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SUMMARY:Martinis & Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Literary Speakeasy is celebrating National Poetry Month with some amazing Bay Area talent. Coming up this month — Amy Berkowitz\, Robin Ekiss\, Nazelah Jamison\, Nick\, Johnson\, and Richard Loranger. Your host for the night\, James J. Siegel. \nEach of the night’s poets will not only be reading their own work\, but they will share some of their favorite poems from the poets who inspire them. It will be a celebration of poetry past and present. So come out and raise a glass to poetry! \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. Also\, every attendee will get a FREE raffle ticket for a chance to win the night’s secret speakeasy prize. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the editor of Mondo Bummer Books\, and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. She recently co-organized Sick Fest\, and she was a 2014 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, VIDA\, and Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness\, among other places. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco. More at amyberko.com. \nRobin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford\, a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers\, and author of the book\, The Mansion of Happiness (University of Georgia Press)\, winner of the 2010 Shenandoah / Glasgow Prize\, and finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize\, Northern California Book Awards\, and Commonwealth Club’s California Book Awards. Robin’s poems have appeared widely\, in The Atlantic Monthly\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco with her husband\, the poet Keith Ekiss\, their son\, and their cats\, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. \nNazelah Jamison is a gifted poet\, emcee\, and vocalist who has graced the stage with some of the finest people in entertainment today. After performing in various artistic mediums\, she began playing music in 1992 and moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco in 1994 to play keyboards and sing on tour with the hip hop band Spearhead. Nazelah settled in the SF Bay Area in 1996\, and for a time studied acting at Jean Shelton’s Actors’ Studio. Since then\, Nazelah has competed on and/or coached 12 National Slam teams. She has hosted and co-produced The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic\, an on-going monthly poetry slam in Oakland\, CA\, as well as performing at venues around the SF Bay Area and the country. \nNick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening\, and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, and other fine journals. His first book of poems Music for Mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. Additionally\, he wants you to know\, he enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey; typically in that order\, but not always. Learn more at his website\, www.nickjohnsonpoetry.com. \nRichard Loranger is a writer\, performer\, visual artist\, and all around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth\, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks. He has a book of flash prose\, Sudden Windows\, being released by Zeitgeist Press later this year. Recent work can be found in Oakland Review #2\, Overthrowing Capitalism vol. 2 (Revolutionary Poets Brigade)\, and the anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com.
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LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Percival Everett\, Brynn Saito\, + Maxine Hong Kingston
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Brynn Saito’s new collection of poetry \nPower Made Us Swoon \nfrom Red Hen Press \nA lyrical journey through family legacies\, silenced histories\, and the possibilities of transformation\, guided by the ruthless\, witty\, and vulnerable voice of a mythic woman warrior. \nGuided by the character of the Woman Warrior–witty\, swift\, and ruthless in her wonder–readers of Brynn Saito’s second collection of poetry travel the terrain of personal and historical memory: narrative poems about family\, farming towns\, and the bravery of girlhood are interspersed with lyric poetry written from the voice of a stone found in a Japanese American internment camp during the wartime incarceration. What histories can be summoned with poetry? What are the forces shaping an American life in the 21st century? Car accidents\, patriarchy\, and television fall under this poet?s gaze\, along with the intergenerational reverberations of historical trauma. As with The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, Saito’s first award-winning collection\, Power Made Us Swoon strives for wonder and speaks–in edgy and vulnerable tones–of the fraught journey toward a more just world. “Learn to lie to survive\,” sings the woman warrior\, “Learn to outlast the flame / learn the art of surprise.” \nBrynn Saito is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Contemplating Desire\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and forthcoming from Red Hen Press in March\, 2013. Her poetry has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in Ninth Letter\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Pleiades\, andDrunken Boat. Brynn was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean-American mother and a Japanese-American father. She received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in religious studies from NYU. Currently\, Brynn lives in the Bay Area and teaches in San Francisco. \nPercival Everett is the author of fourteen novels and three collections of short fiction including re:f(gesture)\, published by Red Hen Press. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (for his 1996 story collection Big Picture) and a New American Writing Award (for his 1990 novel Zulus). His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Short Stories. He has served as a judge for\, among others\, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He teaches fiction writing\, American studies\, and critical theory\, and he has taught at Bennington College\, the University of Wyoming\, and the University of California at Riverside. He is currently at the University of Southern California. He has worked as a musician\, a ranch hand\, and a high school teacher. \nMaxine Hong Kingston is the aclaimed author of three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. She is the winner of the National Medal of the Arts and was awarded the Northern California Book Award Special Award in Publishing for her anthologyVeterans of War\, Veterans of Peace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/percival-everett-brynn-saito-maxine-hong-kingston/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Before We Visit the Goddess
DESCRIPTION:American Book Award-winner Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni shares her powerful new novel\, Before We Visit the Goddess. Capturing the gorgeous complexity of multi-generational and transcontinental bonds\, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal\, India\, to the streets of Houston\, Texas\,Before We Visit the Goddess is an extraordinary journey told through a sparkling symphony of voices.
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LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! w/ Spagna\, Arsdale + Conran
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates SPRING with special guest readers Ana Maria Spagna\, Sarah Van Arsdale and A. E. Conran ! We sure hope you’ll join us! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (5 minute limit). \nAna Maria Spagna lives and writes in Stehekin\, Washington\, a remote community in the North Cascades accessible only by boat\, trail\, or float plane. She is the author most recently of the braided nonfiction narrative Reclaimers\, stories of people reclaiming sacred land and water\, as well as the memoir/history Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey\, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize\, and two collections of essays\, Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness\, finalist for the Washington State Book Award\, and Now Go Home\, a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004. Her writing on nature\, work\, civil rights\, and life in a small community has appeared in dozens of publications including Orion\, Ecotone\, Creative Nonfiction\, North American Review\, and High Country News. \nSarah Van Arsdale’s fourth book of fiction\, In Case of Emergency\, is just out with Queen’s Ferry Press\, April\, 2012. Her third novel\, Grand Isle\, was published by SUNY Press in 2012. Her second\, Blue\, winner of the 2002 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel\, was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2003\, and her first\, Toward Amnesia\, was published in 1996 by Riverhead Books. Her poetry\, book reviews\, interviews and essays have appeared in national publications\, including Guernica\, Passages North\, Fiction Writers Review\, Bookslut\, Episodic\, and Oxford Magazine. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College\, and teaches at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA in Creative Writing Program and at NYU. She serves on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Award in Fiction and curates BLOOM: The Reading Series at Hudson View Gardens in New York City. \nA. E. Conran (Amanda) is a children’s book author\, freelance editor\, children’s book specialist and children’s book club facilitator at Book Passage\, Corte Madera\, CA. The Lost Celt is her first middle grade novel. A modern adventure story\, it draws upon video games\, time-travel conspiracies\, Roman and Celtic history and the ancient stories of Irish warrior hero Cuchulain\, but ultimately it deals with the invisible effects of war on veterans and their families throughout the generations and the transcendent power of friendship. Katherine Applegate\, Author of THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN and Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal says\, “THE LOST CELT is the best kind of children’s adventure story\, full of taut suspense\, riveting action\, and\, most importantly\, humor and heart. Not to be missed.” Originally from England\, Amanda now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, two kids and lots of squirrels\, deer and coyotes…in the back garden\, not in the house! \n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
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LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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