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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Virtual Reading Series 04/20-04/24
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce that Red Light Lit is hosting our first ever virtual reading series! That’s right babes\, starting Monday (4/20) at 8 PM PST and every night through Friday we have an amazing line up of some of our favorite artists set to read on our LIVE Insta feed. So make sure you have those @redlightlit notifications turned on and tune in Monday- Friday nights for some heated words🔥🔥🔥 Monday: Loria Mendoza\, Tuesday: Kar Johnson\, Wednesday: Devin Copeland\, Thursday: Thea Matthews\, Friday: Allyson Darling. It’s about to get LIT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-virtual-reading-series-04-20-04-24/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Rufi Thorpe and Chloe Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Rufi Thorpe joins us on Instagram Live to discuss her new novel The Knockout Queen with Chloe Benjamin. Wednesday April 29th at 5:00pm PDT. \nPraise for The Knockout Queen \n“Is it cheesy to say The Knockout Queen knocked me off my feet? I couldn’t put it down\, and when I had to\, I did so only reluctantly\, shakily. With unrelenting humor and terrifying intelligence\, Rufi Thorpe tells the story of an unlikely high school friendship—the kind of friendship from which you never recover—with intensity and attentiveness. This captivating\, generous book is a moving examination on human motivation\, darkness\, and love—calling attention to the ways we can be deeply different\, and yet so much the same.”—Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \n“Fearless\, tender\, and savagely alive\, The Knockout Queen is unlike anything you’ll read this year. Rufi Thorpe’s third novel is about unruly thoughts and unruly bodies\, about violence and love\, about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the drag of human being. You won’t be able to look away. You might even recognize yourself.”—Chloe Benjamin\, best-selling author of The Immortalists \n“The Knockout Queen is an intense\, unflinching examination of friendship\, the threads that connect us in such strange ways. Rufi Thorpe navigates this difficult terrain thanks to a masterful use of detail and a wonderfully dark sense of humor that lands at just the right moment. Michael and Bunny are two of the most unique characters I’ve ever met\, drawn with such precision that it’s impossible to leave them behind. This is a hypnotic\, beautiful novel\, and Rufi Thorpe is an unbelievably unique talent.”—Kevin Wilson\, best-selling author of Nothing to See Here \nAbout The Knockout Queen \nA dazzling and darkly comic novel of love\, violence\, and friendship in the California suburbs \nBunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful\, tall\, blond\, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard\, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three\, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams of standing out and competing in the Olympics\, she is desperate to fit in\, to seem normal\, and to get a boyfriend\, all while hiding her father’s escalating alcoholism. Michael has secrets of his own. At home and at school Michael pretends to be straight\, but at night he tries to understand himself by meeting men online for anonymous encounters that both thrill and scare him. When Michael falls in love for the first time\, a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible\, brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunny’s futures⁠⁠—and of their friendship. With storytelling as intoxicating as it is intelligent\, Rufi Thorpe has created a tragic and unflinching portrait of identity\, a fascinating examination of our struggles to exist in our bodies\, and an excruciatingly beautiful story of two humans aching for connection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rufi-thorpe-and-chloe-benjamin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T170000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Madison\, An Onion in My Pocket
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz to share An Onion in My Pocket\, her warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nThanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, Deborah Madison\, though not a vegetarian herself\, has long been revered as this country’s leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables\, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name\, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest\, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir\, she tells her story—and with it the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse\, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere\, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking\, and a manifesto for how to eat well. \nDEBORAH MADISON\, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz\, is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks\, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. Her books have received four James Beard Foundation awards and five awards from the IACP; in 2016 she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She lives in New Mexico. \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 May 9th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-madison-an-onion-in-my-pocket/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer and Miah Jeffra to Support Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nAndrew Sean Greer and Miah Jeffra will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through a creative lens. \nAll proceeds benefit Alley Cat Books. Support their GoFundMe now! \n\nApril 22 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer-and-miah-jeffra-to-support-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T153000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nChris Feliciano Arnold will explore how creative nonfiction can blend genres and forms in mysterious\, illuminating ways. To begin\, we will discuss brief samples from a few daring books\, focusing on intersections of memoir\, lyric essay\, journalism\, history\, poetry\, criticism and more. From there\, through generative writing exercises and small group discussions\, students will deconstruct one of their own nonfiction ideas\, examining their subjects from a multitude of angles to discover new potential shapes that defy quick categorization. Our goal is for all students to leave with a heightened sense of possibility—and an energizing idea for a new piece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-chris-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Queer Russophone Poetry: Readings\, Translations\, and Contexts
DESCRIPTION:This exceptional three-part panel opens Globus Books Literary Translation Series at Globus Books YouTube Channel. \nWe present three sets of authors and translators: \nIlya Danishevsky – Alex Karsavin \nLida Yusupova – Hilah Kohen \nOksana Vasyakina – Ainsely Morse \nTranslators discuss a few of the challenges of translating their authors. \nPart II: Spotlight on Translation. \nTranslators discuss a few of the challenges of translating their author. Danishevsky will say a few words about his experience of the (im)(p)act of translation as the translatee. \nPart III: The Social Context \nPanelists will discuss some current trends and issues manifesting in queer Russophone poetry today. \nBios: \nIlya Danishevsky is one of the best-known (and youngest) literary editors in Russia. Formerly in charge of the alternative publishing project Anhedonia at the leading publishing house AST\, Danishevsky writes texts that blur the boundary between poetry and prose\, produces regular literary features for the online edition of the journal Snob\, and curates the literary program at Moscow’s Voznesensky Center. His latest book\, Mannelig in Chains (2018)\, has been translated into Ukrainian and German. \nAlex Karsavin is a translator and writer based in Chicago & New York. They are the translations & poetry editor at H​​omintern m​agazine​\, and occasionally the ​​Zahir Review​.​ Their writing and translations have appeared in ​​The New Inquiry\, Homintern​ and are forthcoming in the ​Columbia Journal. ​In their academic and literary work they explore the channelways in between queer poetics\, Marxism\, and environmental history. They are currently working on their debut collection of poems. \nHilah Kohen is the News Editor of Meduza in English (meduza.io/en)\, the Anglophone edition of a Russian-language news outlet. Kohen’s work on the intersections of Russophone literature and politics can also be found in Music & Literature\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. Her translations of poetry by Lida Yusupova are forthcoming in Nashville Review and a volume published by Cicada Press. \nAinsley Morse teaches at Dartmouth College and translates Russian and former Yugoslav literatures. Recent publications include Permanent Evolution\, a collection of theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov (ASP; edited and translated with Philip Redko)\, Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s “Soviet pastoral” Beyond Tula (ASP)\, and\, with Bela Shayevich\, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin (UDP) and Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See (UDP 2013). \nIn 2019 Anne O. Fisher’s translations included “Monitor-1” by Shura Burtin (winner of the inaugural True Story Award for long-form journalism); “Nervous\,” a one-act play by Julia Lukshina (Asymptote); and poetry and prose by Ilya Danishevsky and Dmitry Kuzmin in the folio Fisher co-edited\, Life Stories\, Death Sentences: Contemporary Russian-Language LGBTQ+ Writing (In Translation). Fisher teaches remotely for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Translation and Interpreting Studies program and is the Vice-President of ALTA (the American Literary Translators Association). \nGlobus Books is an independent bookstore serving San Francisco since 1971. It offers a wide-ranging stock of books on all things Russia. Globus is actively working with the libraries across the states on completing their holdings for Russian publications\, both contemporary and out-of-print. The Globus Books team is well-known for its expertise in first editions of Russian literature\, books on the Russian avant-garde\, early imprints and travel and voyage books. Under the new management\, Globus strives to serve the Bay Area\, bridging gaps\, continuing cultural traditions and giving voice to unrepresented communities in Russia and the US. \nIn the future\, these events will be held at Globus Books store in San Francisco. For now\, we are honored to feature these authors and translators via a Zoom event. Please message us if you want to participate in the Zoom event. Dut to the format and setting\, we will have a limited amount of guests. The panel will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-russophone-poetry-readings-translations-and-contexts/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T180000
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SUMMARY:Lunada: New Moon Virtual Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:MAJOR LUNADA ANNOUNCEMENT: \nFor two decades\, Lunadas have fortified Bay Area communities on the full moon. On this month’s full moon when the moon is the closest to earth\, also known as the pink moon\, we want to announce the return of Lunada Literary Lounge! \nRecognizing the need to pull together\, Galería de la Raza joins forces with Borderlands Theater and Lunada founder Marc David Pinate\, in a historic collaboration to present an evening of truth-telling and testimonials on the dark side of the moon. In light of the COVID-19 shelter in place order\, for the next literary lounge\, we will host virtually and move the gathering to the new moon – a time for intention setting and realignment. This virtual gathering will featuring the best Latinx poets in the country\, this is an evening of medicine for the heart and spirit. \n*Please note: we acknowledge the open mic as an integral aspect of Lunada tradition\, but\, unfortunately\, due to limited technical capacity and overall logistics in regulating an open mic remotely\, Lunada will only be featuring a curated lineup of poets and performers. We hope we can continue the open mic tradition in the future. \nMark your calendars for Wednesday\, April 22\, 2020 @ 6 p.m. PST. \nFull line up to be announced soon! \nLivestream information will be posted on our Facebook page\, so RSVP\, or follow us to be notified when links are up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-new-moon-virtual-literary-lounge/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Lynn Xu
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-lynn-xu/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition#4
DESCRIPTION:Weekly virtual reading series\n3 readers and a community craft talk \nLyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #4\nTime: Apr 22\, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/603664236?pwd=cW9tYldEdU0rb3YvNi9TSFR3alpRQT09 \nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: 061152\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keB99ctCO4
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition4/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Reading at a Distance / Laura Mullen and Ploi Pirapokin
DESCRIPTION:We’ve partnered with the Headlands Center for the Arts to bring you a series of distanced literary readings with Headlands Artists\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). Join Laura Mullen (AIR ’20) and Ploi Pirapokin (AFF ’17–’20) for the kickoff event of the series on Wednesday\, April 22 at 7PM PST. \nWe’ll be streaming directly to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/booksmith \nWe are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are closed in the interest of public health. \nIf you would like to support us during this difficult time\, you can make donations here now or during the event: http://paypal.me/booksmith \nYou can also buy Laura’s books from us and we’ll deliver them directly to your door:\nhttps://www.booksmith.com/search/site/laura%20mullen \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n— \nThe author of eight books\, Laura Mullen (AIR ’20) is McElveen Professor of English at LSU. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and the Rona Jaffe Award. Her work has been widely anthologized\, and she is the librettist for Nathan Davis’ a Sound Uttered\, a Silence crossed\, commissioned by the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus. Recent poems have appeared in The Nation\, 1111\, Conjunctions\, and Lana Turner. She was the Arons poet at Tulane and affiliate faculty at Stetson University for 2018. Her translation of Veronique Pittolo’s Hero was published in 2019. \nPloi Pirapokin’s work is featured and forthcoming in Tor.com\, The Offing\, Apogee Journal\, the Bellingham Review\, Cleaver Magazine\, and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, the Creative Capacity Fund\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Ragdale Foundation\, Kundiman and others. She holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University and is based in San Francisco. \n— \nHeadlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary\, international arts center occupying a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands\, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Headlands provides an unparalleled environment in support of the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public\, we offer opportunities for reflection\, dialogue\, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. \nBooksmith is an an off-center general interest independent bookstore and legacy business\, a flagship of San Francisco’s Haight Street since 1976. Booksmith is the force behind The Bindery\, a multi-purpose events parlor established in 2017 that features The Arcana Project: a deep\, highly inclusive array of books—fiction and nonfiction\, from all over the world—presented in chronological order by the date they were written. Booksmith also organizes Berkeley Arts & Letters\, an East Bay speaker series since 2009 that features exceptional authors with new books. Between the three programs\, Booksmith produces over 250 events per year. \n— \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-at-a-distance-laura-mullen-and-ploi-pirapokin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Linda Norton & Stephanie Sauer
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Department of UC Davis is pleased to announce the first ever digital-only event in our Creative Writing Reading Series\, featuring Stephanie Sauer and Linda Norton. Broadcast live to wherever you access the world wide web\, two incredible readers will read from their work and also hold a Q&A after their readings. Some information on our exceptional guests is as follows: \nStephanie Sauer is the author of Almonds Are Members of the Peach Family (winner of the 2018 Noemi Press Book Prize in Prose) and The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force (University of Texas Press). Her work has appeared in Drunken Boat\, Verse Daily\, Asymptote\, PRISM International\, So To Speak\, The Florida Review\, Alimentum\, Boom: A Journal of California\, Lavender Review\, In These Times\, and Grain Magazine. She has earned fellowships from Yaddo\, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild\, and won the So To Speak Hybrid Book Award\, two Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission grants\, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Fellowship in Writing\, and the Barbara Deming Award for Nonfiction. She earned her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and is the founding editor of Copilot Press and co-founding editor of A Bolha Editora. She currently teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute. \nLinda Norton is the author of The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer\, 2011; introduction by Fanny Howe) and two chap-books\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome\, 2007) and Dark White (Omerta\, 2019). Wite Out\, her memoir (with poems & lyric essays)\, will be published by Hanging Loose Press in spring 2020. She works as a writing consultant for labor organizers in the Unite Here LEAD Project. Norton was a resident at the Guthrie Centre in Ireland in 2015 and at the Lannan Foundation in Marfa\, Texas\, in the summer of 2002. In 2014\, she was awarded a William Dickey Fellowship at San Francisco State University and a Creative Work Fund award. In 2018\, Norton was awarded a Ucross Foundation residency (with a Whiting Foundation travel grant) in Wyoming. \nThis is an event that is open to the public. If you would like to attend\, simply register using the following link: \nhttp://bit.ly/april22reading \nIn these unprecedented times\, we’re thrilled to offer another opportunity to foster community and intellectual friendship through great literature. We look forward to seeing everyone. \nThe last two (March & April 2020) of Linda’s five posts for SFMoMA’s Open Space included excerpts from Wite Out. They include things that are not in the book\, like pictures and collages. You can find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/linda-norton-stephanie-sauer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T193000
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SUMMARY:Kawai Strong Washburn: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
DESCRIPTION: Kawai Strong Washburn discusses his debut novel Sharks in the Time of Saviors. \nPraise for Sharks in the Time of Saviors \n“Sharks in the Time of Saviors is the novel you never knew you were waiting for. Old myths clash with new realities\, love is in a ride or die with grief\, faith rubs hard against magic\, and comic flips with tragic so much they meld into something new. All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. A ferocious debut.”—MARLON JAMES\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“Sharks in the Time of Saviors bursts with life. It is bright and beautifully noisy. It’s so good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. It is revelatory and unputdownable. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent. This family saga is shark tooth sharp. Its pages shoot off crackles and sparks\, and you come out of it changed. It is sublime.”—TOMMY ORANGE\, author of There There \n“Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliant novel and one of the most engaging and memorable books I’ve read this year. Sentences sparkle\, the narrative voices remain distinctive and complete\, and the deep notes of magic sound under the realism of poverty and loss. I didn’t want it to end.”—SARAH MOSS\, author of Ghost Wall \nAbout Sharks in the Time of Saviors \nIn 1995 Kailua-Kona\, Hawaii\, on a rare family vacation\, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water\, everyone fears for the worst. But instead\, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark\, marking his story as the stuff of legends. \nNainoa’s family\, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry\, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods—a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities. But as time passes\, this supposed divine favor begins to drive the family apart: Nainoa\, working now as a paramedic on the streets of Portland\, struggles to fathom the full measure of his expanding abilities; further north in Washington\, his older brother Dean hurtles into the world of elite college athletics\, obsessed with wealth and fame; while in California\, risk-obsessed younger sister Kaui navigates an unforgiving academic workload in an attempt to forge her independence from the family’s legacy. \nWhen supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawai’i—with tragic consequences—they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family\, the meaning of heritage\, and the cost of survival. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kawai-strong-washburn-sharks-in-the-time-of-saviors-2/
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:Creative Writing Reading Series with Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nCyrus Cassells is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry and two books translated from Catalan. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas\, and To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, which is forthcoming in 2021. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow\, he also recieved a Lannon Literary Award\, two NEA grants\, and a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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