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SUMMARY:MPC: B.H. Fairchild
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poetry Center and North Berkeley Library are proud to co-sponsor a reading by B.H. Fairchild. Come to the North Berkeley Library on Tuesday\, April 18th at 6 p.m. to hear this extraordinary poet read. (1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA)\n\n\nB.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas and Kansas. The son of a lathe operator\, his poetry explores the empty landscapes of the region of his birth\, and the lives of its working-class residents\, and the search for beauty and meaning in daily life. He is one of the great contemporary narrative poets. According to Paul Mariani\, Fairchild’s poems “insist on the beauty to be found in what seems to be a desolate landscape.” \nFairchild’s books of poetry include The Arrival of the Future (1985; reissued 2000); The Art of the Lathe (1998)\, which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2004)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Local Knowledge (2005); and Usher: Poems (2009). Fairchild has also written a critical study on the poetry of William Blake\, Such Holy Song: Music as Idea\, Form\, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-b-h-fairchild/
LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Not Funny! Sad! Cartoonists Respond to Trump
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/not-funny-sad-cartoonists-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Eastridge Open Mic\nwith host Lorenz Dumuk\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeature: Michelle Lin\nopen mic follows \nBarnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nMichelle Lin is a poet\, activist\, and author of A House Made of Water (Sibling Rivalry Press)\, a lyrical examination of Asian American identity\, gender and daughterhood\, the inheritance of stories\, and survival from trauma. Her poems can be found in HEArt\, Apogee\, Powder Keg Magazine\, Dusie\, Asian American Literary Review\, North American Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Adrienne\, Quaint Magazine\, Aster(ix)\, and more. Her work was showcased in Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Lo Writer of the Week” and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s Public Poetry Project. She has performed for Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture\, grlhood\, Litquake\, and more. A former poetry teacher and editor\, she lives and works in the Bay Area for API Legal Outreach\, a social justice non-profit serving marginalized communities\, volunteers for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country\, and reads for Twelfth House Journal. She is a poetry fellow of Kundiman\, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature. Learn more at michellelinpoet.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Morgan Parker to the store to discuss and sign There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé on Tuesday\, April 18th at 7:00 pm. \nThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance\, depression\, isolation\, exoticism\, racism\, femininity\, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism\, examining and confronting modern media\, consumption\, feminism\, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate\, folding in references from jazz standards\, visual art\, personal family history\, and Hip Hop. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies\, stories\, and histories of the past\, as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present\, and actively probing toward a new self\, an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow\, of vulnerability and posturing\, of desire and disgust\, of tragedy and excellence. \nMorgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies\, including Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, Morgan lives in Brooklyn\, New York. She works as an editor for Little A and Day One\, moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing\, and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday April 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: EK Keith for Nat’l Poetry & Jazz Month! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #23 (Music by Turk and Divis)
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only Christine No \nFeatured lineup of writers include: K.R. Morrison\, Evan Karp\, Kate Ambash\, Alex Ivey\, Giavanna Ortiz de Candia\, Josey Duncan\, Preeti Vangani\, James Warner\, Garrett Murphy\, Lyndsey Ellis\, Charlie Getter\, Andrew J. Thomas\, Kelechi Marie and more TBA \nMusical Guest: Turk and Divis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-23-music-by-turk-and-divis/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the launch for Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. Sarah will be in conversation with Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n‘Morayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in Cole Valley\, San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favorite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a subtle and mesmerizing meditation on aging\, friendship\, and loss. It is also a nuanced portrait of the erotic yearnings of an older woman. \n————————–————————–————– \nLike the dusty spines on Morayo’s bookshelves\, every character in this novel hides a vibrant\, teeming inner world behind an unspectacular façade. […] Ladipo Manyika’s book reminds us of the value of indulgence and delight – in sex\, in food\, in company\, and in reading. – The New Statesmen \nSarah Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is the rare sort of book that\, from the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. It is as if Dr. Morayo Da Silva is speaking directly into your ear. A real life-force of a character whose honesty\, warmth\, energy\, and bravery in the face of inevitable loss springs forth on the page. Chekhov once said that the ‘Russian loves to recall living\, but he does not love living.” Da Silva manages\, in her unique way\, to love both\, the remembering and life in the present tense. A beautiful\, important new novel\, and one that will continue to echo in a reader’s mind for a long time after. – Peter Orner \nDr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance. – Karen Joy Fowler \n————————–————————–————– \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav w/ Larry Bensky
DESCRIPTION:Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Meidav’s story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.”–Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. In a symphonic stream of consciousness\, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceanera parties\, these stories–along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda–testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels–The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches at the UMass MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nLarry Bensky is a Berkeley journalist\, radio host\, political activist\, educator\, and Proust scholar. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav-w-larry-bensky/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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