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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:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
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 \n\nMary Jo Bang\nMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll for Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Her translation of Purgatorio is forthcoming from Graywolf in July 2021. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-mary-jo-bang/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Isabel Allende - The Soul of a Woman (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. \n“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten\, I am not exaggerating\,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child\, she watched her mother\, abandoned by her husband\, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl\, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. \nAs a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s\, she rode the second wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists\, Allende for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin\, as they wrote “with a knife between our teeth” about women’s issues. She has seen what the movement has accomplished in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three passionate marriages\, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner\, when to step away\, and the rewards of embracing one’s sexuality. \nSo what feeds the soul of feminists—and all women—today? To be safe\, to be valued\, to live in peace\, to have their own resources\, to be connected\, to have control over our bodies and lives\, and above all\, to be loved. On all these fronts\, there is much work yet to be done\, and this book\, Allende hopes\, will “light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us\, as we lived for our mothers\, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.” \nIsabel Allende won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel\, The House of the Spirits. Since then\, she has authored twenty-five bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, which have been translated into more than forty-two languages. In addition to her work as a writer\, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes. In 1996\, following the death of her daughter\, Paula Frias\, she established a charitable foundation in her honor\, which has awarded grants to more than one hundred nonprofits worldwide on behalf of women and girls. In 2014\, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the nation’s highest civilian honor\, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She has also received PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Raised in Chile\, she now lives in California.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett / Look Alive\, with K-Ming Chang\, Alicia Mountain\, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s debut full-length collection of poems Look Alive. She’ll be joined for a group reading by K-Ming Chang\, Alicia Mountain\, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Look Alive here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nPlease note that this event will include ASL interpretation and auto-generated live captioning. If you have any questions or additional special needs\, do not hesitate to email events@booksmith.com and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you. \nAbout the book\nLook Alive documents the construction of a queer femme self in the hostile territory of American late capitalism. Its speaker encounters darkness—in the form of violence perpetrated by both individuals and by societal systems of power and oppression—and yet\, rejects the narratives articulated by that violence\, celebrating instead softness and gentleness\, and ultimately\, cleaving to the natural world in all its radiant\, mysterious queerness. \n“This is a book composed of poems shaped like doors\, trapdoors\, and gates\, and rightly so. They offer us entry to the sublime\, to the kind of aliveness only accessible by passing through death where blooms are “bruises / both faded and freshly made” and “though the heart thuds with lack. / lack\, lack\,” it flowers. These are lean\, meticulously curated poems that nonetheless let so much in; loss\, embodiment\, injury\, victimization\, witnessed and voiced. “What chafes\,” Flynn-Goodlett writes\, “life / to light.” This lifting into the light—one of the most crucial functions of the lyric poem—allows for a survival “half-forgotten as / tampons at the bottom of a purse. / saying you’ve bled\, still bleed\, live.” Look Alive finally does not simply look alive. It lives. It aims a flashlight at my own dark corners. It sisters me.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Four-Legged Girl and Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \nAbout the authors\nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett previously published six chapbooks\, most recently Shadow Box\, winner of the 2019 Madhouse Press Editor’s Prize\, and Tender Age\, winner of the 2019 Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize. Her poetry can be found in TriQuarterly\, Third Coast\, Pleiades\, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of Foglifter in sunny Oakland\, California. \nK-Ming Chang 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). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com. \nAlicia Mountain is the 2020–2021 Artist in Residence in the Department of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is a lesbian poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and educator. Mountain won the Iowa Poetry Prize with her debut collection\, High Ground Coward (Iowa\, 2018). She is also the author of Thin Fire\, a digital chapbook published by BOAAT Press. Mountain earned an MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula and her PhD at the University of Denver. She is based in New York. \nArhm Choi Wild is a queer\, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and went on to perform across the country\, including at Brave New Voices\, the New York City Poetry Festival\, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems\, CUT TO BLOOM\, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures\, and their work appears in Barrow Street\, The Massachusetts Review\, Pleiades\, Split this Rock\, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City. For more information\, visit arhmchoiwild.com. \nDeaf\, genderqueer poet Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street\, 2014)\, winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award\, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the co-editor of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades\, 2019). The 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, Day’s work can be found in\, or forthcoming from\, Best American Poetry 2020\, The New York Times\, AGNI\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, & elsewhere. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College. www.megday.com \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jamie Figueroa and Marie-Helene Bertino
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, MARCH 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMIE FIGUEROA IS JOINED BY MARIE-HELENE BERTINO TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, BROTHER\, SISTER\, MOTHER\, EXPLORER\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81822157575\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81822157575#  or +13462487799\,\,81822157575#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keqMEp28ep \nPraise for Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer \n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is so full of voice. It is utterly bright and original.”—Tommy Orange\, author of There There \n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is a haunting of a novel centered around the hustle of an utterly unforgettable brother and sister. Jamie Figueroa’s faultless language surprises\, enchants\, and does nothing less than articulate that which is unseen and eaten by profound grief. Supervised by a wild\, booted angel (a character for the ages)\, this marvel of a first novel seems powered by a force that wrecks itself and is made glorious\, again and again\, until its stunning conclusion. Singular\, devastating\, and divine.”—Marie-Helene Bertino\, author of Parakeet \n“In language that is blade-sharp and sun-bright\, Jamie Figueroa weaves a story of generations of love and loss that is powerful and aching and utterly new. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer will never\, ever leave me.”—Ramona Ausubel\, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One Is Here Except All of Us \n“Jamie Figueroa’s writing is decadent. Sentences in this book require the reader to breathe and sigh with the revelation of their beauty; others slap you in the face with their sharp assumptiveness. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer begins in prayer and does what prayer does—gives us hope\, reveals our deepest griefs\, and sometimes even redeems.”—Tiphanie Yanique\, author of Land of Love and Drowning \nAbout Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer  \nA fableistic\, “curious and dazzling” debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (Booklist\, starred review).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jamie-figueroa-and-marie-helene-bertino/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, Carolina de Robertis \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \n\n\n\nCelebrated novelist\, poet\, and essayist Cristina Rivera Garza returns to The Poetry Center. She’ll be joined by poet and translator Kit Schluter\, in Mexico City. They’ll each read from their own writings\, then join in conversation with one another and with novelist Carolina de Robertis as emcee\, and respond to questions from the audience. \n\nOne day\, on a cloudy March afternoon to be more exact\, I was in a classroom lined with long\, rectangular windows in an old colonial building in the heart of Mexico City. Through one of those windows\, in the most surprising manner\, someone entered. It was a young man. He said he’d come from Oaxaca and that he wanted to meet me. I believe he sat in on the session in which we discussed the methods of documentary poetry\, the writing practice that incorporates and subverts\, that embraces and tests the public language of the dispossessed and the suffering…. Later\, that same young man who came in through the window as if it was a door asked me something impossible\, which is the only thing worth asking for.\n—Cristina Rivera Garza\, “Taking Shelter\,” Introduction to Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\n\nCristina Rivera Garza. “Born in Mexico and a resident of the United States for over two decades\, Rivera Garza is a prolific and multifaceted author of fiction\, essays\, and scholarship\, including nearly twenty works in Spanish. Her novels…are deeply informed by her training as a historian and frequently feature characters who stumble upon images\, texts\, or people that disturb the supposed clarity of the historical record.” (from the MacArthur Fellows citation\, 2020). Three of Rivera Garza’s acclaimed six novels have appeared in the US—most recently\, The Taiga Syndrome (El mal de la taiga\, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana); The Iliac Crest (La cresta de Ilión\, trans. Sarah Booker); and No One Will See Me Cry (Nadie me verá llorar\, trans. Andrew Hurley). \nWithin this past year\, Rivera Garza’s complete poems\, La fractura exacta: Poesía completa\, were published in Spanish (from Ediciones Libros del cardo\, in Chile). And three remarkable books of nonfiction also appeared\, in the US in English translation: Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country (tr. Sarah Booker); The Restless Dead: Necrowriting & Disappropriation (tr. Robin Myers); and La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico (tr. Laura Kanost). On the faculty at the University of Houston since 2016\, Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing. Visit her blog (in Spanish and English)\, No hay tal lugar: U-tópicos contemporáneos. \n\nTrust\nWhen I first looked in the mirror\, I thought I looked dead\, but I had simply become a child. Beside my face was a blue cake so radiant\, even its light was edible.\n—Kit Schluter\, at The Brooklyn Rail\n\nKit Schluter is a poet-translator and bookmaker. His poetry and stories have appeared in Boston Review\, BOMB\, Brooklyn Rail\, Folder\, Hyperallergic\, and in the chapbooks Inclusivity Blueprint\, Journals\, Translations of Forgetting\, Without is a Part of Origin\, and the collections of stories and drawings\, 5 Cartoons/5 caricaturas (tr. Mariana Rodríguez\, Juan Malasuerte Editores)\, The Good in Having a Nuclear Family (Despite Editions)\, and his first full-length collection of poetry\, Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books\, 2020). Among his prolific translations—from the French\, Occitan\, and Spanish—are books by Olivia Tapiero (Phototaxis\, Nightboat)\, Anne Kawala (Screwball\, Canarium)\, Jaime Saenz (The Cold\, Poor Claudia)\, Michel Surya (Dead End\, Black Sun Lit)\, Julio Torri (Essays & Poems\, Archivo48)\, Marcel Schwob (The Book of Monelle; The Children’s Crusade\, foreword by J.L. Borges; and The King in the Golden Mask\, all Wakefield Press)\, Amandine André (Circle of Dogs\, with Jocelyn Spaar; Some Thing\, with Lindsay Turner\, Aphonic Space)\, and Clamenç Llansana (Goliard Songs\, Anomalous)\, with others on the way. Schluter co-edits O’clock Press\, designs for Nightboat Books and Juan Malasuerte Editories\, and with Tatiana Lipkes organizes the monthly reading series at Aeromoto\, a public arts library in Mexico City. More\, including links to publishers and selected writings\, here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nCristina Rivera Garza\, MacArthur Foundation Fellows Citation\, 2020 \nChristina Rivera Garza\, on The Taiga Syndrome\, at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival\, Washington\, D.C. \nKit Schluter interviewed\, National Poetry Month featured poet\, at Entropy\, April 2017 \nKit Schluter\, reading with Brandon Brown and Wendy Trevino\, at Woolsey Heights\, May 25\, 2019 \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kSpx1UTcQYy9W87DIjCshg
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Mikki Kendall\, Hood Feminism
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Mikki Kendall who will discuss Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nThere have been many incredible moments and efforts in feminist history\, and women all over the world continue to fight to be seen and heard in all the chaos of modern society. However\, mainstream feminism has continually failed to recognize some of the most pressing issues facing most women today. In Hood Feminism\, Mikki Kendall\, the creator of the viral hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen\, calls out the myopia of mainstream white feminism. She argues that women of color and other marginalized people have long been doing the work of fighting for women’s rights.Their personhood and concerns should be regarded with the same—and in some cases even more—urgency as the issues that now dominate feminist rhetoric. \nThe essays in Hood Feminism draw upon Kendall’s personal experiences while looking at the cultural and political landscape of today’s feminism to shine a light on the issues that marginalized women face\, and urges the would-be feminist to embrace a kind of feminism that moves beyond just being an ally to being an accomplice\, an advocate\, and collaborator. \n“This book is an act of fierce love and advocacy\, and it is urgently necessary.”—Samantha Irby\, author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life \n“My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist (as I do) will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect. Mikki Kendall is calling out white feminists here—and it’s long overdue that we drop our defenses\, listen to her arguments carefully\, and then change our entire way of thinking and behaving. As Kendall explains in eloquent and searing simplicity\, any feminism that focuses on inequality between men and women without addressing the inequalities BETWEEN women is not only useless\, but actually harmful. In the growing public conversation about race\, class\, status\, privilege\, and power\, this text is essential reading.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mikki-kendall-hood-feminism/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch of THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK with Author Patricia Bracewell
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 4\, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Patricia Bracewell to discuss her new novel\, THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK. \nThis book is the breathtaking conclusion to Bracewell’s Emma of Normandy Trilogy\, brimming with treachery\, heartache\, tenderness and passion as the English queen confronts ambitious and traitorous councilors\, invading armies and the Danish king’s power-hungry concubine. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85120377510. \nYou can pre-order your copy here: http://bit.ly/ggpSteelBeneath \nABOUT THE STORY \nThe first two books of the trilogy\, SHADOW ON THE CROWN and THE PRICE OF BLOOD\, introduce the 11th-century queen of England\, Emma of Normandy. In 1002\, fifteen­-year-old Emma crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Æthelred of England\, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. With a husband who mistrusts her\, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown\, Emma must defend herself against her enemies. \nIn the final book\, THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK\, Emma is determined to outmaneuver her adversaries and protect her children and countrymen. She forges alliances and wins the affection of the English people. But her growing love for a man who is not her husband and the imminent threat of a Viking invasion jeopardize both her crown and her life. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nPatricia Bracewell taught literature and composition before embarking upon her writing career. A lifelong fascination with British history and a chance\, on-line reference to an unfamiliar English queen led to years of research\, a summer history course at Downing College\, Cambridge\, and a stint as writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library in Wales. Patricia lives with her husband in Northern California. Visit www.patriciabracewell.com/
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Barbara Saunders!!!
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month 2019 a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. Come celebrate the two-year anniversary at this month’s Eves at the Beat curated by Barbara Saunders!!\n\nLineup of readers:\n\nCenta Theresa\nnialla rose\nElaine Brown\, Poet E Spoken\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nKerry O. Vineberg\n\nTopic: Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Barbara Saunders!\nTime: Mar 4\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87396584235\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,87396584235# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,87396584235# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdAPLwin6i
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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