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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! 🙂
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LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:All poetry is local\, specific to one place and one person\, writing into the universal void\, but join with us to celebrate National Poetry Month Monday\, April 29\, 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Neighborhood poets Helen Dannenberg and Jeff Kaliss/Writer are the featured readers\, but anyone who lives\, works\, or goes to school in Noe Valley is invited to share poetry they’ve written or a favorite poem by someone else for 5 minutes at a time at the open mic. Sign up by oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com or at 6:45pm on the day. \nHere’s information on our featured poets:\nHelen Dannenberg has written with OWL (Older Writers Lab) this past year and participated in workshops with Sally Love Saunders. She has also received choreography fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as support from the California Arts Council. As a choreographer/performer\, she used spoken word in her pieces. She will have a poem in the upcoming Inpluse Magazine. \nA longtime entertainment journalist and author specializing in music\, Jeff Kaliss has more recently published poetry and other genres in journals and periodicals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and hosts the Poetry for the People Podcast at City College of San Francisco. He frequents open mics and concertizes poetry with jazz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grace Schulman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her book \nStrange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine\, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y\, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College\, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss. \nHow did Schulman maintain the independence\, solitude\, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? “In my experience\, the phrase ‘happy marriage’ is a term of opposites\, like ‘friendly fire’ or ‘famous poet.’ My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . ” Strange Paradise looks at this\, Schulman’s remarkable career\, her friendships with great writers\, her work as an historic impresario at the Y\, her religious and philosophical leanings\, and her grand love affair with New York―all in her magical prose. \nPraise for the writing of Grace Schulman: \n“One of the permanent poets of her generation.”—Harold Bloom \n“Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.”—Wallace Shawn \n“In a graceful\, engaging memoir\, Schulman . . . writes candidly about her marriage to virologist Jerome Schulman\, her literary aspirations\, and her grief following her husband’s recent death. . . . An affecting recollection of a life rich in literature and love.” ―Kirkus Reviews \nGrace Schulman received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry\, awarded by the Poetry Society of America. Her seventh collection of poems is Without a Claim\, (Mariner\, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2013). In prose\, her 2018 memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (Turtle Point)\, and her collection of essays is First Loves and Other Adventures (U of Michigan Press\, 2010). \nAmong her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry\, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award\, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily. About her poems\, Harold Bloom has written\, “Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” And Wallace Shawn has said\, “When I read her\, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to lose any of it.” \nEditor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking\, 2003)\, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College\, C.U.N.Y. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center\, 92nd Street Y\, 1974-84\, and former poetry editor of The Nation\, 1971-2006. She lives in New York City and East Hampton\, N. Y. \nThe Hudson Review was one of the first literary journals to publish her poems\, essays\, and translations\, which have subsequently been published here and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-schulman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:D. Watkins discusses his new book We Speak For Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America. \nPraise for We Speak for Ourselves \n“D. Watkins is uniquely equipped to communicate our political and social challenges of urban America\, not only through the lens of academia but through empirical knowledge as well. He is the voice of the future seamlessly blending the wisdom of the streets and intellectual prowess in a way I have never experienced before.” —Jada Pinkett Smith \n“Reading We Speak for Ourselves\, I can’t help but admire D Watkins. He is not another elite voice for the voiceless. He is\, this book is\, an amplifier of low income Black voices who have their own voices and have no problem using them. He dares us to listen.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  \n“In a time of blunt-bladed posturing and hyperbolized impact\, We Speak For Ourselves\, is a sharp gash into the psyche of America. Written as a relentless slice of his own life\, Watkins avoids pretense as he puts language to his jagged experiences\, not to encourage voyeurism\, but to instead push people to grapple and wrestle with the real lives so many talking heads attempt to muzzle\, then fictionalize. Watkins has come to remind us\, everyone deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves. Everyone.”  – Jason Reynolds\, New York Times bestselling author & National Book Award finalist\, Long Way Down \n“We Speak for Ourselves is full of insight into the America that serves as grist for the American dream. Its pages are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love\, not to mention enough laughs for a stand-up comedy routine.Over and over again\, I found myself saying ‘yes\, yes\, he’s right’ and ultimately finished feeling inspired to do better\, to be more. D Watkins proves\, once again\, why he isn’t just a writer of the people but a people’s literary champ for the here\, now\, and tomorrow.” –Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \nAbout We Speak for Ourselves \nFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn\, with searing conviction and full compassion\, D. Watkins\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw\, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening\, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen\, feel\, and create a course toward change that starts right where we are. \nWatkins introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods—“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race. \nUnapologetic and sharp-witted\, D. Watkins is here to tell the truth as he has seen it. We Speak for Ourselves offers an in-depth analysis of inner-city hurdles and honors the stories therein. We sit in underfunded schools\, walk the blocks burdened with police corruption\, stand within an audience of Make America Great Again hats\, journey from trap house to university lecture\, and rally in neglected streets. And we listen. \nWatkins shares the lessons he has learned while navigating through two very distinct worlds—the hood and the elite sanctums of prominent black thinkers and public figures—serving hope to fellow Americans who are too often ignored and calling on others to examine what it means to be a model activist in today’s world. We Speak for Ourselves is a must-read for all who are committed to social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-watkins/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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