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SUMMARY:WHY WE SWIM with Bonnie Tsui\, Daniel Handler\, and Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Join these three author-swimmers in a discussion of Bonnie Tsui’s fascinating new book\, Why We Swim. \nJoin us here at 5pm PDT on Tueday\, April 7! \nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/476150449?pwd=MGtobFBYWXFINHVOUTAzNWdiYXpidz09
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-we-swim-with-bonnie-tsui-daniel-handler-and-andrew-sean-greer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:MFA Alumni Reading Featuring mai c. doan & Aiden Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted Mills graduate students\, followed by readings. \n\n\nmai c. doan is poet and writer from Southern California. Her first full-length collection\, water/tongue\, was published by Omnidawn in 2019. She has published and performed her work though the National Queer Arts Festival\, RADAR Productions\, Entropy Magazine\, Mixed Up!: A Zine about Mixed Race Queer and Feminist Experience\, and more. She holds an MFA from Mills College\, where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\nAiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Originally from Oakland\, California\, they now make their home in Portland\, OR. As a queer\, trans Latinx\, Aiden advocates strongly for diverse representation in all media. Aiden’s debut novel\, Cemetery Boys\, is a Dia de Muertos paranormal romance about Yadriel (a gay\, trans brujo) who accidentally summons the wrong ghost. Cemetery Boys is forthcoming from Macmillan in July 2020.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-alumni-reading-featuring-mai-c-doan-aiden-thomas/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets-3/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA's 35th Anniversary Issue Release
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate ZYZZYVA’s 35th anniversary issue\, to be released in early April\, with contributors from the issue which includes such authors and writers as Bryan Washington\, Lauren Markham\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Kristen Iskandrian\, Lysley Tenorio\, Dave Madden\, Peter Orner\, Meg Hurtado Bloom\, and many others. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-zyzzyvas-35th-anniversary-issue-release/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass\, Indigo at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Indigo merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complex grey areas. Whether her subject is oysters\, high heels\, a pork chop\, a beloved dog\, or a wife’s return to health\, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin\,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger\, desire\, touch. In this book\, joy meets regret\, devotion meets dependence\, and most importantly\, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused\, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken\, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations\, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle\, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have\, even as it attempts to slip away. \nEllen Bass is co-author of the best-selling The Courage to Heal\, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry\, including The Human Line\, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, and The New Republic. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she lives in Santa Cruz\, and teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 18th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-indigo-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills is Gold
DESCRIPTION:C Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold. \nPraise for How Much of These Hills is Gold \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies\n \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”—Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“This exhilarating novel unweaves the myths of the American West and offers in their place a gorgeous\, broken\, soulful\, feral song of family and yearning\, origin and earth. C Pam Zhang is a brilliant\, fearless writer. This book is a wonder.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nAbout How Much of These Hills is Gold \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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