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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Mah Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Alexandra Mattraw’s new poetry collection \nWe fell into Weather \nPublished by Cultural Society \nWhat has been said about We fell into Weather: \n“What you can’t see is what brings you\,” Alexandra Mattraw writes: “We throttle out of rent\, ash CFC storming lung shifts.” An uncanny\, raw awareness embodies the space of perception and opening. Mattraw’s primary language becomes action\, becomes our phenomenology\, our neurodivergence\, our fullness: “When allergies heave and blister. When CFC wind. Decibels shake cinder pink jostling pink pill.” There is surprise everywhere in these poems. This is a magical book. \n–Joseph Lease\, author of Broken World and The Body Ghost \n“Alexandra Mattraw’s We fell into weather is not only essential reading for its presentation of how an individual’s experiences can offer insight into some of the most critical challenges we face today. Her use of image\, detail\, the placement of language on the page\, her diction choices\, and her variations regarding syntax—each formal choice contributes to creating a constellation of difference that exposes not only unexpected revelations regarding the speaking agent’s interior perceptions\, but also the social environment in which these scenes of intimacy and obsession\, history and fantasy\, are set. While one tends to see forms as abstract organizing principals\, in Mattraw’s poems forms become actors in the drama and members of a chorus offering insight. They can be received in what I’ll call a language of physical dimension\, of gesture\, of shape and spatial relations. Thus\, as we read\, we can begin to perceive how\, in our own lives\, the forms which we each use to create our understanding of ourselves and our place in the culture we inhabit are as active in opening or limiting our lives as anything in the world we face today.” \n–Rusty Morrison\, Omnidawn editor and author of the true keeps calm biding its story \n“At heart conceptual and formally experimental\, Alexandra Mattraw’s We fell into weather creates visual and sonic textures that link toxicity — environmental\, historical\, domestic — with neurodivergence and disease. These poems are alive with musicality and internal rhyme\, “the way hay rips scars into wrists the way granite / field bloom back bruises\,” while offering glimpses into the stuff of everyday life – the toddler’s cough\, the broken lamp taped back together. In Mattraw’s spare and elegant lines\, an image will crystallize briefly as a family drives away from California wildfires\, but then disperse like vapor\, like “ash . . . Rend[s] the visibility of air.” Attuned to the sublime in nature and in language\, this is a poet who invites our close and sustained attention\, who invites us to improve ourselves.” \n–Mary-Kim Arnold\, writer and visual artist\, author of Litany for The Long Moment \nAbout the readers: \nTiff Dressen lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary\, a (slender) full length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019\, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time\, they enjoy playing the role of urban flâneur as well as setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book. \nAlexandra Mattraw is Berkeley poet and critic who has authored several books. small siren is available at Cultural Society (2018)\, and two of her chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press (2013\, 2017). Other poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Jacket2\, Interim\, VOLT\, and elsewhere. A mother and ecofeminist\, Alexandra curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its ninth year. We fell into weather is her second full-length book of poems. \nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet and and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects\, 2013) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press\, 2016). A full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Maw is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018)\, and her full-length book of poetry Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. Win often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley and is a member of The Writers Grotto. mawsheinwin.com \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-with-tiff-dressen-and-mah-shein-win/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:#we : queer perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the eighth installment of #we\, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two writers\, musicians\, or performers from various segments of the queer spectrum\, who each give a talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness\, along with a reading or performance of their creative work. \nFor our eighth event\, poet Shilpa Kamat will speak on “Walking Between Worlds” and will read some relevant verse; and stand-up comic and biologist Nina Maryn will present a piece titled “Fuck it\, it’s 2020: Navigating the Gender Landscape of the 21st Century”\, mixing comedy with her discussion. \nNote that #we has a new home through 2020 at ProArts Gallery in downtown Oakland. We try to start promptly at 7 pm. Q&A and chat time will follow. \nAbsolutely all are welcome to this sharing of perspectives. The venue is wheelchair accessible\, and ASL translation for the deaf is available on request\, with a two-week notice preferred. \n  \n#we: queer perspectives\na talk and performance series \nfeaturing\nShilpa Kamat\nand Nina Maryn \nHosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nShilpa Kamat is a writer\, educator\, and healing arts practitioner with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She was a finalist for the 2018 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize\, and her chapbook\, Saraswati Takes Back the Alphabet\, was published by Newfound in 2019. Her writing is informed by ecology\, global mythologies\, and her diverse/intersecting identities; centralizes in-between and underrepresented experiences; and has an orientation towards healing and connectivity. \nNina Maryn is a queer stand-up comic\, storyteller\, and UC Berkeley PhD student from New York City. Her stand-up mostly comprises loving anecdotes highlighting the contradictions and irony of cosmopolitan liberalism. She’s performed at the Broadway Comedy Club in NYC\, and White Horse Inn and Welcome to Queer Mountain since moving to the Bay Area. She’ll be telling the story of moving from New York to Berkeley and navigating the differences in dating cultures on the East and West Coast\, being queer and single in your 20s in the 2020s\, and following with a discussion on how we define sexual orientation in an era when we’re renegotiating gender identity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-queer-perspectives/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Adrienne Miller: In the Land of Men
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nAdrienne Miller discusses her new memoir\, In the Land of Men\, with Dave Eggers. \nPraise for In the Land of Men \n“Adrienne Miller did not merely find herself in the midst of a bright\, innovative\, challenging\, unforgettable moment in literary culture: she made it happen. It was easy to miss that then\, given all the attention paid to the brilliant writers\, mostly men\, that she discovered\, nurtured\, and endured. But now\, with ferocious humor and honesty she conjures once more that Narnia-like world of books before blogs\, magazines before the internet—capturing all its giddy verve\, and all its frank injustices with her own unmatchable taste and wit at the dead center\, where it always belonged.”— John Hodgman\, author of Medallion Status \n“In The Land of Men is about being the only woman in the room. But\, beyond that\, it’s about the magic of rooms themselves. It’s a revisiting of life before the age of ubiquitous screens\, when we shared physical space—sometimes uncomfortably and sometimes ecstatically—with our heroes and our nemeses alike. I was thrilled to make the trip.”— Meghan Daum\, author of The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars\n“Adrienne Miller’s voice is lucid and remorseful\, and she’s brought us a beautiful\, painful book\, a tender dissection of elusive subjects up to and including the passage of time and youth itself.”— Jonathan Lethem \n“An incredible guide to a ridiculous era and its outrages. Many will praise Miller’s ability to bring a time and place to life\, but I would also like to add that this book is very\, very funny.”— Gary Shteyngart\, author of Lake Success \nAbout In the Land of Men \nA fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties\, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire\, and Miller’s personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace \nA naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest\, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis\, powerful male egos\, and unquestioned authority of kings—GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man’s world. Three years later\, she forged her own path\, becoming the first woman to take on the role of literary editor of Esquire\, home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself— Hemingway\, Mailer\, and Carver. Up against this old world\, she would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a “mere girl.” \nBut this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement\, as exemplified by McSweeney’s and the work of David Foster Wallace. A decade older than Miller\, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her closest friend\, confidant—and antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still finding her voice. \nThis memoir—a rich\, dazzling story of power\, ambition\, and identity—ultimately asks the question “How does a young woman fit into this male culture and at what cost?” With great wit and deep intelligence\, Miller presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young woman’s education in a land of men.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adrienne-miller-in-the-land-of-men/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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