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SUMMARY:Vegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen's "Scenes of Life at the Capital"
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with Wave Books present \nVegetable Nerves: A Group Reading of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital  \n   \nwith David Brazil\, Anselm Berrigan\, Andrew Schelling\, Hoa Nguyen\, Marie Buck\, Norman Fischer\, Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)\, Will Alexander\, Aisha Sasha John \nIn celebration of the new edition of Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen\, edited by David Brazil\, Wave Books and City Lights have invited poets from across North America to read his book-length poem in its entirety. This event will include a recording of Whalen reading from the book as well as a presentation of Whalen’s artwork\, unavailable in earlier editions. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations in the near future \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase Book Here) \n———– \nWritten from 1969 to 1971\, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen’s “Scenes of Life at the Capital” is a lasting testament to the ambition\, range\, powers\, and devotion of this crucially important American voice. Positioned among the Buddhist temples of Kyoto\, Whalen looks across the ocean to address the new frontiers\, political problems\, and transformative hopes of the United States of the 1960s—so much of which still resonates today. In this new edition—with a deep and enlightening afterword by David Brazil—Whalen’s poem is further cemented as a fundamental work in American literary history. \nPhilip Whalen (1923–2002) was a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movements. One of the readers at the historic Six Gallery reading\, he was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. A longtime practicing Buddhist\, he was eventually ordained as a Zen monk and practiced at Zen Centers in New Mexico and San Francisco until his passing in 2002. \nDavid Brazil is a poet\, pastor and translator. His third book of poetry\, Holy Ghost (City Lights\, 2017)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He is the editor of Wave Books’s edition of Philip Whalen’s Scenes of Life at the Capital. With Kevin Killian\, he co-edited The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater\, 1945-1985. With Chika Okoye\, he was the founding curator of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Black Life series\, focusing on cultural production in the African diaspora. He has presented his work at Cambridge University\, Johns Hopkins\, and San Francisco State University\, among other venues. He lives in New Orleans. \nAnselm Berrigan once asked a barber\, when he was six\, to cut all his hair off so he could look like Philip Whalen. He is a poet and a high functioning bum\, as well as a janitor of dreams at various schools. Books include Something for Everybody (Wave)\, Come In Alone (Wave)\, and Wobble Factory (Absolute Slab Editions/free pdf). \nAndrew Schelling cut his teeth on poetry in the Bay Area of the 1980s. He lives in Colorado\, teaches at Naropa University\, and has published twenty-odd books. Recent titles: Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo and Pacific Coast Culture\, and with Anne Waldman Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha. \nPoet Hoa Nguyen‘s books include Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and Violet Energy Ingots. Her forthcoming book\, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure\, will be published in 2021 by Wave books. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the US\, Hoa has lived in Canada since 2011. \nMarie Buck is the author of Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya\, 2015)\, Goodnight\, Marie\, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof\, 2017)\, and Unsolved Mysteries (Roof\, forthcoming 2020). She lives in Brooklyn and is the managing and web literary editor at Social Text. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, author\, and Zen Buddhist teacher and priest. The author of seventeen books of poetry and six books of prose on Zen and religion\, his most recent publication is Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language\, and Religion \, a long-awaited collection of his essays about experimenta \nPhil Elverum\, 1978-present:  born and raised in Anacortes\, Washington\, maker of experimental songs and recordings that explore an internal world\, the experience of a person rooted in a particular place (island Pacific NW)\, part of a lineage of countercultural fringe-workers that goes back beyond memory. \nWill Alexander is a poet\, novelist\, playwright\, essayist\, aphorist\, visual artist\, pianist. He is approaching 40 published titles in the aforementioned genres. A City Lights author he is also poet-in-residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice California. He lives in Los Angeles. \nAisha Sasha John is a choreographer and poet. Her chapbook TO STAND AT THE PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED will be published by UDP in 2021. Her most recent book\, I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart 2017)\, was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize. \n 
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Alexandra Petri and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:“One of the difficulties of being alive today\, is that everything is absurd but fewer and fewer things are funny.” In her new essay collection Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. The “woman card” is a powerful card to play! Q-Anon makes perfect sense! This Panglossian venture into our swampy present offers a virtuosic first draft of history—a parody as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. Petri’s essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger\, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Alexandra will be in conversation with TV comedy writer Megan Amram. 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\n\nModerators \n\n \nMegan Amram\nMegan Amram is a writer and producer for many television series including Silicon Valley\, Parks and Recreation\, and The Simpsons. She was also the star\, creator\, writer\, and director of the web series An Emmy for Megan. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, Vulture… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlexandra Petri
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 16\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Jane Ormerod \nonline on Zoom\nticket link to come \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in numerous publications\, including From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream\, Maintenant\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, POSTstranger\, The Pedestal\, Sensitive Skin\, The Nervous Breakdown\, and Paris Lit Up. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA\, an independent press focusing on unpredictable and innovative poetry and prose. www.greatweatherformedia.com \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nAugust: Caroline Goodwin\nSeptember: Peter Carroll
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for July Westhale with Katie Tandy / Via Negativa: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual launch for July Westhale and her new collection of poems Via Negativa. Reading with her is former cofounding editor of Ravishly and The Establishment\, Katie Tandy. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which you can join here. \nWe also plan to stream the event live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \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\n“Via Negativa\,” often used to talk about the divine: a way of describing what something is by describing what it is not\, is a book about the more difficult\, but truer\, ways of talking about the ecstatic world. Half grappling with divinity and the many manifestations of gender/the self \, and half an ars poetica\, Via Negativa is a gorgeous holy dunking\, a submersion into a rich field of lyricism and emotion\, a mikva that yearns to leave the reader clear-eyed and bright. Diving into verbal lostness\, the hatred of poetry\, mythology\, and the epistemology of identity\, this book challenges the tripartite notion of holiness and its relationship to poetic duty. \n“July Westhale is a shapeshifting poet of desire and violence\, grief and forgiveness\, trauma and loss transformed by resilience. After her gorgeous debut Trailer Trash explored the intricacies of class and gender\, Via Negativa deftly weaves the sensual with the spiritual\, reckoning with a religious inheritance and a powerful faith in pleasure\, engaging in bold lyric conversation with the divine. These deliciously subversive poems range from California fires to church pews with equal parts grace and swagger\, always charged with eroticism\, rooted in the body\, showing us again and again “the wildness of ourselves.” Via Negativa left me breathless.” – Diana Whitney \n\nJuly Westhale is a poet\, translator\, and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of Via Negativa\, Trailer Trash (winner of the 2016 Kore Press Book Award)\,  The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press)\, Quantifiable Data (Alley Cat Books)\, and Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her essays\, poems\, fiction\, and translations are published in numerous journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. \nWhen July isn’t writing\, she’s teaching and working as an editor for PULP Magazine\, a publication devoted to sexuality and reproductive rights. She is also a community educator\, working with all ages of students in all types of settings — in after school programs\, community colleges\, libraries\, living rooms\, bookstores\, fields\, etc. Her work focuses on dismantling the inaccessibility of creative writing and bringing it into a contemporary focus as a necessary way for marginalized communities to archive their experiences. \nShe is currently at work translating Patagonian poet\, Rolando Cárdenas (1933-1990)\, with the hopes that her project will bring English-speaking audiences the work of writers censored and/or disappeared as a result of the 1973 coup d’état in Santiago. \nJuly has received support and funding from the California Humanities Council\, the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Alley Cat Books\, Poets & Writers\, Writing by Writers\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and the Lambda Literary Foundation. \n \n  \nKatie Tandy is a journalist\, playwright\, and co-founding editor of PULP\, an online arts and culture publication centering sex/uality and reproductive rights. She is working on a forthcoming memoir braiding together stories from her childhood with human physiology. When she’s not writing\, she’s singing with the Oakland rock band The Shattucks. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Via Negativa sent to your door\, send an email to events@booksmith.com. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
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SUMMARY:Jessica Francis Kane\, author of Rules for Visiting | GGP Online Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, July 16\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Jessica Francis Kane\, discussing her novel\, RULES FOR VISITING. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85462042800. \n(Order your copy of RULES FOR VISITING in paperback at https://bit.ly/GGPRules\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/RulesAB.) \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER! \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: O Magazine * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Vulture * Chicago Tribune \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY: “The Today Show” * “Good Morning America” * Wall Street Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Southern Living \nAn INDIE NEXT LIST Pick \n“[A] spirit-warming saga . . . a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great-great-great-granddaughter.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine \nDry\, witty\, and unapologetic\, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people\, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job\, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends. \nSmart\, funny\, and full of compassion\, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age\, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels\, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own. \nWith simplicity and honesty\, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book\, with its beautiful contemplation of travel\, trees\, family\, and friendship\, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times. \nAbout the Author\n\nJessica Francis Kane is the author of This Close\, The Report\, and Bending Heaven. This Close was longlisted for The Story Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize\, and The Report was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in a number of publications\, including Virginia Quarterly Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Missouri Review\, The Yale Review\, A Public Space\, and Granta. \nPraise For…\n\n“When 40-year-old gardener May receives a surprise windfall of one month of vacation from the university where she works\, she decides to visit four old friends\, each one from different periods of her life. Through this initially simple and irresistible starting point\, Jessica Francis Kane investigates the most universal mysteries of all.”—Isaac Fitzgerald\, Today \n“This beautiful novel tackles loneliness in the digital age and the lost art of visiting. Introvert May Attaway is granted some unexpected time off as a university gardener and is inspired to reconnect with four once-close friends. May chooses to bypass her friends’ perfectly cultivated online lives to instead meet them IRL. Gives a whole new meaning to Instagram vs. reality.”—Good Morning America \n“This spirit-warming saga\, an antidote to the uncivil\, is a novel to be read again and again\, whenever one needs a reminder to seize the day…Treat yourself to Jessica Francis Kane’s novel Rules for Visiting\, an elixir in book form about a quest for friendship that could have been written by Jane Austen’s great great-great-granddaughter.”—O Magazine \n“Crackles with wit”—The New York Times\n \n“Full of witticisms and broader life lessons\, Rules for Visiting will stay with readers.”—Elizabeth Sile\, Real Simple \n“Kane’s understated meditation on loneliness in the digital age [is] just the right kind of narrative\, an antidote for our distracted days.”—Hillary Kelly\, Vulture \n“A witty\, sometimes melancholy and altogether lovely meditation on love\, loss\, friendship—and botany.”—Wall Street Journal  \n“Fun\, hilarious\, and extremely touching… its coming out right around Mother’s Day is no coincidence… I loved May as a character…  she doesn’t need me to like her\, though. She has her plants\, her father\, some new or revitalized friendships\, and her own sharp and witty mind to keep her company. She is no Grendel — only a deeply alive human.”—Ilana Masad\, NPR \n“At 40\, May Attaway\, the protagonist\, finds herself alone and feeling profoundly disconnected from her life and from herself. When she receives an unexpected gift of time off\, she seizes the opportunity to visit four old friends. May is smart\, funny and more than a little prickly. Readers will love her and find her story both moving and reassuring.”—Michael Barnard\, San Francisco Chronicle  \n“Quietly powerful”—The Chicago Tribune  \n“Impeccably written and surprisingly moving…May’s journey is lovely and deeply affecting.”—Publisher’s Weekly \n“Kane’s delightful tale celebrates friendship\, family\, love\, joy in the ordinary\, finding peace\, and connecting with those around us. Highly recommended for fans of humorous\, touching stories about friendship and self-discovery.”—Library Journal\, starred review \n“In the age of Facebook\, the true nature of friendship can seem muddled . . . [May] voices the doubts and dreams of any woman who has questioned what it means to be a true friend. Rich in subtexts and lush imagery\, Kane’s novel is a sure bet for lively book discussions.”—Booklist\, starred review \n“Engagingly cleareyed prose about a winningly eccentric heroine in love with trees and literature.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s precise and moving Rules For Visiting is an altogether new sort of friendship novel\, one about friendships stretched to their limits over time and space\, the sort of friendships so many of us count as our closest. Kane’s gift for describing beauty and loneliness\, the real stuff of life\, is unparalleled.”—Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers\n \n“An engaging and compassionate portrait of how a root-bound\, constricted life can begin to bloom. Drawing inspiration from mythic sources\, Kane explores the power of friendship and of our connection to the natural world. Her descriptions of plants are transporting.”—Madeline Miller\, author of Circe\n \n“There’s a wonderful richness here in every sentence—a lyric and ambling directness that immediately feels like visiting with an old friend\, and applied to an ordinariness that soon becomes sublime with topics that go anywhere and then always back to the cure this narrator is in search of: a remedy for her hesitation with life\, that feels like a much larger disappointment\, almost global. The novel\, you soon realize\, is perhaps the remedy she searches for\, and you almost wish you could give it to her. But take this home with you\, as this\, this is for us.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Jessica Francis Kane’s novel will win your heart: Single\, melancholy\, resourceful\, May Attaway\, the 40 year old protagonist of Rules for Visiting\, sets out on travels to rekindle her oldest friendships\, and thereby to find herself. Wry\, witty\, ultimately uplifting\, this gem of a novel celebrates the gifts in our ordinary lives.”—Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“In one motion Rules for Visiting can break your heart and lift your spirits up to the sky. Funny\, warm\, thoughtful\, there’s a little Olive Kitteridge in this gem of a novel. I did not want this book to end. It is the perfect gift for friends or people you just have to visit (everyone I know is getting this!)”—Julie Klam\, author of The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous\, the Infamous\, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them  \n“An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship\, family\, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel.”—Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“Jessica Francis Kane has written a vivid\, elegant and masterfully constructed novel about friendship and neighbors and our own personal odysseys. This is a deeply smart book\, one I had difficulty putting down. There is real wisdom in these pages.”—Stuart Nadler\, author of The Inseparables
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