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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
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Jason Rezaian In Conversation With Yeganeh Rezaian
DESCRIPTION:Live In Conversation: Saturday\, April 25th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\nJason Rezaian is an Iranian-American journalist who served as Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post. He was convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial in Iran in 2015. \nHis book Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison\, published in January 2019\, details his experience in captivity in Iran. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“If you have goals in life and want to avoid regret\, time with loved ones is best measured in quality\, not quantity”\n– Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-rezaian-in-conversation-with-yeganeh-rezaian/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:But Also #23: Gabriel\, Awkward-Rich\, van Dyck\, Wilson & Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:The But Also returns virtually on Saturday\, April 25th featuring Kay Gabriel\, Cameron Awkward-Rich\, Stephen van Dyck\, Claudia Wilson and Paula Mendoza \nKay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. She’s the author of Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 (BOAAT Press\, 2017) and a member of the editorial collective for the Poetry Project Newsletter. With Andrea Abi-Karam she’s co-editing We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\, forthcoming from Nightboat in fall 2020. Find her recent work in the Brooklyn Rail\, Social Text and the LA Review of Books. \nA poet and scholar\, Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry: Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions 2016) and Dispatch (Persea Books\, 2019). His writing has appeared/is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day\, American Quarterly\, Signs\, Science Fiction Studies and elsewhere. Cameron has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, The Watering Hole\, and Duke University’s program in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies. Presently\, he is an assistant professor of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. \nStephen van Dyck’s People I’ve Met From the Internet is a queer\nreimagining of the coming-of-age narrative set at the dawn of the internet era. In 1997\, AOL is first entering suburban homes just as thirteen-year-old Stephen is coming into his sexuality\, constructing selves and cruising in the fantasyscape of the internet. Through strange\, intimate\, and sometimes perilous physical encounters with the hundreds of men he finds there\, Stephen explores the pleasures and pains of growing up\, contends with his mother’s homophobia and early death\, and ultimately searches for a way of being in the world. Spanning twelve years\, the book takes the form of a very long\nannotated list\, tracking Stephen’s journey and the men he meets from adolescence in New Mexico to post-recession adulthood in Los Angeles\, creating a multi-dimensional panorama of gay men’s lives as he searches for glimpses of utopia in the available world. \nCLAUDIA M. WILSON is a poet\, instructor\, & social worker who lives and plays in Amherst\, MA. They have featured at various venues in Ohio & Boston such as Writer’s Block\, Fazenda Queer Reading\, & The Oberon. Claudia’s present work in progress centers embodiment\, familial relationships\, blackness and living in the woods\, and WWF wrestlers from the mid-’80s. Claudia is a TWH & VONA graduate. Their chapbook GROWN was published through Game Over Books Press and is about Claudia’s time in foster care. They study poetry at Umass Amherst and they live with their cat Pablo a.k.a Lil Pooder a.k.a Pooderbutt. They’re originally from Cleveland & Columbus\, Ohio. \nPaula Mendoza earned her MFA at the University of Michigan and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. Her first book\, Play for Time\, winner of the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize\, is due out May 2020. She lives and writes in Salt Lake City\, Utah. \nReading will start at 7pm EST. Zoom link coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/but-also-23-gabriel-awkward-rich-van-dyck-wilson-mendoza/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Be About It Birthday Kitchen
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Naughton (editor of Be About It)\, Amy Berkowitz (host of Amy’s Kitchen)\, and Tyler Vile (birthday celebrant) are teaming up to host an online reading that spans genres and coasts. \nTune in for readings by:\nVenus Selenite\nAngel Dominguez\nTyler Vile\nAmy Long\nAlexandra Naughton\n& more TBA \nWe’ll share a Zoom link as the date approaches.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/be-about-it-birthday-kitchen/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: We've Been Too Patient
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the third event in our Disability Book Series featuring Kelechi Ubozoh and LD Green\, and their recently published book “We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health”. \nIn this turbulent moment\, we at SDA feel that this book and the voices within have much to offer. The urgency of the title speaks to the change we must fight for in all our efforts to create a society that values and respects the inherent worth of all our lives. Reserve your spot for free at the ticket link above to get the information for the Zoom. You do not need to have read the book to participate! \nKelechi and LD will be sharing timely readings from the book and fostering discussion. They feel their experience with their own mental health has given them each heightened capacity to navigate a shifting world with resilience and grace. We’re looking forward to a community discussion on mental health\, surviving and thriving\, and fostering mutual aid during this time of change. \nMore information about the book can be found here: www.wevebeentoopatient.org and the eventbrite registration can be accessed here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weve-been-too-patient-voices-from-radical-mental-health-tickets-101932284206?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch. \nAccessibility\nFor any accessibility needs\, please contact Peter at (415) 546-1333 ext 309 or peter@sdaction.org. Updates on our protocol will be posted here. \nAbout Kelechi Ubozoh\nKelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American singer\, writer\, and mental health advocate. Originally from Brooklyn\, New York\, Kelechi holds a BA in journalism from Purchase College\, and was the first undergraduate ever published in The New York Times. Recently\, Kelechi was featured in the SAMSHA Voice Award-Winning documentary\, The S Word\, which follow the lives of suicide attempt survivors in an effort to end the stigma and silence around suicide. Previously\, Kelechi supervised stigma discrimination reduction programs and led communication operations at a mental health non-profit organization\, PEERS\, including a mental health stigma reduction research program for Chinese mental health consumers where she partnered with Dr. Larry Yang and Columbia University. She also was the lead project coordinator in a California Mental Health Service Act funded statewide project\, where she applied evidence-based research from working with Dr. Patrick Corrigan to train speakers’ bureau on how to share targeted mental health recovery stories across 41 California counties. When she isn’t working she runs a Bay Area quarterly\, submission-based reading series called MoonDrop Productions\, and performs at literary readings across the Bay. Her work was recently published in an Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color\, called Endangered Species\, Enduring Values from Pease Press. https://kelechiubozoh.wordpress.com/ \nAbout L.D. Green\nL.D. Green is an artivist: a genderqueer writer\, performer\, college educator\, and mental health advocate living in Oakland\, California. Their work has been published on Salon\, The Body is Not an Apology webzine\, in Sinister Wisdom\, Foglifter\, sPARKLE + bLINK\, on truth-out.org and elsewhere. They have featured at dozens of reading series\, slams\, showcases\, and workshops in schools\, colleges\, and open mics locally and across the country. LD was on two national slam teams in 2004 and 2005. As a playwright and writer/performer\, they have had their work performed at multiple local and national theater festivals including the National Queer Arts Festival three times as well as the San Francisco Fringe Festival. LD received their BA from Vassar College and their MFA from Mills College in Creative Writing. They were a 2010 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. They attended Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and was a Catwalk Artist in Residence in 2013. LD is a long-time advocate of radical\, critical pedagogy and applies this to their classrooms and theater work. LD is Assistant Professor of English at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg\, California where they teach composition\, creative writing\, and literature. LD was an active member of The Icarus Project from 2009-2011 and has presented with Youth in Mind and the California Mental Health Advocates for Children and Youth. LD writes poetry\, plays\, speculative fiction and non-fiction. They were waitlisted for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in 2018. For more information\, visit https://www.ldgreen.org/ \nAbout the Disability Book Series\nThe intent of this book reading series is to highlight authors with disabilities\, disabled writers\, and to interrogate ableism and societal conceptions of disability. As we recognize the 30th anniversary of the ADA this year\, we are working to bring together a broad set of perspectives on disability\, disability rights\, and disability justice. \nWe welcome any and all suggestions for future authors\, free venues in San Francisco\, and feedback as to how our events can be more accessible\, inclusive\, or generally better.
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A Virtual Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SNS ONLINE – Please sign up in advance to read \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts one week in advance (open now) and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts. \nTo sign up\, please email holliehardy@gmail.com \nApril featured writers: Rebecca Foust & Halim Madi \nApril theme: Scandal\, “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 sign up to read at SNS’s very first virtual open mic on ZOOM. \nShare your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nSaturday\, April 25\, 2020\n7 – 9 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nZoom info: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91963727704 \nPassword: 585677 \niPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,91963727704# \nTelephone: +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) \nMeeting ID: 919 6372 7704 \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
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... ONLINE! - THE NEW YORK EDITION
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nTHE NEW YORK EDITION for the East Coast Time Zone\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team!\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nSaturday\, April 25th\nVirtual Doors at 7pm EASTERN\nShow at 7:30pm EASTERN\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2xx3WDe \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @YG-2D\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU IF HE HAS TO! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together…
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