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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Surprise the Line":MAILTO:nancywoowriter@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Generation Rising Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of “Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism” with author Loan Thi Dao and Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) \nHosted by Eastwind Books of Berkeley and co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Asian American Research Center (AARC) \nRSVP at https://generationrising.eventbrite.com \n—-\nTo purchase copies of the featured authors’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\nPaperback: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2721/GENERATION_RISING%3A_A_NEW_POLITICS_OF_SOUTHEAST_ASIAN_AMERICAN_ACTIVISM_Available_to_order.html \nE-book: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2866/GENERATION_RISING%3A_A_NEW_POLITICS_OF_SOUTHEAST_ASIAN_AMERICAN_ACTIVISM_%28EBOOK-PERSONAL%29_.html \n15% off all purchases with discount code HOLIDAY15! \nChoose to ship your orders (free shipping for orders $30+) to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. See Less
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Neurotica Erotica: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you are invited to attend a very fun generative poetry workshop where we will dive into all the juicy messiness of love—just in time for Valentine’s Day.  \nCathartic Release for the Pain of Broken-Hearted\, Unrequited\, Disappointed or Simply Messy LOVE. Let’s make a BIG MESS. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• Examples and discussion of “neurotic erotica” poems \n• Introduction to the anthology Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung \n• Generative writing prompt to pen your own love/anti-love poem \n• Time to write and share in a non-judgmental and supportive group setting (not critique) \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nThis is not your typical “love poem” workshop. Whether you’re single\, married\, in love\, in regret\, in denial\, in yearning\, or anywhere else around the outskirts of the heart\, you are invited to come and explore your *neuroses* around the phenomenon of love. We all know we have them\, so this is a space to write about them\, let them out\, face them\, love them\, transform them… \nIn this workshop\, we will explore the questions: Do love poems have to be sweet? Isn’t love messy and complicated? We will read and write poems that are dynamic in their imperfections. Whether you are in or out of a relationship\, you are invited to explore your neuroses around love and turn your wounds into words. \nArmine will be giving prompts from one of her favorite poetry anthologies\, Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung\, to get us in the mood to write some messy\, beautifully disheleved lovin’ (or non-lovin’) poems. However you come\, come as you are! Hugs and laughter will be provided.  \nAbout the Teacher:\nBorn in Beirut\, Lebanon\, Arminé Iknadossian immigrated to the United States in 1978 to escape the civil war. She is the author of All That Wasted Fruit (Main Street Rag Press\, 2018). She earned an MFA from Antioch University where she was awarded a fellowship from Summer Poetry in Idyllwild. After teaching English for 20 years\, Iknadossian wrote United States of Love & Other Poems (2015). During her tenure as a teacher\, The Los Angeles Writing Project awarded Iknadossian a fellowship for their summer residency. Iknadossian currently lives close to the sea with Henry the Cat.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Chang-rae Lee (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Chang-rae Lee‘s latest novel\, My Year Abroad\, is an exuberant\, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure—and about the human capacities for pleasure\, pain\, and connection. \nTiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life\, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia\, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé\, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world\, of Pong\, and of himself. \nIn the breathtaking\, “precise\, elliptical prose” that Chang-rae Lee is known for (The New York Times)\, the narrative alternates between Tiller’s outlandish\, mind-boggling year with Pong and the strange\, riveting\, emotionally complex domestic life that follows it\, as Tiller processes what happened to him abroad and what it means for his future. Rich with commentary on Western attitudes\, Eastern stereotypes\, capitalism\, global trade\, mental health\, parenthood\, mentorship\, and more\, My Year Abroad is also an exploration of the surprising effects of cultural immersion—on a young American in Asia\, on a Chinese man in America\, and on an unlikely couple hiding out in the suburbs. Tinged at once with humor and darkness\, electric with its accumulating surprises and suspense\, My Year Abroad is a novel that only Chang-rae Lee could have written\, and one that will be read and discussed for years to come. \nChang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker\, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction\, as well as On Such a Full Sea\, A Gesture Life\, Aloft\, and The Surrendered\, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.
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