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SUMMARY:Hollie Hardy + Mukta Sambrani
DESCRIPTION:Hollie Hardy\, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for her How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, reads from her book together with award judge Mukta Sambrani. \n‘Hollie Hardy’s poems in How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems are important: brave\, whimsical\, and wise. Hardy seeks dialog with other poets\, authors and artists\, burying borrowings like precious jewels\, skillfully planting Leonard Cohen and Virginia Woolf\, Thomas Pynchon and Sylvia Plath. While her use of form is consistent and understated in the less-is-more sort of way\, this quieter\, almost traditional manner allows Hardy to enhance the reader’s experience of her rich imagery and sensory detail: \nGlistening slices of moon\nSplash through the lattice of leaves… \nYour fingers find the textures of trees\nBarefoot in the moist earth\, a guidebook in Braille… \n(from “How to leave a trail for rescuers if you are lost in the wilderness”) \n‘Her poem for Oscar Grant\, “How to survive a riot\,” reminds us why it is important to be present to the most pressing need of our time: naming racial inequity before the law and doing something about police brutality and the murders of unarmed black boys and men. Hardy reminds us that we live in a war zone\, in a time where lessons in survival must become the business of poets and poetry.’\n—Mukta Sambrani \nHollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014). She holds an MFA in poetry from SFSU\, and teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute\, San Francisco State University\, and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene\, Hardy co-hosts the popular reading series Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay Open Mic. She’s a founder and core producer for the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland\, co-curator of Litquake’s Flight of Poets\, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals including Red Light Lit\, Ekphrastic California\, Fourteen Hills\, Eleven Eleven\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, The Common\, A Sharp Piece of Awesome\, Parthenon West Review\, One Ded Cow\, Transfer\, Milvia Street\, and other journals. She lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://www.holliehardy.com/ \nMukta Sambrani is an Indian born poet and educator based in the United States. Her first book of poems\, The Woman in this room isn’t lonely was published by Writer’s Workshop\, Calcutta in 1997. Her second book\, Broomrider’s book of the dead was published by Paperwall Media and Publishing\, Mumbai in 2015. Mukta’s work has appeared in Verse\, Em Literary\, Cipactli\, Fourteen Hills\, Hyphen Magazine\, Laundry Pen\, The Scribbler\, Poetry Chain and anthologies such as Bloodaxe book of contemporary Indian poets\, 60 Indian poets\, We Speak in Changing Languages\, The Dance of the Peacock\, Suvarnarekha and others. She is the recipient of the 2003 Audre Lorde creative writing award and an honorable mention for the Starcherone prize. Mukta lives in Oakland California\, where she is a school administrator. \nThis concert is FREE. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nPoetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollie-hardy-mukta-sambrani/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Fred Dodsworth • Rafael Jesús González • Rosa Lane • Nina Lindsay. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book\, Broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table. Free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-big-union/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brenda Hillman + Andrew Kenower
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman is the author of nine collections of poetry: White Dress\, Fortress\, Death Tractates\, Bright Existence\, Loose Sugar\, Cascadia\, Pieces of Air in the Epic\, Practical Water\, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry\, and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire\, which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry\, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. \nPoet Andrew Kenower (poetry\, 2007) curates the online audio archive A Voice Box and is co-curator of the Woolsey Heights Reading Series. He is the principle designer for Trafficker Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-hillman-andrew-kenower/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T213000
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SUMMARY:Launch Party: Humble Pie Vol. 13
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\n5212 Broadway (at College Avenue)\nContact: David Morini\, dmorini@cca.edu \nCome help us celebrate the publication ofHumble Pie Volume 13\, a whale of an issue\, with readings by the authors included in this edition.\nFree Pie. \nVisit us at humblepiemag.com for literary and visual art from past years as well as to confirm event dates and times. \nAbout HearSay Reading Series\nHearSay is the monthly literary reading series sponsored by the editorial staff of Humble Pie and the Writing and Literature Program. HearSay features CCA students and established Bay Area writers. \nVisit us at humblepiemag.com for literary and visual art from past years as well as to confirm event dates and times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-humble-pie-vol-13/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Breaking Ground: Black British Writers
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park is proud to host Speaking Volumes’ Breaking Ground tour. \nFeaturing readings by: \nBernardine Evaristo\nColin Grant\nDiran Adebayo\nGabriel Gbadamosi\nJay Bernard\nJohny Pitts\nKaren McCarthy Woolf\nNick Makoha\nRoger Robinson \nAbout the Breaking Ground tour: \nThe Breaking Ground tour developed as a way to highlight the diversity of Black British writing\, and includes people who write novels\, poetry\, plays\, graphic stories\, travelogues\, non-fiction\, essays\, articles\, short stories\, reviews and more. It also includes people whose backgrounds may be Black British born and bred\, Caribbean\, African\, African American\, mixed race … women and men of various generations and at different stages of their careers. All of whom have had little access to American readers and audiences — until now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breaking-ground-black-british-writers/
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:Literary Pub Quiz
DESCRIPTION:This Event is at Overland Bar & Grill (101 Broadway\, Oakland 94607) – near Jack London Square! \nPegasus proudly hosts this Independent Bookstore Day bonus event!  \nCalling all lit majors\, librarians\, lovers of language\, and literati. Come on out for our 3rd annual night of biblio-mania! Featuring fearless facts of fictional fancy\, this special edition pub quiz is sure to tickle your textual tendencies. \nHosted by Pegasus Oakland\, we welcome all word-smiths on Wednesday May 4th at Overland Bar & Grill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pub-quiz/
LOCATION:Overland Bar & Grill\, 101 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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