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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:election Night with ZYZZYVA
DESCRIPTION:Election Night with Zyzzyva\nHosted by Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor \nwith Nestor Gomez\, Matthew Zapruder\, Caille Millner\, Dean Rader\, Ismail Muhammad\, Vanessa Hua\, and D.A. Powell \nCome join a roster of ZYZZYVA contributors and friends of the journal as we follow the returns on the various congressional elections around the country and in our state. Featuring short readings spread out through the night. \nIssue No 13 – Of & About the Environment (the fall 2018 installement of Zyzzyva) will be on hand for sale that evening. \nThe issue includes work by: \nHéctor Tobar on living in Los Angeles\, before and after air quality regulations; Lauret Edith Savoy traces “the geology of us”; Juli Berwald on “the blob\,” the mysterious oceanic phenomenon that left destruction in its wake; Obi Kaufmann on the importance of reframing the language of conservation. \nArundhati Roy discusses with John Freeman her work as an activist and a writer\, and examines the great danger before us all. \nPoems by Jane Hirshfield\, John Sibley Williams\, Rebecca Foust\, Daniel Neff\, Maggie Millner\, Sophie Klahr\, and Emily Pinkerton. \nFiction by Ben Lasman (ceding the field of work to the robots)\, Manuel Muñoz (the vulnerability of those who work our fields)\, and Louis B. Jones (the tea compost isn’t the only rancidness found living off the grid). \nAnd More Fiction and Poetry: \nStories by Emma Copley Eisenberg\, Elena Graceffa\, and\, marking his First-Time-in-Print\, David Paul; poetry by Ruth Madievsky\, Jennie Malboeuf\, and Paul Wilner. \nArt: Featuring Obi Kaufmann’s watercolors of California’s fauna and flora. \n \nZYZZYVA’s first issue was published in 1985\, under founding editor Howard Junker. In 2011\, Laura Cogan became ZYZZYVA’s first new editor in more than 25 years. She and Managing Editor Oscar Villalon make up ZYZZYVA’s editorial team. Every issue is a vibrant mix of established talents and new voices\, providing an elegantly curated overview of contemporary arts and letters with a distinctly San Francisco perspective. \nTheir publishing history is as illustrious as it is groundbreaking. This is the journal that first published Jim Gavin and Jill Soloway\, F.X. Toole and Po Bronson—and introduced American readers to Haruki Murakami (in issue No. 13). Their list of contributors includes\, among many others\, Peter Orner\, Kay Ryan\, David Guterson\, Tom Bissell\, Tatjana Soli\, Ron Carlson\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Amy Hempel\, D.A. Powell\, Matthew Dickman\, Herbert Gold\, Daniel Sada\, Adam Johnson\, Karl Taro Greenfeld\, Sandow Birk\, Richard Misrach\, Aimee Bender\, Diego Enrique Osorno\, Sherman Alexie\, Daniel Handler\, Adrienne Rich\, Robert Hass\, Czeslaw Milosz\, Wanda Coleman\, Raymond Carver\, Tom Barbash\, William T. Vollmann\, Dagoberto Gilb\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, Ed Ruscha\, Richard Diebenkorn\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, Robert Creeley\, and M.F.K. Fisher. \nVisit: www.zyzzyva.org \nto learn more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/election-night-with-zyzzyva/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Caroline J Thibeaux
DESCRIPTION:Caroline J Thibeaux discusses her new book The Dragonglass Bowl: The Dream Walker’s Path. \n\nAbout The Dragonglass Bowl \n\nIs a dream a thing of Shadow or Light? \n\nIf you knew the truth would you dare to dream again? \n\nFor a thousand years the Light of Ashar has protected the land of Ellaria because the people of Ellaria have protected the secret\, forgotten through time\, of Dragonglass. \n\nAs an apprentice scribe\, all Bhryen ever wanted was to prove that his blood was true and that he served his land and his people with honor\, hoping to one day become a Defender of the Light. When he is drawn into the mystery of a strange artifact\, the safe world he knows starts to fall apart. His sleep becomes threatened by dreams\, dreams that are surely touched by a dark and forbidden magic. \n\nWhile the threat of war draws closer\, Bhryen is pulled into the center of this vortex of chaos\, all the while struggling to keep a dangerous knowledge he shares with only a fey\, young boy. The lives of those he loves depends on safeguarding the secret. \n\nA darkness stirs and\, despite the advice of well-meaning friends\, only Bhryen alone has the ability to find and stop it though it might risk discovery of what he has become. The price of becoming a hero is the risk of a fall from grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-j-thibeaux/
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:BOOKSMITH: Jesse Jarnow / Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jesse Jarnow (Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America) for his new book Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America. Please join us! \n  \nFollowing a series of top 10 hits that became instant American standards\, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger’s unlikely band of folk heroes\, from basement hootenannies to the top of the charts\, before a coordinated harassment campaign at the hands of Congress’s House Un-American Activities Committee and the emergent right-wing media saw them unable to find work and dropped by their label while their songs still hovered on Billboard’s lists. \nTurning the black-and-white 1950s into vivid color\, Wasn’t That a Time uses the Weavers to illuminate a dark and complex period of American history. Emerging while a highly divided populace was bombarded and further divided by fake news — and progressive organizations and individuals found themselves repressed under the pretenses of national security — the Weavers would rise\, fall\, and rise again. With origins in the radical folk collective the Almanac Singers and the ambitious People’s Songs\, both pioneering the use of music as a transformative political organizing tool\, the singing activists in the Weavers set out to change the world with songs as their weapons. \nUsing previously unseen journals and letters\, unreleased recordings\, once-secret government documents\, and other archival research\, veteran music journalist and WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow uncovers the immense hopes\, incredible pressures\, and daily struggles of the four distinct and often unharmonious personalities at the heart of the Weavers. With a class and race-conscious global vision of music that now make them seem like time travelers from the 21st century\, the Weavers would transform material from American blues singer Lead Belly (“Goodnight Irene”)\, the Bahamas (“Wreck of the John B”)\, and South Africa (“Wimoweh”) into songs that remain ubiquitous from rock clubs to Broadway shows. \nFeaturing quotes about the Weavers’ influence from David Crosby\, the Beach Boys’ Al Jardine\, and the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn\, Wasn’t That a Time explores how the group’s innocent-sounding harmonies might be heard as a threat worthy of decades of investigation by the FBI — and how the band’s late ’50s reformation engendered a new generation of musicians to take up the Weavers’ non-violent weaponry: eclectic songs\, joyous harmonies\, and the power of music. \n  \n\n  \nJesse Jarnow is the author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock and Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America. His writing on music\, technology\, and culture has appeared in the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Pitchfork\, Relix\, Wired.com\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York and hosts the Frow Showon the independent Jersey City radio station\, WFMU. \n\n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Wasn’t That a Time\, and/or any of Jesse’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-jesse-jarnow-wasnt-that-a-time-the-weavers-the-blacklist-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-america/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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