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SUMMARY:NoViolet Bulawayo
DESCRIPTION:NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names\, about a young girl’s journey out of Zimbabwe and to America\, won numerous awards and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times called it a “deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel.” NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University\, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noviolet-bulawayo/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Justin Chin Tribute
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nJustin Chin: Selected Works \nEdited by Jenifer Joseph\, with commentary by R. Zamora Linmark\, Michelle Tea\, Tim Liu\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka \nfrom Manic D Press \nHosted by Jennifer Joseph \nwith colleagues & writers who will be reading Justin’s work:  Kevin Killian (Spreadeagle) and Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman)\, filmmaker Henry Machtay\, Larry-Bob Roberts (The International Homosexual Conspiracy)\, Thea Hillman (Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word))\, Maw Shein Win (Ruins of a Glittering Palace)\, Alvin Orloff (Why Aren’t You Smiling?)\, and Daphne Gottlieb (15 Ways to Stay Alive). \nJustin Chin’s fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview\, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American\, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian\, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals\, Chin’s early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view. In his literary works\, the seemingly conflicted duality of existence is paramount: sacred and profane\, saints and sinners\, health and illness\, hope and despair\, life and death. His works also explore his experience of living with HIV\, which progressed into AIDS in his final years. \nThis unique collection of Chin’s literary legacy will serve as both a primer for those new to his works\, as well as a loving tribute by those writers who knew him and his work best. Notable literary figures pay tribute to the poet/writer with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. \nAmong many others\, contributing writers include R. Zamora Linmark (Rolling the R’s)\, Michelle Tea (How To Grow Up)\, Timothy Liu (Don’t Go Back To Sleep)\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Night at the Pahala Theatre). \nJustin Chin (1969-2015) was the award-winning author of four poetry books\, two essay collections\, one book each of short fiction\, and text-based performance art works. His writing appeared in literary magazines\, including Beloit Poetry Journal\, and anthologies\, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). He taught at UC Santa Cruz and at San Francisco State University. He was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the California Arts Council\, Djerassi Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Fund\, PEN American Center\, and PEN Center USA West\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/justin-chin-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin + Jasmine Gibson
DESCRIPTION:HUM 512\, SFSU\, free\nGetting here: http://poetry.sfsu.edu/contact-us \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also arevolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nJasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and soon to be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis\, desire and freedom. She has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism and has now published a chapbook\, Drapetomania\, off of Commune Editions. \nThe Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\nhttp://poetry.sfsu.edu/\nStreaming video at Poetry Center Digital Archive\nhttps://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter\nVideo clips at Poetry Center Video Highlights\nhttps://vimeo.com/channels/poetrycenter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-jasmine-gibson/
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:Alan Bern w/ Lucinda Weaver
DESCRIPTION:“PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space performance” based on Alan Bern’s greater distance and other poems; Bern reads from the book as he and dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver perform a dance/poetry collaboration based on a poem from the book\, “Dialogue\,” a dramatic dialogue between Hildegard of Bingen and St. Francis of Assisi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bern-w-lucinda-weaver/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night w/ Taylor\, Richardson\, Warren\, + Banias
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to belong to the increasingly slippery present? Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology\, rootedness\, longing\, apocalypse\, and the complex cartographies of desire. \nTess Taylor\, WORK & DAYS \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPRs All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito. \nRachel Richardson\, HUNDRED-YEAR WAVE \nRachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. Her poetry collection Hundred-Year Wave juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary motherhood. The San Francisco Chronicle says of the book that “ancestry\, history and the whaling industry unite in a lived present\, and the poem becomes a visceral experience…. Over and over Hundred-Year Wave locates the tender self in a wide expanse of sea.” \nNoah Warren\, THE DESTROYER IN THE GLASS \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, Poetry\, Agni\, The Missouri Review\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he lives in Palo Alto. \nAri Banias\, ANYBODY\nAri Banias is the author of Anybody. His poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and elsewhere. He lives in Berkeley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night-w-taylor-richardson-warren-banias/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:John Jodzio w/ Folk\, Madden\, + Vernor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents John Jodzio\, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk\, Dave Madden\, author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and Kara Vernor\, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song. \nKnockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream. \nJohn Jodzio‘s work has been featured in This American Life\, McSweeney’s\, and One Story\, among others. He’s the author of three short story collections — Knockout\, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis. \nKate Folk’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\,Puerto del Sol\, Joyland\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her on Twitter @katefolk. \nDave Madden is the author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus\, DIAGRAM\, Rappahannock Review\, The Normal School\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nKara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf\, No Tokens\, PANK\, The Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Northwest Institute for Literary Arts and was a Best Small Fictions 2015 finalist. Her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, is available from Split Lip Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jodzio-w-folk-madden-vernor/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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