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SUMMARY:Poetry & Jazz: Three Dynamic Duos
DESCRIPTION:Poetry & Jazz: Three Dynamic Duos. Three amazing sets of poets and musicians blend words and music: Michael McClure with saxophonist George Brooks\, Devorah Major (from Daughters of Yam) with harpist Destiny Muhammad\, and Genny Lim with Francis Wong on saxophone. Saturday\, April 9\, 2:00 – 4:00 pm\, 3rd Floor Community Meeting Room. \n“McClure’s poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy.”\n— Allen Ginsberg \n“Michael McClure’s poetry and prose is one of the more remarkable achievements in recent American literature.”\n— The London Times Literary Supplement \n“Blowing gorgeous tones ….. [Brooks] succeeds to a startling and almost rapturous degree.” —San Francisco Bay Guardian \nMichael McClure at the age of 22 gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco\, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. Today McClure is more active than ever\, writing and performing his poetry at festivals\, colleges\, and clubs across the country. \nHe has performed and recorded extensively with musicians including Ray Manzarek\, the Doors’ keyboardist\, composer Terry Riley\, and saxophonist George Brooks. \nMcClure has given hundreds of reading in venues as varied as the Fillmore Ballroom\, Yale University\, Stanford\, The National Biodiversity Conference at the Smithsonian\, and the Library of Congress. He has received numerous awards\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Obie Award for Best Play\, an NEA grant\, the Alfred Jarry Award\, and a Rockefeller grant for playwriting. His play\, The Beard\, has played a role in U.S. censorship and free speech battles since 1966 when it won the first lawsuit. \nMcClure has made two television documentaries — The Maze and September Blackberries. His many books of poetry include his most recent collections\, Mysteriosos and other Poems (New Directions) and Of Indigo and Saffron: Selected and New Poems (University of California Press). \nMcClure’s songs include “Mercedes Benz\,” popularized by Janis Joplin. \nGeorge Brooks\, saxophonist and composer\, has been hailed as the “leading American voice in Indian jazz fusion”. He has performed and recorded with such notable musicians as Terry Riley\, John McLaughlin\, Zakir Hussain\, Larry Coryell\, the Brooklyn Philharmonic\, and the Kronos Quartet; with blues greats Etta James\, Albert Collins\, Roy Rogers\, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown; R+B legends the Temptations\, Mary Wilson\, the Shirelles\, and Doors pianist Ray Manzarek. \nBrooks has received commissions from the American Composers Forum\, Opera Piccola\, the Berkeley Jazz School and The SFMOMA. His compositions have been performed by Yo-Yo Ma\, The Liverpool Philharmonic and have appeared in films by Merchant/Ivory Productions. \nDevorah Major was San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate\, and is an award winning poet and fiction writer\, creative non-fiction writer\, performer\, editor\, and part-time senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts as well as the poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Her first novel\, An Open Weave\, was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She is the recipient of a 2002 California Arts Council Spoken Word Literary Arts Fellowship. For over twenty years she has been a part of poetry performance group\, Daughters of Yam. \nDestiny Muhammad is Governor Emeritus and Educational Chair Emeritus of the Recording Academy\, San Francisco Chapter. Her genre ‘Celtic to Coltrane’ is cool and eclectic with a feel of Jazz & storytelling to round out the sonic experience. \nGenny Lim is an American poet\, playwright\, and performer. She is a recipient of the Bay Guardian Goldie and received the James Wong Howe Award for her play\, Paper Angels\, which premiered at the UC Zellerbach Playhouse. For over twenty years she has been a part of the poetry performance group\, Daughters of Yam.  Her books of poetry include Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels. Her work is included in the Oxford Book of Women’s Writing. \nFrancis Wong\, considered one of “the great saxophonists of his generation”\, is a prolific recording artist featured on more than forty titles. He has performed his innovative brand of jazz and creative music for audiences worldwide. Wong’s imaginative career straddles roles as varied as performing artist\, youth mentor\, composer\, artistic director\, community activist\, music producer. Wong was a California Arts Council Artist in Residence and a Rockefeller Next Generation Leadership Fellow. He has also taught at SF State University and at UC Santa. \nProgram hosted by poet\, Kirk Lumpkin. Kirk’s recent projects include: Positive Voodoo by the Wild Buds (West Coast Mardi Gras Music); Sound Poems\, by The Word-Music Continuum Kirk’s unique performance ensemble uniting music and spoken word; his original rock songs CD\, Moondog Sessions and the latest collection of his poetry\, In Deep.
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LOCATION:Central Library\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2090 Kittredge St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women
DESCRIPTION:With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-five engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind\, Daring to Write’s insightful works offer readers a wide array of content that touches on a range of topics: migration\, history\, religion\, race\, class\, gender\, and sexuality. The result is a moving and imaginative critique of how these factors intersect and affect the daily lives of these Latina women. \nThe volume opens with a foreword by Julia Alvarez and includes short stories\, novel excerpts\, memoirs\, and personal essays and features work by established writers such as Angie Cruz and Nelly Rosario\, alongside works by emerging writers. Narratives originally written in Spanish appear in English for the first time\, translated by Achy Obejas. An important contribution to Latino/a studies\, these writings will introduce readers to a new collection of rich literature. \n“Be prepared for a feast\, and then\, as with all such blessings of plenty\, share it: tell others about this book\, put it on your syllabi\, on the shelves of your bookstores and libraries. Nourish yourself and others with the rich and savory sancocho of the work collected here. As we Dominicans say when a visitor arrives at mealtime\, ¡A buen tiempo! Readers\, you have indeed come at a good time.” —Julia Alvarez\, from the foreword \n“Daring to Write gathers in one volume and for the first time Dominican women writing across genres and against gender norms and borders of all kinds. The result is a moving and imaginative critique of how gender\, race\, and class intersect in the daily lives of women in the Dominican Republic and in the diaspora. This book is an important contribution to women’s studies and Latino/a studies.”\n—Daisy Hernández\, coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism \nYalitza Ferreras was a 2014–15 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where she won the Delbanco Thesis Prize. Her writing appears in the Colorado Review and Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories. \nErika M. Martínez\,recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Hedgebrook Writing Residency\, holds an MFA in English and creative writing from Mills College. Her writing has been adapted for the stage and has been featured in the anthologies Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education\, Homelands: Women’s Journeys across Race\, Place\, and Time\, and Second Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology. Her work has also appeared in Muthamagazine.com\, Consequence magazine\, and the Afro-Hispanic Review. She has taught creative writing in the Dominican Republic and is the editor of the annual Middle & High School Voices for the National Writing Project in New Hampshire. \n– See more at: http://moderntimesbookstore.com/event/yalitza-ferreras-and-erika-m-martinez-daring-to-write-contemporary-narratives-by-dominican-women/#sthash.ML9mbwJi.dpuf
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LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ethan Miller\, Daniel Higgs\, + Sylvie Simmons
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Ethan Miller\, Daniel Higgs\, and Sylvie Simmons: \nEthan Miller is a founding member of the bands Comets on Fire and Howlin’ Rain. His debut book of poetry\, The Glasgow Birds\, The Denver Shitter and Other Poems of Musical Life is a dream stroll through 15 years of musical life on the road. From concrete\, road-journal like storytelling prose poems to headier abstract rabbit holes and experimental waking dreams. Copies of this limited edition chapbook will be available for sale! http://www.silvercurrentrecords.com/index.php \nDaniel A.I.U. Higgs\, interdimensional song-seamstress and corpse-dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the harbor city of Baltimore\, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millennium. Having begun singing 25 years ago\, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band Lungfish\, which is now\, as it often has been\, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently\, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hindrance of collaborative influence. http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/daniel-higgs \nSylvie Simmons\, a widely regarded writer and rock historian since the late 1970s\, is one of few women to be included among the predominantly male rock elite. She’s a cult fiction writer and the author of biographies of Leonard Cohen\, Serge Gainsbourg\, and Neil Young\, among others. She’s also a singer-songwriter and ukulele player\, signed to Light in the Attic Records. http://sylviesimmons.com
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LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Kim Vogee
DESCRIPTION:Left Coast Writers® Launch \nInspired by real-life events\, author Kim Vogee artfully combines the elements of a Western with the 21st century. Paths intersect and twist from Silicon Valley\, to Colorado\, to the wide-open spaces of the high desert of the Three Corner country of Oregon\, Idaho\, and Nevada. Three Corner Rustlers is a contemporary story featuring an estranged daughter\, Carson\, who is returning to her childhood home; C.J.\, an ex-con whose life is changed by an unusual mentor a wild mustang named Rio; plus a criminal network of cattle thieves\, Federal agents\, and a rancher whose livelihood is threatened. The journeys of these characters are woven together in this modern-day tale to surprising conclusions.
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LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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