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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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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Poetry as Translation\, Translation as Poetry with Ostashevsky
DESCRIPTION:Eugene Ostashevsky\, a Russian-American poet\, will talk about the intersection between poetry and translation in his work\, in particular on wordplay in Russian avant-garde poetry and his new writing project The Feeling Sonnets.\n\n\n \n\n\nOstashevsky is the author of three full-length poetry collections in English: Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2005)\, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008)\, and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (New York Review of Books\, 2017). The winner of international prizes\, The Pirate\, described by the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto as transforming “the absurdity of Russian Futurism into a postmodern poetics of immigration\,” was put to music by Lucia Ronchetti and staged at the 2019 Venice Biennale.\n\n\n \n\n\nAs translator\, Ostashevsky specializes in the 1920s-30s Leningrad avant-garde group OBERIU as well as other avant-garde and contemporary experimental Russian literature. He has published OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern UP\, 2006)\, Vvedensky’s An Invitation for me to Think (NYRB Poets\, 2013\, winner of the National Translation Award\, shared with Matvei Yankelevich)\, and is about to release\, together with Daniel Mellis\, an English-language recreation of Vasily Kamensky’s Tango with Cows\, the first book of Russian Futurist typographic poetry.
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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SUMMARY:The Humanities Institute presents Margaret Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz
DESCRIPTION:Join The Humanities Institute as they present their virtual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with UC Santa Cruz alumna and New York Times best-selling author Kate Schatz (Stevenson ‘01\, creative writing). \nThis free\, live\, virtual event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program and culminates months of in-depth programming and community engagement focused on Atwood’s latest Booker Prize–winning novel\, The Testaments\, a sequel to her 1985 classic\, The Handmaid’s Tale. \n\nPlease note\, this event will not be recorded. Only registered viewers will be able to see and participate in this exclusive\, live conversation. RSVP now to secure your spot. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu \nThe 2020 Deep Read Program is made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics. \n\nDeep Read Partners \nUC Santa Cruz \nCollege Scholars Program \nCouncil of Provosts \nDivision of Student Success \nPorter College \nUniversity Library \nUniversity Relations \n\nCommunity \nBookshop Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T190000
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SUMMARY:Dan Beachy-Quick: Poet discusses his new translation\, Stone-Garland
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist\, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry\, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions). \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation\, a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to finding dazzling new\, overlooked\, and underrepresented voices\, brought into English by the best translators\, and to celebrating the art of translation. \nAbout Stone-Garland\nAnthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet\, a garland; “a flower-logic\, a petal-theory\, a blossom-word.” In Stone-Garland\, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots\, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks. \nSimonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer\, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic\, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages\, sometimes in fragments\, sometimes in sustained glimpses. \nDrawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology\, first drafted in the first century BC\, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children\, gods and insects\, earth and water\, ideas and ideals. Throughout\, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs\, and “the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.” \nSpare\, earthy\, lovely\, Stone-Garland offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave\, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden. \nAbout Dan Beachy-Quick\nDan Beachy-Quick is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. His books include Variations on Dawn and Dusk\, which was longlisted for the National Book Awards. His work has been supported by the Lannan\, Monfort\, and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University\, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Christina Quintana and Naomi J. Williams / Lava Falls
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to celebrate the paperback edition of her new novel Lava Falls. She’ll be in conversation with Christina Quintana (The Heart Wants) and Naomi J. Williams (Landfalls). \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Lava Falls\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n\nThe spirited\, heart-driven people who populate these stories find surprising pockets of hope as they scrabble for ways to believe in themselves and the world. A woman returns to the Alaskan cabin of her survivalist childhood\, full of misgivings and memories. A trip to Yellowstone sparks a crisis for a man who feels kinship with the wolves he glimpses there. Nursing painful pasts\, sisters take a cruise together to Antarctica. A runaway finds salvation from violence in her own singing. And in the title novella\, a Grand Canyon rafting expedition profoundly changes the lives of six women. \n\n \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of eight books of fiction\, including The Evolution of Love\, Lava Falls\, and A Thin Bright Line\, which the New York Times said\, “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her stories have been translated into Japanese\, Spanish\, German\, and Chinese. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area. More about Lucy here. \n \nChristina Quintana (CQ) is a queer writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. CQ’s plays and musicals have been developed and produced with companies including Barrington Stage Company\, Southern Rep\, INTAR\, Ensemble Studio Theatre\, Lark Play Development Center\, Astoria Performing Arts Center\, and the Alliance Theatre\, among others. Her play Scissoring is available for licensing via Dramatists Play Service. Her poetry\, fiction\, and lyric nonfiction is published in Boudin: The Online Home of the McNeese Review\, P.S. I Love You\, PulpMag\, OnCuba\, Nimrod International Journal\, Foglifter Journal\, and beyond\, and is forthcoming in great weather for MEDIA\, and The Punch Magazine. Her poem “She-lium” was featured on Radiolab’s “Elements” episode in collaboration with Emotive Fruition. More about CQ here. \n \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zoetrope: All-Story\, A Public Space\, One Story\, The Southern Review\, and The Gettysburg Review. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Naomi was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Educated at Princeton\, Stanford\, and UC Davis\, today she makes her home in Sacramento\, California. She has taught creative writing at UC Davis\, Sacramento City College\, and the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. She’s hard at work on new writing projects\, including a novel about the early 20th-century Japanese poet Yosano Akiko. More about Naomi here. \n\nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
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