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SUMMARY:Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poets and scholars\, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening” series. Their works are profound explorations of the collocations of Black music and experimental poetics and of the “freedom drive” of Black life and the “fugitive impulses” in Black performance
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Elemental: Earth Stories A celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press
DESCRIPTION:Center for the Art of Translation presents Jessica Cohen\, Allison Charette\, and Brian Bergstrom in conversation about the latest installment in the Calico Series\, Elemental: Earth Stories. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Elemental: Earth Stories\nA family’s heirloom stones unearth a story spanning war\, illness\, and radioactivity. A pipeline installed to protect a town from flooding results in a howling that disturbs the town’s inhabitants. A political prisoner embarks on an epic flight toward freedom\, literally blown like a kite in the wind. \nA whirlwind of fantastic new writing from Japan\, Iran\, Norway\, Germany\, Madagascar\, Iraq\, Poland\, and Israel\, this collection of fiction and reportage maps the intimate\, ongoing relationship between human civilization and the natural world. Do we set the limits on our existence? Or is it wind\, water\, fire\, and earth that define–even control–us? Borrowing from eco-literature and mythology\, Elemental unflinchingly takes up the earth. \n“Stone\, earth\, water\, ice\, wind\, and burning heat. The stories here dig deep and unexpectedly into life’s fundamentals—the elements and the passions—bringing into English\, many for the first time\, writers of stature from across the globe. A celebration of both storytelling and translation\, Elemental is essential\, a gift that opens up the pleasures of new worlds.” —Hugh Raffles\, author of The Book of Unconformities \nAbout the Calico Series\nThe Calico Series\, published biannually by Two Lines Press\, captures vanguard works of translated literature in stylish\, collectible editions. Each Calico is a vibrant snapshot that explores one aspect of our present moment\, offering the voices of previously inaccessible\, highly innovative writers from around the world today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elemental-earth-stories-a-celebration-of-the-latest-installment-of-the-calico-series-from-two-lines-press/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Arisa White / Who's Your Daddy\, with Dan Alter\, Michael 'MJ' Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Arisa White for her new book Who’s Your Daddy. She’ll be joined for a group reading by former students (bottom row\, from R-L) Dan Alter\, Michael ‘MJ’ Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of Who’s Your Daddy here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA lyrical\, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer\, Black\, Guyanese American woman who\, while seeking to define her own place in the world\, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father. \n“This beautifully\, honestly conceived genius of a book shook me to the core.” – Dara Wier \n“What she gives us are archives\, allegories\, and wholly new songs.” – Terrance Hayes \n“In these crisply narrative poems\, which unreel like heart-wrenching fragments of film\, Arisa White not only names that gaping chasm between father and daughter\, but graces it with its true and terrible face.” – Patricia Smith \n\nAbout the authors\nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, A Penny Saved\, and Hurrah’s Nest. Her poetry has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, NAACP Image Award\, California Book Award\, and Wheatley Book Award. The chapbook “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. She’s the co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up\, the second book in the Fighting for Justice series for young readers\, which received the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Middle-Grade Nonfiction and the Maine Literary Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Who’s Your Daddy is her poetic memoir debut from Augury Books. Arisa serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. Author photo by Nye’ Lyn Tho. \nDan Alter’s poems and reviews have been published in journals including Field\, Fourteen Hills\, Pank\, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles will be out in 2021 from Eyewear Press. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley and makes his living as an IBEW electrician. \nMichal ‘MJ’ Jones is a poet and parent in Oakland\, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly\, Kissing Dynamite\, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, and TriQuarterly Review. They are an assistant poetry editor at Foglifter Press\, and have received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, VONA/Voices\, and Kearny Street Workshop. They are currently an MFA graduate fellow at Mills College. \nHernan De La Cruz Ramos is a poet from northern NJ and he currently resides in Oakland\, CA. He has been published in The Night Heron Barks and can be found on social media @penpalsocks \nA.A. Vincent is a disabled poet and essayist\, and is a product of Chicago’s South Side and its suburbs. Her work has appeared in Santa Clara Review\, SF Weekly\, Quiet Lightning\, and Street Sheet SF. She received her MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-arisa-white-whos-your-daddy-with-dan-alter-michael-mj-jones-hernan-de-la-cruz-ramos-a-a-vincent-2/
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SUMMARY:Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers
DESCRIPTION:The Mill Valley Public Library & The Marin Poetry Center invite you to a virtual book launch for Heyday Books’ release of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers.  \nThe evening will celebrate fifty years of poetry written in and inspired by the High Sierra workshop. Pulitzer Prize winners Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Sharon Olds\, and Greg Pardlo will join Brenda Hillman & other notables to read a poem from this unique collection. The evening of poetry and celebration\, including a musical introduction by Cornelius Eady\, is sure to inspire! \nFor more information about the anthology and how to order a copy\, visit MPC’s Bookshop.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Joe Ide\, Smoke
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with bestselling author and staff favorite Joe Ide\, who will discuss Smoke\, the newest installment in his IQ series. Isaiah Quintabe—an unlicensed detective for all seasons—and his best friend and masterful sidekick\, Juanell Dodson\, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the “aggressively entertaining” IQ series (New York Times). This time\, their lives may never be the same. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nIsaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ\, the genius of East Long Beach; instead\, he’s a man on the road and on the run\, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state’s most prolific serial killer. \nHis old partner\, Juanell Dodson\, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil’s bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency\, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual\, but where the aging company’s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson—”the hustler’s hustler”—just may be the right man for the job. \nIde is the crime writer’s crime writer\, and he’s filled his best novel yet with desperate souls\, courageous outcasts\, an ex-stripper who’ll do anything to protect her son\, and wild half-brothers who may be the very incarnation of evil. With deft plotting\, lacerating humor\, and a keen eye for the ways in which characters rise or fall based on their ties to one another\, Smoke is Joe Ide’s crowning achievement. \n“Ide has displayed a rare ability to mix dark comedy and gut-churning drama…mixmaster Ide’s compulsion to blend light and dark (Isaiah’s confrontation with the serial killers\, while gruesome\, takes the form of “a slapstick movie shot in a burning insane asylum”) affects the two plots in surprising ways\, again producing an emotion-rich form of character-driven tragicomedy\, but one in which peril forever loiters in the shallows.” —Booklist \nJoe Ide is of Japanese American descent. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles\, Joe’s favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him. Joe went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers before writing his debut novel\, IQ\, inspired by his early experiences and his love of Sherlock Holmes. Joe lives in Santa Monica\, California.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of EVERYTHING AFTER with Author Jill Santopolo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 11\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, EVERYTHING AFTER\, with author Jill Santopolo. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88322734719. \n(Order your copy of  EVERYTHING AFTER at https://bit.ly/ggpEverythingAfter\, or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/EverythingAfterAB. \nDescription\n\nThe Light We Lost mixes with a touch of Daisy Jones and the Six in this novel of first love\, passion\, and the power of choice–and how we cannot escape the people we are meant to be. \nTwo loves. Two choices. One chance to follow her dreams. \nEmily has come a long way since she lost her two passions fifteen years ago: music\, and Rob. She’s a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband\, Ezra\, she has a beautiful life. They’re happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily’s present too closely echoes her past\, and parts of her story that she’d hoped never to share come to light\, her perfect life is suddenly upturned. Then Emily hears a song on the radio about the woman who got away. The melody and voice are hauntingly familiar. Could it be? As Emily’s past passions come roaring back into her life\, she’ll find herself asking: Who is she meant to be? Who is she meant to love? \nAbout the Author\n\nJill Santopolo is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Light We Lost and More Than Words. Her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is also the author of three successful children’s and young-adult series and works as the associate publisher of Philomel Books. Santopolo travels the world to speak about writing and storytelling. A New Yorker at heart\, Jill is currently living in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-of-everything-after-with-author-jill-santopolo/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Alan Chazaro\, Raina J. León\, Tongo Eisen Martin\, and Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, MARCH 11 AT 7PM PT\, FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING BAY AREA POETRY AND ALAN CHAZARO’S LATEST COLLECTION PIÑATA THEORY\, ON ZOOM!\nFEATURED READERS INCLUDE:\nALAN CHAZARO\, RAINA J. LEÓN\, TONGO EISEN MARTIN\, AND BARBARA JANE REYES\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84144654181\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84144654181#  or +13462487799\,\,84144654181#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kfZgMQqEA\n \nPraise for Piñata Theory \nCante Jundo\, or “Deep Song\,” is what Garcia Lorca called poetry attached to the rhythms and waves of a continent\, its people\, its waters\, its history. In Alan Chazaro’s Piñata Theory\, those resonances echo across the field “between the countries of your body\,” the shared stories of cousin-cultures stretching across manmade boundaries. “I’ve become a borderland of tongues\,” writes Chazaro\, “a mezcla of eyes.” Here is the piñata\, unbroken\, containing\, holding together all the promise of youth and imagination. When it spills\, it spills lavishly and generously its treasures.—D.A. Powell \nThe great American philosopher Jay Z once said\, “You can’t heal/what you don’t reveal.” Such is the ethos of this debut collection. Pugilistic\, unflinchingly honest\, and damn right gorgeous\, Piñata Theory no se raja in decirnos how broken we are\, how broken we’ve been. Alan takes the hyphen in Mexican-American\, this unruly papier-mache we’ve inherited\, and clothes the hollow of us. So before leafing this book\, dear reader\, take a breath—for your sake\, for those who still can’t breathe. Stomach his hard-hitting truth\, because “We were made for beatdowns.” This some strong shit\, as blunt as a spliffed Swisher\, as the dusty 2×4’s we’d wield at dangling dulce. Whenever you ready\, step inside this circle of homies. We’re cheering on our Yay Area champ as he plants both feet in this poetry world. It’s his turn. And as he swings for our freedom\, sing like we did as kids\, “Dale dale dale\, no pierdas el tino.”—Antonio López \nWe don’t get to witness a root as it reaches out and absorbs from all around itself. But Piñata Theory by Alan Chazaro is evidence of this Mexican-American navigation—it is the bud and the strange blossom that doesn’t resist itself like Xicanos sometimes do. And in this way\, it is like the serious ache a family joke leaves. It’s the men watching other men cry\, lost gold teeth and the person that misses it\, the thoughts loose like dogs on the street and how in their wildness\, we must honor them. These poems reverb under the skin but not necessarily in the colonized body. The speaker in this collection knows better than to make their body fully responsible for the world. And yet\, they know where they participate. They don’t “live with dust in [their] eyes\,” or with unaccounted admiration for life. Piñata Theory is a record of layer\, and speaks of us in a humor that is pure pocho-dimensional. Its truth is a deep wound and the “fuck it” that follows. And still\, each poem seems to be written in a special wonder that gathers itself from many places inside the speaker’s one body\, one root.—Sara Borjas \nAbout Alan Chazaro \nAlan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019) and Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley\, a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco\, and co-founding editor of HeadFake\, an online NBA zine. He chirps about Mexican memes\, the Golden State Warriors\, and Bay Area rap on Twitter @alan_chazaro
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