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SUMMARY:LEGACY OF POETRY SLAM: FINALS
DESCRIPTION:The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the United States and in California by writers born outside the United States or who are the children or grandchildren of immigrant families facilitates cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication and understanding. \nOur 8 finalists will perform their poem in front of a great audience and judges at the SJSU Student Union Auditorium. So\, come out and support these amazing poets who will pour out a myriad of words in form of poems around our theme: migration and diaspora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-slam-finals/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Poetry Slam: Finals
DESCRIPTION:The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the United States and in California by writers born outside the United States or who are the children or grandchildren of immigrant families facilitates cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication and understanding. \nOur 8 finalists will perform their poem in front of a great audience\, judges and emcee Mighty Mike McGee\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. So\, come out and support these amazing poets who will pour out a myriad of words in form of poems around our theme: migration and diaspora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-slam-finals-2/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Matthew Dickman and Emily Strelow
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Dickman celebrates the release of a new poetry collection \nWonderland \nfrom W.W. Norton \nEmily Strelow celebrates the release of her new novel \nThe Wild Birds \nfrom Rare Bird Lit \nabout Wonderland \nLuminous and hypnotic\, this dynamic collection explores the dark edges of childhood\, violence\, race\, class\, and masculinity\, by one of the most fearless poets of his generation. \n“Known for poems of universality of feeling\, expressive lyricism of reflection\, and heartrending allure” (Major Jackson)\, award-winning poet Matthew Dickman returns with a collection that engages the traces of his own living past\, suffusing these poems with ghosts of longing\, shame\, and vulnerability. In the southeast Portland neighborhood of Dickman’s youth\, parents are out of control and children are in chaos. With grief\, anger\, and\, ultimately\, understanding\, Dickman confronts a childhood of ambient violence\, well-intentioned but warped family relations\, confining definitions of identity\, and the deprivation of this particular Portland neighborhood in the 1980s. Wonderland reminds us that\, while these neighborhoods are filled with guns\, skateboards\, fights\, booze\, and heroin\, and home to punk rockers\, skinheads\, poor kids\, and single moms\, they are also places of innocence and love. \nLuminous and hypnotic\, this dynamic collection explores the dark edges of childhood\, violence\, race\, class\, and masculinity\, by one of the most fearless poets of his generation. \n“Known for poems of universality of feeling\, expressive lyricism of reflection\, and heartrending allure” (Major Jackson)\, award-winning poet Matthew Dickman returns with a collection that engages the traces of his own living past\, suffusing these poems with ghosts of longing\, shame\, and vulnerability. In the southeast Portland neighborhood of Dickman’s youth\, parents are out of control and children are in chaos. With grief\, anger\, and\, ultimately\, understanding\, Dickman confronts a childhood of ambient violence\, well-intentioned but warped family relations\, confining definitions of identity\, and the deprivation of this particular Portland neighborhood in the 1980s. Wonderland reminds us that\, while these neighborhoods are filled with guns\, skateboards\, fights\, booze\, and heroin\, and home to punk rockers\, skinheads\, poor kids\, and single moms\, they are also places of innocence and love. \nabout The Wild Birds \nCast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother\, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper’s assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world unkind to young women. In 1941\, nomad Victor scours the Sierras searching for refuge from a home to which he never belonged. And in the present day\, precocious fifteen year-old Lily struggles\, despite her willfulness\, to find a place for herself amongst the small town attitudes of Burning Hills\, Oregon. Living alone with her hardscrabble mother Alice compounds the problem―though their unique relationship to the natural world ties them together\, Alice keeps an awful secret from her daughter\, one that threatens to ignite the tension growing between them. \nEmily Strelow’s mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an American mosaic alive with birdsong and gunsmoke\, held together by a silver box of eggshells―a long-ago gift from a mother to her daughter. Written with grace\, grit\, and an acute knowledge of how the past insists upon itself\, The Wild Birds is a radiant and human story about the shelters we find and make along our crooked paths home. \nMatthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press\, 2008)\, 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman\, Copper Canyon Press\, 2012)\, Mayakovsky’s Revolver (W.W. Norton & Co\, 2012)\, Wish You Were Here (Spork Press\, 2013)\, 24 HOURS (One Star Press\, Paris\, France\, 2014)\, Brother (Faber&Faber UK\, 2016)\, and the forthcoming poetry collection Wonderland (W.W. Norton & Co\, 2018) He is the recipient of The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College\, and a 2015 Guggenheim. His poems have appeared in Poetry London\, McSweeny’s\, The London Review of Books\, Esquire Magazine\, Best American Poetry and The New Yorker among others. \nEmily Strelow was born and raised in Oregon’s Willamette Valley but has lived all over the West and now\, the Midwest. For the last decade she combined teaching writing with doing seasonal avian field biology with her husband. While doing field jobs she camped and wrote in remote areas in the desert\, mountains and by the ocean. She is a mother to two boys\, a naturalist\, and writer. The Wild Birds is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-dickman-and-emily-strelow/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Symptoms
DESCRIPTION:Teadings from Pola Oloixarac (Savage Theories)\, Raina Leon (Profeta Without Refuge)\, Anne-christine d’Adesky (The Pox Lover)\, Eryk Salvaggio (Antlers)\, and Faruk Ates.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-symptoms/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kirstin Chen / Bury What We Cannot Take
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host Kirstin Chen as she launches her new novel Bury What We Cannot Take. Join us! \nOne summer day in 1957\, nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother\, Ah Liam\, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed portrait of Chairman Mao. To prove his loyalty to the Party\, Ah Liam reports his grandmother to the authorities. But his belief in doing the right thing sets in motion a terrible chain of events. Now the family must flee their home on Drum Wave Islet\, which sits just a few hundred meters across the channel from mainland China. But when their mother goes to procure visas for safe passage to Hong Kong\, the government will only issue them on the condition that she leave behind one of her children as proof of the family’s intention to return. San San’s family must grapple with their agonizing decision\, its far-reaching consequences\, and their hope for redemption. \n— \n“This beautifully plotted\, suspenseful\, and deeply compassionate novel shows Kirstin Chen\, whose work I’ve long admired\, at her absolute finest. Bury What We Cannot Take is a vital book.”—Laura van den Berg\, author of Find Me \n“San San’s family flee Drum Wave Islet\, leaving her behind. An epic story follows that explores gender roles\, oppressive ideologies\, sacrifice\, and what it means to be free\, all through the microcosm of one family. This is a book set in the past\, on the other side of the world\, that is more than relevant in today’s America. Chen delivers a page turner that holds a historical mirror up to our fuzzy\, complicit world.”—Matthew Salessas\, author of The Hundred Year Flood \n— \nKirstin Chen is the author of the novels Bury What We Cannot Take\, forthcoming from Little A in 2018\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners\, a Kindle First selection\, an O\, The Oprah Magazine “book to pick up now\,” and a Glamour book club pick. She has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She is the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore.\n— \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Bury What We Cannot Take\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirstin-chen-bury-what-we-cannot-take/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael David Lukas
DESCRIPTION:reads from his new novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. \n“A beautiful\, richly textured novel\, ambitious and delicately crafted.”– Rabih Alameddine \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 22\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this spellbinding novel\, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. \nJoseph\, a literature student at Berkeley\, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day\, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep\, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations\, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo\, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali\, a Muslim orphan who nearly a thousand years earlier was entrusted as the first watchman of the synagogue and became enchanted by its legendary–perhaps magical–Ezra Scroll. The story of Joseph’s family is entwined with that of the British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret\, who in 1897 depart their hallowed Cambridge halls on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue. \nThe Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces–potent magic\, forbidden love–that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He works in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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