/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Bruce H. Feingold
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Haiku poet Bruce Feingold will read his poems\, then sit for an interview and discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-bruce-h-feingold/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Caroline Arden
DESCRIPTION:Launch for her debut YA novel\, The High Climber of Dark Water Bay \n“Arden has created the hero we have been waiting for in Young Adult Lit–Lizzie is authentic\, relatable and proves herself a force to be reckoned with. Engaging and immersive\, [her] writing is clean and crisp. Vivid imagery and concise storytelling combine to create a story for all ages.”–Kathleen Kaufman\, author of The Lairdbalor \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The High Climber of Dark Water Bay by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Lizzie is in trouble. She used to live a comfortable life with her loving father\, but after the stock market crash of 1929 and his sudden death\, she and her family now live in poverty. Lizzie is expected to help support the family\, but she can’t even cook without burning food. One day\, a letter arrives. Her wealthy uncle has offered her a paying job as a summer governess for her two young cousins at a remote logging camp\, so she travels alone into the wilderness of Vancouver\, British Columbia. To her horror\, she discovers that her uncle is missing from the camp. Penniless and stranded\, Lizzie’s worst fears are soon confirmed–she is being held hostage by the camp’s boss. “Accidents are easy to explain in the woods\,” he writes in a ransom letter to her uncle. Lizzie learns that in order to survive\, she will have to perform the most dangerous job at the camp–the high climber. She has one chance to save herself and return to her family. Her intelligence and bravery will be tested to the limit as she pulls on the climber harness to prove to everyone\, including herself\, what she is truly capable of. \nCaroline Arden holds an MFA in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. As a child she spent her summers at her grandparents’ home at a former logging camp in British Columbia. Now she lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-arden/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SHAZAM\, Linda and Carolyn at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY event�\nFeaturing poets and birthday girls Linda Zeiser and Carolyn Stull-Zeiser as well as singer-songwriter SHAZAM\nHosted by Linda Zeiser\n$7 – $10 Admission includes raffle ticket for one of ten copies of THE HORIZONTAL POET by Jan Steckel\n6:30 – 7:30 Potluck: bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\nProduced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser.\nTo reserve open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, well in advance.\nWIP is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving. Scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately not completely accessible).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shazam-linda-and-carolyn-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:Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading by Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard\, followed by an open mic\, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly\, Frank Bette and Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 7:00 (510/523-6957\, www.frankbettecenter.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-bryant-and-cher-wollard/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Ken Jennings on humor and the media
DESCRIPTION:Ken Jennings grew up in Seoul\, South Korea\, where he became a daily devotee of the quiz show Jeopardy! In 2004\, he successfully auditioned for a spot on the show and went on an unprecedented seventy-four game victory streak worth $2.52 million. Jennings’s book Brainiac\, about his Jeopardy! adventures\, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller\, as were his follow-up books Maphead and Because I Said So! He is also the author of Planet Funny. Jennings lives in Seattle with his wife Mindy and two children. \nFrom John Stewart to Donald Trump\, Chaucer to Sumerian Tablets\, fart jokes to Cable TV “zingers\,” Ken Jennings lends his signature wit and whizzing\, encyclopedic perspective to the history of humor and how it came to dominate our modern world. Today\, an unprecedented number of people get their news from comedy shows. Newspapers race to find the catchiest headline with an avidity that forgets the need to inform. In our democracy\, showmanship has replaced good-nature debate. Jennings looks at the foundations of these current manifestations and what this says for where we might be headed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-ken-jennings-on-humor-and-the-media/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Darnell L. Moore: Coming of Age Black & Free in America
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Marcus Books present \nDARNELL L. MOORE\n“No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America”\nHosted by Greg Bridges \nwheelchair access advance tickets: $12 : : T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit \nWhat happens to the black boys who come of age in neglected\, heavily policed\, and economically desperate cities that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration have created? How do they learn to live\, love\, and grow up? Where should they turn when history rejects their very existence? Darnell explores these questions in NO ASHES IN THE FIRE. When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old\, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school\, harassed him because they assumed he was gay\, and poured gasoline on him. He barely escaped with his life. On many other occasions there were terrifying confrontations\, including some within his family… \nThree decades later\, Moore is an award-winning writer and activist\, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives\, and a tireless advocate for justice and liberation. No Ashes in the Fire is his compelling account of how that bullied\, frightened teenager not only survived\, but found such a unique calling. An editor-at-large at the content distributor Urban One\, and a columnist at Logo\, Darnell L. Mooore describes his bold\, candid memoir as “snapshots of my life” molded by forces of “brutality\, poverty\, and self-hatred.” \nDarnell L. Moore (born in 1976 in Camden\, NJ) is an American writer and activist whose work is characterized by anti-racist\, feminist\, queer\, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. His essays\, social commentary\, poetry and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues\, including The Feminist Wire\, Ebony Magazine\, and The Huffington Post.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/darnell-l-moore-coming-of-age-black-free-in-america/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Heather Abel // The Optimistic Decade
DESCRIPTION:Heather Abel will read from her just-released novel\, The Optimistic Decade. The Optimistic Decade has received praise from the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, New York Magazine\, BBC\, People Magazine\, EW.com\, Buzzfeed\, NY Post\, Library Journal. Bookpage says: “The Optimistic Decade deserves the elusive accolade of “original” for its believable construction and flawless attention to detail. Within the brilliant\, multilayered canopy of the novel’s world\, Heather Abel’s writing comes across as a sincere and tender channel for a story that must be told. \nBuzzfeed says: “I loved every minute I spent reading Heather Abel’s The Optimistic Decade\, a sharply rendered portrait of the United States in 1990. The novel is rich in the conflicting energies of the time — lingering resentments from the previous decade’s stark class divisions\, a renewed hope for the decade to come — and these clashes are played out over the course of one summer at a Colorado camp. … The result is an exuberant and nonjudgmental examination of the unique conflicts of the era.” \nPittsburg Post-Gazette says: Writing with both warmth and incisiveness\, Ms. Abel has crafted an engaging look at idealism and the difficulties in maintaining it…The Optimistic Decade is an exceptionally timely look at what it means to be politically aware and reminds readers of the intoxicating power of idealism\, particularly when we find ourselves on the precipice of independence.” \nMore info here: http://heatherabel.com/reviews/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-abel-the-optimistic-decade-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Vi Khi Nao\, Jennifer S. Cheng\, and Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 13\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate new books by favorite writers! Jennifer S. Cheng’s “MOON: LETTERS\, MAPS\, POEMS” (Tarpaulin Sky\, May 2018) and Vi Khi Nao’s “Sheep Machine” (Black Sun Lit 2018). We might even have more writers releasing more books! \nJennifer S. Cheng writes at the intersection of essay and poetry. Her second book\, a hybrid collection MOON: LETTERS\, MAPS\, POEMS\, was selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. She is also the author of HOUSE A\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize\, and INVOCATION: AN ESSAY\, an image-text chapbook published by New Michigan Press. Her writing appears in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, AGNI\, The Literary Hub\, Black Warrior Review\, DIAGRAM\, The Normal School\, Guernica\, Hong Kong 20/20 (a PEN Hong Kong anthology)\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from Brown University\, the University of Iowa\, San Francisco State University\, the U.S. Fulbright program\, Kundiman\, Bread Loaf\, and the Academy of American Poets. Having grown up in Texas\, Connecticut\, and Hong Kong\, she lives in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco.www.jenniferscheng.com \nVI KHI NAO was born in Long Khanh\, Vietnam. She is the author\, most recently\, Umbilical Hospital\, and of the forthcoming story collection\, A Brief Alphabet of Torture\, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016\, the novel\, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press\, 2016)\, and the poetry collection\, The Old Philosopher\, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University\, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in poetry. www.vikhinao.com \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up(forthcoming from A Strange Object May 8th 2018). Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco. Read more about her here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vi-khi-nao-jennifer-s-cheng-and-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Gillian Conoley and Paul Hoover
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley’s most recent book of poems is Peace. A. Anupama\, in Numéro Cinq\, wrote\, “White space percolates this lyric\, while the current lull in American military actions forms the occasion of this book\, Gillian Conoley’s seventh poetry collection. With poems  titled “late democracy\,’ “[Peace] contrary to history\,” and “Trying to Write a Poem about Gandhi\,” the work pulls one way and then pushes back another\, testing the inner ground for breath.” Others of her collections include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, and Lovers in the Used World. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry\, American Hybrid\, and Postmodern American Poetry. Her translations include Thousand Times Broken\, Three Books\, three previously untranslated books of the French poet Henri Michaux. Founder and editor of the literary journal VOLT\, she has\, among her honors\, four Pushcart Prizes\, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from APR\, an NEA fellowship\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. \nPaul Hoover’s new book of poems is The Book of Unnamed Things. Mary Jo Bang says\, “Hoover’s concern with language’s representational inadequacy is shared by the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets he’s championed for years….However\, his own poems are more direct\, more lyrical\, and sometimes seethingly and seductively  melancholic. Central to all of them (regardless of language’s irrefutable limitations) is his keen intelligence and laconic wit.” Author of fourteen previous poetry collections\, he co-edited with Maxine Chernoff the literary magazine New American Writing and co-translated with her The Selected Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin\, which won a PEN-USA Translation Award. Editor\, as well\, of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology\, his honors include an NEA Fellowship\, the Frederick Bock Award of Poetry\, and the Jerome J. Shestack Prize of American Poetry Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-gillian-conoley-and-paul-hoover/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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