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SUMMARY:My Word Open MIC Welcomes Tureeda Mikell & Barbara Saunders
DESCRIPTION:Two amazing powerful women poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-word-open-mic-welcomes-tureeda-mikell-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:Cafe Leila\, 1724 San Pablo Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the second of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions among fiction\, the essay\, and poetry. She was the 2018–19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts’ On Our Mind program\, a yearlong series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading-group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018.  Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nPrageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\nreading and in conversation\nThursday March 12\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and ATA: Artists’ Television Access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-dodie-bellamy-and-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora
DESCRIPTION:The Mycological Society of Marin is proud to announce Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora. \nJoin us for this special After Hours mushroom talk where David Arora will explore some of the many contemporary myths about wild mushrooms spawned and reinforced by the Internet. Arora is an American mycologist\, naturalist\, and author of two popular mushroom field guides\, Mushrooms Demystified and All the Rain Promises and More. \nDoors open for the Marin Mycological Society’s meeting at 6:30pm\, followed by the mushroom talk at 7:00pm. Wine reception for registered guests. \nRegistration highly recommended. Limited seating. Registration opens February 24th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-mushrooms-demythified-with-david-arora/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Deb Olin Unferth: Barn 8
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nDeb Olin Unferth discusses her new novel\, Barn 8\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Barn 8 \n“Barn 8 is a novel like no other: An urgent moral fantasia\, a post-human parable\, a tender portrait of animal dignity and genius.”—Dana Spiotta \n“Deb Unferth’s hilarious\, off-kilter genius is on dazzling display in this novel. Come for the brilliant insights about our faltering civilization. Stay for the revolutionaries and the chickens. You are really really going to love these chickens . . .”—Jenny Offill \n“Like Flannery O’Connor\, Deb Olin Unferth does things entirely her own way\, and that way is impossible to describe. . . . This very funny and absurd novel is also as serious as the world.”—Zachary Lazar \n“I leap to read anything Deb Olin Unferth writes\, and her latest book\, Barn 8\, is further proof of her singular talent\, her gigantic heart. While Unferth’s characters try to save hens\, her miracle of a novel might\, in turn\, save you.”—R.O. Kwon \nAbout Barn 8 \nAn unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers \nTwo auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious\, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. \nDeb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices\, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter\, a former director of undercover investigations\, hundreds of activists\, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens\, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters\, their earnest efforts to heal themselves\, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. \nFunny\, whimsical\, philosophical\, and heartbreaking\, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity\, razor-sharp wit\, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama\, a tour de force for our time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth-barn-8/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:reading from Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical\, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes.\n\n\nFrom the best-selling author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. \nRose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903\, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later\, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes\, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together\, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and\, over the next dozen years\, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman\, Big Bill Haywood\, Eugene V. Debs\, John Reed\, Margaret Sanger\, Jack London\, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country’s earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control\, earning her notoriety as “one of the dangerous influences of the country” from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw\, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began. \nBy a master of narrative nonfiction\, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich\, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time.\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nADAM HOCHSCHILD is the author of ten books. King Leopold’s Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as was To End All Wars. His Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“Although the stuff of fairy tale—penniless immigrant factory worker marries old-money millionaire\, then uses her fortune and influence to fight for the laboring classes—the story Adam Hochschild tells in Rebel Cinderella is as taut and true as a well-tuned violin.  Rose Pastor Stokes comes alive as a woman of passionate conviction and rare imaginative power\, restored by Hochschild to her rightful place in the history of America’s rise to world prominence in the first decades of the twentieth century.”\n––Megan Marshall\, author of Elizabeth Bishop \n“Through the lens of a remarkable marriage\, Adam Hochschild draws a vivid portrait of the Gilded Age – of immigrants\, sweatshops\, tenements\, strikes\, enclaves of patrician privilege\, and a ‘citadel of socialism’ on a private island.  At the center of it all is Rose\, whose extraordinary story ends as anything but a fairy tale.”\n––Jean Strouse\, author of Morgan: American Financier \n“Adam Hochschild recounts the incredible story of Rose Pastor Stokes\, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who toiled in a cigar factory\, met and married a rich socialite\, and became an infamous socialist firebrand. The book is chock-full of fascinating characters and stories\, with Stokes and her comrades often recounting their dramatic lives in their own words.”\n––Tyler Anbinder\, author of City of Dreams \n“Lucidly written and painstakingly researched\, this is a joy to read\, cementing Pastor in her rightful place with other progressive figures of the time.”\n––Library Journal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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