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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves
DESCRIPTION:Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference\, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race\, gender\, sexuality\, migration\, culture and religion\, will share work that honors their 13-year-old selves — and the surprise\, disbelief\, pride\, love\, and even derision those 13-year-old selves might have for the grown and poetry folx they have become. Participants will each open their readings by addressing themselves as their younger selves might experience them now. An unforgettable evening of vulnerable intimacy\, physical distancing\, and social connection. With Hari Alluri\, Nico Amador\, Faisal Mohyuddin\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, and Seema Reza. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nNico Amador\nNico Amador is a poet\, community organizer and facilitator based in Vermont by way of San Diego and Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry\, Vol 3\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, Hypertext Review\, Poets Reading the News\, Poet Lore\, Bedfellows… Read More →\n\n \nCynthia Dewi Oka\nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage (Northwestern University Press) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket). Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in ESPNW\, Hyperallergic\, Guernica\, Scoundrel Time\, Academy of American Poets\, American Poetry… Read More →\n\n \nSeema Reza\nSeema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. Her writing has appeared in print and online in McSweeney’s\, The Feminist Wire\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Offing\, Full Grown People\, and The Nervous Breakdown\, among others. She has performed… Read More →\n\n \nFaisal Mohyuddin\nFaisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry and a 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society. His other awards include the Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley… Read More →\n\n \nHari Alluri\nHari Alluri is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya)\, Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers)\, and the chapbook The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press\, 2016). Winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color\, his current projects are supported by grants from… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-ode-to-our-13-year-old-selves/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors\, Jon Sack\, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) \ncelebrating his new graphic novel \nWindows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \n———–– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———— \n(Click Here) for reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nThe book for this event may be purchased at this link : \n>Purchase WINDOWS ON THE WORLD here< \n————- \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners. \nJacqueline Danell Obradors is an actor and has appeared in numerous feature film that include Six Days\, Seven Nights (1998)\,  Deuce Bigalow:Male Gigolo (1999)\, Tortilla Soup (2001)\, A Man Apart(2003) and Unstoppable (2004). She has also appeared on the television crime drama NYPD Blue (2001–2005.) \nJay Walsh play Vocals\, Guitars\, and Piano for the musical combo DOUGLAS FIR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-mailer-anderson-friends/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sasha Abramsky - Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World's First Female Sports Superstar
DESCRIPTION:Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod\, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth centuries. Dod was the third woman to win the Ladies’ Championships at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. She did so for the first time in 1887\, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. She remains today the youngest person ever to have won a singles trophy in what would come to be known as the big-four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. \nDod won Wimbledon five times\, grew bored with competitive tennis\, and moved on to myriad other sports. She became the world’s leading female ice skater and tobogganist\, perfecting her talents in St. Moritz\, Switzerland; befriended Elizabeth Main\, the most skilled female mountaineer of the age\, and joined her in summiting many of Switzerland’s and Norway’s most difficult mountains; became an endurance bicyclist; played hockey for England; won the British ladies’ golf championship in 1904; and finally\, in 1908\, took the Olympic silver medal in archery in the London Olympics. \nIn her time\, she had a huge following\, with fans coming out by the thousands to cheer her on. She was feted by the media\, and repeatedly profiled by the top sports journals of the day. Had Dod lived in a different age\, this fame would have followed her throughout her life. But Dod’s years of glory occurred just before the rise of cinema\, radio\, and other electronic media. By the outset of World War I\, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. \nLittle Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life\, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Dod was born into a world in which even upper-class women such as herself could not vote\, were restricted in owning property\, and were assumed to be fragile and delicate. True\, the monarch was a queen\, Victoria; but Victoria’s reign was hardly a bastion of feminist progress. Women of Lottie Dod’s class were expected not to work and to definitely get married. Dod turned that equation on its head; she never married and never had children\, instead putting heart and soul into training to be the best athlete she could possibly be. \nDod was one of the pioneers who paved the way for the likes of Billie Jean King\, Serena Williams\, and the top female athletes of today. She accepted no limits\, no glass ceilings\, believed she could compete with the top men in whatever sport she set her sights on\, and always refused to compromise. \nSasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared over the past twenty-five years in major newspapers and magazines in the United States and United Kingdom. These include the Nation\, the Atlantic\, the New Yorker online\, Rolling Stone\, Mother Jones\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the Independent\, the Observer\, and the New Statesman. He has written widely about poverty and inequality; hunger; mass incarceration; the treatment of immigrants\, refugees\, and asylum seekers; along with book reviews\, cultural essays\, and travel writing. Little Wonder is Abramsky’s ninth book. He teaches writing part-time at the University of California\, Davis\, and lives in Sacramento with his wife and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sasha-abramsky-little-wonder-the-fabulous-story-of-lottie-dod-the-worlds-first-female-sports-superstar/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:America’s Most Unusual Marriage:  Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella in conversation with Monika Bauerlein
DESCRIPTION:Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant Rose Pastor Stokes spent her first twelve years in America in a sweatshop\, only to skyrocket to the upper class when she married an heir to a massive mining and real estate fortune. It’s a classic Cinderella story: that is\, if Cinderella converted her prince to socialism\, became an antiwar and labor activist\, caused a scandal by promoting birth control access\, and was dubbed “one of the most dangerous influences of the country” by a sitting President. \nThis tale of a volatile\, bright-burning Gilded Age marriage could only exist in the America of Jay Gatsby\, bootleggers\, and the Lost Generation: an era of glamour and privation\, of big dreams and bigger inequities. An era\, as Hochschild reveals\, with far more parallels to our own than anything in the Brothers Grimm. Only Hochshild could do justice\, in words and images\, to a crusader who was far ahead of her own time\, but strikingly relevant to ours. Hochschild will be joined by Monika Bauerlein\, CEO and award-winning editor of Mother Jones.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/americas-most-unusual-marriage-adam-hochschild-on-rebel-cinderella-in-conversation-with-monika-bauerlein/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Andrew Fraknoi: Visit the Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System
DESCRIPTION:So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit\, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to imagine the top tourist destinations in our solar system that our great-grandchildren will be visiting. \nUsing spectacular images from space probes and the world’s largest telescopes\, we will explore the most intriguing future “tourist destinations” among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4\,000-mile lava channel on Venus\, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height of Mount Everest)\, the awesome Verona Cliffs on the moon Miranda (which are the tallest “lover’s leap” in the solar system)\, the recently discovered salt-water steam geysers on Saturn’s intriguing moon Enceladus (nicknamed “Cold Faithful.”). We’ll finish with the latest images of the eerie vistas on Pluto. \nAndrew Fraknoi retired in 2017 as the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College\, and now teaches non-credit astronomy courses for older adults at The Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco and the OLLI program at SF State.  Fraknoi has appeared regularly on local and national radio\, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language\, and was the California Professor of the Year in 2007. He is the lead author on a college astronomy textbook and a children’s book When the Sun Goes Dark. He also writes science fiction and has published three stories in the last few years. The International Astronomical Union has named Asteroid 4859 Asteroid Fraknoi to honor his contributions to the public understanding of science. \nThis is the perfect get-away from our current problems\, rooted in real science with a hopeful view of the future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-fraknoi-visit-the-top-tourist-sights-of-the-solar-system/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:DEAR EDWARD by Ann Napolitano | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 2\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel\, DEAR EDWARD. \nThis book is one of Kathleen’s recent favorites. Samantha of GGP said this about DEAR EDWARD: “I’m a little reluctant to reveal the details of the events that propels this extraordinary novel forward. A plane crash leaving only one young survivor seems repellently gloomy and yet Napolitano has given us one of the most hopeful stories I’ve ever read!” \nPlease join us even if you have not read the book yet. We’ll play a sample from the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84683199803. \nYou can order a hardcover of DEAR EDWARD at bit.ly/EdwardHC\, or an audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/EdwardAB.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dear-edward-by-ann-napolitano-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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