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SUMMARY:archy and mehitabel Group Reading (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:Come on Zoom and let’s read some poems from the first archy and mehitabel book by Don Marquis. His work is in public domain. But if you need a copy of the book\, DM me\, and I’ll send you the file. \nSign up for a poem or two! \n1. the coming of archy\n2. mehitabel was once cleopatra\n3. the song of mehitabel\n4. pity the poor spiders\n5. mehitabel s extensive past\n6. the cockroach who has been to hell\n7. archy interviews a pharaoh\n8. a spider and a fly\n9. freddy the rat perishes\n10. the merry flea\n11. why mehitabel jumped\n12. certain maxims of archy\n13. warty bliggens\, the toad\n14. mehitabel has an adventure\n15. the flattered lightning bug\n16. the robin and the worm\n17. mehitabel finds a home\n18. the wall of archy\n19. mehitabel and her kittens\n20. archy is shocked\n21. archy creates a situation\n22. mehitabel sings a song\n23. aesop revised by archy – Daphne Gottleib\n24. cheerio my deario
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #2: Juliana Delgado Lopera + Miah Jeffra
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque engaging readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Sibling Rivalry Press. Our writers are Juliana Delgado Lopera (author of Quiéreme\, Nomadic Press\, and Fiebre Tropical\, The Feminist Press at CUNY) and Miah Jeffra (author of The First Church of What’s Happening\, Nomadic Press\, and The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!\, Sibling Rivalry Press. \nNoelia Cerna will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Screenside Chat #2: Miah Jeffra and Juliana Delgado Lopera\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/556001232 \nMeeting ID: 556 001 232\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,556001232# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,556001232# 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: 556 001 232\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-2-juliana-delgado-lopera-miah-jeffra/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Readings by Aaron Shurin and Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with beloved Bay Area writers Aaron Shurin (The Blue Absolute) and Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems). Please join us for a night of readings! \nAbout The Blue Absolute \nUrban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming\, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes\, dots\, perspective shifts\, and the fragmented action of San Francisco\, the great city on the edge. \nThe Blue Absolute’s prose poems are hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future. \nAaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books\, 2017)\, The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press\, 2015)\, and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems\, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays\, 2008). His work has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies\, from The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry to Italy’s Nuova Poesia Americana: San Francisco\, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts\, The California Arts Council\, The San Francisco Arts Commission\, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ studies and innovative verse\, Shurin was a member of the original Good Gay Poets collective in Boston\, and later the first graduate of the storied Poetics Program at New College of California. He has written numerous critical essays about poetic theory and compositional practice\, as well as personal narratives on sexual identity\, gender fluidity\, and the AIDS epidemic. A longtime educator\, he’s the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. \n\nAbout A Little More Red Sun on the Human \nA selection of poems by celebrated poet Gillian Conoley that spans her arresting body of work: from the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood toward an encompassing inquiry into spirit and matter\, individual and state. \nGillian Conoley’s new and selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. A Little More Red Sun on the Human: Selected Poems is forthcoming with Nightboat Books in Fall 2019. Her seventh poetry collection\, PEACE\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Her translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014. Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where she edits Volt. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Blue Absolute and/or A Little More Red Sun on the Human\, click on the appropriate title(s) in this sentence and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-by-aaron-shurin-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Terrill: Great Balls of Doubt w/ Jon Langford
DESCRIPTION:Mark Terrill’s new book of poems\, launching tonight\, is Great Balls of Doubt\, a collection of poems and prose poems with illustrations by Jon Langford\, hailed by Anne Waldman as “a solid collection from a vigilant compañero of the real work\, an ally of the Zen wing of the New American Poetry of observation & witness.” Born in Berkeley\, Terrill has lived for many years in Germany\, publishing numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including Bread & Fish (The Figures\, 2002) and Diamonds & Sapience (Dark Style\, 2017). His work has appeared in over a thousand journals and anthologies\, including City Lights Review\, Bombay Gin\, Empty Mirror\, Jacket\, Diagram\, Rattle\, RHINO\, and Talisman\, and been translated into French\, German\, and Portuguese. \nJon Langford is a musician and visual artist who first came to prominence with art/punk music collective the Mekons. He has also released many recordings as a solo artist and with other bands (the Three Johns\, the Waco Brothers\, Four Lost Souls\, and more). Tonight he will accompany Terrill’s reading on guitar and also perform songs from his own extensive repertoire. Langford’s art has been collected in two books\, Nashville Radio and Skull Orchard Revisited\, and in 2015 he was artist in residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame\, which commissioned him to paint a series of portraits for its exhibition “Dylan\, Cash\, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-terrill-great-balls-of-doubt-w-jon-langford/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : Songs From A Room
DESCRIPTION:We’re doing a weekly event. \nThis week it’s The Racket Weekly : SONGS FROM A ROOM in which a quintet of writers pen short pieces on the songs currently filtering through the murk of quarantine. There will be a playlist and you can listen along. \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88190232333 \nDoors @ 7:00. Event at 7:15. \nThe Readers: \nChelsea Davis\nSerena Chan\nD’mani Thomas\nMaddy Raskulinecz\nGark Mavigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-songs-from-a-room/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass and Marlene Mörling
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass’s poetry includes Indigo (Copper Canyon Press\, forthcoming 2020) Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon Press\, 2014)\, The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press\, 2007)\, and Mules of Love (BOA\, 2002). She co-edited\, with Florence Howe\, the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday\, 1973). Her poetry has appeared frequently in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The California Arts Council\, three Pushcart Prizes\, The Lambda Literary Award\, The Pablo Neruda Prize\, The Larry Levis Prize and the New Letters Prize. Her nonfiction books include Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies\, I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse\, and The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. \nMalena Mörling was born in Stockholm in 1965 and grew up in southern Sweden. She is the author of two books of poetry: Ocean Avenue and Astoria. She has also published translations of work by Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer and together with Jonas Ellerström\, a collection of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran\, On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems\, the collection 1933 by Philip Levine into Swedish\, and they have edited and translated the anthology\, The Star By My Head\, Poets From Sweden published by Milkweed Editions. Mörling has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Dianna L. Bennett Fellowship from the Beverly Rogers\, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina\, Wilmington and is teaching as Hugo Poet and Visiting Professor at University of Montana for the 2019-2020 school year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-and-marlene-morling/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Tess Taylor with Ilya Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Tess Taylor’s \n \nRift Zone:poems \npublished by Red Hen Press \nand \n \nLast West \npublished by Museum of Modern Art Books \nabout Rift Zone \nRIFT ZONE\, Taylor’s much-anticipated third book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines—rifts between past and present\, childhood and adulthood\, what is and what was. Circling Taylor’s hometown—an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault—these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant\, a bloody land grab\, gun violence\, valley girls\, strip malls\, redwood trees\, and the painful history of Japanese internment. Taylor’s ambitious and masterful poems read her home state’s historic violence against our world’s current unsteadinesses—mass eviction\, housing crises\, deportation\, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink—an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. \nabout Last West \nLast West is a book-length commission from the Museum of Modern Art. It will be published by the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) this February and part of the Dorothea Lange Words & Pictures exhibit. The book revisits the work of Dorothea Lange in California in contemporary poems examining issues of migrancy\, shelterlessness\, and climate change as they appear in Lange’s work and continue to affect us today. \nabout Ilya Kaminski’s Deaf Republic \nDeaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy\, Petya\, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf\, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. At once a love story\, an elegy\, and an urgent plea\, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. \nTess Taylor is a poet and the poetry critic for NPR’s All Things Considered. Her books include Work & Days (Red Hen Press\, 2016)\, named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by The New York Times; The Forage House (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award which The San Francisco Chronicle called “stunning\,” and the chapbook The Misremembered World\, which was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. In February 2020\, Last West\, an exciting book length commission from the Museum of Modern Art\, will be published in conjunction with the MOMA show\, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures. In his introduction to the collection\, Ilya Kaminsky calls Taylor’s voice “invaluable” and a “poet for our moment.”  Her work explores California and the American West\, her life as a critic\, and the intersection of poetry and journalism. \nIlya Kaminsky is the author of the widely acclaimed Deaf Republic (Graywolf\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry\, which Kevin Young\, writing in The New Yorker\, called a work of “profound imagination.” Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press\, 2004)\, and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press\, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer’s Award\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award\, the Dorset Prize\, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently\, he was on the short-list for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey\, Holland\, Russia\, France\, Mexico\, Macedonia\, Romania\, Spain and China\, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His poems have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova\, Osip Mandelstam\, and Marina Tsvetaeva.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-taylor-with-ilya-kaminsky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
DESCRIPTION:Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet\, an open mic and great drinks and treats! \nHosted by Alameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month-3/
LOCATION:Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden\, 1223 Park St.\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui
DESCRIPTION:presents Why We Swim \n“A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book.” —Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \nHumans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it’s an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It’s also one route to that elusive\, ecstatic state of flow. These reasons\, among many others\, make swimming one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nBonnie Tsui lives\, swims\, and surfs in the Bay Area. A longtime contributor to the New York Times and California Sunday Magazine\, she has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her last book\, American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Her website is bonnietsui.com.\n\n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. I was enchanted.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n“The only thing better than reading Bonnie Tsui’s writing about swimming is swimming itself—and both are sublime. Why We Swim is an aquatic tour de force\, a captivating story filled with adventure\, meditation\, and celebration.”\n—Susan Casey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and Voices in the Ocean \n“This is a jewel of a book\, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it.”\n—James Nestor\, author of Deep: Freediving\, Renegade Science\, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves \n“Magnificent. Only a truly great story can hold my attention and Why We Swim had me nailed to the chair . . . I love this book.”\n—Christopher McDougall\, bestselling author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes \n“Why We Swim is a gorgeous hybrid of a book. Bonnie Tsui combines fascinating reporting about some of the world’s most remarkable swimmers with delightful meditations about what it means for us naked apes to leap in the water for no apparent reason. You won’t regret diving in.”\n—Carl Zimmer\, author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers\, Perversions\, and Potential of Heredity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bonnie-tsui/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Emily St. John Mandel: The Glass Hotel
DESCRIPTION:Emily St. John Mandel discusses her new novel\, The Glass Hotel. \nPraise for The Glass Hotel \n“Long-anticipated… At its heart\, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred\, from the moral to the physical… In luminous prose\, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when such fragile bonds shatter under pressure. A strange\, subtle\, and haunting novel. – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n“Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache\, loneliness\, wealth\, corruption\, drugs\, ghosts\, and guilt… This ingenious\, enthralling novel probes the tenuous yet unbreakable bonds between people and the lasting effects of momentary carelessness.”– Publisher’s Weekly\, starred \nAbout The Glass Hotel \nVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette\, a five-star hotel on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis\, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant\, a shipping executive for Neptune-Avradimis\, reads the words and orders a drink to calm down. Alkaitis\, the owner of the hotel and a wealthy investment manager\, arrives too late to read the threat\, never knowing it was intended for him. He leaves Vincent a hundred dollar tip along with his business card\, and a year later they are living together as husband and wife. \nHigh above Manhattan\, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme\, moving imaginary sums of money through clients’ accounts. He holds the life savings of an artist named Olivia Collins\, the fortunes of a Saudi prince and his extended family\, and countless retirement funds\, including Leon Prevant’s. The collapse of the financial empire is as swift as it is devastating\, obliterating fortunes and lives\, while Vincent walks away into the night. Until\, years later\, she steps aboard a Neptune-Avramidis vessel\, the Neptune Cumberland\, and disappears from the ship between ports of call. \nIn this captivating story of crisis and survival\, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless\, underground electronica clubs\, the business of international shipping\, service in luxury hotels\, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty\, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt\, love and delusion\, ghosts and unintended consequences\, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-st-john-mandel-the-glass-hotel/
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:Jan Steckel + Open Mic at EP Foster Library
DESCRIPTION:Your host is Phil Taggart and your Featured Reader is Jan Steckel at this Ventura\, California-based library reading now online while we shelter in place.\nOne poem of two minutes or less for the open mic.\nJoin Zoom Meeting here https://zoom.us/j/474804902…\nMeeting ID: 474 804 902 \nJan Steckel’s latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-open-mic-at-ep-foster-library/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jan Steckel":MAILTO:steckeljan@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-3/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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UID:56704-1587067200-1587074400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in Nomadic Press’ Zoom account. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/ewznSNDq86xmJ5NA7 \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Speaking Axolotl (April)\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/968513245 \nMeeting ID: 968 513 245\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,968513245# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,968513245# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 968 513 245\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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