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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Lucille Lang Day
DESCRIPTION:Lucille Lang Day reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. \nLucille Lang Day was born in Oakland\, where she still lives. Day has several books of poetry\, including The Curvature of Blue\, Infinities\, and Becoming an Ancestor. She has also written children’s books and a memoir\, and has edited anthologies\, most lately Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. \nA free chapbook of Day’s poems is available from all the BPL branches. Please pick one up!
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LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BAY AREA POETS COALITION
DESCRIPTION:October 5\, November 2\, December 7\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-7/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1969\, Small Press Distribution (SPD) of Berkeley celebrates 50 years as the nation’s only literary nonprofit book distributor. SPD is honored to distribute and advocate for over 400 independent publishers\, bridging connections between underserved readers and a broad coalition of essential but underrepresented authors. In conjunction with our community partners at the Berkeley Art Center\, it is our great pleasure to celebrate our 50th anniversary by honoring the vibrant Bay Area literary community\, as well as the advocates\, readers\, and writers who have sustained and inspired SPD for decades. \n  \nSPD will honor three local literary luminaries who we believe have made significant\, invaluable contributions to Bay Area literary culture over the last decade. Samantha Giles\, winner of the 2019 California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry\, served as the executive director of Small Press Traffic\, stewarding innovation in San Francisco literature through events\, workshops\, and community advocacy. Owen Hill is a novelist\, editor\, and the co-curator of events at radical\, independent store Moe’s Books in Berkeley\, which celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year. J.K. Fowler is a writer and the founder and executive director of Nomadic Press\, a community-focused literary and arts non-profit with operations in Oakland\, CA\, Des Moines\, IA\, and Brooklyn\, NY. We are proud to have worked in such close proximity to these wonderful writers and organizers over the years.  \n  \nOn Saturday\, October 5th\, we invite you to join us for SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration! The event will be held at the Berkeley Art Center and will feature readings from our honored guests\, followed by a community reception and celebration. Doors open at 3pm.  The BAC is located at 1275 Walnut Street in North Berkeley; the event is free and open to the public. For more information\, visit: bit.ly/SPDPresents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents-small-press-distributions-50th-anniversary-reading-celebration/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: this is my body
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce the release of this is my body\, an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship with their bodies in the world they exist in. Each piece is accompanied by a powerful stage performance bringing the words from the page to life. \nJoin us at Nomadic Press for the release on Saturday\, October 5\, from 7–9 PM and help us celebrate these fierce women and their stories. \nBooks will be sold at the event. Wine and gnosh will be provided. Free and open to anyone to attend. Donations will be called for during the event\, but of course\, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-this-is-my-body/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John James and Julia Guez
DESCRIPTION:John James and Julia Guez read from their new poetry collections\, The Milk Hours and In an Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame. \nAbout The Milk Hours \nWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. \n“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection\, whose recursive temporality is filled with living\, grieving things\, punctuated by an unseen world of roots\, bodies\, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery\, too\, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami\, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi\, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations\, which never stray far from an engagement with science\, geography\, art\, and aesthetics\, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. \nIndeed\, while John James begins with the biographical–the haunting loss of a father in childhood\, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood–the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval\, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning\, and to whom–or what–do we turn\, when such boundaries so radically collapse? \nAbout John James \nJohn James is the author of Chthonic\, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry Northwest\, Best American Poetry 2017\, and elsewhere. Also a digital collagist\, his visual art is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal\, Quarterly West\, and LIT. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nAbout In an Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame \nA close look at the rigors of our current cultural moment\, In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame offers readers a way to navigate vital questions: what does it mean to be “secure”? How do we make art amid complexity? In Guez’s debut\, readers will witness realities of income inequality\, climate change\, and the opioid epidemic alongside a series of reliable antidotes: art\, music\, humor\, and love. “Have we made it across the vast plain of night?” asks one poem. No\, not quite. There is more night\, but there is singing\, too. Rich in its sophisticated engagement of a “still life” series\, dilemmas large and small\, political and personal\, are treated with generosity\, curiosity\, and a precise investigation of the heart. \nAbout Julia Guez \nJulia Guez’s poetry\, essays\, interviews and translations have appeared in Poetry\, the Guardian\, PEN Poetry Series\, the Kenyon Review\, BOMB and the Brooklyn Rail. She has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Fellowship and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. For the last decade\, she has worked with Teach For America; she’s currently a managing director of programming there. She also teaches creative writing at Rutgers and writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly. Guez lives in Brooklyn.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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