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SUMMARY:Mental Health Comedy Hour presented by Strut!
DESCRIPTION:Join us virtually this Thursday\, April 9th\, at 7pm PST! \nAt the Mental Health Comedy Hour “We’re not OK\, and that’s OK!” \nMental Health Comedy Hour was created by and is hosted by comedians Kristee Ono\, and Wonder Dave! The show aims to de-stigmatize mental illness and therapy through humor and open conversations about often difficult topics. Are you a queer person dealing with Depression\, Anxiety\, ADHD\, or Bipolar disorder?…why not laugh about it? At this show some of the funniest queer stand up comedians will tell jokes and talk about their life with mental illness. All in the jovial environment of a late-night talk show sponsored by Strut! Featuring interviews with licensed mental health professionals and more! \nThis show will have special guests comedians Luna Malbroux! And Jes Tom!\nOur guest mental health professional will be Nia Hamilton-Ibu! \nThe show is free\, we will be sharing the info on how to join and watch the virtual show the day of the event. Stay tuned and make sure to rsvp. \nQuestions about Strut or San Francisco AIDS Foundation events please contact the community event manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at baruch@sfaf.org \nStrut Limited Clinical Services:\nWednesday\, Thursday & Saturday\, 10 am – 4 pm\nFriday 11 am – 4 pm.\nWalk-in clients are not being seen at this time.\nPlease call the clinic at 415-581-1600 for instructions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mental-health-comedy-hour-presented-by-strut/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nIn the 1960s\, a small team of innovators gathered on a stunning sweep of land overlooking the California coast. They envisioned a new and different kind of university—one that could reinvent public higher education in the United States. Through this oral history of the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, we hear first-person accounts of the campus’s evolution\, from the origins of an audacious dream through the sea changes of five decades. More than two hundred narrators and a trove of archival images contribute to this dynamic\, nuanced account. Today\, UC Santa Cruz is a leading research university with experimental roots. This is the story of what was learned\, what was lost\, and what has grown along the way. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP for Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin HERE. LIVE on Zoom (link and instructions provided upon signup)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Seeds of Something Different:\n“I kept marveling\, ‘So that’s what was happening!’ I could not put it down.”\n—Nikki Silva of NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-3-with-irene-reti-cameron-vanderscoff-and-sarah-rabkin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month: Stegner Fellows Reading + Happy Hour!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Ruby happy hour in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Safia Elfhillo\, Claire Meuschke\, and Taneum Bambrick; all current Stegner fellows at Stanford University. Drinks and bites served at 5:30pm followed by performances! \nAbout the poets: \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Poetry Society of America\, Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, and others. Sok has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland. She is originally from Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press\, 2017)\, which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, and Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021)\, as well as a novel in verse forthcoming in 2021 from Make Me A World/Random House. A co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, Elhillo was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30” and is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nClaire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press\, 2020). From the Bay Area\, she has lived in New York City\, New Mexico\, and Arizona. She is poetry editor for Contra Viento and assistant poetry editor for DIAGRAM. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland. \nTaneum Bambrick is the author of VANTAGE\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in theNew Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\,PENAmerica\, and elsewhere. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nNOTE: This event is co-ed but we ask that all our guests be mindful of the Ruby’s mission to create a safe space that prioritizes the voices of women and nonbinary artists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-reading-happy-hour-tickets-91356199853
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-reading-happy-hour/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month: Stegner Fellows VIRTUAL Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special VIRTUAL Ruby gathering in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Safia Elfhillo\, Claire Meuschke\, and Taneum Bambrick; all current Stegner fellows at Stanford University. \n[This is a Virtual Ruby event\, taking place over Zoom. Join us: https://zoom.us/j/285830870?pwd=VU00MlhjZ3VTQVBLZi9Ta3R2TmVSdz09 Password will be sent with registration. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able!] \nAbout the poets: \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Poetry Society of America\, Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, and others. Sok has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland. She is originally from Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press\, 2017)\, which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, and Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021)\, as well as a novel in verse forthcoming in 2021 from Make Me A World/Random House. A co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, Elhillo was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30” and is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.\n \nClaire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press\, 2020). From the Bay Area\, she has lived in New York City\, New Mexico\, and Arizona. She is poetry editor for Contra Viento and assistant poetry editor for DIAGRAM. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland. \nTaneum Bambrick is the author of VANTAGE\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in theNew Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\,PENAmerica\, and elsewhere. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \n—————– \n*While we shelter in place during the Covid19 pandemic\, The Ruby’s physical location will be closed. As a collective\, we’ll continue to gather online for virtual workshops\, events\, and discussions. All are welcome to join us for these events. * For those who can afford it and would like to support The Ruby during this uncertain time\, we are offering 3 tiers of virtual membership: $5/week\, $15/week\, and $25/week. (Though we have some money in our emergency savings account to get us through the next little while\, we’re pretty nervous about the future\, and how long this might go on for.) Please help only if it’s feasible for you. If you’re in a tough time financially right now\, we absolutely get it. Please\, take care of yourself and stay connected to this community so we can help. \nHere are the tiers of virtual membership (use these links to sign up):\n$5/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/aRsJyABygL4FvvEJT\n$15/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/o56ggrnNNx9rzn6AA\n$25/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/q37HfmWSQMoLzPt4p \nWant to make a one-time donation of more or less? We can still accept donations through last year’s GoFundMe. Link is here. \nOur Virtual Ruby calendar will be updated as events are added. \n  \nImage\, pictured from left to right: Monica Sok (photo credit Andria Lo)\, Taneum Bambrick\, Safia Elhillo (photo credit Aris Theotokatos)\, and Claire Meuschke.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-virtual-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
DESCRIPTION:Hear from the writers of Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\nas they read briefly from their contribution and engage in conversation about what’s changed\, what hasn’t\, how we weather what we’re facing not only politically but also culturally\, personally\, artistically\, and as communities who affirm our connections to each other. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlicia Garza\nAlicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer\, writer\, public speaker\, and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United… Read More →\n\n \nAya de Leon\nAya de Leon directs the Poetry for the People program\, teaching creative writing at UC Berkeley. Kensington Books publishes her award-winning feminist heist/romance series\, Justice Hustlers: UPTOWN THIEF (2016)\, THE BOSS (2017)\, THE ACCIDENTAL MISTRESS (2018)\, and SIDE CHICK NATION… Read More →\n\n \nChip Livingston\nChip Livingston is the author of the novel\, OWLS DON’T HAVE TO MEAN DEATH; a collection of essays and stories\, NAMING CEREMONY; and two poetry collections\, CROW-BLUE\, CROW-BLACK and MUSEUM OF FALSE STARTS. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, New American… Read More →\n\n \nAchy Obejas\nAchy Obejas is the author of The Tower of the Antilles\, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award\, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe\, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook\, This is What Happened in Our Other Life… Read More →\n\n \nCarolina De Robertis\nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels Cantoras\, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award\, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award\, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Gods of Tango\, winner of… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-letters-of-love-and-dissent-in-dangerous-times/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joanne McNeil: Lurking: How a Person Became a User
DESCRIPTION:Joanne McNeil discusses her new book Lurking: How A Person Became a User with Jenny Odell. \nPraise for Lurking \n“The internet isn’t ‘out there’ somewhere; it’s coextensive with the brain of any writer who’d be worth reading on the subject. In Lurking\, Joanne McNeil writes as an internet ‘supertaster\,’ a veteran of more platforms and forums and flame wars and start-ups than most of us could ever imagine. She employs a trees-not-forest style\, immersing herself in the paradoxes\, and reinscribing her body at the scene. By risking a freely figurative language\, she hacks the mystery at its source.”—JONATHAN LETHEM \n“Without a doubt\, Joanne McNeil is the most original writer on technology working today. This poetic\, empathetic\, and incisive history of the internet will resonate deeply with anyone who goes online to listen and learn\, not shout and grandstand. Never cynical or reductive\, McNeil traces the commercialization of the digital world in unexpected and insightful ways\, revealing what has been lost\, what stolen\, and what utopian possibilities may still be recovered. Lurkers may not be inclined to rally around a manifesto\, but this profound and refreshing meditation will certainly do the trick. Lurkers of the world unite\, or at least read this book.”—ASTRA TAYLOR\, author of The People’s Platform \n“We all know what it’s like to spend time online\, but nobody has written about it with more depth and beauty than Joanne McNeil. Lurking makes the connections between internet protocol and human dignity tangible\, whether reflecting on her early days as an avid 90s web user or zooming out for critical insight into today’s tech giants and tomorrow’s possibilities. I learned something new on every page.”—JACE CLAYTON\, author of Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture \nAbout Lurking \nA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. \nIn a shockingly short amount of time\, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we communicate but who we are and who we can be. It has created a new\, unprecedented cultural space that we are all a part of—even if we don’t participate\, that is how we participate—but by which we’re continually surprised\, betrayed\, enriched\, befuddled. We have churned through platforms and technologies and in turn been churned by them. And yet\, the internet is us and always has been. \nIn Lurking\, Joanne McNeil digs deep and identifies the primary (if sometimes contradictory) concerns of people online: searching\, safety\, privacy\, identity\, community\, anonymity\, and visibility. She charts what it is that brought people online and what keeps us here even as the social equations of digital life—what we’re made to trade\, knowingly or otherwise\, for the benefits of the internet—have shifted radically beneath us. It is a story we are accustomed to hearing as tales of entrepreneurs and visionaries and dynamic and powerful corporations\, but there is a more profound\, intimate story that hasn’t yet been told. \nLong one of the most incisive\, ferociously intelligent\, and widely respected cultural critics online\, McNeil here establishes a singular vision of who we are now\, tells the stories of how we became us\, and helps us start to figure out what we do now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-mcneil-lurking-how-a-person-became-a-user/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Author Event /// Arroz con Pollo and Apple Pie: Raising Bicultural Children
DESCRIPTION:Author Event with Maritere R. Bellas //// Parenting Expert Topic – Bilingualism\, Biculturalism\, Multiculturalism & Award-Winning Author\, Influencer\, Speaker\, Podcast Host\, Features Writer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-event-arroz-con-pollo-and-apple-pie-raising-bicultural-children/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dana Gioia and Phillis Levin
DESCRIPTION:Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent. The first person in his family to attend college\, he received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in Comparative Literature. For fifteen years he worked as a businessman before quitting at forty-one to become a full-time writer. \nGioia has published five full-length collections of verse\, most recently 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016)\, which won the Poets’ Prize as the best new book of the year. His third collection\, Interrogations at Noon (2001)\, was awarded the American Book Award. His controversial book of essays\, Can Poetry Matter? (1992)\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. \nPhillis Levin is a poet\, essayist\, and editor. Her newest book\, Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books\, 2016)\, was selected by Library Journal as one of the Top Picks in poetry for spring 2016 and was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the author of four other poetry collections\, Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press\, 1988)\, The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press\, 1995)\, Mercury (Penguin\, 2001)\, and May Day (Penguin\, 2008)\, and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (2001). \nHer honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award\, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia\, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship\, a Bogliasco Fellowship\, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-gioia-and-phillis-levin/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T203000
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SUMMARY:Inside Weather: Writing and Art
DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday evening from your room\, where the following writers and artists will Zoom-share work that in some way contemplates the rooms and roomlessness of these times. This is the first in a series of three opportunities to create community and correspondence during these weeks of isolation. The events also partially act as launch readings for Mattraw’s We fell into weather (March\, Cultural Society). Mattraw’s second book explores invisible disabilities and their catalysts– environmental toxins\, illness\, and epigenetics\, among others– while considering what’s outside those rooms. \n11 April\, Saturday\, 7 pm PST \nNancy Au\nAlexandra Mattraw\nTomas Moniz\nDonna de la Perrière\nAdam Thorman \nThe writers and artists will present in a “round” formation instead of the patterns we find in a traditional reading. Each feature will offer approximately three minutes of work and then “pass the mic” to the next feature in a repeated\, circular pattern. \nAdditional events include \n21 April\, Tuesday\, 5:30 pm PST \nGillian Conoley\nTiff Dressen\nAlexandra Mattraw\nJennifer Soong\nMaw Shein Win \n19 May\, eve\, time TBD \nNorman Fischer\nHeather June Gibbons\nAlexandra Mattraw\nRusty Morrison
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-weather-writing-and-art/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200412T160000
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:Live: Sunday\, April 19th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\n\n\n\n\n\nDave Eggers is known for writing wonderful\, gripping stories that tug at the heart. His award-winning body of work consists of several non-fiction\, fiction\, humor\, screenplays\, a series on salon.com\, several essays and articles. As editor and contributor\, he has worked on several works of post-modern literature. Almost all of his works have received significant amount of critical acclaim\, not to mention commercial success. This has helped cement his place in the world of post-modern literature. He has thrown the doors open to bridging the divide between ethnic and religious groups through his fresh and honest works of fiction and non-fiction. \nHe has found more success through his more recent work as a novelist\, screenwriter\, satirist\, album art designer\, and a proponent of grassroots journalism and alternative comics. As a philanthropist\, he is known for helping students get through college vide monetary and after-school help from his nonprofit foundation and its seven chapters. A visionary and a global thought leader\, he is often invited to knowledge forums to deliver keynote addresses and engage eager audiences to fresh forward thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”\n– Dave Eggers \n\n\nRegister now for your invitation to:\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin live conversations with writers and thinkers who value books\, BookPassage\, and independent bookstores as much as you do.\nShape these conversations by helping to prioritize the session topics you most want addressed.\nShare your thoughts before and after each session in an ongoing discussion forum created exclusively for registered participants.\nView the video archive of every session\, wherever and whenever you want.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T170000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lisa Brown and Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Instagram live for a virtual event with Lisa Brown and Andrew Sean Greer discussing Long Story Short! Starting at 5:00pm on the greenapplebooks Instagram. \nAbout Long Story Short \nDoes Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick\, the Bhagavad Gita\, Madame Bovary\, and\, um\, Twilight? \nBestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby\, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries\, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote\, Lord of the Flies\, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved\, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, and Atonement\, conveniently organized by subjects including “Love\,” “Sex\,” “Death\,” and “Female Trouble.” Lisa Brown’s Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called “the canon” into a frolic—or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read. \nAbout Lisa Brown \nLisa Brown draws things like illustrations and comics\, writes things like books and book reviews\, and teaches things to kids and college students. Her debut picture book\, How to Be\, was one of the Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy.  She is a comics contributor at The Rumpus and teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. You can find her online at americanchickens.com or on Twitter: @lisabrowndraws. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lisa-brown-and-andrew-sean-greer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20200323T055258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200329T192550Z
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
URL:https://litseen.com/event/escape-from-quarantine-reading-a-weekly-online-thing-4/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20200207T232113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T232113Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Molly Fisk\, Fire and Rain at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Molly Fisk\, editor of a new anthology of recent topical poetry by Californian authors titled “Fire and Rain”\, as well as several of the book’s poets. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-molly-fisk-fire-and-rain-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20200411T205555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T205555Z
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SUMMARY:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series / POETRY night with MK Chavez\, Letisia Cruz\, and Wendy-O Matik \nIf you\, like the rest of us\, are feeling isolated with a sudden and vast amount of free time… AND you like authors and stories and amazing women\, please join host Dani Burlison on zoom for a virtual literary series Tuesday nights at 6:30pm PST. \n——- \n+ MK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis\, Dear Animal\, and Virgin Eyes. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Her most recent publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and on the Academy of American Poets website’s Poem-A-Day series. \n+ Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and artist. She is the author of The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books\, 2018). Her chapbook Chonga Nation was selected as a finalist in the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series and the 2016 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest. Her writing and artwork have appeared in [PANK]\, Ninth Letter\, The Acentos Review\, Gulf Stream\, Saw Palm\, Third Coast\, Duende\, Moko Caribbean Arts & Letters\, 300 Days of Sun\, Ink Brick\, and Sakura Review\, among others. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Florida with her partner and their two cats. \n+ Wendy-O Matik is a poet\, writer\, activist\, and the author of Love Like Rage (with manic d press) and Redefining Our Relationships (with Defiant Times Press). Back in the 90s\, you could find her doing spokenword in the Bay Area punk scene and touring with various punk bands in the US\, Canada\, UK\, Australia\, and New Zealand. Wendy has also coauthored nine mindfulness meditation books for New Harbinger Publications and is currently pounding down the virtual doors of publishers to get her feminist-anarchist graphic novel out in the world. Today\, she lives on an organic farm in Santa Rosa\, CA\, where the farm animals outnumber the humans.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-quarantined-room-of-ones-own-virtual-reading-series/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20200411T204915Z
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SUMMARY:The Gringa: Andrew Altschul (VIRTUAL EVENT: In Conversation with Darcie Dennigan)
DESCRIPTION:We will be presenting this event virtually\, using Zoom. RSVP here. \nA gripping and subversive novel about the slippery nature of truth and the tragic consequences of American idealism … \nLeonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad\, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression\, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades\, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid\, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. \nTen years later\, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels\, he struggles to understand Leonora\, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants\, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering\, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? \nIn this powerful and timely new novel\, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction\, author and text\, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller\, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice. \nAndrew Altschul is the author of the novels Lady Lazarus and Deus Ex Machina. His work has appeared in Esquire\, McSweeney’s\, Ploughshares\, Best New American Voices\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford\, he now teaches at Colorado State University. \nDarcie Dennigan has published three books of poetry – Corinna a-Maying the Apocalypse\, Madame X\, and The Palace of Subatomic Bliss – one book of performance texts\, The Parking Lot and other feral scenarios\, and a novel\, Slater Orchard. She has won awards from the Poetry Society of America\, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Discovery/The Nation prize. She is the 2019-20 resident playwright at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence\, RI\, and writer in residence at the University of Connecticut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-gringa-andrew-altschul-virtual-event-in-conversation-with-darcie-dennigan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20191231T203245Z
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui: Why We Swim
DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Tsui discusses her new book\, Why We Swim\, with Caroline Paul. \nPraise for Why We Swim \n “A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. I was enchanted.”–Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n“The only thing better than reading Bonnie Tsui’s writing about swimming is swimming itself—and both are sublime. Why We Swim is an aquatic tour de force\, a captivating story filled with adventure\, meditation\, and celebration.”– Susan Casey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and Voices in the Ocean \n“This is a jewel of a book\, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it.” –James Nestor\, author of Deep: Freediving\, Renegade Science\, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves \n“Magnificent. Only a truly great story can hold my attention and Why We Swim had me nailed to the chair . . . I love this book.” – Christopher McDougall\, bestselling author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes \nAbout Why We Swim \nHumans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it’s an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It’s also one route to that elusive\, ecstatic state of flow. These reasons\, among many others\, make swimming one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bonnie-tsui-why-we-swim/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
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SUMMARY:Roshani Chokshi: Aru Shah and the End of Time
DESCRIPTION: Rick Riordan Presents (dedicated to providing entertaining middle grade fiction based on various world mythologies) with Aru Shah and the End of Time\, written by best-selling author Roshani Chokshi. It delves into Hindu mythology and is described as a mix of Riordan’s own Percy Jackson series and the Sailor Moon franchise. It’s an imaginative novel that puts girl power and diverse protagonists front and center. . \n“Have you ever read a book and thought\, Wow\, I wish I’d written that!?” said Riordan in the foreword. “For me\, Aru Shah and the End of Time is one of those books”. “It has everything I like: humor\, action\, great characters\, and\, of course\, awesome mythology!.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoshani will be chatting about Aru Shah and the Tree of Life\, the third book in the Hindu-based\, best-selling Pandava series\, in which Aru and her cohorts\, Mini\, Brynne\, and Aiden—and now a pair of twins—each search the Otherworld for Kalpavriksha\, the wish-granting tree. \nWar between the devas and the demons is imminent\, and the Otherworld is on high alert. Fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends are sent on a mission to rescue two “targets\,” one of whom is about to utter a prophecy that could mean the difference between victory and defeat. Turns out the targets\, a pair of twins\, are the newest Pandava sisters\, though the prophecy says that one sister is not true. When the Pandavas fail to prevent the prophecy from reaching the Sleeper’s ears\, the heavenly attendants ask them to step aside. Aru believes that the only way to put the shine back on their brand is to find the Kalpavriksha\, the wish-granting tree that came out of the Ocean of Milk when it was churned. If she can reach it before the Sleeper\, perhaps he can turn everything around with one wish. Careful what you wish for\, Aru . . . \nRoshani Chokshi is the author of the instant New York Times best-selling books in the Pandava series\, Aru Shah and the End of Time\, and its sequel\, Aru Shah and the Song of Death. She also wrote the New York Times best-selling YA books The Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves. She studied fairy tales in college\, and she has a pet luck dragon that looks suspiciously like a Great Pyrenees dog. The Pandava novels were inspired by the stories her grandmother told her as well as Roshani’s all-consuming love for Sailor Moon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roshani-chokshi-aru-shah-and-the-end-of-time/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20200203T225222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T225222Z
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SUMMARY:Aya De León: Side Chick Nation
DESCRIPTION:Aya De León is a writer\, activist\, educator\, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series. The Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People\, she teaches poetry and spoken word at UC Berkeley and is an alumna of Cave Canem\, VONA and Harvard University. She is a winner of the International Latino Book Award and a two time winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards\, and her extensive writing credits include Guernica\, Essence\, Ebony\, The Huffington Post\, VICE\, Ploughshares\, Woman’s Day and Bitch magazine\, among many other websites and publications. De León first came to national attention as a spoken word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and a hip-hop theater artist. Visit her online at ayadeleon.com\, on Twitter @AyadeLeon\, or on Facebook.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aya-de-leon-side-chick-nation/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20200411T205347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T205347Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #3
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition is now weekly. Join us for readings from Thea Matthews\, Lauren Traetto\, and Pamela K. Santos and a community craft talk. \nEther Edition is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #3\nTime: Apr 15\, 2020\, 7:00PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/603664236?pwd=cW9tYldEdU0rb3YvNi9TSFR3alpRQT09 \nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: 061152\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keB99ctCO4
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151927
CREATED:20191227T024640Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy Liu
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nAbolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism \nfrom Repeater Books \nFormer insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry\, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology’s potential for the public good. \nInnovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What’s not to love about Silicon Valley? \nThese days\, it’s hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica\, Theranos\, and the workplace conditions of Amazon warehouse workers or Uber. We’re starting to see the cracks in the edifice\, as we realise that the wealth that the tech industry is so good at creating is neither sustainable nor always desirable. \nAbolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story about the wasteful inequality and unsubstantiated lies of Silicon Valley\, and a rallying call to engage in the radical politics needed to upend the status quo. Going beyond the idiosyncrasies of the individual founders and companies that characterise the industry today\, Liu delves into the structural factors of the economy that led to Silicon Valley in its current form\, and links them to the economy at large. Ultimately\, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology\, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large\, and not merely to enrich a select few. \n\nWendy Liu is a former startup founder who now writes about the political economy of the tech industry and why tech workers need to unionise.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-liu/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151928
CREATED:20200411T203328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T203328Z
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk\, the You’re Going to Die team & music from Morgan Bolender…\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nWednesday\, April 15th\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2XsZZKb \nPLEASE NOTE:\nRegistration DOES NOT guarantee a spot on the call!!!\nThere are only 100 call spots & our commitment is to keep it intimate\, so whoever needs to share\, gets to share…\nDo not wait – don’t be late!! \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @Peter-Buskirk\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU IF HE HAS TO! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together… \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151928
CREATED:20191120T050827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T050827Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 15\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us as the fifth group of our 2nd year graduate students read their work. Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students\, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary’s College. \n\nSterling Farrance (Creative Nonfiction)\nMelissa Landucci (Creative Nonfiction)\nNatalie Savio (Fiction)\nClayne Zollinger (Poetry)\n\n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graduate-student-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151928
CREATED:20200219T013550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200219T013550Z
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SUMMARY:Kaouther Adimi: Our Riches
DESCRIPTION:Algerian author Kaouther Adimi discusses his new novel Our Riches. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. \nPraise for Our Riches \n“An understated\, lyrical story of reading and resistance over the tumultuous generations.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred) \n“Adimi’s confident prose displays Ryad and Charlot’s emotional depth while nimbly shuttling the reader through nearly a century of history. This is a moving tribute to the enduring power of literature.”—Publishers Weekly \n“Fascinating: Adimi synthesizes the private minutiae of the great and sometimes forgotten publisher Edmond Charlot with the history of the times in a surprisingly light\, almost breezy fashion\, making this a fast\, interesting\, and engaging read.”—Adam Hocker\, Albertine Bookstore \nAbout Our Riches \nThe powerful English debut of a rising young French star\, Our Riches is a marvelous\, surprising\, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop \nOur Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot\, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth)\, the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto “by the young\, for the young\,” discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces\, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions\, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot’s story with that of another twenty-year-old\, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad’s no booklover\, but old Abdallah\, the bookshop’s self-appointed\, nearly illiterate guardian\, opens the young man’s mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad\, from the 1930s to current times\, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris\, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama into her swift and poignant novel. But most of all\, it’s a hymn to the book and to the love of books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaouther-adimi-our-riches/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:archy and mehitabel Group Reading (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:Come on Zoom and let’s read some poems from the first archy and mehitabel book by Don Marquis. His work is in public domain. But if you need a copy of the book\, DM me\, and I’ll send you the file. \nSign up for a poem or two! \n1. the coming of archy\n2. mehitabel was once cleopatra\n3. the song of mehitabel\n4. pity the poor spiders\n5. mehitabel s extensive past\n6. the cockroach who has been to hell\n7. archy interviews a pharaoh\n8. a spider and a fly\n9. freddy the rat perishes\n10. the merry flea\n11. why mehitabel jumped\n12. certain maxims of archy\n13. warty bliggens\, the toad\n14. mehitabel has an adventure\n15. the flattered lightning bug\n16. the robin and the worm\n17. mehitabel finds a home\n18. the wall of archy\n19. mehitabel and her kittens\n20. archy is shocked\n21. archy creates a situation\n22. mehitabel sings a song\n23. aesop revised by archy – Daphne Gottleib\n24. cheerio my deario
URL:https://litseen.com/event/archy-and-mehitabel-group-reading-part-1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151928
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #2: Juliana Delgado Lopera + Miah Jeffra
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque engaging readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Sibling Rivalry Press. Our writers are Juliana Delgado Lopera (author of Quiéreme\, Nomadic Press\, and Fiebre Tropical\, The Feminist Press at CUNY) and Miah Jeffra (author of The First Church of What’s Happening\, Nomadic Press\, and The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!\, Sibling Rivalry Press. \nNoelia Cerna will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Screenside Chat #2: Miah Jeffra and Juliana Delgado Lopera\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/556001232 \nMeeting ID: 556 001 232\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,556001232# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,556001232# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 556 001 232\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-2-juliana-delgado-lopera-miah-jeffra/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Readings by Aaron Shurin and Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with beloved Bay Area writers Aaron Shurin (The Blue Absolute) and Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems). Please join us for a night of readings! \nAbout The Blue Absolute \nUrban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming\, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes\, dots\, perspective shifts\, and the fragmented action of San Francisco\, the great city on the edge. \nThe Blue Absolute’s prose poems are hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future. \nAaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books\, 2017)\, The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press\, 2015)\, and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems\, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays\, 2008). His work has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies\, from The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry to Italy’s Nuova Poesia Americana: San Francisco\, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts\, The California Arts Council\, The San Francisco Arts Commission\, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ studies and innovative verse\, Shurin was a member of the original Good Gay Poets collective in Boston\, and later the first graduate of the storied Poetics Program at New College of California. He has written numerous critical essays about poetic theory and compositional practice\, as well as personal narratives on sexual identity\, gender fluidity\, and the AIDS epidemic. A longtime educator\, he’s the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. \n\nAbout A Little More Red Sun on the Human \nA selection of poems by celebrated poet Gillian Conoley that spans her arresting body of work: from the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood toward an encompassing inquiry into spirit and matter\, individual and state. \nGillian Conoley’s new and selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. A Little More Red Sun on the Human: Selected Poems is forthcoming with Nightboat Books in Fall 2019. Her seventh poetry collection\, PEACE\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Her translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014. Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where she edits Volt. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Blue Absolute and/or A Little More Red Sun on the Human\, click on the appropriate title(s) in this sentence and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-by-aaron-shurin-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Terrill: Great Balls of Doubt w/ Jon Langford
DESCRIPTION:Mark Terrill’s new book of poems\, launching tonight\, is Great Balls of Doubt\, a collection of poems and prose poems with illustrations by Jon Langford\, hailed by Anne Waldman as “a solid collection from a vigilant compañero of the real work\, an ally of the Zen wing of the New American Poetry of observation & witness.” Born in Berkeley\, Terrill has lived for many years in Germany\, publishing numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including Bread & Fish (The Figures\, 2002) and Diamonds & Sapience (Dark Style\, 2017). His work has appeared in over a thousand journals and anthologies\, including City Lights Review\, Bombay Gin\, Empty Mirror\, Jacket\, Diagram\, Rattle\, RHINO\, and Talisman\, and been translated into French\, German\, and Portuguese. \nJon Langford is a musician and visual artist who first came to prominence with art/punk music collective the Mekons. He has also released many recordings as a solo artist and with other bands (the Three Johns\, the Waco Brothers\, Four Lost Souls\, and more). Tonight he will accompany Terrill’s reading on guitar and also perform songs from his own extensive repertoire. Langford’s art has been collected in two books\, Nashville Radio and Skull Orchard Revisited\, and in 2015 he was artist in residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame\, which commissioned him to paint a series of portraits for its exhibition “Dylan\, Cash\, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-terrill-great-balls-of-doubt-w-jon-langford/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : Songs From A Room
DESCRIPTION:We’re doing a weekly event. \nThis week it’s The Racket Weekly : SONGS FROM A ROOM in which a quintet of writers pen short pieces on the songs currently filtering through the murk of quarantine. There will be a playlist and you can listen along. \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88190232333 \nDoors @ 7:00. Event at 7:15. \nThe Readers: \nChelsea Davis\nSerena Chan\nD’mani Thomas\nMaddy Raskulinecz\nGark Mavigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-songs-from-a-room/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass and Marlene Mörling
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass’s poetry includes Indigo (Copper Canyon Press\, forthcoming 2020) Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon Press\, 2014)\, The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press\, 2007)\, and Mules of Love (BOA\, 2002). She co-edited\, with Florence Howe\, the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday\, 1973). Her poetry has appeared frequently in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The California Arts Council\, three Pushcart Prizes\, The Lambda Literary Award\, The Pablo Neruda Prize\, The Larry Levis Prize and the New Letters Prize. Her nonfiction books include Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies\, I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse\, and The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. \nMalena Mörling was born in Stockholm in 1965 and grew up in southern Sweden. She is the author of two books of poetry: Ocean Avenue and Astoria. She has also published translations of work by Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer and together with Jonas Ellerström\, a collection of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran\, On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems\, the collection 1933 by Philip Levine into Swedish\, and they have edited and translated the anthology\, The Star By My Head\, Poets From Sweden published by Milkweed Editions. Mörling has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Dianna L. Bennett Fellowship from the Beverly Rogers\, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina\, Wilmington and is teaching as Hugo Poet and Visiting Professor at University of Montana for the 2019-2020 school year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-and-marlene-morling/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Tess Taylor with Ilya Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Tess Taylor’s \n \nRift Zone:poems \npublished by Red Hen Press \nand \n \nLast West \npublished by Museum of Modern Art Books \nabout Rift Zone \nRIFT ZONE\, Taylor’s much-anticipated third book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines—rifts between past and present\, childhood and adulthood\, what is and what was. Circling Taylor’s hometown—an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault—these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant\, a bloody land grab\, gun violence\, valley girls\, strip malls\, redwood trees\, and the painful history of Japanese internment. Taylor’s ambitious and masterful poems read her home state’s historic violence against our world’s current unsteadinesses—mass eviction\, housing crises\, deportation\, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink—an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. \nabout Last West \nLast West is a book-length commission from the Museum of Modern Art. It will be published by the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) this February and part of the Dorothea Lange Words & Pictures exhibit. The book revisits the work of Dorothea Lange in California in contemporary poems examining issues of migrancy\, shelterlessness\, and climate change as they appear in Lange’s work and continue to affect us today. \nabout Ilya Kaminski’s Deaf Republic \nDeaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy\, Petya\, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf\, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. At once a love story\, an elegy\, and an urgent plea\, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. \nTess Taylor is a poet and the poetry critic for NPR’s All Things Considered. Her books include Work & Days (Red Hen Press\, 2016)\, named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by The New York Times; The Forage House (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award which The San Francisco Chronicle called “stunning\,” and the chapbook The Misremembered World\, which was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. In February 2020\, Last West\, an exciting book length commission from the Museum of Modern Art\, will be published in conjunction with the MOMA show\, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures. In his introduction to the collection\, Ilya Kaminsky calls Taylor’s voice “invaluable” and a “poet for our moment.”  Her work explores California and the American West\, her life as a critic\, and the intersection of poetry and journalism. \nIlya Kaminsky is the author of the widely acclaimed Deaf Republic (Graywolf\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry\, which Kevin Young\, writing in The New Yorker\, called a work of “profound imagination.” Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press\, 2004)\, and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press\, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer’s Award\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award\, the Dorset Prize\, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently\, he was on the short-list for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey\, Holland\, Russia\, France\, Mexico\, Macedonia\, Romania\, Spain and China\, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His poems have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova\, Osip Mandelstam\, and Marina Tsvetaeva.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-taylor-with-ilya-kaminsky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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