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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME: \nFriday\, May 1\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nLOCATION:  \nOnline\nhttps://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vpIodOGgpzsvFenKBZqv9D_MiH5zQ9SndA \nDESCRIPTION: \nTHE TRANSLATED WORLD: CRAFTING GLOBAL POETRY INTO DYNAMIC ENGLISH \nPoet Cyrus Cassells will draw on his experience as a translator of Catalan and Italian literature to discuss the challenges and craft of turning global poetry into dynamic English versions that convey the essence of the originals\, stressing the importance of translation as a vital means of transmitting world history and culture. \nCyrus Cassells is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry and two books translated from the 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 has also received a Lannan Literary Award\, a Lambda Literary Award\, two NEA grants\, and a Pushcart Prize. \n 
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SUMMARY:Release of Emerson Whitney's HEAVEN\, with Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:1Emerson Whitney will be reading from Heaven\, followed by a conversation with Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart. Join the conversation and help us celebrate this beautiful book. \nJoin on McSweeney’s Instagram Live this Friday\, May 1st. at 4pm PST/7pm ET for the digital release of Heaven. \nNamed a best book by the AV Club\, PAPER\, Literary Hub\, Refinery29\, Ms. Magazine\, Chicago Review of Books\, the Observer\, and the Seattle Times.\n\nRead an exclusive excerpt from Heaven published by The Paris Review. \nEmerson Whitney writes\, “Really\, I can’t explain myself without making a mess.” What follows is that mess—electrifying\, gorgeous\, defiant. \nAt Heaven’s center\, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother\, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant\, psychedelic prose—all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler\, Donna Haraway\, and C. Riley Snorton—to engage transness and the breathing\, morphing nature of selfhood. \nAn expansive examination of what makes us up\, Heaven wonders what role our childhood plays in who we are. Can we escape the discussion of causality? Is the story of our body just ours? With extraordinary emotional force\, Whitney sways between theory and memory in order to explore these brazen questions and write this unforgettable book. \nOrder the book HERE \nPraise for Heaven“An incisive\, nuanced inquiry into gender and body.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Melodic and engagingly written\, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once.”\n—Literary Hub \n“Emerson Whitney’s first prose book is a frank and absorbing examination of transness\, brokenness\, mothering\, femininity\, embodiment and truth.”\n—Ms. Magazine \n“(W)hat Heaven does best is capture the disorienting pull of unsettling childhood memories—at once incomplete and terribly weighted.”\n—AV Club \nOne of the Observer’s Best Books of Spring \n“Heaven is an unflinching personal examination of family and identity\, bearing witness to what it means to live life on one’s own terms.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“A gripping memoir whose sentences are akin to a skipped heartbeat”\n—PAPER \n“(U)tterly hypnotic… a gorgeous book that feels like a painting”\n—The Seattle Times \n“Whitney weaves (the) various strands into a powerful\, ground-breaking account of growing up and figuring out one’s relationship to oneself and the world.”\n—Book Riot \n“Heaven delves into deep memory and deep thinking to offer an ‘account of oneself’ that questions\, if not upends\, the very idea of such a thing at every turn. The result is a poetic\, candid\, probing reckoning with childhood\, the maternal\, gender\, and the possibilities of theory which will both speak to its time and outlast it.”\n—Maggie Nelson\, author Bluets and The Argonauts \n“Emerson has written a story about Mommy and me but mainly they’re extending to us a forceful act of writing in defense of the self that is taking pictures\, running away—eyes full of tears\, then pirouetting\, and standing their ground to tell us this colossally wonderful and woefully broken story”\n—Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls and I Must Be Living Twice \n“Heaven is the book of deepest affections\, a harrowing book\, a bewitched book. Composed in a style of a bird-nest\, Heaven weaves together multiple threads of conversation with self and with brilliant voices of others\, as different as Lacan and Jos Charles\, Allen Ginsberg and Michael Ondaatje. One can’t help but be moved by this compelling record\, this book of hours for pain made utterly beautiful by its author’s patient meditation on childhood and gender\, motherhood and sorrow.”\n—Ilya Kaminksy\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Heaven goes down like a strong elixir… I can still feel its heat swirling through me.”\n—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Heaven\, although prose\, is poetry. The language is tender and present. The word performs connection and recovery… Theory from such thinkers as Butler\, Foucault\, Freud\, Haraway\, Irigaray\, and Lacan are broken down to its lived practical parts and brought back into common parlance\, brought in relation to the etymology that is Whitney’s becoming.”\n—Arisa White\, author of You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened \n“Elegantly poetic\, beautiful\, brutal\, and wise… Heaven is a wonder.”\n—Michelle Tea\, author of Valencia and Modern Tarot \n“Someone asked me recently if I ever imagine writing from today that has the strength to remain in print centuries from now. ‘Yes\, I do\,’ I said\, and told them about a book by Emerson Whitney called Heaven. Every page is beautifully written\, pitch-perfect harrowing\, but maybe more important is how it changes many things we thought we understood about life. Hundreds of years from now\, readers can better appreciate this time and this nation through Emerson Whitney’s extraordinary lens\, where they write\, ‘The history of categorization around disability in the United States was always about social control.’”\n—CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Exploring and exploding gender\, language\, desire\, this book is necessary reading for anyone who’s used language\, who has had a mother\, who has a body at all.”\n—Sam Sax\, author of Madness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-of-emerson-whitneys-heaven-with-melissa-febos/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ignatian Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Great news! Not only will the Ignatian still be hosting a release party for this year’s issue\, but it will be a virtual event so that contributors and readers from all over the world can participate! Save the date for May 1 at 5 pm PST and keep your eyes peeled for the Zoom link to come! If you have any questions\, feel free to dm us. We hope to “see” you all there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ignatian-release-party/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #6 with Chuck Atkinson\, Barbara Bloom\, Dane Cervine
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #6 with Chuck Atkinson\, Barbara Bloom\, Dane Cervine part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #7
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nAll forms of your support matter. One of those forms is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If you can swing it in these tough times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2-tickets-100581457848;\nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSIGN-UP SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #7\nTime: May 1\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84688309997 \nMeeting ID: 846 8830 9997\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,84688309997# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84688309997# 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: 846 8830 9997\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kl5oWFfom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T190000
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SUMMARY:Vote At Home with Amber McReynolds and Jesse Wegman
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Ian Haney Lopez\nProgram will air Friday May 1st\, 7:00 PM PST \nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut \nAs highlighted by urgent op-eds and leading journalists\, the November 2020 election will be disrupted\, perhaps severely\, by the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s a secure and well-studied solution available: voting by mail\, which promises to protect public health and the integrity of our democracy. What are the pathways to making vote-by-mail widely available? What are the challenges? Who implements this kind of policy change\, and where? And\, with the most consequential election of our lifetimes less than six months away\, how can citizens organize to push for this bipartisan mandate and actually get results within an urgent timeframe? \nJesse Wegman has written about the Supreme Court and legal affairs for the New York Times editorial board since 2013\, and his book Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College was praised by National Book Award winner and MacArthur fellow Annette Gordon-Reed as a “timely and erudite work that should interest all who are interested in the future of the United States.” He’s joined by Amber McReynolds\, CEO for the National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition and co-author of When Women Vote. These nationally recognized experts on voting rights\, the Constitution\, and electoral law engage in a spirited and forward-looking conversation moderated by Ian Haney Lopez\, author of Merge Left\, which astutely examines the role of coded racism in contemporary political campaigns. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \nRecommended Reading\nAmber McReynolds\, When Women Vote\nJesse Wegman\, et the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.\nIan Haney Lopez\, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vote-at-home-with-amber-mcreynolds-and-jesse-wegman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Adam Levin: Bubblegum
DESCRIPTION:Adam Levin discusses his new novel Bubblegum. \nPraise for Bubblegum \n“Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest\, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness – an irrepressible and insanely entertaining examination of our obsessive culture that doesn’t forget to be fond of that which it is satirizing. Levin’s keen and ornery mind\, reveling in the world with vast energy\, shows us new ways of loving it.”George Saunders\, author of the Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo  \n“Adam Levin’s brilliant\, inventive\, fully imagined alternative world gives us insight and clarity about the actual world we live in.  We are implicated\, warned\, but what a hilarious ride. Bubblegum is a wild\, ambitious\, and original novel.  Levin is a wonder.”Dana Spiotta\, author of Eat the Document \n“With Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has created a cubist painting about consumerism\, fetishization\, and the increasingly blurred line between life and advertisement in a hyper-materialist\, post-IRL society. Levin masterfully creates a world without the internet to examine the impact and insanity it has sewn into the American project\, and he does so while gleefully skewering our unraveling vernacular. A freaky marvel of a tome.”Catherine Lacey\, author of Certain American States\, The Answers and Nobody is Ever Missing \nAbout Bubblegum \nBubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist\, and has never existed. Rather\, a wholly different species of interactive technology–a “flesh-and-bone robot” called the Curio–has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet\, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio\, is now writing his memoir\, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to\, but must find a way to live in.\nAt age thirty-eight\, still living at home with his widowed father\, Belt insulates himself from the awful and terrifying world outside by spending most of his time with books\, his beloved Curio\, and the voices in his head\, which he isn’t entirely sure are in his head. After Belt’s father goes on a fishing excursion\, a simple trip to the bank escalates into an epic saga that eventually forces Belt to confront the world he fears\, as well as his estranged childhood friend Jonboat\, the celebrity astronaut and billionaire.\nIn Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious\, resonant\, and monumental narrative about heartbreak\, longing\, art\, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. Bubblegum is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-levin-bubblegum/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
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