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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes/
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SUMMARY:Paraic O'Donnell with Helen MacDonald - The House on Vesper Sands (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:London\, 1893: high up in a house on a dark\, snowy night\, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling\, serpentine world of Paraic O’Donnell’s Victorian-inspired mystery\, the story of a city cloaked in shadow\, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls\, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? \nOn the case is Inspector Cutter\, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss\, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls\, stumbles into a role as Cutter’s sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters—despite her employer’s preference that she stick to a women’s society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer\, he leads them all\, at last\, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands. \nBy turns smart\, surprising\, and impossible to put down\, The House on Vesper Sands offers a glimpse into the strange undertow of late nineteenth-century London and the secrets we all hold inside us. \nParaic O’Donnell is a writer of fiction\, poetry and criticism. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian\, the Irish Times\, Winter Papers\, and elsewhere.  His US debut novel\, The House on Vesper Sands (Tin House)\, is an IndieNext pick and was a Guardian and Observer book of the year for 2018 when it was published in the UK. \nHelen Macdonald is a writer\, poet\, illustrator\, and naturalist\, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the bestselling author of Vesper Flights and H Is for Hawk\, as well as a cultural history of falcons\, titled Falcon\, and three collections of poetry\, including Shaler’s Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College\, Cambridge\, has worked as a professional falconer\, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paraic-odonnell-with-helen-macdonald-the-house-on-vesper-sands-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Steven Kotler - The Art of Impossible (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Learn about The Art of Impossible from bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler as he decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes\, artists\, scientists\, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible\, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities\, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us. \nWhat does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations\, exceed our expectations\, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements? We are capable of so much more than we know—that’s the message at the core of The Art of Impossible. Building upon cutting-edge neuroscience and over twenty years of research\, Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective Steven Kotler lays out a blueprint for extreme performance improvement. If you want to aim high\, here is the playbook to make it happen! \nInspirational and aspirational\, pragmatic and accessible\, The Art of Impossible is a life-changing experience disguised as a how-to manual for peak performance that anyone can use to shoot for the stars (space-suit\, not included.) \nSteven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author\, an award-winning journalist\, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of nine bestsellers (out of thirteen books total)\, including The Art of Impossible\, The Future is Faster Than You Think\, Stealing Fire\, The Rise of Superman\, and Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes\, translated into over 40 languages\, and appeared in over 100 publications\, including the New York Times Magazine\, Wired\, Atlantic Monthly\, TIME\, and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio\, a top ten iTunes science podcast. Along with his wife\, author Joy Nicholson\, he is the cofounder of the Rancho de Chihuahua\, a hospice and special needs dog sanctuary.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steven-kotler-the-art-of-impossible-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:This is Now: Simon Winchester
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. \n—– \nThe story of the world is the story of land: stories of taming\, acquiring\, and exploiting this basic building block of human culture. But can the ground beneath us truly be owned? \nWith his trademark keen intellect\, insatiable curiosity\, and narrative verve\, Winchester tackles the tale of the billions of acres under our care: how we acquire it\, steward it\, fight over it\, share it. Who actually owns the world’s land—and why does it matter? \nPerhaps no author could take on this massive topic better than Simon Winchester—not only one of the most entertaining speakers we’ve had the pleasure of hosting\, but also one of the most impressive historians. His 1990’s bestseller\, The Professor and the Madman\, has sold millions of copies and is a modern classic. Since then\, he has racked up one literary hit after another\, all due to a knack for finding and shaping fascinating stories within a subject. Pacific\, The Perfectionists\, The Map That Changed the World—history alive with Winchester’s gifts of language and detail. \nKepler’s Literary Foundation is proud to launch Simon Winchester’s Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. \nIn conversation with Angie Coiro\, Winchester explores how the very ground beneath us has shaped human history. Invite your book club\, and don’t miss it! \n\n**Get your tickets early\, as webinar space is limited! Bring up to one additional friend on a second screen with our “Bring a Friend” option\, and turn it into a book club event.*
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SUMMARY:Panel: Black Crime Writers – Celebrating the Past\, Looking Toward the Future
DESCRIPTION:Authors\, S.A. Cosby\, Kellye Garrett\, Gar Anthony Haywood and Cheryl A. Head discuss the history of Black writers of crime fiction and the future of Black writers in the genre. \nREGISTER \nYouTube Live \n  \nS.A. Cosby is an Anthony award-winning writer from Southeastern Virginia. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines His story Slant-Six was selected as a Distinguished Story in Best American MysteryStories for 2016. His short story The Grass Beneath My Feet won the Anthony award for best short story in 2019. His writing has been called “gritty and heartbreaking” and “dark\, thrilling and tragic.” His style and tone is influenced by his varied life experiences which includes but are not limited to being a bouncer\, construction worker\, retail manager and for six hours a mascot for a major fast food chain inside the world’s hottest costume. Twitter | Facebook \nKellye Garrett is the acclaimed author of the Detective by Day mysteries about a semi-famous\, mega-broke Black actress who takes on the deadliest role of her life: Private Detective. The first\, Hollywood Homicide\, won the Agatha\, Anthony\, Lefty and Independent Publisher “IPPY” awards for best first novel. The second\, Hollywood Ending\, was nominated for both Anthony and Lefty awards. Prior to writing novels\, Garrett spent eight years working in Hollywood\, including a stint writing for Cold Case. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Sisters in Crime and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color. Her next project is an #ownvoices domestic suspense novel about a woman looking into the overdose death of a one-time reality star found within blocks of her house—her own estranged younger sister. Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nGar Anthony Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony award-winning author of twelve crime novels\, including the Aaron Gunner private eye series and Joe and Dottie Loudermilk mysteries. His short fiction has been included in the BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthologies and Booklist has called him “a writer who has always belonged in the upper echelon of American crime fiction.” He has written for network television and both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. He and his wife Donna currently make their home in Denver\, Colorado. Website | Facebook \nCheryl A. Head is originally from Detroit\, and now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington\, D.C.\, where she has navigated a successful career as a writer\, television producer\, filmmaker\, broadcast executive and media funder. Her self-published debut novel\, Long Way Home: A World War II Novel\, was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist in both the African American Literature and Historical Fiction categories. Her award-winning\, Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (Bywater Books) is set in Detroit featuring a Black\, lesbian private investigator. When not writing fiction\, Head consults on a wide range of diversity issues. She is a Senior Associate at Livingston Associates\, a member of the Bouchercon Board of Directors and former Director of Inclusion for the board of the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS). Website | Twitter | Facebook \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/panel-black-crime-writers-celebrating-the-past-looking-toward-the-future/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
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SUMMARY:Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nPoets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event\nFloaters \nMARTIN ESPADA\, a poet who stirs our social consciousness\, has published twenty books as a poet\, editor\, essayist and translator\, including Vivas To Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Republic of Poetry. \nHis latest book\, Floaters\, offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies\, songs of protest and songs of love.  The title is a term used by some Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over the border.  Espada bears eloquent witness to  confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love. Whether celebrating the visionaries – the fallen dreamers\, rebels\, and poets – or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria\, Espada invokes ferocious\, incandescent spirits. \nDENNIS BERNSTEIN \, a poet and investigative journalist\, is the producer of Flashpoints (heard weekdays at 5pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. His political essays have appeared in numerous newspapers\, magazines and websites. His latest book of poems is Five Oceans in a Teaspoon\, with typographic visualizations by Warren Lehrer. The poems in it reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. It spans a single lifetime: from growing up confused by dyslexia to becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermath\, to prison\, street life\, poverty\, love and loss\, to open heart surgery. Five Oceans in a Teaspoon speaks to the madness\, vulnerability\, aspiration and language of our time. The raw emotion of the writing has a freshness rarely encountered.  The book was a winner for Poetry in the 2020 Best Book Awards/American Book Fest\, and a finalist in the International Book award for Poetry. \nSuggested Donation $1-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-espada-and-dennis-bernstein-floaters-tickets-130079233489 ken@kpfa.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-martin-espada-dennis-bernstein-a-zoom-event-floaters/
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CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, January 19\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87225317750. \nYou can order a copy in paperback at https://bit.ly/ggpCityWeBecame or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/CityBecameAB. \n“A glorious fantasy.”–Neil Gaiman \n  \nThree-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet\, a story of culture\, identity\, magic\, and myths in contemporary New York City. \n  \nIn Manhattan\, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn’t remember who he is\, where he’s from\, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city\, see its history\, and feel its power. \n  \nIn the Bronx\, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city\, so beautiful and powerful it’s as if the paint is literally calling to her. \n  \nIn Brooklyn\, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city\, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels. \n  \nAnd they’re not the only ones. \n  \nEvery great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths\, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She’s got six.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-city-we-became-by-n-k-jemisin-ggp-online-book-club/
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