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SUMMARY:Fady Joudah
DESCRIPTION:Fady Joudah’s fourth and most recent poetry collection is Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He is the recipient of a Yale Younger Poets prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Residency\, and the Griffin International Poetry prize. He is the translator of several volumes of Arabic poetry into English. He is also a practicing physician of internal medicine in Houston\, TX.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fady-joudah-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta with special guest Daisy Zamora\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:As part of their Mazza Writer in Residency for October 1–6\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta will be joined by celebrated Nicaraguan poet—and SF State faculty member in Latina/Latino Studies—Daisy Zamora\, with the two poets reading from their works\, followed by a conversation between them and in response to their audience. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. Please join us! \nA Nicaraguan Californian via Mexico raised both in Huntington Park and Highland Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta lives in a rent controlled apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco. An artist\, writer\, reproductive justice activist\, patient advocate\, and lapsed full spectrum doula who supports themself through working at a neighborhood cafe and cleaning houses\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta’s work attempts\, as fellow poet Lauren Levin writes\, to “include direct revolutionary action\, up to and including revolutionary violence\, as part of a continuum of care\, and their use of this redefinition of care-work to rethink gendered paradigms.” Their first book\, The Easy Body\, was published by Oakland queer art & publishing collective Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2017. Photo: Dickie Bahto. \nDaisy Zamora is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Latin American poetry.  Her work is known for its uncompromising voice and wide-ranging subject matter that explores and expresses the realities of  everyday life while encompassing human rights\, politics\, revolution\, feminist issues\, literature\, art\, history\, and culture.  During Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution she was a combatant for the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front)\, and during the final 1979 Sandinista offensive became the voice and program director for clandestine Radio Sandino.  After the triumph of the revolution\, she was appointed Vice Minister of Culture for the new government. She worked with fellow poet and mentor Ernesto Cardenal\, Minister of Culture to create and implement numerous programs that successfully revitalized the war‑damaged cultural life of Nicaragua\, including a popular\, highly successful national literacy program that brought books and reading\, poetry\, and visual arts to even the remotest areas of the country. \nAuthor of numerous books of poetry in Spanish\, as well as a collection of political essays\, she also edited the first comprehensive anthology of Nicaraguan women poets published in Latin America.  Her latest poetry collection\, La violenta espuma\, was published in Madrid by renowned Spanish poetry publisher Visor in late December 2017.  Also recently\, she was featured in director Jenny Murray’s award winning documentary ¡Las Sandinistas!\, soon to be aired on PBS. Among her poetry books in English\, The Violent Foam: New & Selected Poems\, a bilingual collections\, was published by Curbstone Press.  Life for Each\, was published in England by Katabasis in 1994;  an earlier collection\, Riverbed of Memory\, was published by City Lights Books in 1992\, and Clean Slate by Curbstone Press in 1993. \nA political activist and advocate for women’s rights throughout her life\, for the last several years she has taught poetry workshops at a number of universities and colleges\, and has been a lecturer of Latin American culture and literature for the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the University of San Francisco\, and currently at San Francisco State University. She resides in Managua and San Francisco\, where she lives with her husband\, U.S. poet and writer George Evans. Photo: Frank Pineda. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nin performance\, participants tba\nSaturday OCT 6\n7:00pm @ The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\, San Francisco\, free and open to the public\nsupported by a grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation \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/mazza-writer-in-residence-tatiana-luboviski-acosta-with-special-guest-daisy-zamora-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Sims
DESCRIPTION:Multi-media conceptual artist\, writer and activist visits City Lights to celebrate the release of his video poem chapbook\, A Blazing Grace and the AfroDixieRemixes: The San Francisco Session \nThe AfroDixie music project confronts the song “Dixie” – the anthem of the Confederacy subversively by remixing\, remapping and cross-appropriation with a collection of 14 tracks of Dixie in the many genres of black music: Spiritual\, Blues\, Gospel\, Jazz\, Funk Calypso\, Samba\, Soul\, R&B\, House\, Hip Hop. To critically engage this project with both historical and current social- political-cultural themes\, the artist has been hosting listening sessions around the country\, inviting poets\, artists\, scholars\, activist and community members to respond to the music. This session has visited Martha’s Vineyard Film Center\, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Bowery Poetry Club. Special guest poets/writers and performers in the Bay Area will be invited to respond to the various tracks. \nThis sound performance is a part of the artist’s 16-year multi-media project\, Recoloration Proclamation\, a 16 yearmultimedia project which explores the complexity of identity\, cultural appropriation/remixing\, white supremacy\, visual terrorism in the context of Confederate iconography and African-American culture. This system of works features recolored Confederate flags\, a noose hanging installation in Gettysburg\, a 13 southern states Confederate flag funeral\, videos\, site specific performances\, a play\, a documentary film\, the music project AfroDixieRemixes\, the annual Burn and Bury Confederate Flag Memorial and most recently the outside performance and Kennedy Museum exhibition of The Proper Way to Hang to a Confederate Flag at Ohio University.  For more context\, review John Sims’ CNN Op-Ed piece\, Don’t Resurrect the Confederacy – de-zombify it.  \nThe City Lights event will feature\, as an opening act video poems from the text of Sims’ limited edition artist chapbook\, Blazing Grace produced especially for this event. The event is also in conjunction with the group exhibition\, “Reinterpretation as Resistance: Artists Questioning Normative Iconography” which includes various element of John Sims’ RecolorationProclamation. The show is curated by Aaron Wilder at The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San José State University\, October 2-November 2\, 2018. \nFor more info this music\, see the infomercial\, liner notes\, music video\, participating musicians. To preview the music tracks go to www.afrodixieremixes.com. \nJohn Sims\, a Detroit native\, is a multi-media conceptual artist\, writer and activist creating projects spanning the areas of installation\, text\, music\, film\, performance and large scale activism. His main projects are informed by mathematics\, the politics of sacred symbols/anniversaries and the agency of poetry. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\,   CNN\, NBC News\, USA Today\, NPR\,The Guardian\, ThinkProgress\, Al Jazeera\,  Art in America\, Sculpture\, BOMB\, Science News\, Nature and Scientific American. He has written for CNN\, Al Jazeera\, The Huffington Post\, Guernica Magazine\, and The Rumpus.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sims/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft
DESCRIPTION:Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft discuss Flights. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Flights \n\nFlights is a novel about travel in the 21st century and human anatomy. From the 17th  century\, we have the story of the real Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen\, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg\, discovering in so doing the Achilles tendon. From the 18th century\, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death in spite of his daughter’s ever more desperate protests\, as well as the story of Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw\, stored in a tightly sealed jar beneath his sister’s skirt. From the present we have the trials and tribulations of a wife accompanying her much older professor husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands\, the quest of a Polish woman who emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager but must now return to Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart\, and the slow descent into madness of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanished on a vacation on a Croatian island and then appeared again with no explanation. \n  \nThrough these narratives\, interspersed with short bursts of analysis and digressions on topics ranging from travel-sized cosmetics to the Maori\, Flights guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/man-booker-international-prizewinners-olga-tokarczuk-and-jennifer-croft/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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