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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:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month\, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry and the release of Barbara Jane Reyes’ sixth book of poetry\, Letters to a Young Brown Girl. Authors will read\, hold dialogue and have short Q & A. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl(BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the author of five previous collections of poetry\, Gravities of Center(Arkipelago Books\, 2003)\, Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005)\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2010)\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2015) and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). \nShe is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband\, educator and poet Oscar Bermeo\, in Oakland. \nConnect with Barbara Jane Reyes – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nRachelle Cruz is the author of God’s Will for Monsters (Inlandia\, 2017)\, which won an American Book Award in 2018 and the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize.  She was appointed the 2018-2020 Inlandia Literary Laureate. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things\, an anthology of Philippine Myths (Carayan Press\, 2015) with Melissa Sipin.  Her most recent book\, Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading\, Discussing and Creating Comics\, was published in Fall 2018. Her work has appeared in As/Us\, Yellow Medicine Review\, The Lit Pub\,The Collagist\, Bone Bouquet\, PANK\, Muzzle Magazine\, Inlandia: A Literary Journey\, among others. She hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour with Muriel Leung. She is a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California\, Riverside.  An Emerging Voices Fellow\, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer\, she lives and writes in Southern California. \nConnect with Rachelle Cruz – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nJan-Henry Gray was born in the Philippines\, grew up in California and worked as a chef in San Francisco for more than 12 years. He lived undocumented in the US for more than 32 years. A graduate of San Francisco State University and Columbia College Chicago’s MFA program\, he received the inaugural Undocupoets Fellowship and awards from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Jan’s writing can be found in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color\, The Rumpus\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, DIAGRAM\, Fourteen Hills\, The Margins\, Quarterly West\, Puerto del Sol\, and other journals. He is the author of the chapbook Selected Emails from speCt! Books. His first book\, Documents\, was chosen by D.A. Powell as the winner of BOA Editions’ 2018 Poulin Poetry Prize. He is a Kundiman fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nConnect with Jan-Henry Gray – Website | Instagram | Facebook \nAldrin Valdez (they) is the author of ESL or You Weren’t Here(Nightboat Books\, 2018)\, selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Poetry in 2019. They are a writer and visual artist. \nConnect with Aldrin Valdez – Instagram | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/BarbaraJaneReyes10-28-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/EkeYcNiNYlQ \n\n—
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Scott James / Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy\, 100 Lives Lost\, and a 15-Year Search for Truth
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Scott James and his new book Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy\, 100 Lives Lost\, and a 15-Year Search for Truth. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nYou can order Trial by Fire here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nIn only 90 seconds\, a fire in the Station nightclub killed 100 people and injured hundreds more. It would take nearly 20 years to find out why—and who was really at fault. \nAll it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from four giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island\, the two questions wouldn’t necessarily have the same answer. \nWithin 24 hours the governor of Rhode Island and the local police chief were calling for criminal charges\, although the investigation had barely begun\, key evidence still needed to be gathered\, and many of the victims hadn’t been identified. Though many parties could be held responsible\, fingers pointed quickly at the two brothers who owned the club. But were they really to blame? Bestselling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Scott James investigates all the central figures\, including the band’s manager and lead singer\, the fire inspector\, the maker of the acoustical foam\, as well as the brothers. Drawing on firsthand accounts\, interviews with many involved\, and court documents\, James explores the rush to judgment about what happened that left the victims and their families\, whose stories he also tells\, desperate for justice. \nTrial By Fire is the heart-wrenching story of the fire’s aftermath because while the fire\, one of America’s deadliest\, lasted minutes\, the search for the truth would take years. \nPlease Note: \n> This virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n> You can order Trial by Fire here – we’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. \nCancellation Policy:\nIn the event the venue cancels an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date for your purchase.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: July Westhale and MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, October 28 at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection\, Via Negativa\, with MK Chavez\non Zoom! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84501134024\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84501134024#  or +12532158782\,\,84501134024#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 845 0113 4024\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb32Mu2uE7\n \nPraise for Via Negativa \n“In this stunning work\, Westhale (Trailer Trash) interrogates the vocabulary used to speak about desire\, the divine\, and literature. Presented as a series of linked lyric pieces\, the book spans a range of forms\, including lyric fragments\, single strophes\, and prose poems\, gracefully unified by an ongoing concern with the damage done by language\, as well as its redemptive potential…With subtlety and skill\, Westhale reminds the reader that sensory experience is irrevocably changed once it is relayed in language.” -Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nAbout Via Negativa \nVIA 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 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 that yearns to leave the reader clear-eyed and bright by interrogating the vocabulary used to speak about desire\, the divine\, and literature. Presented as a series of linked lyric pieces\, the book spans a range of forms\, including lyric fragments\, single strophes\, and prose poems\, gracefully unified by an ongoing concern with the damage done by language\, as well as its redemptive potential. With subtlety and skill\, Westhale reminds the reader that sensory experience is irrevocably changed once it is relayed in language. \nAbout July Westhale \nJuly Westhale is an essayist\, translator\, and the award-winning author of five collections of poetry. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney’s\, The National Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, CALYX\, and The Huffington Post\, among others. When she’s not teaching\, she works as a co-founding editor of PULP magazine. \nAbout MK Chavez \nOakland-based writer MK Chavez is a champion for public health and social justice. She is the author of several chapbooks\, including MOTHERMORPHOSIS (Nomadic Press\, 2016). DEAR ANIMAL\, is her first full-length collection of poetry. Chavez is co-founder and co-curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of the Fruitvale Friday readings at Nomadic Press\, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and recipient of a 2016 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to challenge all forms of oppression.
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