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SUMMARY:Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)
DESCRIPTION:Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O’Neal and Janae Johnson. \nEvery Wednesday | March 20th – May 22\n5:00pm – 7:00pm\nat Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin St\, Oakland\, CA 94607 (near 19th Street BART) \nThis LGBTQIA+ centered workshop will explore personal and historical narratives that (re)frame perceptions of language\, sexuality & gender. Participants will be encouraged to write\, learn performance techniques\, and create the dopest space imaginable. \nSign-Up: https://goo.gl/forms/OWMXtikx5RvHzBnB3 \n**First time and/or experienced writers are encouraged to attend. This is intended to be a space where your authentic self is not only welcomed- it’s celebrated.** \nNote: This is a FREE youth-centered (13-19 years old) Workshop\, and anyone can join! 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queeriosity-writing-performance-workshop-youth-centered/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190424T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190424T210000
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SUMMARY:Ed Bok Lee
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nMitochondrial Night: Poems \nfrom Coffee House Press \nPoems that trace paths through time\, genealogy\, and geography\, locating the generational legacy of history. \nTaking mitochondrial DNA as his guide\, Ed Bok Lee explores familial and national legacies\, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems\, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn\, and in her cry generations of women’s voices echo. Stories\, both benign and traumatic\, travel as lore and DNA. Using lush\, exact imagery\, whether about the corner bar or a hilltop in Korea\, Lee is a careful observer\, tracking and documenting the way that seemingly small moments can lead to larger insights. \nEd Bok Lee is the author of Whorled (Coffee House Press) and a recipient of a 2012 American Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Lee is the son of North and South Korean emigrants—his mother originally a refugee from what is now North Korea; his father was raised during the Japanese colonial period and Korean War in what is now South Korea. Lee grew up in South Korea\, North Dakota\, and Minnesota\, and was educated there and on both U.S. coasts\, Russia\, South Korea\, and Kazakhstan. He teaches at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. Other honors include the Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice Award) and a PEN Open Book Award. \nPraise for Ed Bok Lee \n“There is a nomadic beauty to Ed Bok Lee’s Whorled\, which pulses with raw political anger and vital lyricism.” —The Guardian \n“These poems work in powerful concert to give body to an entire world of beauty\, terror\, loss\, grief\, and joy. The strength and magnetism of Lee’s voice come from his mind’s profound awareness of a person’s embeddedness in a context simultaneously personal and archetypal; social\, historical\, political\, and cosmic.” —Li-Young Lee \n“Like mitochondrion\, from whence this exhilarating book’s title comes\, the poet’s eye and spirit are ubiquitous\, examining and probing the tangled bloodlines of our social and political networks\, and the parasitic heft we are exerting on the world’s chest. Formally protean and polyphonic\, the poems change shapes and registers in a thrilling and often poignant chase after their truth. Ed Bok Lee’s Mitochondrial Night is a thrilling book by a gifted poet at the height of his powers.” —Khaled Mattawa \n“In Mitochondrial Night\, Ed Bok Lee takes us on an intimate journey through space and time\, introduces us to people and places we have and have not met\, to center us in our humblest humanity. Lee is a shaman\, he rides with his pen into the vast darkness of our pasts\, centers us in our present\, and then makes the fearless leap into the imagined\, the predestined future. He looks to raise from the dead the spirits of wars lost\, wars long forgotten\, the wars being waged now\, and he does so with a light\, lonely hand. This collection is explosive; it shatters the boundaries of self in the service of art.” —Kao Kalia Yang \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-bok-lee/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190424T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190424T210000
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SUMMARY:A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and The Open Chamber
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 24 7 – 9 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\n\n\nCedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews\, Journals\, and Ephemera\, on Joanne Kyger (forthcoming from Wave Books\, 2017)\, and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry\, including Royals (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Language Arts (Wave Books\, 2014)\, Stranger in Town (City Lights\, 2010)\, Expensive Magic (House Press\, 2008)\, and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and University Press Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-necessary-darkness-barbara-guest-and-the-open-chamber/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PIERRE JARAWAN at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Internationally-acclaimed writer Pierre Jarawan shares his astounding debut novel\, The Storyteller. \nSamir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home\, Germany\, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. In this moving and engaging novel about family secrets\, love\, and friendship\, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. He pulls away the curtain of grim facts and figures portrayed in the media and shows an intimate truth of what it means to come from a country torn apart by civil war. With this beautiful and suspenseful story\, full of images\, Jarawan proves to be a masterful storyteller himself. \nPierre Jarawan is the son of a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to Germany with his family at the age of three. Inspired by his father’s love of telling imaginative bedtime stories\, he started writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as a slam poet\, received the City of Munich literary scholarship (the Bayerische Kunstförderpreis) for The Storyteller\, and was chosen as Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper AZ. His debut novel The Storyteller was a Spiegel bestseller in Germany\, proclaimed Book of the Month by the leading Dutch television talk show DWDD\, and received unanimous rave reviews from the European press. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pierre-jarawan-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Myla Goldberg / Feast Your Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Myla Godberg reading from her new novel Feast Your Eyes. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us for Myla’s only Bay Area appearance! \n  \nFeast Your Eyes\, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art\, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother\, America’s Bravest Mother\, America’s Worst Photographer\, or America’s Greatest Photographer\, depending on who was talking.” After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school’s photo club\, Lillian rejects her parents’ expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha\, Lillian is arrested\, thrust into the national spotlight\, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter’s sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and especially Lillian’s career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. \n  \nNarrated by Samantha\, Feast Your Eyes reads as a collection of Samantha’s memories\, interviews with Lillian’s friends and lovers\, and excerpts from Lillian’s journals and letters — a collage of stories and impressions\, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated\, above all\, to a vision of beauty\, truth\, and authenticity. \n  \n\n  \n“A riveting portrait of an artist who happens to be a woman.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n  \n“Reading Myla Goldberg’s Feast Your Eyes reminded me of other unlikely adventure stories\, like Hillary’s summit of the Himalayas\, or Shackleton’s return from Antarctica. Only here the human constraints are still more challenging: making art as a single mother in a twentieth century dominated\, and distorted\, by men. This is an unflinching\, deeply moving portrait of the artist\, and a bravura performance in and of itself. I loved this book.” – Joshua Ferris\, author of Then We Came to the End and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour \n  \n\n  \nMyla Goldberg is the bestselling author of Feast Your Eyes\, The False Friend\, Wickett’s Remedy\, and Bee Season\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, winner of the Borders New Voices Prize\, and a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award\, the NYPL Young Lions award\, and the Barnes & Noble Discover award. It was adapted to film and widely translated. In addition to her novels\, she has written an essay collection\, a children’s book\, and short stories that have appeared in Harper’s. She teaches in the fiction programs at Sarah Lawrence and NYU and has been known to sing and play accordion and banjo in the Brooklyn art-punk band The Walking Hellos. She was also the subject of a song by The Decemberists\, “Song for Myla Goldberg.” She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Jason Little and their two daughters. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Feast Your Eyes\, and/or any of Myla’s books\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/myla-goldberg-feast-your-eyes/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 24\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Returns to read from her latest Maisie Dobbs novel The American Agent. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jane Gregory
DESCRIPTION:Jane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of Yeah No and My Enemies\, both from The Song Cave\, as well as several chapbooks. Her work has been most recently published or reviewed in The Believer\, Omniverse\, and The New York Times. She is co-editor and co-founder (with Lyn Hejinian and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press\, and she works for Small Press Distribution. \nGRADUATE STUDENT READING SERIES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-gregory/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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