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SUMMARY:Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Juan Felipe Herrera is currently the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012 to 2014\, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera’s many collections of poetry include Notes on the Assemblage\, Senegal Taxi\, and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems which received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cary Groner
DESCRIPTION:Cary Groner grew up in the Midwest and has worked as a journalist and photographer for many years. He earned his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Arizona in 2009\, and his debut novel\, Exiles\, was a Chicago Tribune “best book” of 2011. His short stories have won numerous awards\, including the Glimmer Train fiction open\, and have appeared there and in other venues including American Fiction\,Mississippi Review\, Sycamore Review\, and Southern California Review. Cary teaches at the Writing Salon and is completing a new novel and a story collection. His website is www.carygroner.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-groner/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T210000
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SUMMARY:Kuwentuhan (Talkstory)
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo read from their poetry\, continuing a collaboration between artists\, audiences and The Poetry Center\, as a way of enlarging this circle beyond ethnic boundaries\, in contested urban spaces. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) takes the Tagalog term\, a phoneticized form adapted through the colonial Spanish\, as its title\, proposition\, and starting point. Kuwentuhan (“necessary step toward big talk\,” by one definition) is orally based\, informal in nature\, usually spontaneous\, and is always an opportunity for people to converge and share. It occurs in all kinds of social spaces as talkstory circle. \nThe project’s aim is to open up precisely the kind of human space that barely exists in our technological and “globalized” culture\, by allowing a select group of American poets out of widely disparate and polyglot cultural and geographic backgrounds to actually talk face to face\, sharing stories\, poetry and conversations among themselves and with audiences. They are interested in work that originates from a communal basis\, and in shaping a project that encourages collective creation\, by putting into action mechanisms for creating “live” person-to-person exchange between and among artists and audiences. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) is a project of The Poetry Center and Reyes\, supported by the Creative Work Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kuwentuhan-talkstory/
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:Flash Fiction Collective Flashathon
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for our second annual end-of-the-year flashathon\, featuring a few of our amazing past readers! \nLynn Mundell\nAndrew O. Dugas\nThaisa Frank\nChad Koch\nChristopher Cook\nMolly Giles\nJane McDermott\nHeather Bourbeau\nMardi Louisell\nJenny Bitner\nNoah Sanders\nTony Press\nJon Sindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-flashathon/
LOCATION:Flash Fiction Collective\, 3036 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T213000
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SUMMARY:Max Ritvo Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Read about Max’s life at NPR. \nPraise for Four Reincarnations: \n“Marked by intellectual bravado and verbal extravagance. . . .One of the most original and ambitious first books in my experience.” —Louise Glück \n\n“A Max Ritvo poem is:\nA map drawn by hand to show where the body is buried.\nA card trick with words. . . ‘Don’t show me how you did it.’\nLike reading the last sentence in a book first.\nDragging words across the page like a bow across a string.\nA piece of candy covered with ants.\nLike silverfish ate the words off a page . . . and left you a riddle.\nAll of the above.”\n—Tom Waits \n\nAbout Four Reincarnations: \nReverent and profane\, entertaining and bruising\, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.\nWhen Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen\, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied\, communicating pain\, violence\, and loss. And yet they are also erotically\, electrically attuned to possibility and desire\, to everything living / that won t come with me / into this sunny afternoon. Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity\, but he is also a poet of life and of lovea cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures.\nRitvo writes to his wife\, ex-lovers\, therapists\, fathers\, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips\, Indian mythology\, wool hats. But in these poemsfrom the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of deathit’s Ritvo’s vulnerable\, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-ritvo-celebration/
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:Mariela Griffor + Lynne Knight
DESCRIPTION:Mariela Griffor’s new book is a translation of Pablo Neruda’s Canto General: Song of the Americas\, edited by Jeffrey Levine\, perhaps Neruda’s most daring and ambitious project\, depicting history as a vast\, continuous struggle against oppression. Griffor was born in Concepción in southern Chile. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden and now lives in the U.S.\, in Michigan and Washington D.C.\, where she is Honorary Consul of Chile. She is the founder of Marick Press and is the author of three books of poems\,  Exiliana\, House\, and The Psychiatrist. \nLynne Knight’s new book of poems is The Persistence of Longing. Cecilia Woloch says\, “I’ve never read poems that seem to me more accurate about love and desire and sexual relationships and their almost-inevitable shattering—darkly gorgeous and expertly-crafted poems\, with a white-hot lyric intensity and a narrative pull that becomes cumulative\, an erotic veering toward doom.” She is the author of four full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks\, and translator of I Know (Je sais)\, by Ito Naga\, from the French. Among her honors are publication in Best American Poetry\, the Prix de l’Alliance Française 2006\, the 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize\, a Poetry Society of America Lucille Medwick Memorial Award\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariela-griffor-lynne-knight/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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