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SUMMARY:Book Launch for YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with Author Jenny True
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, May 4\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with author Jenny True in conversation with Catherine Newman (author of HOW TO BE A PERSON: 65 HUGELY USEFUL\, SUPER-IMPORTANT SKILLS TO LEARN BEFORE YOU’RE GROWN UP). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795898890\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of YOU LOOK TIRED at http://bit.ly/ggpTired\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/TiredAB \nDescription\n\nIn the tradition of Ali Wong and Amy Schumer comes this whip-smart\, spit-out-your-coffee funny guide for new parents—from popular blogger and columnist Jenny True. Plenty of “new parent” guides cover the basics of breastfeeding\, bonding\, sleep\, and “getting back in shape.” But nowhere is a guide that tells you\, WTF is this squeeze bottle thing from the hospital?\nYou Look Tired is a totally honest\, tell-it-like-it-is guide for new moms who don’t want any more advice. Writing as Jenny True on her “Excruciatingly Personal Mommy Blog” and in the “Dear Jenny” column on Romper\, Jenny has been called the “postpartum feelings doula\,” as she doles out her unique mix of humor\, rage\, and encouragement (with a smidge of practical advice)\, including: \n\nBirth Hurts: Prenatal yoga is a waste of time.\nJabba the Hutt Was Just Postpartum: It explains so much.\nAn Open Letter to People Who Say\, “Looks like you have your hands full!”\n\nAnd much more! \nAbout the Author\n\nJenny Pritchett (alias Jenny True) is a nationally recognized columnist for Romper\, where she publishes advice on pregnancy and parenting\, as well as on her popular blog Jenny True: An Excruciatingly Personal Mommy Blog\, which was a finalist for the Mom 2.0 2019 People’s Choice Awards. Her columns have been featured in Elle\, Scary Mommy\, and the Longest Shortest Time podcast. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nAbout Catherine Newman\n\nCatherine Newman is the author of How to Be a Person (83\,000 copies in print)\, and  two parenting memoirs: Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness. She’s also the co-author of Stitch Camp. Newman is the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine and the editor of the James Beard Award–winning kids’ cooking magazine ChopChop\, and has contributed to publications including the New York Times\, O the Oprah Magazine\, and Parents. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts\, with her family. Visit her at catherinenewmanwriter.com. \nPraise For YOU LOOK TIRED\n\n“In You Look Tired\, Jenny Pritchett dishes out hilarious\, in-your-face advice to overwhelmed moms and moms-to-be. If you don’t have a trust fund\, a live-in nanny\, or the organizational skills to breastfeed elegantly while getting a pedicure\, you need this book. In the voice of her popular alter ego Jenny True\, Pritchett tells it like it really is\, not the way it would be if you were floating through parenthood on a cloud of maternal fairy dust. There is no maternal fairly dust\, people! Fortunately\, there is Jenny True.”—Michelle Richmond\, New York Times bestselling author of five novels and two award winning story collections\, mother of one\, and Jenny True fan. \n“Completely hilarious\, utterly frank\, thoughtful\, and wise—this book is a breath of fresh air.” —Meaghan O’Connell\, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready \n“A must-have for moms-to-be.” —Bunmi Laditan\, author of The Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-you-look-tired-an-excruciatingly-honest-guide-to-new-parenthood-with-author-jenny-true/
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SUMMARY:Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 5\, 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nIsmail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer\, a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, and a board member at the National Books Critics Circle. He’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, and a Simpson Family Literary Fellow. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like The New York Times\, Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. \nIn Spring 2021\, Muhammad is teaching English 361: Contemporary Nonfiction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-readings-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:New Voice Series\, featuring Dan Lau\, with others tba
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending\, will be announced here \nWith emcee\, Carlos Quinteros III \nThe Poetry Center is delighted to announce the New Voice series\, initiated in Spring 2021 as an annual reading series that will pair a poet alum of SF State\, a current SF State graduate student poet in Creative Writing\, and a current undergraduate student poet at SF State (any major)\, to each read their work and engage in conversation. For the premier event\, poet Dan Lau has been invited to appear along with student poets on Wednesday May 5\, 4:00 pm Pacific Time. \nDetails tba \n\n\n\n  \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\, New Voice Series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-voice-series-featuring-dan-lau-with-others-tba/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Thalia Field and Anakana Schofield
DESCRIPTION:Anakana Schofield joins Thalia Field for a conversation about her latest experimental work on animal rights\, Personhood (New Directions). \nThis event is presented in conjunction with Community Bookstore in Park Slope. \nThis will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Personhood\nA remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers \nWhether investigating refugee parrots\, indentured elephants\, the pathetic fallacy\, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the “invasive species crisis\,” Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection\, Bird Lovers\, Backyard\, Thalia Field’s essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous\, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals\, and other historical actors\, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status. \nAbout the writers\nThalia Field is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Her most recent novel is Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) from Solid Objects Press. Her three New Directions books are Point and Line (2000)\, Incarnate: Story Material (2004)\, and Bird Lovers\, Backyard (2010). \nAnakana Schofield is an award-winning Irish-Canadian writer of fiction\, essays\, and literary criticism. Her previous novels are Malarky (2012) and Martin John (2015). The UK edition of Bina was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. Schofield lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thalia-field-and-anakana-schofield/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Imagine Us\, the Swarm Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 5 | 6-7:30pm PST\nvia Zoom\nno fee \nKSW is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library for the launch of Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us\, The Swarm (Nightboat Books). In this collection of essays in verse\, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American\, queer and gendered experiences. Following the death of the poet’s father\, Imagine Us\, The Swarm contemplates vengeance\, eschews forgiveness and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. Moving between the past and the present\, Leung imbues memories with something new to alter time and design a different future. \nThis launch party will feature a reading from Leung’s new book in addition to readings by Truong Tran\, Hari Alluri\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, Angie Sijun Lou and Addie Tsai. There will also be a raffle\, giveaways\, and trivia games woven into the night. \nMuriel Leung\n\nMuriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us\, The Swarm from Nightboat Books in 2021\, and Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press and the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Leung co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective\, a feminist speakers bureau. Currently\, Leung is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at the University of Southern California where she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. \n\n\nHari Alluri\n\nHari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Fellowship for Poets of Color and recipient of grants from the Canada Council of the Arts\, his work appears recently or soon in the Watch Your Head (Coach House) and Pandemic Solidarity (Pluto) anthologies\, as well as Apogee\, Solstice\, Tinderbox\, Witness and elsewhere. Alluri’s collaborations lately are through BIPOC Writing Community\, Community Building Art Works\, The Cultch\, The Digital Sala\, Massy Books and Soft Cedar. \n\n\nJanice Sapigao\n\nJanice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a poet from San José\, CA. She is the author of two books of poetry\, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books\, 2017). She is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. \n\n\nAddie Tsai\n\nAddie Tsai (she/they) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color\, and teaches courses in literature\, creative writing\, dance and humanities at Houston Community College. She also teaches in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA in Creative Writing. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. She is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin\, which made the 2021 Rainbow Book List\, and received press in Autostraddle\, Bustle\, Lambda Literary Review and others. Addie’s writing has been published in Foglifter\, VIDA Lit\, the Texas Review and elsewhere. They are the Fiction Co-Editor at Anomaly\, Staff Writer at Spectrum South and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \n\n\nTruong Tran\n\nTruong Tran is a poet ad visual artist. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at California Institute of Integral Studies\, The Telegraph Hill Gallery\, SOMArts\, Mina Dresden Gallery\, and The Peninsula Museum of Art. His books include\, Placing The Accents\, The Book of Perceptions\, Dust and Conscience\, Within The Margin\, Four Letter Words\, 100 Words and the much anticipated Book of the Other (October 2021). He is currently The Adjunct Professor of Poetry at Mills College where he teaches graduate courses about poetics and the crossing of writing and visual art. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAngie Sijun Lou\n\nAngie Sijun Lou is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Poetry Northwest\, FENCE\, Black Warrior Review\, the Adroit Journal\, the Asian American Literary Review\, Hyphen\, the Margins and others. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz\, and a calculus instructor at San Quentin State Prison. She has received fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center\, Millay Colony and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She lives in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Renée Watson\, Ways to Grow Love
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Renée Watson for an online event celebrating Ways to Grow Love\, the newest title in her Ramona-esque series for young readers\, starring Ryan Hart and her loveable family. \nRegister for this free event by clicking here!This is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nRyan Hart and her family are back in another installment of stories about a Black girl finding her way and her voice as she grows through change and challenges. In this book\, Ryan finds herself wishing for lots of things—like for her new sister to be born healthy\, for her new recipes to turn out right\, for that camping trip to go better than she fears! And of course Ryan is facing these new challenges and new experiences in her classic style—with a bright outlook and plenty of spirit! \nInspired to write her own version of Ramona\, Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson continues her delightful series. \nRenée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Ways to Make Sunshine\, Some Places More Than Others\, This Side of Home\, What Momma Left Me\, Betty Before X\, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz\, and Watch Us Rise\, co-written with Ellen Hagan\, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird\, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée lives in New York City. www.reneewatson.net; @harlemportland (Instagram); @reneewauthor (Twitter)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-renee-watson-ways-to-grow-love/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kate Durbin and Alex Dimitrov
DESCRIPTION:Kate Durbin celebrates her new collection of poetry \nHOARDERS \npublished by Wave Books \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nIn Hoarders\, Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard\, from Barbies to snow globes to vintage Las Vegas memorabilia to rotting fruit to plants. Using reality television as a medium\, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects a cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal and tender. In the absurdist tradition of Kafka and Beckett\, Hoarders ultimately embraces with sympathy the difficulty and complexity of the human condition. \n“Though the swift-moving spectacle of the television show invites viewers to cast easy judgment on these hoarders\, Durbin employs poetry’s slower speed to show a more complicated picture. Instead of using [these stories] to make us feel better about ourselves for not being hoarders\, she indicts aspects of American culture we all participate in—religion\, capitalism—and reveals our complicity\, all the while dropping a lot of sight gags in the process.” —Rich Smith\, The Stranger  \nKate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. Her books of poetry include E! Entertainment\, The Ravenous Audience\, and ABRA\, which won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize. Durbin was the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence in Brisbane\, Australia in 2015. Her art and writing have been featured in the New York Times\, Art in America\, Artforum\, the Believer\, BOMB\, poets.org\, the American Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. She has shown her artwork nationally and internationally at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle\, The PULSE Art Fair in Miami\, MOCA Los Angeles\, the SPRING/BREAK Art Show in Los Angeles\, peer to space in Berlin\, and more. \nAlex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems\, including the upcoming Love and Other Poems\, as well as the chapbook American Boys. His work has been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry. He was the former senior content editor at the Academy of American Poets\, where he edited Poem-A-Day and American Poets. He has taught creative writing at Princeton University\, Columbia University\, and Barnard College\, among other institutions. With Dorothea Lasky\, he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. Dimitrov lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-durbin-and-alex-dimitrov/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #57
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# 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 (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Soul Sister Revue w/ Yona Harvey\, Tarfia Faizullah\, Dante Micheaux & More
DESCRIPTION:Join Soul Sister Revue for its anniversary show as we turn 8 years strong and ask the question “What does Soul mean to you?” Readers include Yona Harvey (You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love)\, Tarfia Faizullah (Registers of Illuminated Villages)\, Dante Micheaux (Circus)\, CM Burroughs (Master Suffering)\, and Dimitri Reyes. The event is free\, but registration is required. Show Time: 7:00 pm EST\, 4pm PST\, 5pm MST\, or 6pm CST.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-sister-revue-w-yona-harvey-tarfia-faizullah-dante-micheaux-more/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Angie Dribben and Ken Waldman reading from their poetry\, plus literary trivia quiz\, and open mic. \nAngie Dribben’s debut collection\, Everygirl\, a finalist for the 2020 Broadkill Review Dogfish Head Prize\, is out with Main Street Rag. She is Contributing Reviews Editor at Cider Press Review. Her poetry\, essays\, mixed media\, and reviews can be found or are forthcoming in Cave Wall\, EcoTheo\, Crab Creek Review\, Crack the Spine\, and others. Her poetry is widely-anthologized. \nKen Waldman combines Appalachian-style fiddling\, original poetry\, and smart storytelling for a performance uniquely his. Eighteen books include fifteen full-length poetry collections\, a memoir\, a creative writing manual\, and a children’s book. Nine CDs have received widespread radio airplay. Appearances include the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage\, Dodge Poetry Festival\, Woodford Folk Festival (Queensland\, Australia)\, plus concert series and clubs across America. He’s had work in Poet Lore\, Massachusetts Review\, and hundreds more. www.kenwaldman.com and www.trumpsonnets.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-4/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us for story time with Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith on Saturday\, May 8 at 12pm PT to celebrate\, Brave in the Water\, on Zoom!\n\nAn event especially for young readers!\nSan Francisco children’s book authors Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith will each read a story\,\nfollowed by a special opportunity to ask them any questions you may have about being a children’s book author!\nHow do they come up with storybook ideas?\nDo they make those drawings themselves?\nWhat books do they like to read?\nJoin us to find out and ask your own question!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83364102484\n\nAbout Brave in the Water\nAre you afraid to put your face in the water? So is Diante. He would like to play in the pool with other children. He’s not afraid to hang upside down\, though\, and he’s surprised to learn his grandma is. Can Diante help Grandma and become brave in the water?\n\nAbout Stephanie Wildman\nStephanie M. Wildman\, author of the forthcoming Brave in the Water\, became a Professor Emerita after serving as the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Chair at Santa Clara Law. She directed the school’s Center for Social Justice and Public Service. In 2007 the Society of American Law Teachers\, the largest national organization of law school faculty honored her with their Great Teacher Award. Her most recent books include: Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America 3d (with Richard Delgado\, Angela A. Harris\, Juan F. Perea\, and Jean Stefancic) (2015); Social Justice: Professionals Communities and Law (with Martha R. Mahoney and John O. Calmore) (2013) and Women and the Law Stories (with Elizabeth Schneider) (2011). Her book\, Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America\, (with contributions by Margalynne Armstrong\, Adrienne D. Davis\, & Trina Grillo) won the 1997 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Meyers Center for Human Rights. She has authored dozens of law review articles and journalistic pieces. She is a grandmother\, mother\, spouse\, friend\, good listener\, and she is able to sit “criss-cross apple sauce” thanks to her yoga practice.\n\nAbout Emma Bland Smith\nEmma Bland Smith is the award-winning author of Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7\, the Most Famous Wolf in the West\, as well as other fiction and nonfiction books for children. Many of Emma’s books include animals—wolves\, dogs\, pigs\, even alligators! Emma is a librarian and author and lives in San Francisco with her husband\, two kids\, dog\, and cat—but no wolf\, pig\, or alligator. Visit her online at emmabsmith.com and on Twitter at @emmablandsmith.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-stephanie-wildman-and-emma-bland-smith-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mule Kick Blues Book Release with Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for \nMule Kick Blues: And Last Poems \npublished by City Lights \nThe last book by the late Beat Generation legend Michael McClure \nwith Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles \nand featuring Garrett Caples \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to pre-order/purchase book. \n———– \nThis event is followed by a livestreamed tribute to the life of Michael McClure with a roster of special guests happening on Sunday\, May 9th. Go here to register for that event too! \n  \nThe final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend\, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end. \nMule Kick Blues is the final book of poems by Beat Generation legend Michael McClure. A powerful collection of new work written during the last years of McClure’s life\, Mule Kick Blues was readied for publication before the poet’s death in May 2020. Its opening section gives us a rare view into his thoughts about his own mortality\, particularly in the moving sequence “Death Poems.” The book takes its title from an innovative series of homages to blues musicians like Leadbelly and Howlin’ Wolf\, and evoking Kerouac’s concept of “blues” poems. Featuring shout-outs to lifelong friends like Philip Whalen\, Diane di Prima\, and Gary Snyder\, the long poem “Fragments of Narcissus\,” and the eco-logical and zen-infused themes for which he is known\, Mule Kick Blues is a definitive statement by one of the most significant American poets of the last sixty years. Introduction by poet Garrett Caples\, McClure’s editor at City Lights. \nEileen Myles is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Warhol/Creative Capital grant\, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \nAnne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado\, where she still teaches. Her poetry collections include Iovis I\, Iovis II\, Fast Speaking Woman\, Helping the Dreamer\, Kill or Cure\, and Trickster Feminism. She is a recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mule-kick-blues-book-release-with-anne-waldman-and-eileen-myles/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Splitting the World Open: An International Roundtable of Dangerous Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:In 1968\, poet Muriel Rukeyser famously wrote\, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” More than half a century later\, women themselves feel split into a million pieces. This past year has been especially challenging for women\, typically society’s primary caretakers. Indeed\, mothers have been carrying an especially heavy load. Speaking one’s truth is hard when you’re totally exhausted. \nSo what better Mother’s Day gift for women (and all who love them) to spend an hour\, free of charge\, with three brilliant female authors\, writing from and about multiple corners of the globe—India\, the Middle East\, North Africa\, South America\, the United States—with woman-focused stories? And these aren’t just any stories: the work of all three novelists was shortlisted for the Booker Prize or the Booker International Prize\, the most prestigious literary awards in the world. \nIn Burnt Sugar\, Dubai-based Indian author Avni Doshi explores the intimate dynamics of mother-daughter conflict and postpartum depression with an ambivalence and caustic wit that ruffled some feathers. It’s that fearless artistry that landed her on the 2020 Booker Prize shortlist with Ethiopian-American novelist Maaza Mengiste\, whose novel The Shadow King (“a masterpiece\,” said the Washington Post) features a female soldier fighting fascism during Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia. The story is inspired by the author’s great-grandmother\, one of those women who\, in Mengiste’s words\, “stepped forward out of the shadows and made themselves known.” Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán\, trained as a human rights lawyer before turning to literary work\, wrote The Remainder\, a finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize\, to delve into the legacy of Chile’s military dictatorship. Her new novel\, Las Homicidas\, to appear in English translation in 2021\, explores an arguably even more dangerous topic: how rage against injustice can be so profound that it drives some women to kill\, and how that rage\, as with the frustrated anger of any oppressed group\, is often minimized and deflected. \nThis conversation offers a Mother’s Day like no other! The event is co-presented by Words Without Borders and moderated by Karen Phillips\, its executive director. Words Without Borders expands cultural understanding through the translation\, publication\, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature. \nRegister Here\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link. \nThis event is also part of the Festival’s Women Lit series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/splitting-the-world-open-an-international-roundtable-of-dangerous-women-writers/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eric Nguyen and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, May 10 at 6pm PT when Eric Nguyen joins us to discuss his debut novel\, Things We Lost to the Water\, with Lydia Kiesling on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88925265993\n\nPraise for Things We Lost to the Water\n“I was captivated. The writing is absolutely gorgeous…The voice is strong and this is a powerful novel…Well worth a read. Really enjoyed.”—Roxane Gay\, via Goodreads\n\n“This is an elemental book\, of water\, for sure\, but also of other elements of life\, including love and loss. Vietnamese people know all about these elements\, coming from a country whose entire length is bordered by a sea\, and from a history saturated with loss. Love is one element that has enabled their survival\, but sometimes at a cost. Eric Nguyen’s powerful novel ripples and gleams with the unpredictable flow and surge of love\, which\, like water\, can drown us or sustain us. From a war to a hurricane\, from an ocean to a flood\, Things We Lost to the Water proves itself to be a novel that sustains us.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer\n\n“Exquisitely well-written\, Things We Lost to the Water is a tender\, haunting story of loss\, love\, family and survival. A moving and powerful debut.”—Charles Yu\, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown\n\nAbout Things We Lost to the Water\nA stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped.\n\nWhen Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons\, she is jobless\, homeless\, and worried about her husband\, Cong\, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America\, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong\, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father.\n\nBut with time\, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss\, her sons\, Tuan and Binh\, grow up in their absent father’s shadow\, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As they push forward\, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh\, now going by Ben\, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity—as individuals and as a family—threatens to tear them apart\, un­til disaster strikes the city they now call home and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eric-nguyen-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aaron Carnes\, In Defense of Ska
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Aaron Carnes\, music editor at the Good Times\, will be in conversation with Good Times editor Steve Palopoli about Carnes’ new book In Defense of Ska. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nWhy doesn’t ska get its due as a rich\, diverse genre the way punk\, metal\, hip-hop and electronic music does? Or more to the point\, why are ska fans so embarrassed of this music they love? The era of ska shame is officially over. In Defense of Ska is the much-needed response to years of ska-mockery. No longer do ska fans need to hide in the basement\, skanking alone in their sharp suits\, slim ties and porkpie hats. Now the time to take to the streets and fight music snobbery\, or at least crank up the ska without being teased ruthlessly. \nIn a mix of interviews\, essays\, personal stories\, historical snapshots\, obscure anecdotes\, and think pieces\, In Defense of Ska dissects\, analyzes and celebrates ska in exactly the way fans have been craving for decades. This book will enlist ska-lovers as soldiers in the ska army\, and challenge ska-haters’ prejudices to the core. \nAaron Carnes is a music journalist based out of Sacramento\, California. His work has appeared in Playboy\, Salon\, Bandcamp Daily\, Sierra Club\, Noisey\, Sun Magazine\, and he’s the music editor at Good Times Santa Cruz weekly newspaper\, where he tries to sneak in ska content whenever his boss isn’t looking. Aaron has been listening to ska since the early ’90s. He used to play drums in a ska band. Now he just plays ska on his car stereo. When he’s not defending ska\, he enjoys backpacking with his wife Amy Bee\, and talking about music from every existing genre. Ska will always be his favorite. \nCarnes hosts the podcast In Defense of Ska and can be found on Twitter and Instagram @indefenseofska. His Substack newsletter is aaroncarnes.substack.com and Spotify playist\, which consists of the songs and bands mentioned in the book\, in order\, can be found here. \nAuthor photo credit: Amy Bee (Instagram: @_amy_bee)\nCover photo credit: Cam Evans (Instagram: @photofromcam)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-aaron-carnes-in-defense-of-ska/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Lara Bazelon / A Good Mother
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Lara Bazelon and her debut novel A Good Mother! More to be announced soon\, but won’t you save the date and join us? \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order A Good Mother here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nWhen young decorated combat veteran Travis Hollis is found stabbed through the heart at a U.S. Army base in Germany\, there is no doubt that his wife\, Luz\, is to blame. But was it an act of self defense? A frenzied attempt to save her infant daughter from domestic abuse? Or the cold blood murder of an innocent man? \nAs the case heads to trial in Los Angeles\, hard-charging attorney Abby Rosenberg is eager to return from maternity leave—and her quickly fracturing home life—to take the case and defend Luz. Abby\, a new mother herself\, is committed to ensuring Luz avoids prison and retains custody of her daughter. But as the evidence stacks up against Luz\, Abby realizes the task proves far more difficult than she suspected – especially when she has to battle for control over the case with her co-counsel\, whose dark absorption with Luz only complicates matters further. \nAs the trial careens toward an outcome no one expects\, readers will find themselves in the seat of the jurors\, forced to answer the question – what does it mean to be a good mother? A good lawyer? And who is the real monster? \nAbout the author\nLara Bazelon is an attorney\, journalist\, MacDowell Fellow\, former public defender\, and professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law\, where she holds the Phillip and Muriel C. Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy. She is also the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction\, as well as the upcoming nonfiction book\, Ambitious Like a Mother: Women\, Ambition\, and Motherhood\, and her writing has been published widely in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, The Washington Post\, and many others. Photo by Richard Gilligan. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-lara-bazelon-a-good-mother/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:How do you make and keep friendships of a lifetime? Angie Coiro interviews Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky on Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. \n\n\nAbout this Virtual Event \n\n\nResearch has shown that people with close friends are happier\, healthier\, and live longer than people who lack strong social bonds. Despite this\, the average American hasn’t made a new friend in the past five years. \nWhy— when we are seemingly more connected than ever before— can it feel so difficult to create and maintain strong friendships? Why do we spend only four percent of our time with friends? \nMillennial workplace expert and friendship visionary Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky proposes a new solution for the mounting pressures of this modern life: focus on your friendships. \nIn an hour-long interview with journalist-in-residence Angie Coiro about Friendship in the Age of Loneliness\, this wonderful author offers practical habits and playful reminders on how to create meaningful connections\, make new friends\, and deepen relationships. Smiley will help you revisit your relationship with technology\, encourage you to prioritize real-world experiences\, send snail mail\, and really see your friends. In doing this\, he shares the key to a good life—a happier\, healthier\, longer\, richer life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-friendship-in-the-age-of-loneliness/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T200000
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SUMMARY:Francisco Goldman in conversation with Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nMonkey Boy: a novel \npublished by Grove Atlantic Press \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. \n———– \nGoldman’s first novel since his widely acclaimed\, national bestselling Say Her Name (winner of the Prix Femina Etranger)\, Monkey Boy is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity – whether Jewish/Catholic\, white/brown\, native/expat – and one misfit’s quest to heal his damaged past and find love. \nOur narrator\, Francisco Goldberg\, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade\, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of “going home again.” It’s been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again. Soon he is beckoned back to Boston by the high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations\, and his mother\, Yolanda\, around whom his story orbits like a dark star. Backdropping this five day trip to his childhood home is the specter of Frank’s recently deceased father\, Bert\, an immigrant from Ukraine\, volcanically tempered\, pathologically abusive\, yet also at times infuriatingly endearing; as well as the high school bullies who gave him the moniker “monkey boy” and his estranged\, larger-than-life sister\, Lexi. \nTold in an open\, irresistibly funny and passionate voice\, this extraordinary portrait of growing up outside the dominant culture unearths the hidden cruelties in a predominantly white\, working-class Boston suburb where Francisco – aka Paco\, aka Frankie Gee – came of age. A crowning achievement from one of the most important American voices in the last 40 years. \nFrancisco Goldman has published four novels and two books of non-fiction.  The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction.  His novels have been finalists for several prizes\, including\, twice\, The Pen/Faulkner Prize. The Ordinary Seaman was a finalist for The International IMPAC Dublin literary award.  The Divine Husband was a finalist for The Believer Book Award. The Art of Political Murder won The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award.  The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle\, published in 2013\, was named by the LA Times one of 10 best books of the year and received The Blue Metropolis “Premio Azul” 2017.  His most recent novel\, Say Her Name\, won the 2011 Prix Femina Etranger. His books have been published in 16 languages. \n\nValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea\, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize\, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s\, among other publications\, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City. \n\nAdvance Praise for Monkey Boy \n“Francisco Goldman . . . Francisco Goldberg? . . . Frankie Gee!—crafter of the tenderest dirtiest love scenes!—the wisest and spookiest children!—the fathers whose monstrosity breaks our hearts with compassion for them—who else can do all this? Francisco Goldman is uncategorizable\, as is this book which made me grow a second heart just to contain all its fierce tenderness. Goldman has been my literary hero from his first entrancing Long Night of White Chickens to this latest take-no-prisoners Monkey Boy. He is a true original\, that rarest of writers\, the kind we cannot live without.”—Susan Choi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/francisco-goldman-in-conversation-with-valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Linda Rui Feng and Meng Jin with The Ruby
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY THE RUBY\n\nJOIN US TUESDAY\, MAY 11 AT 6PM PT WHEN LINDA RUI FENG IS JOINED BY MENG JIN TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, SWIMMING BACK TO TROUT RIVER!\nClick the link here to register for this event!\nIf you would like a signed copy of this book\, click here and write “signed” in your order comment. \nAbout this Event \n[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82204356202 ] \nIn partnership with Green Apple Books\, join us in celebrating the launch of Linda Rui Feng‘s debut novel\, Swimming Back to Trout River\, a Most-Anticipated selection from Electric Literature\, The Millions\, and Paperback Paris\, and hailed by award-winning author Garth Greenwall as“gorgeously orchestrated” and possessing “astonishing emotional force.” Linda will be in conversation with our very own Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods. \nSupport the author and beloved SF indie bookstore\, Green Apple Books by purchasing a signed copy of the book here (just indicate you’d like a signed copy in the “order comments” section)! \n  \nAbout Swimming Back to Trout River \nHow many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? \nIn the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village\, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents\, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie’s life exists in the idyllic countryside with the beloved grandparents who raised her. Junie’s growing determination to stay put with her grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future. \nWhat Junie doesn’t know is that her parents\, Momo and Cassia\, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country\, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China’s Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie’s future in America\, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise\, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie’s birthday—even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. \nSwimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie\, Momo\, and Cassia while depicting their heartbreak and resilience\, tenderly revealing the hope\, compromises\, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants. \n  \nAbout Linda Rui Feng \nBorn in Shanghai\, Linda Rui Feng has lived in San Francisco\, New York\, and Toronto. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities and is currently a professor of Chinese cultural history at the University of Toronto. She has been twice awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for her fiction\, and her prose and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Fiddlehead\, Kenyon Review Online\, Santa Monica Review\, and Washington Square Review. Swimming Back to Trout River is her first novel. Visit LindaRuiFeng.com to learn more. \nAbout Meng Jin \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and currently lives in San Francisco. She is a Kundiman Fellow and graduate of the Hunter College MFA. Her novel\, Little Gods\, was released to critical acclaim in 2020. See more at www.mengj.in \nAbout The Virtual Ruby \n*While we shelter in place during the Covid-19 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. \nYou can register for this event here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-linda-rui-feng-and-meng-jin-with-the-ruby/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO by Donna Freitas | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, May 11\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO by Donna Freitas. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84073803712. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggp9Lives or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/9LivesAB\, \nDescription\n\nA deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother–and the many ways that life can surprise us \nIn every woman there are many stories . . . \nRose Napolitano is fighting with her husband\, Luke\, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them\, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children\, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She’s never wanted to have a child. The fight ends\, and with it their marriage. \nBut then\, Rose has a fight with Luke about the vitamins–again. This time the fight goes slightly differently\, and so does Rose’s future as she grapples with whether she can indeed give up the one thing she thought she knew about herself. Can she reimagine her life in a completely new way? That reimagining plays out again and again in each of Rose’s nine lives\, just as it does for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new? Rose Napolitano’s experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means\, literally\, to reinvent a life and\, sometimes\, become a different kind of woman than we ever imagined. \nA stunning novel about love\, loss\, betrayal\, divorce\, death\, a woman’s career and her identity\, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is about finding one’s way into a future that wasn’t the future one planned\, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it. \nAbout the Author\n\nThis is Donna Freitas’s first adult novel. She is the author of Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention\, as well as books for young adults. Donna has written for The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal\, and has appeared on NPR and the TODAY show. She’s on the faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Brooklyn and Connecticut. \nPraise For…\n\nPraise for The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano: \n“Freitas’s prose is engaging and precise\, and her what-if format proves ideal for elegantly unpacking the tensions of the plot. She balances tightly written scenes of confrontation with Rose’s poignant reflections on how much she can compromise without losing herself completely. This isn’t one to miss. “\n—Publishers Weekly (starred)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nine-lives-of-rose-napolitano-by-donna-freitas-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: Mark Bittman and Alice Waters
DESCRIPTION:Food doesn’t just keep us alive—it’s a vital and constantly evolving part of our global culture. Author and food journalist Mark Bittman’s new book\, Animal\, Vegetable\, Junk\, digs into the history of what\, why\, and how we eat. He’ll be joined by chef and author Alice Waters for a conversation about everything from slow versus fast food to regenerative agriculture to how we teach future generations to eat. Waters’s forthcoming book\, We Are What We Eat\, will be published in June. Their hour-long discussion will be moderated by Alta Journal editor and publisher Will Hearst\, and the event is free and open to the public. Please join us! \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nMark Bittman has been a leading voice in global food culture and policy for more than three decades. His first cookbook\, Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking\, was published in 1994 and remains in print; since then\, he has written or cowritten 30 others\, including the How to Cook Everything series. A former New York Times columnist\, television host\, and regular on Today\, Bittman has received six James Beard Awards\, four IACP Awards\, and numerous other honors. \nBittman is also the editor in chief of the Bittman Project\, a newsletter and website focusing on all aspects of food\, from political to delicious. His most recent book is Animal\, Vegetable\, Junk: A History of Food\, from Sustainable to Suicidal. \nAlice Waters is a chef\, an author\, a food activist\, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley\, California (est. 1971). She has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995\, she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project\, which advocates for a free regenerative school lunch for all children and a sustainable-food curriculum in every public school. \nIn 2015\, Waters was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama\, proving that eating is a political act and that the table is a powerful means to advancing social justice and positive change. She is the author of 16 books\, including her critically acclaimed memoir\, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook; The Art of Simple Food; The Art of Simple Food II; and Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea. Her latest work\, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto\, will be available in June 2021.• \n\n\n \nHOUGHTON MIFFLIN\n\n\n\nAnimal\, Vegetable\, Junk: A History of Food\, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman\nHoughton MifflinBookshop.org \n$28.00\n\nBUY THE BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPENGUIN PRESS\n\n\n\nWe Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto by Alice Waters\nPenguin PressBookshop.org \n$26.00\n\nBUY THE BOOK
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-live-mark-bittman-and-alice-waters/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Booksmith and Mother Jones presents: Your Computer is on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Mother Jones present Your Computer is on Fire\, an evening of conversation between Mother Jones data and interactives editor Sinduja Rangarajan and two editors of the new anthology Your Computer Is on Fire\, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip\, along with contributor Halcyon M. Lawrence (pictured above\, clockwise from top left). \nPlease note our start time of 5pm PT. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Your Computer Is on Fire here. We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nTechno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality\, marginalization\, and biases woven into our technological systems. \nThis book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality\, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley–led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the inequality\, marginalization\, and biases in our technological systems\, showing how they are not just minor bugs to be patched\, but part and parcel of ideas that assume technology can fix—and control—society. \nThe essays in Your Computer Is on Fire interrogate how our human and computational infrastructures overlap\, showing why technologies that centralize power tend to weaken democracy. These practices are often kept out of sight until it is too late to question the costs of how they shape society. From energy-hungry server farms to racist and sexist algorithms\, the digital is always IRL\, with everything that happens algorithmically or online influencing our offline lives as well. Each essay proposes paths for action to understand and solve technological problems that are often ignored or misunderstood. \nContributors \nJanet Abbate\, Ben Allen\, Paul N. Edwards\, Nathan Ensmenger\, Mar Hicks\, Halcyon M. Lawrence\, Thomas S. Mullaney\, Safiya Umoja Noble\, Benjamin Peters\, Kavita Philip\, Sarah T. Roberts\, Sreela Sarkar\, Corinna Schlombs\, Andrea Stanton\, Mitali Thakor\, Noah Wardrip-Fruin \nAbout the speakers\nSinduja Rangarajan is the data and interactives editor at Mother Jones. She previously worked at Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting\, where her series on the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley led to many tech giants publicly releasing their data. Her work has won several awards\, including the National Edward Murrow Award in 2019. She wrangles and analyzes datasets to tell stories and finds innovative ways to report on issues by collaborating with academics. She started her journalism career as a Google News Lab Fellow in 2015. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Mumbai and a master’s from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Email her tips at srangarajan@motherjones.com and follow her on Twitter @cynduja. \nMar Hicks is an author\, historian\, and professor doing research on the history of computing\, labor\, technology\, and queer science and technology studies. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light\, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Hicks’s multiple award-winning book\, Programmed Inequality\, looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers\, and what this cautionary tale tells us about current issues in high tech. Their new work looks at resistance and queerness in the history of technology. They also have a new co-edited book coming out in Spring 2021 from MIT Press called Your Computer Is On Fire\, about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures. Read more at: marhicks.com. \nKavita Philip is a historian of science and technology who has written about nineteenth-century environmental knowledge in British India\, information technology in post-colonial India\, and the intersections of art\, science fiction\, and social activism with science and technology. She is author of Civilizing Natures (2004)\, and Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction (forthcoming\, MIT Press)\, as well as co-editor of five volumes curating new interdisciplinary work in radical history\, art\, activism\, computing\, and public policy. \nHalcyon M. Lawrence is an assistant professor of technical communication and information design at Towson University. She has over 20 years of professional experience as a technical trainer\, technical writer\, and usability practitioner.  Her research focuses on speech intelligibility and the design of speech interactions for voice technologies\, particularly for under-represented user populations.  She holds a Ph.D. in Technical Communication from the Illinois Institute of Technology.  Her latest publication\, “Siri Disciplines” is published in Your Computer is on Fire from MIT Press. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-booksmith-and-mother-jones-presents-your-computer-is-on-fire/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, May 12 at 6pm PT when Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren join us to discuss their latest collections\, Water/Music and So Forth\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84930241583\n\nAbout Water/Music\nExploring the space between nature and culture\, the poems of Water / Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and diverse in their formal intricacy\, they move with ease from narrative to meditation\, from close physical observation to the haunts of memory\, and from lyric sorrow to the pleasure of living in the world. Water / Music embraces and celebrates life’s mystery and the soul’s repose amid “talismans at twilight\, the whir of birds.”\n\nAbout So Forth\nA lyrical new volume from a poet “beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets” (Harold Bloom).\n\nWith irony\, in mourning tinged with eros\, one of our most extraordinary poets blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage\, aging\, and injustice. The poems in So Forth surge back in memory\, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae\, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence “Legende of Good Women\,” with pre-Socratic philosophers\, and with lovers\, children\, and strangers—the strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary\, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-peter-filkins-and-rosanna-warren-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jhumpa Lahiri - Whereabouts (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade. \nExuberance and dread\, attachment and estrangement: in this novel\, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement\, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home\, an engaging backdrop to her days\, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house\, parks\, bridges\, piazzas\, streets\, stores\, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother\, mired in a desperate solitude after her father’s untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work\, where she never quite feels at ease\, she has girl friends\, guy friends\, and “him\,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year\, as one season gives way to the next\, transformation awaits. One day at the sea\, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat\, her perspective will change. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language\, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. \nJhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies\, The Namesake\, Unaccustomed Earth\, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction\, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards\, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal\, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia\, for In altre parole.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jhumpa-lahiri-whereabouts-online-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander: Twice Alive
DESCRIPTION:Litquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by City Lights Books & Booksellers \nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for the new poetry collection Twice Alive (New Directions)\, by Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. With these searing ecological love poems\, Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies\, personal and environmental\, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and the tradition of Sangam literature\, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations. Forrest will read from and discuss his work. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nWhile conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist\, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. \nThroughout Twice Alive\, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness. \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry\, and his 2018 collection Be With won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-twice-alive/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents a Reading: Isolation
DESCRIPTION:Since the onset of the global pandemic in 2020\, isolation has been\, for good or bad\, a major feature of life for many people across the world. In this 90-minute event\, writers of color will share works honoring the pain\, joy\, injustice\, comfort\, and trauma of isolation. \nOur readers: \nNaima Coster is the author of two novels\, What’s Mine and Yours and her debut\, Halsey Street\, which was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. In 2020\, she received the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor. \nNayomi Munaweera is an award-winning writer of the novels Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us. She lives in Oakland\, California\, and is finishing her third novel\, a psycho-sexual literary thriller. \nDevi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues\, which won the 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South\, the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. The novel was named by The Washington Post as one of the 50 best books of 2019. \nAlba Hernandez is a writer inspired by Puerto Rico\, growing up in Bushwick\, and salsa. Her writing was highly commended in the Poetry Project series ‘House Party\,’ Like Light (Bright Hill Press)\, Calabash (A Journal of Caribbean and Arts and Letters)\, and most recently in Harvard’s Latinx Publication: PALABRITAS. \nTom Pyun has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Anthology award. He’s been awarded fellowships at Vermont Studio Center\, VONA\, and Tin House. His short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Bold Italic\, The Rumpus\, and Joyland\, and placed in competitions such as The Blue Mesa Review’s Summer Story Contest. \nThis event is the last event of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United to support marginalized writers\, made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \nFree \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aunt-lute-and-poc-united-presents-a-reading-isolation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nancy: Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones in conversation with Kathryn Scanlan
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT | 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET \n\n\nJoin us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy\, a powerful coming-of-age story that tracks Nancy’s youth through remote memories of her Chilean childhood\, translated by Ellen Jones. Chilean author Bruno Lloret and translator Ellen Jones join Kathryn Scanlan to discuss his innovative use of typography and illustration to capture his narrator’s waning sense of consciousness. \nRegister for the event on our Crowdcast page. \nDon’t forget to buy the book and support one of our favorite indy bookstores\, Pilsen Community Books! \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nBruno Lloret\n\n\nBruno Lloret (Santiago de Chile\, 1990) is a writer and researcher. He has published Nancy (Cuneta\, Santiago de Chile\, 2015; Two Lines Press\, 2020)\, which received an honorable mention for the Roberto Bolaño Award for novella\, and Leña (Overol\, Santiago de Chile\, 2018). He currently lives in London.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\n\nEllen Jones\n\n\nEllen Jones is a literary translator from Spanish to English\, an editor\, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. Her book Language in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. You can find her at www.ellencjones.com.\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nKathryn Scanlan\n\n\nKathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog and The Dominant Animal. She lives in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-bruno-lloret-and-ellen-jones-in-conversation-with-kathryn-scanlan/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lilly Dancyger with Alia Volz / Negative Space
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Lilly Dancyger for her debut\, Negative Space: A Memoir. She’ll be joined in conversation by Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the authors’ books below – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay: \nNegative Space by Lilly Dancyger \nHome Baked by Alia Volz \nAbout the book\nDespite her parents’ struggles with addiction\, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? A memoir from the editor of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger\, Negative Space explores Dancyger’s own anger\, grief\, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness that was hidden from her. \nDancyger’s father\, Joe Schactman\, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials\, and brought his young daughter into his gritty\, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly\, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence\, she went into her own self-destructive spiral\, raging against the world that had taken him away. But as an adult\, Dancyger began to question the mythology she’d created about her father—the brilliant artist\, struck down in his prime—using his paintings\, sculptures\, and prints as a guide to piece together a truer story. \nAbout the authors\nLilly Dancyger is a contributing editor at Catapult\, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She’s the author of Negative Space\, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as one of the winners of the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn It Down\, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women’s anger from Seal Press. Her writing has been published by Longreads\, The Washington Post\, Glamour\, Playboy\, Rolling Stone\, and more. She lives in New York City\, and you can find her on twitter at @lillydancyger. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana and the Stoning of San Francisco\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction from the California Independent Bookseller Alliance. Her essays are widely published\, including in The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Guernica\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, and The Best American Essays. Her family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Photo by Dennis Hearne. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-lilly-dancyger-with-alia-volz-negative-space/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Rick Barot & Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers\, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and writers. \n\n\n\nRick Barot‘s fourth book\, The Galleons (Milkweed Editions) was included on the NY Public Library’s 2020 Top Ten Poetry Books and longlisted for the National Book Award. He has authored three other poetry books: Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall\, Want\, and Chord\, and the chapbook\, During the Pandemic (Albion Books\, 2020). His poems and essays have appeared widely. He serves as the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop\, the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. \nBarbara Jane Reyes’ most recent collection is Letters to a Young Brown Girl\, which was released in 2020. She was born in Manila and raised in the Bay Area. Her prior poetry books include: Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco (James Laughlin Award)\, Diwata (Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry)\, To Love as Aswang\, and Invocation to Daughters. Her chapbooks include: Easter Sunday\, Cherry\, and For the City that Nearly Broke Me. She is adjunct professor at USF’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. \nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-rick-barot-barbara-jane-reyes-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry y Platica Live Online at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Wow! Black Freighter Press (new press whose co-founder is San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin) just published Josiah Luis’ book. The poems in Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos hold space inside a colonized time and place we can still recognize as San Francisco. Spanglish antepasado recuerdos and palabras of our neighborhood memories\, the pocho American Dream stuffed into Donaldo Trump pinatas with the conejo en la luna looking down on us are spoken in three broken languages in these poems. \nJoin Josiah Luis Alderete and writer performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez for a special Zoomtastic event.  Free. Free your mind! \nClick HERE to join Zoom event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-y-platica-live-online-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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