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SUMMARY:Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras’ novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf Our Voices\, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and the legendary Eunetta Boone\, the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work. \nThe evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series)\, and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres\, so when you come\, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women’s stories paint vivid pictures of what it’s like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand. \nAbout Ingrid Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and works with immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing writers into public schools. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nFruit of the Drunken Tree Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \nAbout Lisa Lisa D. Gray is a writer\, curator\, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing\, and if an animal lived with her\, it’d be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel. \nWe encourage you to purchase the book using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
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LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Readings from ZYZZYVA's Bay Area Issue
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS celebrates the latest issue of their dear friends at ZYZZYVA on Friday\, January 24! \nZYZZYVA dedicates its most recent issue to the region it has called home since 1985. Join the editors of ZYZZYVA and some of its contributors from the Bay Area Issue for a night of short readings and celebration. Tonight’s feature readers include Lydia Conklin\, Sara Mumolo\, Andrew Roe\, sam sax\, Nina Schuyler\, and Matthew Zapruder. \nABOUT THE READERS \nLYDIA CONKLIN is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House\, The Southern Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, and other publications. \nSARA MUMOLO is the author of the poetry collection Day Counter (Omnidawn)\, and is the associate director for the MFA Creative Writing Program at St. Mary’s College of California. \nANDREW ROE is the author of the novel The Miracle Girl (Algonquin Books)\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. \nsam sax is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and the author of Bury It (Wesleyan University Press)\, winner of the James Laughlin Award. \nNINA SCHUYLER is the author of the novels The Translator (Pegasus Books) and The Painting (Algonquin Books)\, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. \nMATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of several poetry collections\, most recently Father’s Day (Copper Canyon Press)\, as well as the nonfiction book Why Poetry (Ecco)\, and is an associate professor at St. Mary’s College of California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-from-zyzzyvas-bay-area-issue/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass - Summer Snow
DESCRIPTION:A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author\, Robert Hass \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date.\nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials\, Sun Under Wood\, Human Wishes\, Praise\, and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-summer-snow/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Diverse Voices from Civil Liberties United
DESCRIPTION:Prose\, poetry and artwork from the Civil Liberties United anthology\, featuring Lorraine Bonner\, Sue Granzella\, Anahita Miller\, Sridevi Ramanathan & Shizue Seigel\, The anthology includes prose\, poetry\, and art by 100 writers/artists of color and allies. As civil liberties continue to be eroded nationwide\, it’s more important that ever to stand together and be counted in support of multicultural understanding.
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LOCATION:Oakland Center for Spiritual Living\, 5000 Clarewood Dr.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Speak\, easy Vol. 12
DESCRIPTION:An artist showcase and open mic night honoring the voices of black women.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speak-easy-vol-12/
LOCATION:Joyce Gordon Gallery\, 406 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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