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SUMMARY:Spoken Poetry with Afro-Mexican poet Jeremy Vasquez & Afro-Salvadoreña writer Olivia Peña
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX\nSaturday February 8\, 2pm\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review\, Primary Treasure Magazine\, and Spectrum Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy M. Vasquez is an entrepreneur\, published author\, San Francisco Educator\, healer\, artist and unapologetically Black. Jeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, healer and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist\, he has performed at many community events as well as educational and correctional facilities. Serving as a keynote speaker at conferences\, colleges\, universities\, and public schools nationwide\, Jeremy continues to use his pain as a platform for change. With his poetry\, he has been called to free people through stories \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate and bring awareness to Latinos of African Descent through art\, performances\, workshops\, classes and historical archives in El Tecolote. Paseo Artistico honors The Mission District’s Ancestors of African Descent and the movements for racial justice both locally and throughout the Americas.   \nmore info at www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-poetry-with-afro-mexican-poet-jeremy-vasquez-afro-salvadorena-writer-olivia-pena/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch Reading for "Dear—"
DESCRIPTION:A community reading of letters commemorating “Day of Remembrance” and launching “Dear—” a new book project and online letter archive compiled by Brynn Saito with portraits by Dave Lehl. Visit https://www.youaremissing.com/ for details. \nLetter readings by Nikiko Masumoto\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Marion Masada\, Janelle Saito\, Gregg Saito\, Samina Najmi\, and others! \n“Dear—” was created with the support of an Artists Initiative grant from Densho\, a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today; the Santa Fe Arts Institute’s (SFAI) “Truth and Reconciliation” residency; and the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University\, Fresno. \nDeep gratitude to Gregg Saito\, Janelle Saito\, Leigh Saito\, Marion Masada\, Saburo Masada\, Nikiko Masumoto\, Valarie Kaur\, Brandon Shimoda\, Devoya Mayo\, Akiko Miyake-Stoner\, Naser Nekumanesh\, Tess Taylor\, Lee Herrick\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Samina Najmi\, and Amy Uyematsu for engaging in correspondence with me. \nThank you\, Dave Lehl\, for the photographic portraits of my family and community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-reading-for-dear/
LOCATION:United Japanese Christian Church\, 136 N Villa Ave.\, Clovis\, CA\, 93612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Two much loved authors. Two fabulous critically-acclaimed new books. One exceptional afternoon. The Red Tour is coming to Kepler’s! \nMeet Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K. Arnold as they introduce their newest books Dark and Deepest Red\, a modern story of passion and betrayal paired with the forbidding magic of a fairy tale. And Red Hood\, a dark\, engrossing\, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power—and one girl’s journey to regain it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDark and Deepest Red: Summer\, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets\, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread\, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family\, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later\, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet\, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil\, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows\, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes. \nRed Hood: Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old\, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming\, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees\, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it\, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past\, and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods—frightened\, but not alone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of The Weight of Feathers\, a finalist for the 2016 William C. Morris Debut Award; 2017 Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and was the winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award; Wild Beauty\, and Blanca & Roja . \nElana K. Arnold is the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning young adult novels and children’s books\, including the Printz Honor winner Damsel and the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of. Elana teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-marie-mclemore-and-elana-k-arnold/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:P: Carl Becoming a Man
DESCRIPTION:Renowned artist and activist P. Carl uncovers the intricacies of transitioning and finding himself anew in his memoir\, Becoming A Man. Carl is an award-winning producer and dramaturg\, and co-founder of Howlround\, a free and open platform for theater-makers worldwide. When working with Claudia Rankine on her new play “The White Card\,” Carl was transitioning\, and this book came from that experience. “On March 16 of 2017 I become a man\, a white man\,” writes Carl\, just months after Trump’s election\, two months shy of Carl’s fifty-first birthday\, and just a few more months away from the eruption of the #MeToo movement. \nAgainst the backdrop of our pivotal political moment\, Carl’s personal journey interweaves with a broader mission: Carl delivers a cutting\, clear-eyed dissection of gender and identity in America. Carl has a unique vantage point—having moved through the world for decades as a woman before walking those same streets as a man. And he uses his first-hand experience to shine a light on the subtle double standards and injustices that run through the daily lives of millions in America. Even as Carl is finally able to celebrate his arrival in the world as the man he has always known himself to be\, he must reimagine masculinity and challenge it. “To construct that man\,” he writes\, “knowing what I know as a woman\, is my work now.” \nCarl delivers a singular\, heart-baring story—about what it’s like to transition at age fifty\, to become oneself after waiting a lifetime\, and how this transformation ripples through all the habits and relationships (including his roles as spouse and sibling) he has built over half a century. \nP. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Emerson College in Boston and was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation\, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018\, the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington\, and the Anschutz Fellowship at Princeton for spring of 2020. He made theater for twenty years and now writes and teaches. He resides in Boston and lives with his wife of twenty-one years\, the writer Lynette D’Amico\, and their dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/p-carl-becoming-a-man/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass: Summer Snow
DESCRIPTION:Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass reads from Summer Snow\, his first collection of new poems in a decade. \nAbout Summer Snow\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. \nAbout Robert Hass\nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco\, 2010)\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco\, 2008)\, Sun Under Wood (Ecco\, 1996)\, Human Wishes (1989)\, Praise (1979)\, and Field Guide (1973)\, 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 (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) 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-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nFEB\n8\n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, Poetry\, Reading\nQueerbound Queer Open Mic\n\nSaturday\, February 8\, 2020\n6:00 PM 9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQueerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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