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SUMMARY:Passages on the Lake 33
DESCRIPTION:Oakland’s premiere literary showcase gets the new year off to a hella strong start with Daphne Gottlieb\, Sonya Renee Taylor\, Tracey Knapp\, Derrick Carr\, and Haldane King\, always free! (event photo by Bianca Tummings.) \nHaldane King earned his Master of the Fine Arts degree in Writing and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012. Since then he has been presenting his fantasy and science fiction tales at local readings while working on a collection of short stories. He currently works as a data analyst and helps bring literature to the people with the Why There Are Words Literary organization. \nTracey Knapp first full-length collection of poems\, Mouth\, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received scholarships and awards from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2008 and 2010\, The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press)\, and has appeared in Poetry Daily\, Five Points\, The National Poetry Review and elsewhere. \nDerrick Carr has lived in the Bay Area since he was old enough to read. He wrote & illustrated a book of bad poetry in 7th grade and he spends his time reading great poetry in the hopes he can someday atone. While getting his undergrad degree in black people with a minor in hugs\, he helped co-found his college slam team which took 11th at CUPSI both years he attended. He also organizes and edits for The Lit Slam. Most days\, he commutes between Oakland (where he sleeps) and San Francisco (where he makes money to buy poetry books) with a book under his nose. \nSonya Renee Taylor is an author\, poet\, spoken word artist\, speaker\, humanitarian and social justice activist\, educator\, and founder of The Body is Not An Apology movement. Taylor has won multiple National and International poetry slams\, and has performed for audiences across the US\, New Zealand\, Australia\, England\, Scotland\, Sweden\, Canada and the Netherlands\, including in prisons\, mental health treatment facilities\, homeless shelters\, universities\, festivals and public schools across the globe. She is an African-American woman who identifies as queer. \nDaphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of 10 books including the new Pretty Much Dead\, short stories about the people forced to live outside and hanging on to the edge in San Francisco. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words. She is also a winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry\, and a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is currently struggling to hang on to her housing\, and finishing a novel about anonymous sex.
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LOCATION:The Terrace Room\, 1800 Madison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:“How lucky the reader who gets to devour Shanthi Sekaran’s extraordinary\, necessary novel. Lucky Boy is both timely and timeless\, depicting the comedy and delights of the world as well as its brutalities and injustices. It’s a story about immigration\, privilege\, and parenthood\, and shows us how we are connected\, and how we are\, perhaps irreparably\, divided. It swept me away and took a little piece of my heart with it. It’s a perfect book.”–Edan Lepucki\, author of California \nA heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers–a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife–whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together. Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley\, dazed by first love found then lost\, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity\, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession\, you guard it with your life. For Soli\, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. Kavya Reddy has always followed her heart\, much to her parents’ chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house\, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya’s mid-thirties. When she can’t get pregnant\, this desire will test her marriage and her sanity. It will set Kavya and her husband\, Rishi\, on a collision course with Soli\, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya’s care. As Kavya learns to be a mother–the singing\, story-telling\, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being–she builds her love on a fault line\, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story\, no single obvious hero. Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. \nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts. The author of the novel The Prayer Room\, she has also published work in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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