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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto Fellow Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an amazing night of readings from the 2016 Grotto Fellows \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nCaleb Leisure received his MFA in Fiction from New York University. In 2011 he was named a NYC Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction\, and in 2014 he won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize. He works for a small winery in Sonoma County and is at work on his first novel. He lives in Oakland. \nMarissa Ortega-Welch is a freelance radio producer in Oakland\, California. Her stories have aired on NPR’s Latino USA\, KQED\, and KPFA. She is currently the health reporter for KALW Public Radio. She’s also worked for years as a teacher and naturalist and is drawn to stories about the environment\, youth\, and informal economies. \nLisa Marie Rollins is playwright\, poet and freelance director. Most recently she directed a reading of Tearrance Chisholm’s Br’er Cotton (Playwrights Foundation) and is co-Director of Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment (Crowded Fire). She is the director of All Atheists are Muslim by Zahra Noorbakhsh and was co-producer of W. Kamau Bell’s “Ending Racism in About and Hour”. She was Poet in Residence at June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at U.C. Berkeley\, a CALLALOO Journal London Writing Workshop Fellow and an alumni in Poetry of VONA Writing Workshop. Her writing is published in Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out\, River\, Blood\, Corn Literary Journal\, Line/Break\, As/Us Literary Journal\, The Pacific Review and others. Currently\, she is finishing her new manuscript of poems\, Compass for which she received the 2016 Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award from SF Foundation. She is an Adjunct Professor at SFSU in Race and Resistance Studies. Lisa Marie is a 2015-16 member of Just Theater Play Lab and Artist-in-Residence at BRAVA Theater for Women in San Francisco. @thirdrootprod \nKaitlin Solimine’s debut novel\, Empire of Glass\, is forthcoming in Summer 2017 (Ig Publishing). Raised in New England\, she has considered China a second home for two decades. She has received the Yenching scholarship\, Fulbright Fellowship\, and Bread Loaf’s Donald E. Axinn Scholarship. A graduate of Harvard University and the MFA program at UC-San Diego\, she has published fiction and non-fiction in National Geographic News\, The Wall Street Journal\, Guernica Magazine\, Kartika Review\, China Daily\, and numerous anthologies. She recently returned from living in Singapore and now resides in San Francisco where she is co-founder of HIPPO Reads\, a network connecting academic insights to the wider public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-fellow-reading/
LOCATION:The Grotto\, 490 2nd Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ari Banias + Margaret Ross
DESCRIPTION:Come see why CAConrad says\, “Ari Banias is one of the best living poets\, and this book in your hands is our proof. Anybody is the courage of a poet who trusts the strength of poetry to make room in our world for everybody.” Or why Maggie Nelson gushes\, ““I’m so impressed by the range and grace of Ari Banias’ Anybody. It’s discursive\, straight-talking\, and thinky\, then ghostlike\, elliptical\, and mischievous. It takes its time\, then rushes; it’s quiet\, then bold; it’s steeped in sociality\, then ringing with solitude. I happily recognize its arrival\, even if I know (as does Banias\, quoting Berlant) that recognition may be but the misrecognition we can bear.” \nMargaret Ross’ A Timeshare unearths the corporeal in the most desolate reaches of corporate speech: Futures exchange; Human resources; Personal life. Lush and visceral\, A Timeshare knows that questions and crises of individual existence are inextricably bound to shared experience and its deft music carries from the closest closet to outer space\, touching the concrete through the metaphysical. \nThis will be a very special evening of poetry! \nAri Banias has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford. His poems have appeared in Boston Review\, The Offing\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, as part of the exhibition Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects\, and in a chapbook\, What’s Personal is Being Here With All Of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). Ari lives and works in Berkeley. Anybody is his first book. \nMargaret Ross‘s first book\, A Timeshare\, came out last fall. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, The New Republic and The New Yorker and have been recognized by fellowships from the Fulbright Program\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stanford\, where she is currently a Stegner Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias-margaret-ross/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Party for HOUSE A
DESCRIPTION:Happy / over the moon / grateful to invite you to celebrate the publication of my first book\, HOUSE A (Omnidawn Publishing)\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. \nThere will be a reading\, a projector with images\, some form of favorite childhood snacks\, adult drinks\, and of course books for sale! Tell your friends! \nHOUSE A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home and vice versa? Through an assemblage of oblique letters to Mao\, incantations of “dream-geometry\,” and image-text experiments\, the book seeks to render the immersive/obscured feeling of a childhood household where the haunting of history blurs with a constellation of sheltering figures\, patterns\, and shadows. With evocative and intellectual precision\, HOUSE A maps a new poetics of American Home\, steeped in longing and rooted by displacement. \nbook // www.jenniferscheng.com/house-a\npoems // http://conjunctions.com/webcon/cheng13.htm\ninterview // http://theconversant.org/?p=10571
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-party-for-house-a/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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