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SUMMARY:Alicia Mountain\, Steffi Drewes\, Tonya M. Foster\, and Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 5\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoems! By four poets! We’re excited to welcome Alicia Mountain’s BRAND NEW book High Ground Coward into the world! With readings from three amazing Bay Area poets\, Steffi Drewes\, Mg Roberts\, and Tonya M. Foster\, as well! \nALICIA MOUNTAIN is the author of High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press\, April 2018) which was awarded the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Thin Fire\, is forthcoming from BOAAT Press. Mountain’s poems can be found in Guernica\, jubilat\, Prairie Schooner\, Pleiades\, Witness\, and elsewhere. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee\, an Idyllwild Arts Fellow and a resident at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a queer poet\, PhD candidate at the University of Denver\, and assistant editor of the Denver Quarterly. Mountain earned her MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula. \n  \nSteffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press) and four poetry chapbooks\, most recently New Animal from dancing girl press. Her work has been featured in various journals and event series\, including the 2018 Way Bay Poetry Assembly and postcard project at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She has attended writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, The Desert House in California\, and the Wassaic Project in New York\, where she debuted an original set of photo-based tarot cards and performed personalized readings. These days she works as a freelance writer and editor. \nTonya M. Foster was raised in New Orleans\, LA. She is the author of the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os and the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, which Stephen Burt describes as “the long-delayed American apotheosis of haiku form.” In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones notes that “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” A coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art\, Foster has had work published in Best American Experimental Writing (2016)\, boundary2\, Litscapes: Collected US Writings 2015\, Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere.Foster has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Pan African literary Festival\, and elsewhere. \nMg Roberts is a multimedia artist\, teacher\, publisher and poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). Mg is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo V.  Wilson; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, array of animals and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-steffi-drewes-tonya-m-foster-and-mg-roberts/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine with Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine discusses her new memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts with Shawn Wen. \nPraise for The Electric Woman \nIn a word: wow. I read The Electric Woman in a hallucinatory fever filled with hospital beds and carnival rides\, gray eyes and biting boa constrictors\, brain bleeds and headless bodies\, fire eaters and electrified women. Tessa Fontaine is a real-life snake charmer—her writing hooked and hypnotized me from page one. I had to read just one more chapter\, just one more until I reached the end of her extraordinary memoir\, dismayed that it was over but so grateful for the unforgettable ride.” —Susannah Cahalan\, author of Brain on Fire \n“Somewhere between knives and fire beats the heart of a young woman daring herself to live. In her memoir\, The Electric Woman\, Tessa Fontaine weaves her way through a mother-death story and a daughter-coming-alive story against the backdrop of America’s last traveling sideshow. There are so many ways to bring ourselves back to life. So many people along the way who become our secular guardian angels. This story is a breathtaking\, fire-eating\, heart-stopping\, death-defying thrill.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Book of Joan \nA beautiful and ferocious book\, The Electric Woman comes packed with magnificent stories of carnival tricks\, transcending the limits of the body\, and the bravery of survivors and caretakers. Yet\, somehow no marvel is more wondrous than the writing itself. Fontaine’s memoir is a brilliant testament to family\, grief\, love\, and the astonishing trick of being—and feeling—alive.” —Annie Hartnett\, author of Rabbit Cake \nAbout The Electric Woman \nFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals\, wheelchairs\, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together\, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper\, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders\, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? \n  \nTransformed into an escape artist\, a snake charmer\, and a high-voltage Electra\, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak\, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible\, and\, most marvelous of all\, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these\, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. \n  \nA story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus\, wanted to be someone else\, or wanted a loved one to live forever\, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds\, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-with-shawn-wen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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