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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
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SUMMARY:Robert Macfarlane: A virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland
DESCRIPTION:Robert Macfarlane joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland (W.W. Norton). \nMore details coming soon\, so keep an eye on this space for registration info. \nAbout Underland\nNational Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award \n“Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times.” —Terry Tempest Williams\, New York Times Book Review \nIn Underland\, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth\, literature\, memory\, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves\, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap\, to a deep-sunk “hiding place” where nuclear waste will be stored for 100\,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness\, burial\, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. \nGlobal in its geography and written with great lyricism\, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent\, this is a book that will change the way you see the world. \nAbout Robert Macfarlane \nRobert Macfarlane’s prize-winning and best-selling books include Mountains of the Mind\, The Old Ways\, Landmarks\, and\, with Jackie Morris\, The Lost Words. He lives in Cambridge\, England\, where he is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge.
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SUMMARY:Zach Norris and Rosemarie Day VIRTUALLY
DESCRIPTION:Rosemarie Day and Zach Norris discuss both of their books\, the pandemic’s effect on communities of color and lower income communities\, public health policy across a wider range of issues\, and much more! \nRosemarie Day\, author of Marching Toward Coverage: How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare\, is the founder and CEO of Day Health Strategies\, which helps to implement national health reform. She’s been working in healthcare and related fields for more than 25 years\, including as the founding deputy director and chief operating officer of the Health Connector in Massachusetts\, where she helped launch the award-winning organization that established the first state-run health insurance exchange in the state. She also served as the chief operating officer for the Massachusetts Medicaid program. Rosemarie lives in Somerville\, MA; this is her first book. Connect with her @Rosemarie_Day1 or at rosemarieday.com. \nZach Norris\, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities\, is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement\, violence prevention\, juvenile justice\, and police brutality\, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families\, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University. Connect with him at zachnorris.comand on Twitter (@ZachWNorris). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Register with Eventbrite. We encourage you to support these causes by purchasing the authors’ books. See below.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Sue Miller (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Sue Miller’s latest book\, Monogomy\, is an engrossing and haunting novel about marriage\, love\, family\, happiness and sorrow. \nSue is recognized internationally for her elegant and sharply realistic accounts of the contemporary family. Her books have been widely translated and published in 22 countries around the world. \nThe Good Mother\, the first of her ten novels\, was an immediate bestseller (more than six months at the top of the New York Times charts). Subsequent novels include three Book-of-the-Month main selections:  Family Pictures (a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award)\, While I Was Gone (an Oprah’s Book Club selection)\, and The Senator’s Wife. Her non-fiction book\, The Story of My Father\, was heralded by BookPage as a “beautiful\, spare memoir about her relationship with her father during his illness and death from Alzheimer’s disease.”  Her numerous honors include a Guggenheim and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. \nSue is a committed advocate for the writer’s engagement with society at large\, having held a position on the Board of PEN-American Center. For four years she was Chair of PEN New England\, an active branch that worked with writing programs in local high schools and ran classes in prisons. She has taught fiction at\, among others\, Amherst\, Tufts\, Boston University\, Smith\, and MIT.
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SUMMARY:Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin: Celebrating City Lights Spotlights Series Vol. 19 & 20
DESCRIPTION:      \nreading from \nFacing You/Spotlight #19\, by Uche Nduka \nNatch/Spotlight #20\, by Sophia Dhalin \nboth published by City Lights Books \n—- \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———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. Link to be posted soon. Check back with us. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n——— \nCity Lights celebrates two new books in it Spotlight Reading series \nabout Facing You \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \nabout Natch \nQueer pastoral lyrics take on the romantic sublime in a stunningly assured debut collection. \nSophia Dahlin’s first full-length collection\, Natch\, is a dazzling array of queer erotic lyrics demanding pasture in the romantic sublime. By turns dreamy\, hysterical\, earthy\, and perverse\, the poems of Natch speak the dialogue of a person’s parts\, the dynamism of a queer body desiring something between rest and consumption. In her stunningly assured voice\, compounded of bravado and vulnerability\, Dahlin outlines the threshold where feeling takes over the body’s functioning\, desire leads us past deciding\, and we are so lustful that we are not dead when we have finished dying. \nUche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria\, was raised bilingual in Igbo and English\, and earned his BA from the University of Nigeria. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute. In 2007\, he immigrated to the United States\, where he would earn his MFA from Long Island University\, Brooklyn. Nduka is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including the U.S.-published books Living in Public (2018)\, Nine East (2013)\, Ijele (2012)\, and eel on reef (2007). His work has been translated into German\, Finnish\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Romanian. \nSophia Dahlin earned her BA from Bard College and her MFA from the University of Iowa\, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her work has appeared in many journals\, including BOMB\, Fence\, Lambda Literary\, Denver Quarterly\, and The Recluse. With Jacob Kahn\, she edits the chapbook press Eyelet. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she teaches with California Poets in the Schools\, conducts generative writing workshops\, and hosts readings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCritical Praise for Facing You \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \nPraise for Facing You: \n“For decades\, Uche Nduka’s refulgent poetry has shone out amid the various national and cultural contexts in which he has found himself\, from Nigeria to Germany to Brooklyn. The brief poems of Facing You showcase Nduka at his most iconic. Casual and elemental\, Surreal and Blue\, these poems are like fuses: exactly equal to their tasks. Facing You proves the pliant strength of the lyric\, its ability\, in a handful of blunt and turning lines\, to reverse reality with the ease of an upraised mirror. Nduka’s poetry models the principle of agile\, flamelike survival amid this most leaden of worlds.”––Joyelle McSweeney \n“Uche Nduka’s lyrical abstractions are razor sharp and lighting fast. Each poem turns several corners in the blink of an eye. A Nigerian-American poet by way of Germany and Holland\, Nduka has honed his genius on the whetting stones of a tri-continental cosmopolitanism. His voice is both courtly and sensual\, and his poems as frankly sexual as they are defiantly explosive. Like Rimbaud\, Nduka sings the pride of exile\, the debauchery of imagination\, with wile and wit. We are lucky to have him.”—Kit Robinson
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