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SUMMARY:Julien Poirier + Joanne Kyger
DESCRIPTION:Julien Poirier is the author of several poetry collections\, including El Golpe Chileño\, Stained Glass Windows of California\, and Way Too West and most recently\, Out of Print. In 2005\, he published an experimental newspaper novel\, Living! Go and Dream. He is also the editor of an anthology of writing by Jack Micheline\, One of a Kind\, and a book of travel journals by Bill Berkson\, Invisible Oligarchs. A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective\, Poirier edited the newspaperNew York Nights from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters. \nOne of the major poets of the SF Renaissance\, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo\, CA. After studying at UC Santa Barbara\, she moved to San Francisco in 1957\, where she became a member of the circle of poets around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960\, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan. They then traveled to India where\, along with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky\, they met the Dalai Lama. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book\, The Tapestry and the Web\, in 1965. In 1969\, she settled in Bolinas\, where she continues to reside today. She has published over 30 books of poetry and prose\, including Strange Big Moon\, The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964\, As Ever: Selected Poems\, and About Now: Collected Poems\, which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. Her newest title is On Time: Poems 2005-2014. She occasionally teaches at Naropa University.
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LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Chana Bloch\, Christina García + Jane Hirshfield
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Chana Bloch\, Christina García\, and Jane Hirshfield to the store to discuss their contributions to Extraordianry Rendition: American Writers on Palestine on Sunday\, May 22nd 3pm. \nExtraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. \nThe anthology includes pieces by writers such as Chana Bloch\, Christina García\, Jane Hirshfield\, Colum McCann\, Roger Reeves\, George Saunders and Alice Walker. In writing that is always clear\, and often startlingly beautiful\, they cover a range of issues including the erasure and reconstruction of histories\, the examination of identity\, the rights\, privileges\, and responsibilities of speaking out as artists\, the conditions of occupation\, and the potential for activism. They also explore the way U.S. foreign policy towards Palestine regularly mirrors the harsh realities faced by many of America’s own minorities. The anthology as a whole counters the dehumanizing narrative about Palestine that has taken hold in the United States\, often supported by mainstream news organizations\, and makes a significant contribution toward an understanding of the ways people of conscience in general\, and writers in particular\, can take on one of the most pressing political questions of our time. \nChana Bloch’s Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems\, 1980-2015 includes selections from her four earlier collections\, The Secrets of the Tribe\, The Past Keeps Changing\, Mrs. Dumpty\, and Blood Honey\, as well as new work. Bloch is co-translator of the biblical Song of Songs and of Israeli poets Yehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch. She has won two Pushcart Prizes\, two NEA fellowships\, the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry\, the Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America\, and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Bloch is Professor Emerita of English at Mills College. \nCristina García is the author of six novels\, two anthologies\, works for young readers\, and a collection of poetry. Her latest book\, King of Cuba\, is a darkly comic portrait of Fidel Castro. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She has taught at universities nationwide and recently moved to the Bay Area. \nJane Hirshfield’s most recent\, eighth poetry collection is The Beauty\, published along with Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. Her honors include The California Book Award\, the Poetry Center Book Award\, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and NEA\, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work appears in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Poetry\, TLS\, Harper’s\, The Paris Review\, and eight editions of The Best American Poetry. She is a current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and this year’s Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chana-bloch-christina-garcia-jane-hirshfield/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alicia Jo Rabins: Songs + Poems
DESCRIPTION:Portland-based writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins weaves together poetry\, violin\, a loop pedal\, and feminist Bible scholarship to create performances of unique and captivating beauty. This special evening celebrates the launch of OPEN THE GROUND\, Alicia’s third album of songs about women in the Bible with her musical project Girls in Trouble\, as well as her poetry book DIVINITY SCHOOL\, winner of the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. The New York Times calls Alicia’s voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls DIVINITY SCHOOL “an astonishing find: a poetry page-turner\, both sexy and humble.” \nSuggested $5-10 donation at the door / no one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-jo-rabins-songs-poems/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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