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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:Afternoon Craft Conversation and Panel with Irish Poets
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSaint Mary’s College Museum of Art\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOne of the most politically charged acts a people can do is read and write for themselves. Visiting Irish writers\, including Leanne O’Sullivan\, will share one poem and their ruminations on a panel that explores the displays of power and violence in myth and beyond it.  In this conversation\, O’Sullivan will explicitly respond to selections from Hannah Arendt’s essay “On Violence” in her work and in her reading of the contemporary moment.  Conversation facilitated by Rosemary Graham. \n  \nLeanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983\, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English in 2006 from University College\, Cork\, where she now teaches. The winner of several of Ireland’s poetry competitions in her early 20s (including the Seacat\, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam)\, she has published four collections\, all from Bloodaxe\, Waiting for My Clothes (2004)\, Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009)\, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010\, The Mining Road (2013) and A Quarter of an Hour (2018). She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009 and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011\, and received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies\, including Selina Guinness’s The New Irish Poets(Bloodaxe Books\, 2004) and Billy Collins’s Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry(Random House\, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France\, India\, China and America\, amongst other locations. \n  \nSponsored by: Collegiate Seminar and the Informal Seminar Seminar Curriculum\, January Term\, the College Committee on Inclusive Excellence\, Ó Bhéal (Cork\, Ireland)\, the Cork Arts Council\, the Kalmanovitz School of Education\, The English Department\, the MFA in Creative Writing\, and the Los Gatos Irish Writers Festival
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LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William E. Glassley presents "A Wilder Time"
DESCRIPTION:Bill Glassley returns to Bird & Beckett to present his newly published book\, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (Bellevue Literary Press\, 2018). \nIn A Wilder Time\, Glassley\, a surfer turned geologist at the University of California at Davis and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University\, Denmark\, retraces his several expeditions to Greenland alongside Danish colleagues Kai Sorensen and John Korstgard in this thoughtful volume about how his scientific work shifted his perspective on notions of wilderness. The men spent weeks camped out and “isolated from the rest of humanity” to sample\, photograph\, and measure ancient bedrock. Though their scientific interests were purely academic\, Glassley says\, their experiences were “almost mystical.” Glassley divides his narrative into three primary sections\, each featuring observations that helped to change his perception of Greenland’s vast terrain. The first part\, “Fractionation\,” deals with ways in which Glassley’s expectations had been altered. In the second\, “Consolidation\,” he comes to terms with the reality that “ignorance is an integral part of being aware.” The third\, “Emergence\,” contains “small epiphanies about our place in existence.” Glassley documents his observations\, spending considerable time and effort among “rolling outcrops\, tundra plains and pockets\, massive rock walls and glaciated peaks.” Evincing humility in the midst of the great “unshaped wild\,” Glassley exudes a palpable and infectious sense of wonder that is bound to draw contemplative readers. \nBill’s first presentation of material from this book to the public took place in a reading at Bird & Beckett in the summer of 2016\, in the company of artist and poet Elsa Marley. Bill and Elsa began collaborating on a parallel project in 1999\, looking at Greenland for evidence of the effects of climate change demonstrated in Bill’s scientific data and Elsa’s paintings and poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-e-glassley-presents-a-wilder-time/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Situ: Guy Debord\, Raoul Vaneigem\, and the Situationist Moment
DESCRIPTION:with Donald Nicholson Smith with Anselm Jappe \non the occasion of the release by PM Press of \nGuy Debord – by Anselm Jappe \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith • Foreword by T.J. Clark \n& \nLetters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come – by Raoul Vaneigem \nTranslated by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nabout Guy Debord: \nThis is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord\, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle \, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord’s theoretical work into “French theory.” Jappe’s focuses\, to the contrary\, on Debord’s debt to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition\, to Karl Korsch and Georg Lukács\, and more generally to left-Marxist currents of council communism. His close reading of Debord’s magnum opus supplies a superb gloss that has never been rivaled despite the great flood of writing on the Situationists in recent decades. \nAt the same time\, Debord is placed squarely in context among the Letterist and Situationist anti-artists who\, in the aftermath of World War II\, sought to criticize and transcend the legacy of Dada and Surrealism. Jappe’s book offers a lively account of the Situationists’ theory and practice as this “last avant-garde” made its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary agitprop. \nGuy Debord has been translated into many languages. This PM reprint edition benefits from a new author’s preface and a bibliographical update. \nPraise: \n“A clear-headed account . . . far and away the best we have so far.”\n—Times Literary Supplement \n“The only book on Debord in either French or English that can be unreservedly recommended . . . particularly useful for its extensive treatment of the Marxian connection that is usually ignored in culture-oriented accounts of the Situationists.”\n—Ken Knabb\, editor of Situationist International Anthology \n“Jappe successfully gets to grips with the content of Debord’s and the SI’s activity in a way that is accessible and doesn’t require a vast amount of prior knowledge or an extensive vocabulary of obscure jargon in order to understand it. Debord has got a somewhat undeserved reputation for having an impenetrable and complex writing style—a myth which Jappe goes a long way towards refuting by examining the major concepts in Society of the Spectacle and other works\, and putting them in the context of a wider historical basis and in terms of the SI as a whole.”\n—Do or Die \n“Political writing is always instrumental as well as utopian. Debord’s is no exception. Only sometimes writing has to reconcile itself to the idea that its time of instrumentality—its time as a weapon—lies a little in the future. Jappe’s book is true to its subject\, above all\, because it reads Debord\, and helps us read him\, with that future in mind.”\n—T.J. Clark\, from the Foreword \nabout Letters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come: \nReaders of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life\, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France\, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism. \nSome thirty-five years after the May “events\,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters\, my sons\, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren\,” wonders Vaneigem\, “without including all the others who\, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power\, are in danger\, even tomorrow\, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?” \nLetters to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world\, but at the same time\, in true dialectical fashion\, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them\,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations\, a new drive to reinstate true human values\, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.” \nPraise: \n“In this fine book\, the Situationist author\, whose writings fueled the fires of May 1968\, sets out to pass down the foundational ideals of his struggle against the seemingly all-powerful fetishism of the commodity and in favor of the force of human desire and the sovereignty of life.”\n—Jean Birnbaum\, Le Monde \n“A startling and invigorating restatement for the present ghastly era of humanity’s choice: socialism or barbarism.”\n—Dave Barbu\, Le Nouveau Père Duchesne \nAnselm Jappe was born in Bonn in 1962. He is an independent scholar currently teaching art history and political and economic theory at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari in Sardinia. He is the author of several works of critical theory. A collection of his essays translated by Alastair Hemmens is The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics (London: Zero\, 2017). \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-situ-guy-debord-raoul-vaneigem-and-the-situationist-moment/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Dollinger: Black Power\, Jewish Politics
DESCRIPTION:The Osher Marin JCC is pleased to host an evening in celebration of Marc Dollinger’s new book Black Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s. He will be joined in discussion by Ilana Kaufman\, the Director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. \nAn audience Q&A and book signing will follow the program. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how\, in a period best known for the rise of black antisemitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance\, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda-including the emancipation of Soviet Jews\, the rise of Jewish day schools\, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy\, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. \nUndermining widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance\, Dollinger describes a new political consensus\, based on identity politics\, which drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism. \n“Dollinger’s illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. Dollinger shows that the American Jewish turn toward issues of Jewish continuity owes a great debt to the Black Power movement and that Jewish leaders understood that early on. This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath.”\n-Shaul Magid\, Indiana University\, Bloomington and Shalom Hartman Institute of North America \nFree\, RSVP by emailing rsvp_cjp@marinjcc.org. \nPresented by Osher Marin JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-dollinger-black-power-jewish-politics/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series Welcomes Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, educator\, and movement worker. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His poetry has been published in Harper’s and the New York Times magazines.  His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize\, won a California Book Award\, and won an American Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-welcomes-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kiese Laymon / Heavy: An American Memoir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kiese Laymon for his new book Heavy: An American Memoir. More details coming soon\, but save the date and join us! \n  \nIn this powerful and provocative memoir\, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets\, lies\, and deception does to a black body\, a black family\, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. \n  \nKiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays\, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse\, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame\, joy\, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. \n  \nIn Heavy\, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson\, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence\, to his suspension from college\, to his trek to New York as a young college professor\, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother\, grandmother\, anorexia\, obesity\, sex\, writing\, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding\, Laymon asks himself\, his mother\, his nation\, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love\, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. \n  \nA personal narrative that illuminates national failures\, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable\, an insightful\, often comical exploration of weight\, identity\, art\, friendship\, and family that begins with a confusing childhood–and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. \n  \n\n  \n“A challenging memoir about black-white relations\, income inequality\, mother-son dynamics\, Mississippi byways\, lack of personal self-control\, education from kindergarten through graduate school\, and so much more. Laymon skillfully couches his provocative subject matter in language that is pyrotechnic and unmistakably his own … Far more than just the physical aspect\, the weight he carries also derives from the burdens placed on him by a racist society\, by his mother and his loving grandmother\, and even by himself. At times\, the author examines his complicated romantic and sexual relationships\, and he also delves insightfully into politics\, literature\, feminism\, and injustice\, among other topics. A dynamic memoir that is unsettling in all the best ways.” – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n  \n“How do you carry the weight of being a black man in America? In electrifying\, deliberate prose\, Kiese Laymon tries to answer that question from the first page of Heavy: An American Memoir to the last. He writes about what it means to live in a heavy body\, in all senses of that word. He writes of family\, love\, place\, trauma\, race\, desire\, grief\, rage\, addiction\, and human weakness\, and he does so relentlessly\, without apology. To call the way Laymon lays himself bare an act of courageous grace is beside the point but what and how he writes in this exceptional book are\, indeed\, acts of courageous grace.” – Roxane Gay \n  \n“Kiese’s heart and humor shine through\, and we are blessed to have such raw humanity rendered in prose that begs for repeat readings. We do not deserve Heavy. We do not deserve Kiese. That he is generous enough to share is a testament to his commitment to helping us all heal.”  – Mychal Denzel Smith\, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching \n  \n“The abundance of Heavy is going to be a gift for many hurting hearts\, in our time and beyond.” – Eve Ewing\, author of Electric Arches \n  \n\n  \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and the forthcoming memoir\, Heavy. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kiese-laymon-heavy-an-american-memoir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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