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SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: Womxn Reading at The Beat Museum Celebrate Women's History Month
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month 2019\, a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nEves at the Beat has been running for a year now\, gaining momentum and new community as it goes. On March 28th 2020 we are having a celebratory marathon reading to uplift the curators and readers who have shared their hearts and poetic spirits at The Beat Museum in San Francisco throughout the past year. \nThis event will showcase approximately fifty womxn identified writers across eleven hours and will go down in history (at least The Beat Museum History) as one of the largest Womxn identified literary readings in San Francisco. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for the reader lineup and schedule of events for the day! \nMore info about “Eves at the Beat”:\nEves at the Beat is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from previous months. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nContact: Cassandra Rockwood Rice Ganem Cassandra@cca.edu for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum-celebrate-womens-history-month/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Inter•Col•Lab: A Reading and Film Screening with Valerie Witte\, Sarah Rosenthal\, and Ayana Yonesaka
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of interrelated\, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters\, an essay collection\, and a film\, all of which investigate postmodern dance. \nIn their book The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow\, poets Valerie Witte and Sarah Rosenthal engage with the work of dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Through research into these innovative women’s dances\, ideas\, and lives\, Witte and Rosenthal use language from and about the choreographers to create a series of co-written sonnets that are interwoven with letters between the two poets. These letters describe the process of composing the poems and branch into discussions of dance\, poetics\, gender\, transgression\, and the unfolding disaster of the current political scene. Together\, the poems and letters construct an environment of reflection\, intimacy\, and vulnerability\, one that is both challenging and invitational. \nWitte and Rosenthal will read from The Grass Is Greener\, and briefly describe the essay project which their book has spawned. Rosenthal and dancer-choreographer Ayana Yonesaka will then introduce and screen their short film\, We Agree on the Sun\, which draws on one of the essays to explore the intersection of dance and houselessness. A Q&A will follow. The event will feature hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. \n\nSarah Rosenthal is the author of several books and chapbooks including The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Valerie Witte) Lizard (Chax\, 2016)\, and Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive\, 2010). She has done grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, Soul Mountain\, Ragdale\, New York Mills\, Hambidge\, and This Will Take Time\, and has been a Headlands Center Affiliate Artist. She lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach\, develops curricula for the Center for the Collaborative Classroom\, and serves on the California Book Awards jury. More at sarahrosenthal.net. Author photo by Denise Newman. \nValerie Witte is the author of a game of correspondence (Black Radish Books\, 2015) and The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Sarah Rosenthal)\, as well as two chapbooks. She is a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School\, and for eight years\, she helped produce many innovative books by women as a member of Kelsey Street Press. In her daytime hours\, she edits education books in Portland\, OR. Read more at valeriewitte.com. Photo by Andrew Hedges. \nBorn and raised in Sapporo\, Japan\, Ayana Yonesaka moved to San Francisco in 2009 to pursue her career in dance. Since graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Dance from San Francisco State University in 2013\, she has worked in the Bay Area as a dance instructor\, performer\, and choreographer. In addition to teaching at San Francisco Youth Ballet Academy\, RoCo Dance & Fitness\, and ODC\, she also directs ayanadancearts\, a company she founded in 2017. Ayana aims to create highly innovative choreography that is rooted in contemporary dance aesthetics with a strong Japanese cultural narrative. Her work seamlessly navigates her Japanese and American identities\, choreographing through a unique cross-Pacific framework. Photo by jGuerzonPictorials. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Grass is Greener When the Sun is Yellow\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Foglifter Presents: QT Writers Now—Virtual Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:As we protect our most vulnerable populations from COVID-19 and practice social distancing\, Foglifter is responding to the marginalized communities’ necessary call to maintain connection as we face times of great uncertainty\, challenges\, and cancellations. Foglifter believes that we can support each other and reduce isolation’s detrimental effects through the literary arts and community. Foglifter is launching a virtual reading series and open mic\, so we can see / hear and be seen / heard by each other. This is a platform for the entire LGBTQ+ community and allies to come together. \nFoglifter’s goals are to be a platform and organization that supports and uplifts powerful\, intersectional\, and transgressive LGBTQ+ voices\, while centering the most marginalized to build and enrich the literary and LGBTQ+ communities. We partner with our communities to serve our communities. \nOur first reading features Miah Jeffra\, Juliana Delgado Lopera\, Zefyr Lisowski\, and Arhm Choi Wild\, followed by an open mic! \nZoom info: \nTopic: Foglifter Virtual Reading\nTime: Mar 28\, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/8851711816 \nMeeting ID: 885 171 1816 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,8851711816# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,8851711816# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 885 171 1816
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield: Ledger
DESCRIPTION:Jane Hirshfield reads from her new collection of poems\, Ledger. \nAbout Ledger:\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nAbout Jane Hirshfield:\nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World\, and has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry\, have been finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize\, and long-listed for The National Book Award. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ledger-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Scandalous" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Scandal is “an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.” Whether it’s the short skirt your mom wore\, or the shocking things your dad said\, something Voldemort tweeted\, or maybe it was that thing you did – we want to know! Write it down and bring your best for the next SNS! \nMarch featured writers: Rebecca Foust & Halim Madi \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 28\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nRebecca Foust’s books include The Unexploded Ordnance Bin (2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award) and Paradise Drive (Press 53 Poetry Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement\, Washington Review of Books\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere and in literary journals including the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. Recognitions include the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes\, and fellowships from The Frost Place\, Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Foust was Marin County Poet Laureate in 2017-19 and works now as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change\, an assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine\, and co-producer of a new series about poetry for Marin TV\, Rising Voices. \nHalim Madi grew up in Beirut\, Lebanon. He left at 17 to study in Paris. Worked in London and Sao Paulo. And eventually landed in San Francisco. He fundraised money from friends to write a book called “Flight of the Jaguar” last year. Then actually wrote it and sent it to his friends. Recently he took his friend’s money again to write a book called “In the Name of Scandal.” He’s working on getting that one out. You can find his work on his website halimmadi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-scandalous-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Antioch Reading Series no.2
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Antioch Reading Series is a quarterly reading series curated and sponsored by alumni of Antioch University MFA Program in Creative Writing. \nBAARS no.2 features\nKaty Avila\nJeffrey Clarke\nJesus Sierra\nAlex Simand\nMireya Vela
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-antioch-reading-series-no-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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