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SUMMARY:Copus
DESCRIPTION:Royal Kent’s love of poetry goes back to his formative high school years. Originally inspired by the legendary Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron\, he has performed with dancers\, theatrical troupes\, poets\, and many bands including the Vancouver-based Band of Angels and Czech Republic-based Pseudo Pseudo. He has produced television\, radio and stage shows\, and is the co-founder of independent label Copus Music. Kira Njinsky\, daughter of the great Russian ballet star Njinksy\, said: “Royal Kent recites poetry the way my father danced!” \nComposer/pianist Wendy Loomis has released 10 CDs of her compositions for COPUS\, acoustic ensemble Phoenix Rising\, piano/vocal duo AWE\, and solo piano. She won the ASCAP award for composition 4 times and has received awards and nominations for her music from the Unisong International Songwriting competition\, the LA Music Awards\, and the Hollywood Music and Media Awards. Most recently she performed one of her compositions in Havana\, Cuba as part of the cultural exchange led by the American Composers Forum. Wendy earned her bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts and her master’s degree in Arts Education. She is the co-founder and president of Copus Music LLC and teaches private piano at her San Francisco studio. \nFlutist Monica Williams is a graduate of Eastman School of Music and has studied with several esteemed flutists such as Bonita Boyd\, Susan Levitin\, and Brad Garner. She has performed with orchestras in Rochester\, Cincinnati\, and Chicago\, and has toured Europe and the United States. Currently Monica is a member of several contemporary chamber ensembles in the Bay Area\, including Phoenix Rising and COPUS. Additionally\, she is the director of Flock of Flutes\, East Bay’s première flute choir\, and music coordinator for Civic Arts Education\, and Center Representative for the Carnegie Hall Music Development Program. She teaches private flute at Civic Arts Center of Walnut Creek and her home studio in San Francisco. \nBassist Patrick Mahon was born and raised in San Francisco. Patrick studied jazz with Tony P. Miller\, but he is primarily self-taught\, giving him a creative facility and an eager ear for new ways of expression\, including most recently using an unusual bowing technique on the electric bass. He joined COPUS in 2007\, played on the ‘Jah Provide’ trilogy\, and has performed at many Bay Area gigs as well as at the Sweet Auburn Springfest in Atlanta. His influences include Charles Mingus\, Marcus Miller\, Victor Wooten\, and Les Claypool. In addition to COPUS\, Patrick has performed with bands Scaramanga\, The Ambassadors\, and Electric Color Wheel. \nDrummer Greg McRay was fortunate to grow up in a musical family. His father\, saxophonist Robert McRay\, played the jazz circuit both in the U.S. and Europe. Greg has studied with Benny Green\, Jim Smith\, and Tony Williams and performed with many California-based jazz\, fusion\, and rock bands. Drawing on the powerful musicianship of Art Blakey\, Max Roach\, Bill Bruford\, and Billy Cobham\, Greg brought his creative drum playing to COPUS in 2002.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/copus/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachael Herron: The Ones Who Matter Most
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Rachael Herron to the store for her publication party for her new novel\, The Ones Who Matter Most\, on Tuesday\, April 5th at 7:00pm. \nFrom the acclaimed author of Splinters of Light and Pack Up the Moon comes a beautiful novel about two very different women who are about to get a second chance at creating a family. After her husband dies unexpectedly\, Abby Roberts comes across something startling: wedding photographs of him with another woman\, along with pictures of a baby boy. Shocked\, Abby does something utterly impulsive: she embarks on a journey to discover the family her husband apparently left behind. Even though money has been tight\, single mom Fern Bailey has returned every monthly check her ex-husband has sent. Except this month\, in place of a check\, a perky woman with far too many questions appears on her doorstep. Unfortunately\, her young son is so taken with Abby that Fern doesn’t have the heart to send her away. What begins as one woman’s search for truth becomes a deep bond forged between the unlikeliest of people\, and the discovery that there are many ways to make a family as long as you take care. \nRachael Herron has been knitting since she was five years old. She is the author of the book of essays\, A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love\, Loss\, and Laughter\, and the Cypress Hollow Yarn series of books\, among them Wishes and Stitches\, How to Knit a Love Song\, and How to Knit a Heart Back Home. She also writes the popular website yarnagogo.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachael-herron-the-ones-who-matter-most/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Hill: The Remnants
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hill shares his much-buzzed novel\, The Remnants. “As the wind picks up and the sky grays over\, Kennesaw trudges the remaining miles into town\, catching his breath by the hole in the stone wall at Nedewen Field where dust returns to dust. He passes the broken stone markers that show their old age like chipped teeth in a mouth full of mourning\, and lays to rest the memories of those who have gone before him. He continues on down the gravel road and crosses the tangled patch that had once been the village green\, and past the strip of acre beside the barn behind True s house where the prized row of Granny-Macs once stood. It s taken him all of the morning and most of the afternoon and much of the last ninety-nine years to reach here. The weather is due to turn calamitous. Kennesaw runs a moist hand across his moist scalp as he continues on his way to True s. He approaches her plain front gate where he rests a moment before starting up again and making his way up her walkway and onto her front stone slab\, which is only a pebble less settled than his.\nOne arm pumping and then the other. One leg shuffling and then the other. One ache and then another and then another and then another. And this is how the aged walk into heaven.\nHe s ninety-nine. It s been a long journey. Tea sounds good to him.”\nRobert Hill’s second novel\, The Remnants\, is an ebullient ode to the last days of the last three residents of the town of New Eden. It follows his highly acclaimed debut\, When All Is Said and Done\, which was shortlisted for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and touted as “a bravura and resounding performance” by Donna Seaman of Booklist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hill-the-remnants/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Danielle Dutton + Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Dutton\, founder of Dorothy\, a publishing project\, will discuss Margaret the First with Green Apple’s book buyer\, Stephen Sparks. \nPraise for Margaret the First: \n“Margaret the First is set in the seventeenth century\, but don’t let that fool you. It’s a strikingly smart and daringly feminist novel with modern insights into love\, marriage\, and the siren call of ambition.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“All this trouble for a girl\,” say the bears in the book Margaret Cavendish writes within this remarkable book written by Danielle Dutton\, the story of a very real woman at a very particular moment in history that is at the same time the story of every woman artist who has ever burst loose the constraints of her particular moment in history to create “a new world called the blazing world.” —Kathryn Davis\, author of The Thin Place and Duplex \n“Ever since I first encountered her writing\, I’ve told every serious reader I know that Danielle Dutton is one of the most original and wonderfully weird prose stylists of our time\, every bit the contemporary of Lydia Davis\, Cesar Aira\, and Diane Williams. How perfect that her new novel is a portrait of Margaret of Newcastle\, whose perceived excesses and eccentricities were an object of fascination for her time\, as well as for Virginia Woolf\, who laments in A Room of One’s Own\, ‘What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!’ And what a visionary portrait Margaret the First is\, not only for the sheer joy of the sentences\, but also as it’s a marvel of tenderness\, rewriting a historical caricature as a life\, delighting in Margaret’s passion for writing and love of the beautiful and strange from childhood on. I am in awe of what Dutton accomplishes here\, in this novel of the small and the sublime. What a triumph!”\n—Kate Zambreno\, author of Green Girl \nAbout Margaret the First: \nMargaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish\, the shy\, gifted\, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems\, philosophy\, feminist plays\, and utopian science fiction at a time when being a writer was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen’s attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists\, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on\, Margaret met and married William Cavendish\, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War\, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers\, she was Mad Madge\, an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of Londona mainstay of the Scientific Revolutionand the last for another two hundred years.\nMargaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past\, rather than historical fiction. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time\, it is a gorgeous and wholly new narrative approach to imagining the life of a historical woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-dutton-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You
DESCRIPTION:Garth Greenwell’s widely acclaimed novel What Belongs to You begins when an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture and meets Mitko\, a charismatic young hustler. When the teacher returns again and again to see Mitko over the next few months\, they find themselves in a relationship that is mutually predatory\, where tenderness can transform into violence at any moment. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism\, What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. \nGarth Greenwell will be in-conversation with Kevin Killian. \n\n  \nGarth Greenwell is the author of Mitko\, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space. \n\nKevin Killian is a San Francisco novelist and poet. Recent books include PINK NARCISSUS POEMS (The Song Cave); EYEWITNESS by Carolyn Dunn\, the memoirs of a Beat Generation legend “as told to” Kevin Killian (Granary Books); and TAGGED\, a collection of Killian’s intimate photographs of artists\, writers\, musicians\, filmmakers\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/garth-greenwell-what-belongs-to-you/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Raina J. León + Paul Casey
DESCRIPTION:As part of a Poetry Month celebration\, Pegasus Books presents a reading with local poet Raina Leon and visiting Irish poet Paul Casey \nBoth authors have new books of poetry\, released in 2016 by Salmon Poetry \nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction.  Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010).  Her third book\,sombra : (dis)locate\, will be published in 2016.  She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale.  She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts.  She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.\n\nPaul Casey was born in Cork\, Ireland in 1968. Recently awarded a travel bursary from Culture Ireland\, he will be reading at a number of venues around Los Angeles and San Francisco to promote his second collection of poetry\, Virtual Tides (Salmon Poetry\, 2016). His début\, home more or less\, appeared from Salmon in 2012.He grew up between Ireland\, Zambia and South Africa\, and has worked primarily in film\, multimedia and teaching. While employed as scriptwriting lecturer at the Nelson Mandela University\, he convened the greater Port Elizabeth Poetry Competition in three languages and four age-groups. His poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Ireland\, the US\, China and South Africa. A chapbook of his longer poems\, It’s Not all Bad\, was published by The Heaventree Press in May 2009. In June 2010 he completed a poetry-film based on the award-winning poem by Ian Duhig\, The Lammas Hireling\, which premiered at the Zebra Poetry-Film Festival in Berlin. He is the founder and organiser of the weekly Ó Bhéal poetry reading series in Cork city\, where he lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raina-j-leon-paul-casey/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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