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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, an "Ekphrastic" open mic
DESCRIPTION:“Ekphrastic poems [or stories] focus on works of art—usually paintings\, photographs\, or statues. And modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description\, and instead have tried to interpret\, inhabit\, confront\, and speak to their subjects ” (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poems?field_form_tid=408) \nYour SNS challenge for March\, is to write something new based on or inspired in some way by a piece of art. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur featured readers for March are Miah Jeffra (and one more tba)\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 31\, 2018\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nMIAH JEFFRA is author of the essay collection “The First Church of What’s Happening” (Nomadic Press 2017). He has been awarded the New Millennium Prize for fiction\, the Sidney Lanier Prize for fiction\, The Oregon Writers Colony Award for nonfiction\, a Lambda Literary Fellowship\, a Ragdale Fellowship & Residency\, and other residencies at Hub City Writers Project\, Arteles and Red Gate. Miah is editor of queer literary collaborative\, Foglifter Press. His favorite color is fried chicken.
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LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Diana Khoi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Diana Khoi Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection\, Ghost Of. Also featuring readings by fellow poets\, Jane Wong\, Ingrid Rojas\, Diana Arterian and Juliana Xuan Wang. \n\nAbout Ghost Of \n\nGhost Of is a mourning song\, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts\, but attuned attention\, unidirectional reaching across time\, space\, and distance to reach loved ones\, ancestors\, and strangers. By working with\, in\, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death)\, Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory\, physical voids\, and her family captured around an empty space. \n\nAbout  Diana Khoi Nguyen \n\nBorn in Los Angeles\, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a poet and multimedia artist whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, PEN America\, and The Iowa Review\, among others. A winner of the 92Y’s Discovery / Boston Review 2017 Poetry Contest\, she is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diana-khoi-nguyen/
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:Lunada Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Under the Blue Moon of March\, on the final night of Mes Internacional de la Mujer\, Lunada is honored to host award winning internationally renowned Chicana author and maestra LUCHA CORPI\, and emerging jazz salsa vocalist\, ADRIANA MARRERO who will share an intimate set of jíbaro salsa soul favorites from Puerto Rico. \nOPEN MIC: Sign-up at 7pm\, 10 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. Poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates\, veteranos\, and first-timers invited to share their voices under our bilingual lunar spotlight.\nDOORS OPEN AT 7:00pm\n$5.00 Admission \nGALERÍA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night two years in a row by the SF Bay Guardian\, 2016 & 2017. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nLUCHA CORPI is an internationally renowned poet\, novelist\, and children’s book author. She is the author of several mystery novels published by Arte Público Press: Death at Solstice: A Gloria Damasco Mystery (Sept. 2009)\, Eulogy for a Brown Angel (2002)\, Black Widow’s Wardrobe (1999)\, Cactus Blood (1995)\, and Crimson Moon (Arte Público Press\, 2004). Loa a un angel de piel morena (2012) is the pioneering first installment in the Gloria Damasco Mystery series now available in Spanish. Her poetry collection\, reissued by Arte Público Press in 2001\, is entitled Palabras de mediodía / Noon Words (2001).  A Piñata Books picture book for children\, The Triple Banana Split Boy / El niño goloso was published in 2009. Most recently\, Corpi has written a moving memoir\, Confessions of a Book Burner: Personal Essays and Stories (Arte Público Press\, 2014)\, that sheds light on the creative process\, political activism and bilingual\, bi-cultural life in the U.S. She is the recipient of numerous awards and citations\, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize in fiction\, and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Book Award of Excellence in Adult Fiction. Corpi was a tenured teacher in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers Program for over 30 years. \nADRIANA MARRERO is a Puerto Rican jazz and salsa singer\, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a founding member\, lyricist and vocalist of Soltrón\, has performed with Bay Area Latin jazz legends such as John Santos\, and collaborates with Bay Area musicians such as keyboardist Eli Goldlink in their project The Astronauts. She will share an intimate set of jíbaro salsa soul favorites from Puerto Rican.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-4/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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