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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.
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SUMMARY:The Echoing Ida Collective
DESCRIPTION:evening of discussion celebrating the launch of the new book \nThe Echoing Ida Collection \nEdited by Cynthia R. Greenlee\, Kemi Alabi\, and Janna A. Zinzi \npublished by The Feminist Press \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 shortly. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. Link to be posted shortly. \n———– \nRooted in reproductive justice\, Echoing Ida harnesses the power of media for social justice—amplifying the struggles and successes of contemporary freedom movements in the US. \nFounded in 2012\, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who—like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett—believe the “way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. \nThis anthology collects the best of Echoing Ida for the first time\, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster\, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Imagining a gender-expansive and liberated future\, these essays affirm the powerful combination of #BlackGirlMagic and the hard\, unceasing labor of Black people to reimagine the world in which we live. \n“A rich awakening to the revolution and evolution of Black women and nonbinary voices\, and a deeply majestic tribute to the expanse of Black cultural movements—in singular reverence and collective power.” —Rebecca Carroll\, author of Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir \n“Fueled by curiosity and generous with their vulnerability\, the Idas ask probing questions of themselves\, each other\, and the world. Right now media outlets are scrambling to hire writers who can find and tell important stories about race\, gender\, sexuality\, and power. Editors nationwide should know the Idas’ names\, seek them out\, and pay them well for their insights and analysis.” —Dani McClain\, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the editors: \nJanna A. Zinzi is a communications strategist\, writer and performer. \n\n\n\n\n\nCynthia R. Greenlee is a writer\, editor\, and historian of the African-American experience. She is a former senior editor at Rewire.News. \n\n\n\n\n\nKemi Alabi is a poet\, teaching artist\, and cultural strategy director of Forward Together.
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SUMMARY:Bradford Pearson with Patrick Radden Keefe - The Eagles of Heart Mountain (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:The impeccably researched\, deeply moving\, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores. \nIn the spring of 1942\, the United States government forced 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California\, Oregon\, Washington\, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14\,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody\, Wyoming\, at the base of Heart Mountain. \nBehind barbed wire fences\, they faced racism\, cruelty\, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home\, many established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators—yet there was little hope. \nThat is\, until the fall of 1943\, when the camp’s high school football team\, the Eagles\, started its first season and finished it undefeated\, crushing the competition from nearby\, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement\, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. As the team’s second season kicked off\, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided\, and some were jailed for their decisions. \nThe Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a sweeping and inspirational portrait of one of the darkest moments in American history. \nBradford Pearson is the former features editor of Southwest: The Magazine. He has written for The New York Times\, Esquire\, Time\, and Salon\, among many other publications. He grew up in Hyde Park\, New York\, and now lives in Philadelphia. The Eagles of Heart Mountain is his first book. \nPatrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream\, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. He is also the writer and host of Wind of Change\, an 8-part podcast series from Pineapple Street Studios\, Crooked Media\, and Spotify\, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and pop music during the Cold War. In addition to The New Yorker\, his work has appeared in The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine\, Slate\, and other publications. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship\, and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation\, the New America Foundation\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York.
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