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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Yusef Komunyakaa
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \nYusef Komunyakaa\nYusef Komunyakaa’s books of poetry include Dien Cai Dau\, Neon Vernacular\, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize\, Warhorses\, Emperor of Water Clocks\, and Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth (forthcoming from FSG). His honors include the William Faulkner Prize (Université Rennes\, France)\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. His plays\, performance art and libretti have been performed internationally and include Saturnalia\, Wakonda’s Dream\, Testimony\, and Gilgamesh. He teaches at New York University.
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SUMMARY:Danez Smith and Patricia Smith | Readings + Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Danez Smith and Patricia Smith for a joint reading and conversation. This reading is generously funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation\, and part of ARC’s ongoing Poetry and the Senses initiative. Danez and Patricia will be joined in conversation by 2020 ARC Poetry fellow Menat Allah El Attma and ARC Program Director Laurie Macfee\, and will be taking questions from the online audience. \nPoetry and the Senses creates meaningful opportunities for engagement\, research\, and collaboration. As a think tank for the arts at UC Berkeley\, ARC acts as a facilitator and connector between the campus and the many flourishing regional poetry communities. This two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. \nThe theme for 2020 is emerge/ncy. What kinds of poetic modes of address might be recruited in times of global catastrophe? How does poetry help us think through and within crisis? “Emergency” implies urgency\, sudden harm\, life-threatening violence\, and extreme circumstances\, but embedded within it is the word “emergence;” suggesting rebirth and new beginnings. How can we understand moments of emergency as catalysts for renewal\, as ruptures that signal massive—if painful—change? \n\nDanez Smith is a Black\, Queer\, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul\, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award; they also wrote [insert] boy (YesYes Books\, 2014)\, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Montalvo Arts Center\, Cave Canem\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez’s work has been featured widely\, appearing on platforms such as Buzzfeed\, The New York Times\, PBS NewsHour\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Magazine\, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi\, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection\, “Homie”\, was published by Graywolf in January 2020. Find more at www.danezsmithpoet.com \n\nPatricia Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books\, 2017)\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the 2018 NAACP Image Award\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and was a  finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press\, 2008)\, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go\, Gotta Flow (CityFiles Press\, 2015)\, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press\, 2006)\, Close to Death (Zoland Books\, 1998)\, Big Towns Big Talk (Zoland Books\, 2002)\, Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha\, 1991);  the children’s book Janna and the Kings (Lee & Low\, 2013)\, and the history Africans in America (Mariner\, 1999)\, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The Baffler\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, Tin House and in Best American Poetry\, Best American Essays and Best American Mystery Stories. She co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (University of Arkansas Press\, 2017)\, and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir (Akashic Books\, 2012). Smith is a Guggenheim fellow\, a Civitellian\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize\, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College\, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Engaging the Senses Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Derek McCormack and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:A Semiotexte Books Double Bill with two razor-sharp writers of fiction \n       \ncelebrating the the release of two new novels \nCastle Faggot – by Derek McCormack – Afterword by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley \nA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland. \nand \nThe Freezer Door – by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore \nA meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity. \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. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nabout CASTLE FAGGOT \nCastle Faggot is Derek McCormack’s darkest and most delicious book yet\, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland\, a playland for gay men\, and Castle Faggot\, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log\, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—some were killed\, some killed themselves\, all ended up as décor. \nThe book includes a map of Faggotland\, a photobook of the castle\, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse\, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends—reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe\, Castle Faggot transmutes McCormack’s love of the lurid and the childlike\, of funhouses and sickhouses\, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says\, “the mystery of objects\, the lyricism of neglected lives\, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.” \nwhat has been said about CASTLE FAGGOT \n\n“In Derek McCormack’s home province\, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper—a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper\, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast—Castle Faggot is also a manual of redecoration\, a musical\, a puppet show\, a theory of cosmetics\, a work of poetics\, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence.” – Lisa Robertson\, author of The Baudelaire Fractal \n\nabout THE FREEZER DOOR \nWhen you turn the music off\, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness\, that means turn the music back on\, right? When you still feel the sadness\, even with the music\, that means there’s something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn’t sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.—The Freezer Door \nThe Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle\, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams\, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture\, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. \nFerocious and tender\, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity. \nWhat has been said about THE FREEZER DOOR \n\n“I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door. In a happy paradox common to great literature\, it’s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty\, to wield non sequitur with grace and power\, to ponder the past while sticking with the present\, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit\, candor\, inventiveness\, and majesty.” -Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nabout the authors: \nDerek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells\, Haunted Hillbilly\,  and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)). (www.derekmccormack.com) \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014\, and her previous book\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity\, Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle. (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com) \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/derek-mccormack-and-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nTo order the books\, click on the titles: Beowulf\, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley\, and The Future of Another Timeline\, by Annalee Newitz. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n– About Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley – \nNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley\, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English\, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine\, justice is rarely served\, and dragons live among us. \nA man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender\, genre\, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment\, powerful men seeking to become more powerful\, and one woman seeking justice for her child\, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf\, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. \nMaria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia\, Aerie\, and Queen of Kings\, and she has also written a memoir\, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard\, she is the author of The End of the Sentence\, and with Neil Gaiman\, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Awards\, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle\, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho\, and now lives in Brooklyn. \n– About The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz – \n1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert\, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat\, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. \n2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future\, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she’s found a way to make an edit that actually sticks\, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. \nTess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline–a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past\, present\, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity\, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? \nAnnalee Newitz is an American journalist\, editor\, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT\, and have written for Popular Science\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015\, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel\, Autonomous\, won a Lambda award. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-maria-dahvana-headley-beowulf-and-annalee-newitz-the-future-of-another-timeline/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Elena Passarello A conversation about animals\, wonders\, and the exuberance of the natural world
DESCRIPTION:Poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Elena Passarello in conversation about Aimee’s new book\, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions). \n“Sometimes we need teachers who remind us how to be flabbergasted and gobsmacked and flummoxed and enswooned by the wonders of this earth. How to be in stupefied and devotional love to the wonders of this earth. How to be in love with this\, our beloved earth. Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders is as good and generous a teacher as one could ever ask for. This book enraptures with its own astonishments and reveries while showing us how to be enraptured\, how to revere. Which\, again\, is showing us how to be in love. I can think of nothing more important. Or wonderful.” — Ross Gay\, author of The Book of Delights \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout World of Wonders\nAs a child\, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution\, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona\, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted–no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape–she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. \n“What the peacock can do\,” she tells us\, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile\, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely\, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. \nWarm\, lyrical\, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura\, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. \nAbout the authors\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems\, including\, most recently\, Oceanic\, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Mississippi Arts Council\, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry\, the New York Times Magazine\, ESPN\, and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. \nElena Passarello is an actor\, a writer\, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books\, Let Me Clear My Throat\, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance\, pop culture\, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American\, Slate\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications\, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis\, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aimee-nezhukumatathil-elena-passarello-a-conversation-about-animals-wonders-and-the-exuberance-of-the-natural-world/
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #4: Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult fiction in this fourth episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031 \nThis is our fourth recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031\n\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-4-adult-fiction/
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