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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:VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham\, What You Don't Know
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book\, What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood\, delves into queerness\, Blackness\, and the love that dismantles whiteness. This event will include a reading\, Q&A\, and demonstration of Higginbotham’s disco collage workshop. A “backdrop” for collages will be included with every copy of What You Don’t Know purchased from Bookshop Santa Cruz\, while supplies last. (Preorder your copy below.) \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nWhat You Don’t Know is a book about knowing deeply that you matter—always did\, always will. It’s a book about what schools get wrong and churches don’t say; but institutions are made by people and the people are evolving. It’s a book about being known and cherished by family\, and living in communion with your own personal Jesus\, Buddha\, Spirit\, Source\, Father\, Mother\, God\, breath\, inner space\, outer space\, nothingness\, and however else we name and relate to our divinity and humility in the presence of all we don’t know. \n“A visually rich story that speaks truth to power for LGBTQ+ kids and their families and allies.” —Kirkus Reviews \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nANASTASIA HIGGINBOTHAM is the author and illustrator of Divorce Is the Worst\, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness\, Death Is Stupid\, and Tell Me About Sex\, Grandma—all part of the Ordinary Terrible Things series. She lives in Brooklyn. Librarians love her\, but not as much as she loves them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-anastasia-higginbotham-what-you-dont-know/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 28TH FEATURED WRITER: K-MING CHANG\nK-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at http://kmingchang.com \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-living-writers-series-k-ming-chang-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES\, K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 “Shelter and Place\,” a theme about world building when the world seems to be falling apart\, about writing about place\, about seeking and finding and not finding shelter in stormy times\, and of course\, what it means to be a writer and a person writing while sheltering in place. \nJANUARY 28TH FEATURED WRITER: K-MING CHANG\nK-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at http://kmingchang.com \nRegister for this FREE event series here. \nThe Living Writers Series runs on select Thursdays from 5:20-6:55p.m. Authors’ books available for pick up or delivery via Bookshop Santa Cruz. Find them here.
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SUMMARY:Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gizzi reads from \nNow It’s Dark: New Poems \npublished by Wesleyan University 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 coming soon. \n———– \n (Click Here) to purchase book. Link coming soon. \n———– \nThe poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics\, are concerned with grieving\, with poetry and death\, with beauty and sadness\, with light. As Ben Lerner has written\, “Gizzi’s poetry is an example of how a poet’s total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion.” With litany\, elegy\, and prose\, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail\, these original poems possess\, even in their sorrowing moments\, a dizzying freedom. \nPeter Gizzi is the author of eight collections of poetry including Archeophonics\, Threshold Songs\, and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems\, 1987–2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks\, folios\, and artist books. He lives in Holyoke\, MA. Visit: https://www.petergizzi.org/ \nCA Conrad is the author of nine books of poetry and essays\, including their latest book is JUPITER ALIGNMENT: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals (Ignota Books\, forthcoming 2020) and While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books)\, which won a Lambda Book Award. A documentary about their work\, The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films)\, is viewable online on their website. 
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads\, featuring Benjamin Garcia\, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat)\, Emily Hashimoto (A World Between) and Poupeh Missaghi (trans(re)lating house one). The panel will be lead by Lupita Reads. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of the authors’ books by clicking on the titles below. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay: \nThrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia \nA World Between by Emily Hashimoto \ntrans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi \n— Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia — \n“Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times\, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship\, family\, and Adam Rippon’s butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented\, one speaker recalls nights when “because we cannot sleep / we dream with open eyes.” Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other\, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. \nWith language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous\, Thrown in the Throat shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. “Sometimes even a diamond was once alive” writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says “has deadly superpowers.” And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers\, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex\, unabashed\, and needed as survival. Garcia’s debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive. \nBenjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems\, Thrown in the Throat\, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali and published by Milkweed Editions. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow\, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place\, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets 2018\, Crazyhorse\, Kenyon Review\, The Missouri Review\, and New England Review. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York. \nOrder Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia and have it delivered to your door. \n— A World Between by Emily Hashimoto — \nIn 2004\, college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are on the brink of adulthood\, each full of possibility and big ideas\, and they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years later\, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco. Although grown and changed and each separately partnered\, the two find themselves\, once again\, irresistibly pulled back together. \nEmily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly captures the wonder and confusion of growing up and growing closer. Narrated in sparkling prose\, A World Between follows two strikingly different but interconnected women as they navigate family\, female friendship\, and their own fraught history. \nEmily Hashimoto is a queer writer of color from the suburbs of New Jersey. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in women’s and gender studies\, and her MS in Information Science from Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from VONA and Queer Arts. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The Rumpus and Bitch Magazine\, centering feminist critique and queer narratives. She lives in New York City with her wife and child. \nOrder A World Between by Emily Hashimoto and have it delivered to your door. \n— trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi — \nIn the aftermath of Iran’s 2009 election\, a woman undertakes a search for the statues disappearing from Tehran’s public spaces. A chance meeting alters her trajectory\, and the space between fiction and reality narrows. As she circles the city’s points of connection—teahouses\, buses\, galleries\, hookah bars—her many questions are distilled into one: How do we translate loss into language? \nMelding several worlds\, perspectives\, and narrative styles\, trans(re)lating house one translates the various realities of Tehran and its inhabitants into the realm of art\, helping us remember them anew. \nPoupeh Missaghi is a writer\, a translator both into and out of Persian\, an editor\, and an educator. She holds a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Denver\, an MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University\, and an MA in translation studies. Her debut novel trans(re)lating house one was published by Coffee House Press in February 2020. Her nonfiction\, fiction\, and translations have appeared in numerous journals\, and she has several books of translation published in Iran. I’ll Be Strong for You\, her translation of Iranian author Nasim Marashi’s novel\, is forthcoming in spring 2021. As an editor\, she worked for many years with Asymptote and is co-editor of Matters of Feminist Practice from Belladonna* Collaborative. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Writing at the Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn; a faculty mentor at the low-residency MFA of Pacific Northwest College of Art\, Portland; as well as a writing consultant at Baruch College\, CUNY\, NY. \nOrder trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi and have it delivered to your door. \n– ABOUT THE MODERATOR – \nLupita Aquino—better known as Lupita Reads—is a passionate reader active in both the local and online book community through her Instagram account- @Lupita.Reads. She is the creator of the #LatinxBookstagramTour\, a columnist for the Washington Independent Review of Books\, a contributor for the Reading Women podcast\, and the co-founder and current moderator/curator for LIT on H St. Book Club. \n– PLEASE NOTE – \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-debut-authors-panel-with-lupita-reads-featuring-benjamin-garcia-emily-hashimoto-poupeh-missaghi/
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