BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTSTAMP:20260612T014950 CREATED:20200126T011950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T011950Z UID:55093-1582651800-1582657200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Aria Aber DESCRIPTION:Aria Aber was raised in Germany\, where she was born to Afghan refugees. Her debut book\, Hard Damage\, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in 2019. Aber’s poems are forthcoming or have appeared in the New Yorker\, New Republic\, Kenyon Review\, Yale Review\, Poem-A-Day\, Narrative\, Muzzle Magazine\, Wasafiri\, and others. She holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman and Dickinson House and was the 2018–19 Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Aber is the spring 2020 Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-aria-aber/ LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/photo-of-Aria-Aber.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T203000 DTSTAMP:20260612T014950 CREATED:20191227T030937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T030937Z UID:54572-1582657200-1582662600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-of-Good-Boys.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T203000 DTSTAMP:20260612T014951 CREATED:20191227T173726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T173726Z UID:54700-1582657200-1582662600@litseen.com SUMMARY:John Sayles: Yellow Earth DESCRIPTION:John Sayles works as a fiction writer\, screenwriter\, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award. He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has directed 18 feature films\, with another\, I Passed This Way\, currently in progress. His films Matewan and Lone Star\, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun\, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses. Yellow Earth is his fifth novel. \nAbout Yellow Earth: \nRich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth\, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose. \nIn Yellow Earth\, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota\, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer\, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. “An activist in his way\, a product of the Casino Era\,” Kildeer\, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby\, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company. \nWhat follows\, with characteristic lyrical dexterity\, insight\, and wit\, introduces us to a memorable cast of characters\, weaving together narratives of competing worlds through masterful storytelling. \nSet shortly before Standing Rock would become a symbol of historic proportions of the brutal confrontation between native resistance and the forces of big business and law enforcement\, the fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times. URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sayles-yellow-earth/ LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-Yellow-Earth.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260612T014951 CREATED:20200207T223148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T223148Z UID:55659-1582657200-1582664400@litseen.com SUMMARY:JoAnne Silver Jones\, Headstrong at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes JoAnne Silver Jones for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Headstrong. After a sudden assault by a stranger left Jones with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)\, fractured hands\, and PTSD\, she learned—with the help of a community that gave her the foundations of hope—to live with TBI in a society bursting with violence. \nShe didn’t see the hammer. For a fraction of a second JoAnne Jones saw a young black face\, framed by a black hoodie\, and then she descended into a place where she felt and saw nothing. Jones survived this sudden assault by a stranger\, but it left her with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)\, fractured hands\, and PTSD. Headstrong tells the story of how she learned to live with the daily challenges of TBI. It brings the reader into a life traumatized by violence and set in the context of a society full of violence and vocal\, visible white supremacists. Woven throughout Jones’s account are the stories of how medical professionals\, friends\, family\, and strangers became a foundation strong enough to hold her during the worst of times\, and to give her the buoyancy to find a path toward hope. \n“Eloquently told\, Jones invites us into her harrowing journey from violence and brain injury to hope. With unflinching honesty\, she shows how her determination to heal\, led her to excavate the emotional legacy of her family and develop the emotional muscle to move beyond being a victim. If ever we needed a story of resilience against tough odds\, now is the time.” —Hilary Jacobs Hendel\, author of the award-winning book\, It’s Not Always Depression \n \nJoAnne Jones is Professor Emeritus at Springfield College in Massachusetts\, where she worked for twenty-five years. While at Springfield College\, Dr. Jones served as Associate Dean of the School of Human Services and Acting Dean of the School of Social Work. Before Springfield College\, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Calgary\, School of Social Welfare. Her teaching and research focused primarily on social justice issues. In addition to teaching\, she has consulted with public and private organizations in relation to diversity\, inclusiveness\, and excellence. She is a cofounder of the firm Diversityworks Consulting. \n URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-silver-jones-headstrong-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/headstrong-jones-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260612T014951 CREATED:20191124T170158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T170158Z UID:53746-1582659000-1582664400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Emily Nemens: The Cactus League DESCRIPTION:Emily Nemens discusses her new novel The Cactus League. \nPraise for The Cactus League \n“Emily Nemens’s magnificent debut is a masterwork of great empathy and detail\, uncovering the realms of incredible pain and beauty enmeshed within every level of America’s pastime. If you love baseball\, you won’t put it down\, and if you don’t love baseball\, you might by the end.” —J. Ryan Stradal\, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota and Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n“A debut? You’ve got to be kidding.The Cactus League reads like the work of a seasoned novelist. The way the story’s tension ramps\, the richly drawn characters\, the indelible imagery—you’ll never see a ball park the same—not to mention Emily Nemens’s knowledge of America’s pastime is downright encyclopedic. And while all those things are true\, absolutely true\, the heart of this amazing novel is Emily’s understanding of the crucibles faced by those both in the limelight and out of it. Goodyear and the rest of the gang are a cast for the ages. Hip hip hooray for this achievement.” —Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \n“The Cactus League is not just another baseball novel. I can’t think of another book that so carefully examines the complex ecosystem of professional sport. With both compassion and objectivity\, Emily Nemens deftly depicts the rich lives and stories that swirl beneath the ‘meaningless’ innings of spring training.” —Chris Bachelder\, author of The Throwback Special \nAbout The Cactus League \nAn explosive\, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball from Emily Nemens\, the editor of The Paris Review \nJason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions\, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome\, famous\, and talented\, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches\, writers\, wives\, girlfriends\, petty criminals\, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why—as they hide secrets of their own. \nHumming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch\, Emily Nemens’ The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a sportscaster\, Goodyear’s story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor\, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland\, a resourceful spring-training paramour\, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison\, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters\, all striving to be seen as the season approaches. It’s a journey that\, like the Arizona desert\, brims with both possibility and destruction. \nAnchored by an expert knowledge of baseball’s inner workings\, Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League is a propulsive and deeply human debut that captures a strange desert world that is both exciting and unforgiving\, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field. URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-nemens-the-cactus-league/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Nemens.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T213000 DTSTAMP:20260612T014951 CREATED:20200126T210602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T210602Z UID:55238-1582659900-1582666200@litseen.com SUMMARY:The MFA in Writing Program presents Cristina García in conversation with Omar. F. Miranda DESCRIPTION:Cristina García is the author of seven novels\, including: Dreaming in Cuban\, The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, King of Cuba\, and\, most recently\, Here in Berlin; two Latinx anthologies: Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature; and a collection of poetry\, The Lesser Tragedy of Death. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. Currently\, she is playwright-in-residence at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. \nOmar F. Miranda is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. He teaches courses in British Romantic-era literature\, and his research focuses on exile and the birth of global celebrity culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a second-generation Cuban exile from Miami\, he grew up in a community that\, while attempting to recreate it abroad\, invariably longed for its true homeland across the Florida Straits. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-mfa-in-writing-program-presents-cristina-garcia-in-conversation-with-omar-f-miranda/ LOCATION:McLaren Complex – MC252\, USF\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cristina-Garcia.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR