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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Fall 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 Fall 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 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/MarySubmissionForm
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:When : Thu\, October 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescription : Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-27/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Fellow poets and friends Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley\, respectively from San Francisco and Reno\, Nevada\, will read from their work then join in conversation with each other and in response to questions from the audience. Note: this event is re-scheduled from an earlier date (the SFSU campus was unexpectedly closed due to a massive campus-wide power outtage last Fall 2017). Free and open to the public. \nWriter and artist Steven Seidenberg is the author of Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press\, 2017)\, a collection of photographs with an accompanying cycle of aphorism\, Itch (Raw Art Press\, 2014)\, Null Set (Spooky Actions Books\, 2015)\, and numerous chapbooks of verse and aphorism\, most recently Duration Knows No Law (ypolita press\, 2016). His prose work Situ is forthcoming from Black Sun Lit in Spring 2018\, and another photo collection\, Kanazawa Void\, is due out in Fall 2018 from Daylight Books. He has had solo shows of his work in various galleries in the US and abroad\, with upcoming exhibitions in Rome and at the University of Rochester. He is co-editor of the literary journal pallaksch.pallaksch. (Instance Press)\, and curates the False Starts reading series at The Lab in San Francisco. \nJared Stanley is a writer and artist. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry\, including EARS\, The Weeds\, and Book Made of Forest\, as well as many chapbooks\, pamphlets\, artist editions\, and ephemera\, including A Continual Hint\, Green Hearts and Fire to You\, How the Desert Did Me in\, and Special Newlands Extraction Rubbing. Other writing has recently appeared in Triple Canopy\, Literary Hub\, The Offing\, and Poem-a-Day. Stanley has received fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council and the Center for Art + Environment. He was born in Arizona\, raised in the East Bay\, and lives in Reno\, Nevada. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIDEO: Steven Seidenberg and Alan Felsenthal\, Readings in Contemporary Poetry\, DIA Art Foundation\nVIDEO: Jared Stanley and C. D. Wright\, reading at the Woodberry Poetry Room\, Harvard University \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/steven-seidenberg-and-jared-stanley-reading-and-in-conversation/
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:Walter Mosley
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nJohn Woman \npublished by Atlantic Monthly Press \nWalter Mosely requires no introduction. His award-winning\, critically-adored body of work has sold millions of copies the world over. Though he is perhaps best known for his mysteries featuring the character Easy Rawlins\, over the course of his long and prolific career\, he has also written a handful of penetrating literary novels that wrestle with questions political and philosophical. His latest book is such a novel: the result of nearly 20 years of incubation\, it is a dazzling and convention-defying novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman. \nJOHN WOMAN recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman\, an unconventional history professor—while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. \nAt twelve years old\, Cornelius\, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman\, secretly takes over his father’s job at a silent film theater in New York’s East Village. Five years later\, as Herman lives out his last days\, he shares his wisdom with his son\, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears\, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself—as Professor John Woman\, a man who will spread Herman’s teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman\, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. \nEngaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history\, JOHN WOMAN  is a compulsively readable\, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories\, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world. It is essential reading in an age defined by fake news and alternative facts. \nWalter Mosley is the author of more than fifty critically-acclaimed books\, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and includes literary fiction\, science fiction\, political monographs\, and a young adult novel. In 2013\, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame\, and he is the winner of numerous awards\, including an O. Henry Award\, the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award\, a Grammy\, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City. \nPraise for Walter Mosley \n“A writer whose work transcends category and qualifies as serious literature.”—Time\n“Mosley is one of the most humane\, insightful\, powerful prose stylists working today in any genre. He’s also one of the most radical…. Immerse yourself in the work of one of our national treasures.”\n—The Austin Chronicle \n“When reviewing a book by Walter Mosley\, it’s hard not to simply quote all the great lines. There are so many of them. You want to share the pleasures of Mosley’s jazz-inflected dialogue and the moody\, descriptive passages reminiscent of Raymond Chandler at his best.”\n—Washington Post\, on Down the River Unto the Sea \n“A daring\, beautifully wrought story that incorporates elements of allegory\, meditative reflection and the lilt of lyric tragedy. ”—Los Angeles Times\, on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey \n“With Mosley\, there’s always the surprise factor—a cutting image or a bracing line of dialogue.”\n—New York Times Book Review\, on And Sometimes I Wonder About You \n“Mosley’s invigorating\, staccato prose and understanding of racial\, moral\nand social subtleties are in full force.”—Seattle Times\, on Known to Evil \n“[Mosley has] revitalized two genres\, the hard-boiled novel and the American behaviorist novel.”\n—Roberto Bolaño \n“Mosley is the Gogol of the African-American working class—the chronicler par excellence of the tragic and the absurd.”—Vibe \n“[Mosley] has a special talent for touching upon these sticky questions of evil and responsibility without getting stuck in them.”—New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walter-mosley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 11\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nKatya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back. \n“Exiled” traces the story of violence through three generations of Cambodian-Americans by profiling a handful of families. It begins with the grandparents\, the elderly who will soon be too old to tell their stories of survival. The violence they endured is recognized as the most brutal\, a genocide that killed an estimated 20 percent of the Cambodian population. In Cambodia\, the criminals have never fully been brought to justice and the victims remain largely silent. The silence is the same in the United States\, where survivors have tried to leave their memories of random killing behind. But trauma like that cannot be escaped so easily\, and it followed them\, seeping back into their families through their children. The guidance\, support and care they were often too traumatized to give their children left those same children vulnerable to gang recruitment. The second generation came of age amidst the violence of the past and the present. \nThe U.S. deported the criminals who did not hold citizenship\, sending them back to a homeland their parents had given up everything to escape. They had neither the practical nor emotional skills to cope and their home country offered little help. In Cambodia they succumb to addiction and mental illness in large numbers. Then there is the third generation\, the children\, the ones still in America growing up without fathers and mothers\, subjected to the violence of loss and longing. This is a story about how regimes as brutal as the Khmer Rouge and as benign as the United States have kept alive a legacy of violence and loss. There are no easy answers here\, just the words of survivors and their descendants.\nKatya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo\, California\, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University\, San Luis Obispo. She was a features and news writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal from 2003 to 2011 and has reported from North and Central America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, Marie Claire\, and Newsweek. She is the author of Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life (Nebraska\, 2012).  \nPraise \n“A powerful and timely book on the generational impact of a particularly brutal chapter of the twentieth century—the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Exiled moves seamlessly from the killing fields of Cambodia to American immigrant communities\, adding texture and perspective to the current debate on refugees\, political asylum\, cultural assimilation\, and the deportation of Americanized immigrant criminals. Cengel humanizes this debate\, bringing a deeper understanding of these hot-button issues. I strongly recommend this book.”—Melvin Claxton\, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist \n“Exiled comes at the right moment in our national debate about immigration and deportation. Katya Cengel’s painfully detailed story about the maltreatment of the children of refugees we once welcomed should open our minds and hearts to the tyranny of ill-conceived laws and small-minded bureaucrats.”—Elizabeth Becker\, author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution \n“An excellent and compelling account of Cambodian refugees’ plight in the United States. . . . Once you read Exiled\, you can’t help but be empathetic and look at deportation through a new lens.”—Jennifer Lau\, author of Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge \n“A multigenerational saga of violence and resurrection that plays out among several Cambodian-American families. . . . Katya Cengel movingly documents how trauma plays out across multiple generations\, showing how the unresolved conflicts of the elders lead to catastrophic addiction and mental illness among the young. Cengel captures the full scale of this tragedy and writes with such compassion that anybody who picks up this book cannot fail to be moved.”—Helen Thorpe\, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge\, Friendship\, and Hope in an American Classroom \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 11\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katya-cengel-discusses-exiled-from-the-killing-fields-of-cambodia-to-california-and-back/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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