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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Spring 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Spring 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until March 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rosa Alcalá
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Paterson\, NJ\, Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE. Her poetry also appears in a number of anthologies\, including Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship\, her translations are featured in the forthcoming Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems. Alcalá teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosa-alcala/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lily Hoang + Jackie Wang
DESCRIPTION:Poets Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang read from their work\, in their first-ever appearances at The Poetry Center. This is the first of two Poetry Center events held in conjunction with the nationwide Poetry Coalition series on The Body. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American Poets on behalf of the Poetry Coalition. Free.\n\n\n\n\nLily Hoang\nHoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest)\, Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues). She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of California\, San Diego\, and serves as editor at Jaded Ibis Press. Previously\, she was executive editor for HTML Giant. \n“Rarely have I come across tenderness\, venom\, and fire held so intimately\, so exquisitely\, as in Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. … Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.” — Maggie Nelson \n  \nJackie Wang\nWang’s Carceral Capitalism\, the newest volume in Semiotext(e)’s Interventions Series\, is a book of essays that includes her influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics\, “Against Innocence\,” besides essays on RoboCop\, techno-policing and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later\, and how new carceral modes emerging since the 1990s have blurred the distinction between the inside and the outside of prison. \nWang is a student of the dream state\, a black studies scholar\, prison abolitionist\, poet\, performer\, library rat\, trauma monster and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. She is the author of the nonfiction book Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte/MIT Press)\, a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious) and a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-hoang-and-jackie-wang/
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:Brittney Cooper: Eloquent Rage
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to welcome Brittney Cooper to read from and discuss Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. She will be in-conversation with Alicia Garza; please join us! \nIn the tradition of bell hooks\, Roxane Gay and Audre Lorde\, America’s leading young black feminist celebrates dissent—both personal and public\, reminding us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. \n— \n“Cooper personifies what Sonia Sanchez called “homegirl and hand-grenade”—here\, like the homegirl she is\, Cooper gives us the uncensored truth about how America has become what it is today\, and reminds us in no uncertain terms that Black people\, and particularly Black women\, have the brilliance\, foresight\, and vision to bring a different America to fruition\, should we choose to use our powers for good rather than evil.” —Alicia Garza\, Special Projects Director\, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Founder\, Black Lives Matter \n“Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp\, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep\, and she will make you laugh out loud even as she kicks the clay feet out from under your cherished idols.” — Michael Eric Dyson \n— \nBrittney Cooper writes a popular monthly column on race\, gender\, and politics for Cosmo. A professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University\, she co-founded the Crunk Feminist Collective\, and her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, Ebony.com\, and TheRoot.com\, among many others. \nAlicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer\, writer\, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. Garza\, along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors\, also co-founded the Black Lives Matter network\, a globally recognized organizing project that focuses on combatting anti-Black state-sanctioned violence and the oppression of all Black people. Since the rise of the BLM movement\, Garza has become a powerful voice in the media. Her articles and interviews have been featured in Time\, Mic\, The Guardian\, Elle.com\, Essence\, Democracy Now!\, and The New York Times. \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Eloquent Rage\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittney-cooper-eloquent-rage/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Will Boast + Molly Antopol
DESCRIPTION:Will Boast discusses his new novel\, Daphne with Molly Antopol. \nPraise for Daphne \n“Will Boast has written a novel that exquisitely marries ancient mythology and au courant medicine to tell our favorite tale\, the love story\, with insights both age-old and brand-spanking new. It’s a fine\, fine ride.”- Antonya Nelson\, author of Bound and Funny Once \n“Richly meditative and quietly suspenseful\, Daphne breathes fresh vigor into timeless questions about love and risk―the unknowable cost of fully opening one’s heart to another. Will Boast writes beautifully about life’s daily moral gambles\, and Daphne is an outright marvelous debut.”- Laura van den Berg\, author of Find Me \n“In his stunning first novel\, Boast turns the myth of Daphne and Apollo into a modern love story about social anxiety and physical debilitation…Sharply observant\, both of the limits of human longing and of the fear of feeling trapped inside one’s body\, Boast’s understated tale is at once tragic and enchanting.”- Booklist\, Starred Review \nAbout Daphne \nElegantly written and profoundly moving\, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast’s reputation as a “new young American voice for the ages” (Tom Franklin). Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion\, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake\, even one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy\, charming Ollie\, her well-honed defenses falter\, and she’s faced with an impossible choice: cling to her pristine\, manicured isolation or risk the recklessness of real intimacy. Set against the vivid backdrop of a San Francisco flush with money and pulsing with protest\, Daphne is a gripping and tender modern fable that explores both self-determination and the perpetual fight between love and safety.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/will-boast-and-molly-antopol/
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:Ann Raeff w/ Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 1\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York. \nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeffe’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-raeff-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n\n\n\n\n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York.\n\n\n\n\n\nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeff’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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