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SUMMARY:Cory Doctorow + John Scalzi
DESCRIPTION:CORY DOCTOROW:\nFascinating\, moving\, and darkly humorous\, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences. From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow\, an epic tale of revolution\, love\, post-scarcity\, and the end of death. \n“Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of\, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle.” ―William Gibson \nJOHN SCALZI:\nOur universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible―until the discovery of The Flow\, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time\, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow\, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises\, the Interdependency\, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war―and\, for the empire’s rulers\, a system of control. \n“John Scalzi is the most entertaining\, accessible writer working in SF today.” ―Joe Hill\, author of The Fireman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-john-scalzi/
LOCATION:Borderlands Books\, 866 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Impossible Fairy Tale: Korean Author Han Yujoo in Conversati
DESCRIPTION:Long known as a vital\, innovative author in her native Korea (as well as the publisher of Oulipopress)\, Han Yujoo here presents her first full-length book to be translated into English\, The Impossible Fairy Tale (tr. Janet Hong). Called a “stunning debut” by Kirkus in a starred review\, and praised as “a new kind of literary horror\, as intellectual as it is transfixing” by Sarah Gerard\, The Impossible Fairy Tale is a remarkable book. Come meet this exciting Korean author as she is introduced to the United States in conversation with Two Lines Press Senior Editor Scott Esposito. \nIt all takes place at The Lab\, long known as a home for excellent cultural events in San Francisco. Snacks and alcoholic beverages will be served. \nCopies of The Impossible Fairy Tale will be sold\, and Han will sign books after the event. \nMore information: https://www.catranslation.org/event/the-impossible-fairy-tale-korean-author-han-yujoo-in-conversation-with-scott-esposito/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-impossible-fairy-tale-korean-author-han-yujoo-in-conversati/
LOCATION:The Lab\, 2948 16th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new poetry collection \nIn Memory of an Angel \nfrom City Lights Books \nNamed after Alban Berg’s famed violin concerto\, In Memory of an Angel is the first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School maestro David Shapiro. Packed with erudition\, pursuing themes of art history\, architecture\, literature\, and Jewish identity\, the poems of In Memory of an Angel achieve a rare combination of lyrical abstraction and postmodern self-referentiality\, rendered with Shapiro’s understated virtuosity. Yet there’s a strong current of love poetry flowing through these avant-garde ruminations\, as well as reminiscences of childhood and reflections on fatherhood. A surrealistic violation of the boundary between the real and the dream pervades In Memory of an Angel. Shapiro’s poems take a bewildering variety of forms\, many of his own invention\, even as he is equally at home in the quotidian and anecdotal. Andy Warhol\, Allen Ginsberg\, Jasper Johns\, Frank O’Hara—these are only some of the characters peopling Shapiro’s New York\, a landscape both sophisticated and haunted by memory. \nThe author of 10 previous books of poems\, as well as monographs on John Ashbery\, Jim Dine\, Jasper Johns\, and Mondrian\, David Shapiro is a member of the second generation of New York School poets. A child prodigy on the violin\, he went on to become a literary and art critic and teaches at Patterson College and Cooper Union. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has received awards from the Merrill Foundation\, the NEA\, the NEH\, and the Graham Foundation. He lives in Riverdale\, the Bronx\, NYC. \nPraise for David Shapiro: \n“An erudite and relentlessly modernizing mind . . . [Shapiro’s] aleatory\, portent-free sophistication seems confident enough to accommodate primitive\, endearing\, and frankly tender tropes and situations . . . The effect is of unforeseen intimacy at the heart of abstraction.”—The New Yorker \n“David Shapiro has an incredible mastery of the language and an ear sensitive to every nuance of idiom and rhythm.”—Poetry \nPraise for In Memory of an Angel: \n“A Taoist\, a Kabbalist\, and a Dadaist walk into a bar. They discover that the bar is really David Shapiro’s new book of poems\, where they can drink ‘tears from sleeping birds’ and relax ‘in/ the soft hands/ of the gods.’ In Memory of an Angel literally drenches the reader in moments of wonder. Shapiro’s gift is unique. He possesses a childlike\, not innocence\, but sophistication. His playful erudition draws in everyone from Andy Warhol\, to Kenneth Koch\, to John Dewey – and it welcomes you as well\, in its democratic embrace.”––Elaine Equi \n“David Shapiro published his first book\, January: A Book of Poems\, while still a teenager. Since then\, now for over fifty years\, he has remained one of our very finest American poets. His mind is illuminated and his poems luminous. In Memory of an Angel is a strikingly beautiful and invaluable selection of his work!”––Jim Jarmusch \n“It’s always a deep pleasure when David Shapiro has a new book\, he never ceases to astonish\, he has built a singular\, hyper-lyrical\, always brilliant poetry. In Memory of an Angel is filled with spells and charms and spinning language\, elegy\, and wild proclamations; as he writes: “I invented the new movement / without photographs like / the affair of the whole being / as it was said ferocious and / intimate and I invent it / to last.” And so it will.”––Peter Gizzi \n“In Memory of an Angel mesmerizes with virtuosic greatness; a deft masterwork by a poet’s poet whose sui generis genius has for five decades defied and invigorated the New York School label. Shapiro upends language not for less meaning\, but more—and for a multilayered storytelling sufficiently unfettered to get at life’s labyrinthine mix of ‘cardboard and gold’ promise and peril. Pervaded by wide erudition and a skilled violinist’s musical acuity\, these wise\, many-angled poems reward rumination\, with their dream-drenched mystery\, verbal excitement and open-ended\, sometimes near-mystical profundity; always with Shapiro’s pluralistic heart on his metaphysical sleeve.”––Kate Farrell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-shapiro/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ericka Huggins
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 27 for one evening with activist\, former political prisoner\, and poet Ericka Huggins as she reaches into her own history\, reading the words of sheroes and heroes that span the last 50 years of her life. Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement\, she made a commitment to the Human Rights Movement and is a witness to movements across formations today. \nEricka is introduced by writers Chinaka Hodge and Zoé Samudzi\, both sharing their thoughts and works in criticism of the moment. The entire evening features open dialogue with audience members. \nGrand Lake Theatre\nThursday\, April 27 • 7PM\nhttp://matatu.eventbrite.com/\nco-presented by the Oakland Book Festival\n__________\nERICKA HUGGINS is a human rights activist\, poet\, educator\, Black Panther leader and former political prisoner. Her extraordinary life experiences have enabled her to speak to audiences around the world on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women\, children and youth\, whole being education\, over-incarceration\, and the role of the spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change. \nAs a result of her 14-year tenure as a leader of the Black Panther Party (the longest of any woman in leadership)\, Ericka brings a unique\, complete and honest perspective to the challenges and successes of the Black Panther Party and its significance today.\n__________\nCHINAKA HODGE is a poet\, educator playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Oakland\, California\, she​ ​graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in May of 2006\, and was honored to be the​ ​student speaker at the 174th Commencement exercise. Chinaka was a 2012 Artist in Residence at The​ ​Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin\, CA. In early 2013\, Hodge was a Sundance Feature Film lab​ ​Fellow for her script\, 700th& Int’l. Since its early days\, Chinaka has served in various capacities at Youth​ ​Speaks/The Living Word Project\, the nation’s leading literary arts non­profit. During her tenure there\,​ ​Hodge served as Program Director\, Associate Artistic Director\, and worked directly with Youth Speaks’​ ​core population ­­ as a teaching artist and poet mentor. Her poems\, editorials\, interviews and prose have​ ​been featured in Newsweek\, San Francisco Magazine\, Believer Magazine\, PBS\, NPR\, CNN\, C­Span\,​ ​and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry.\n__________\nZOÉ SAMUDZI is a queer black woman whose work is dedicated to reclaiming and reframing narratives both within the academy and outside of it. Wielding black feminist & womanist epistemologies\, she interrogates structural whiteness and theorizes on decolonizing ways of knowing and truth-telling.\n__________\nThe Kenyan matatu\, the Thai tuk-tuk\, and the Brooklyn dollar van are means of public transport used by people around the world. MATATU replicates these vehicles as a mode of collective and publicly accessible transportation\, rooted in local community and global diasporas\, that shuttles audiences from one arthouse experience to the next. \nMATATU is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts\, and supported by KQED\, East Bay Express\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Learn more about us at www.matatufestival.org/weare \nThe OAKLAND BOOK FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of ideas\, debate\, and the arts that will take place this year at Oakland City Hall on Sunday\, May 21st. The 2017 festival revolves around the theme of “Equality” and will feature over one hundred artists\, activists\, academics\, and other public intellectuals that are aiming to achieve it in their own way. All events at the OBF are free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ericka-huggins/
LOCATION:Grand Lake Theatre\, 3200 Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Orlando White + Patrick James Dunagan
DESCRIPTION:Orlando White receives the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books) and reads with award judge Patrick James Dunagan. This event is free and open to the public. \n‘San Francisco poet Robert Duncan remarked: “There is no end to the task of bringing the sounds into our conscious art.” (“Notes on the Structure of Rime”) As a critical reader I am always looking out for those poets whose work answers Duncan’s oracular call for unabashed attention to how the language of the poem is presented so as to be thereby sounded; a poet who sets the poems upon the page as though the realization of a musical score\, readied for the eye to hear as the ear sees. Over in New Mexico\, native born Diné (Navajo) poet Orlando White churns out just such work\, attuned to “a lilt of sound: curve murmurs” (“EMIT”). White’s LETTERRS presents forward-learning contemplative action towards what constitutes an avant-garde poetics of today: a bracing engagement of/with advancing a spatial “open space\,” page-as-field\, poem-writing. White describes how “The white space is just as important as the text in a poem\, whether it’s the counter that shapes an O or S\, a line break after a word or a caesura within a line.” (“Functional White: Crafting Space & Silence”) His use of caesura and spacing within the individual line of the poem designates breath\, measure\, and the fragility of even individual letters. While with a quick glance through LETTERRS “the blank” white space of the page may be deemed deceptively sparse in appearance\, upon sustained reading White’s employment of the practice proves to be truly nothing less than masterfully accomplished. \n‘White sees “white space as a place of liberation\, dissolving boundaries between what is authoritative and what is not.” (LETTERRS interview\, Taos Journal) In this same conversation\, he also speaks of “the page” as a “type of energy\,” stating that “as an Indigenous person too\, I see it as a type of resistance against English colonialism.” Without necessarily overt expression of a political stance\, White nevertheless remains committed against colonialist tendencies latent in his experience using English as a poet. “One can argue language is always connected to race and vice versa; this may be why my poems ultimately reflect an intersection of Diné thought and English fluency. But I find my sensibilities are attuned to how a poet builds her or his poems rather than focusing on content\, which may overwhelm a poem.” (“To Find the Subject by Leaving the Subject: Expectations of Race & Content”) For my own needs\, LETTERRS reignites the exciting potentiality for working with the open space of the page\, ever aware of the specific attentive care that’s required. White serves up his own colossal ambitions and tops them with admirable verve. I’m thrilled by the promise of his work and am very much interested in seeing what’s next; the as yet unwritten exploration towards which White is undoubtedly headed. “Write\, means to / place life / into book.” (“n”) It’s nothing other than a pleasure to recognize White’s substantial contribution to the larger ongoing endeavor of Poetics which is achieved here. May many future readers realize in this work the necessary life-sustaining freshness which the Imagination requires to carry the work of “the poems” forward: “Letter hypnotizes to stay / alive after meaning fades.” (“O”)- \n—judge’s statement\, Patrick James Dunagan\nPoet Orlando White is from Tółikan\, Arizona. He is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e. White earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of LETTERRS (Nightboat Books\, 2015) and Bone Light (Red Hen Press\, 2009)\, a collection of poems Kazim Ali described as a “careful excavation on language and letters and the physical body.” White’s work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares\, the Kenyon Review\, Salt Hill\, and elsewhere. The recipient of a residency from the Lannan Foundation\, White teaches at Diné College in Tsaile\, Arizona. \nPatrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco. He is a graduate of the Poetics program from the now-defunct New College of California\, where he studied under Tom Clark\, Adam Cornford\, Gloria Frym\, Joanne Kyger\, George Mattingly\, and David Meltzer. Alongside poets Marina Lazzara and Nicholas Whittington\, he’s currently at work editing together an anthology of critical writings by Poetics program alumni and faculty. His critical reviews and other writings have appeared in a number of online and print publications. His books include: GUSTONBOOK (Post Apollo\, 2011)\, Das Gedichtete (Ugly Duckling\, 2013)\, Book of Kings (Bird and Beckett Books\, 2015)\, Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2016)\, and THE DUNCAN ERA: One Reader’s Cosmology (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2016). \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orlando-white-patrick-james-dunagan/
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:Jackie Townsend
DESCRIPTION:Jackie Townsend shares her compelling new novel\, The Absence of Evelyn. Newly divorced Rhonda\, haunted by her sister Evelyn’s ghost\, travels to an old palazzo in Rome to confront Marco\, the man who stole her sister’s heart–only to find out he’s vanished in the wake of Evelyn’s death. Meanwhile\, Rhonda’s nineteen-year-old daughter Olivia\, adopted by Rhonda at birth\, travels to the mysterious and lush waters of northern Vietnam\, where she’s been summoned by the missing Marco–a man she only knows from her parents’ whispers\, a man she has never met or seen. Soon\, truths are exposed and lives unraveled\, and the real journey begins. Four lives in all\, spanning three continents\, are now bound together in an unfathomable way–and they tell a powerful story about love in all its incarnations\, filial and amorous\, healing and destructive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackie-townsend/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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