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SUMMARY:High Dawn 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-march.eventbrite.com \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBahaar Ahsan is a poet in the Bay Area. Bahaar’s work is both speculative and deeply embedded in lineage(s). Recent work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review\, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics(forthcoming from Nightboat Books)\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Venn Daniel \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES (Coffee House Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in Fence\, BOMB\, Jacket2\, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has been awarded residencies from Storm King: Shandaken\, Marble House Project\, and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2018\, Lara was awarded a McKnight Fellowship in Poetry. Currently\, she is a senior editor of Triple Canopy. She lives in Minnesota. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Kari Orvik \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrisha Low is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions 2013) and Socialist Realism (Emily Books\, 2019). She lives in the East Bay. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRyanaustin Dennis is an Oakland based art work and cultural strategist. Their practice is concerned with how 20th and 21st century experimental performance\, film\, and writing histories are shaped by the metaphysics of blackness. They have done curatorial work for Kadist\, SFMOMA Open Space\, Eastside Arts Alliance\, and Soundwave Biennial. They currently co-curate the Black Life series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Pro Arts Gallery & Commons.
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SUMMARY:Ismail Muhammad & Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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 \n\nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye\, was a finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award\, the Indies Choice for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She received a Fellowship from the US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship\, funded by the NEA. Her novel\, Picking Bones from Ash\, published by Graywolf\, was a finalist for the Saroyan Prize and the Paterson Prize. Her new book\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, published by Graywolf in April 2020\, was a finalist for the Lukas Prize. \nIn 2020-2021 Mockett is teaching English 372: Craft Seminar in Creative Nonfiction\, English 332: Fiction Workshop\, and English 342: Fiction Tutorial
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter with Raina Telgemeier
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MARCH 2 AT 5PM PT FOR THE LAUNCH OF MEGAN WAGNER LLOYD AND MICHELLE MEE NUTTER’S BOOK\, ALLERGIC\, WITH RAINA TELGEMEIER ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J-UKISA_R8OgXu7bA1T8aQ\n \nAbout Allergic \nA coming-of-age story featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet! \nAt home\, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with the new baby they’re expecting\, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie thinks a new puppy is the answer\, but when she goes to select one on her birthday\, she breaks out in hives and rashes. She’s severely allergic to anything with fur! \nCan Maggie outsmart her allergies and find the perfect pet? With illustrations by Michelle Mee Nutter\, Megan Wagner Lloyd draws on her own experiences with allergies to tell a heartfelt story of family\, friendship\, and finding a place to belong.
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SUMMARY:Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 2\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83154659317 \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpYearOfWonders or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/YearOfWondersAB \nDescription\n\n“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post \nAn unforgettable tale\, set in 17th century England\, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague\, from the author The Secret Chord and of March\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize  \nWhen an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village\, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna’s eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666\, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting\, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow\, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis\, a “year of wonders.” \nInspired by the true story of Eyam\, a village in the rugged hill country of England\, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. Written with stunning emotional intelligence and introducing “an inspiring heroine” (The Wall Street Journal)\, Brooks blends love and learning\, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read. \nAbout the Author\n\nGeraldine Brooks is the author of five novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning March; the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing\, People of the Book\, and Year of Wonders; and\, most recently\, The Secret Chord. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia\, she lives on Martha’s Vinyard with her husband\, the author Tony Horwitz\, and their two sons. \nPraise For…\n\nPraise for Year of Wonders: \n“The novel glitters . . . A deep imaginative engagement with how people are changed by catastrophe.” —The New Yorker \n“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion . . . [The villagers] assume collective responsibility for combating the plague\, rather than seeing it as an act of God before which they are powerless.” —The Washington Post
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Laila Lalami \nBay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Atlantic Press \ncelebrate the release of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new novel \nThe Committed \npublished by Grove Press \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights on a live streaming platform. You will need a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. This will be a ticketed event. Stand by for more information on how to reserve your virtual seating. \n———- \nTicket purchase is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThe long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers\, The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. \nTraumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend\, Man\, and struggling to assimilate into French culture\, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt\,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen\, whether the self-torture of addiction\, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset\, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits\, resourcefulness\, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail. \nBoth literary thriller and novel of ideas\, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters. \nViet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, as well as five other awards. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance. The Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California\, he lives in Los Angeles. \nLaila Lalami is the award winning author of four novels\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Award\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction\, and The Other Americans\, a national bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. Her new book\, a work of nonfiction called Conditional Citizens\, was published by Pantheon in September 2020.Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a full professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. \nPraise for The Committed: \nNamed a Most Anticipated Book by USA Today\, TIME\, Forbes and O\, the Oprah Magazine \n“A sumptuous sequel to The Sympathizer . . . The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist captures\, with grace and restraint\, the foibles of two young men caught in a duel between East and West.”—O\, the Oprah Magazine \n“The conflicted spy of Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer returns\, embroiled in Paris’s criminal underworld . . . The pages are rife with prostitutes\, drugs\, and\, in the late pages\, gunplay. But\, as in The Sympathizer\, Nguyen keeps the thriller-ish aspects at a low boil\, emphasizing a mood of black comedy driven by the narrator’s intellectual crisis . . . Nguyen is deft at balancing his hero’s existential despair with the lurid glow of a crime saga. A quirky intellectual crime story that highlights the Vietnam War’s complex legacy.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Undeniably erudite and culturally fluent as ever—interweaving history\, philosophy\, political treatise\, theology\, even literary criticism—Nguyen effortlessly enhances the story with snarky commentary\, sly judgments\, and plenty of wink-wink-nod-nod posturing to entertain committed readers.”—Terry Hong\, Booklist \n“Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief\, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork.”—Marlon James\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“The Committed is nothing short of revelatory. As it haunts\, bifurcates\, and envelops us in its illumination of all that we have failed to notice about the far reaches of colonization\, we are also thrilled by its many turns and charms. This book is fierce\, and unrelentingly good. Hilarious and subversive\, philosophical and hallucinatory\, it is much more than a sequel\, more like a necessary appendage in a brilliant and expansive anti-colonial body of work\, from the twisted and playful mind of the one and only Viet Thanh Nguyen. Bravo.”—Tommy Orange\, New York Times-bestselling author of There There \n“This follow-up to his seminal The Sympathizer is Nguyen at his most ambitious and bold. Fierce in tone\, capacious\, witty\, sharp\, and deeply researched\, The Committed marks\, not just a sequel to its groundbreaking predecessor\, but a sum total accumulation of a life devoted to Vietnamese American history and scholarship. This novel\, like all daring novels\, is a Trojan Horse\, whose hidden power is a treatise of global futurity in the aftermath of colonial conquest. It asks questions central both to Vietnamese everywhere—and to our very species: How do we live in the wake of seismic loss and betrayal? And\, perhaps even more critically\, How do we laugh?”—Ocean Vuong\, New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous \n“The Committed\, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s furious and exhilarating sequel to The Sympathizer\, is part gangster-thriller\, part searing cultural analysis of the post-colonial predicament\, seen through the eyes of a Vietnamese-French mixed race bastard double agent. Paris of forty years ago swirls to life around him\, from intellectual salons to filthy toilets—with glimpses of everyone from Johnny Hallyday to Frantz Fanon to Julia Kristeva. Like Ellison’s Invisible Man\, these novels will surely become classics.”—Claire Messud \n“An elegy to idealism\, Orientalism\, and existentialism in all its tragic forms\, Nguyen’s novel doesn’t so much inhabit early eighties Paris\, as it pulls the plug on the City of Light. Think of The Committed as the declaration of the 20th ½ Arrondissement. A squatter’s paradise for those with one foot in the grave and the other shoved halfway up Western civilization’s ass.”—Paul Beatty \n“The Committed is a wonderful successor to The Sympathizer\, a splendid tapestry of a novel\, full of dubious but richly realized characters. It solidifies what we already know — Viet Thanh Nguyen is a gifted storyteller. It is difficult to know where to start with the praise. The characters have a sad and often tragic complexity\, and the language offers a terrific ride for the reader. This is a grand novel full of breathtaking and luminous insights and a pure joy to read. Anticipation is why we come to a book\, and joy is why we keep turning page after page. The Committed offers both\, and so very much more.”—Edward P. Jones\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World \n“The Committed is a rich and exhilarating story of friendship\, loyalty\, and greed. Set in 1980s Paris\, it follows the characters from The Sympathizer as they try to fashion new lives among all the wretched of the earth. Viet Thanh Nguyen gives us an unsparing look at the poisonous effects of ideology—whether colonialism\, communism\, or capitalism—even as he explores the deep-seated need we all have to believe in something. A deep\, compelling and humorous portrait of how we are shaped by fictions others have for us.”—Laila Lalami\, author of The Other Americans\, finalist for the National Book Award \n  \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:Book Passage Presents: Carol Edgarian with Tobias Wolff - Vera
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers an astonishing feat of imagination\, a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco—a city leveled by quake and fire—featuring an indomitable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe and her quest for love and reinvention. \nMeet Vera Johnson\, the uncommonly resourceful fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose\, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most legendary bordello and ally to the city’s corrupt politicians. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds—the madam’s alluring sphere\, replete with tickets to the opera\, surly henchmen\, and scant morality\, and the violent\, debt ridden domestic life of the family paid to raise her. \nOn the morning of the great quake\, Vera’s worlds collide. As the shattered city burns and looters vie with the injured\, orphaned\, and starving\, Vera and her guileless sister\, Pie\, are cast adrift. Vera disregards societal norms and prejudices and begins to imagine a new kind of life. She collaborates with Tan\, her former rival\, and forges an unlikely family of survivors. Together they navigate their way beyond disaster. \nIn Vera\, Carol Edgarian creates a cinematic\, deeply entertaining world\, in which honor and fates are tested; notions of sex\, class\, and justice are turned upside down; and love is hard-won. A ravishing\, heartbreaking\, and profound affirmation of youth and tenacity\, Vera’s story brings to life legendary characters—tenor Enrico Caruso\, indicted mayor Eugene Schmitz and boss Abe Ruef\, tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels—as well as an unforgettable cast that includes Vera’s young lover\, Bobby\, protector of the city’s tribe of orphans\, and three generations of a Chinese family competing and conspiring with Vera. \nThis richly imagined\, timely tale of improbable outcomes and alliances takes hold from the first page\, gifting readers with remarkable scenes of devastation\, renewal\, and joy. Told with unflinching candor and wit\, Vera celebrates the audacious fortitude of its young heroine and marks a stunning achievement by an inventive and generous writer. \nCarol Edgarian is the author of the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates\, winner of the ANC Freedom Prize. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal\, NPR\, and W\, among many others. She is cofounder and editor of Narrative\, a digital publisher of fiction\, poetry\, and art\, and Narrative in the Schools\, which provides free libraries and writing resources to teachers and students around the world. Edgarian lives with her family in San Francisco. \nTobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School\, the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army\, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs\, Back in the World\, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories\, Our Story Begins\, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award—both for excellence in the short story—the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories\, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories\, and A Doctor’s Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, and other magazines and literary journals.
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SUMMARY:Courtney Zoftness with Rita Bullwinkel and Mat Johnson
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the publication of Courtney Zoftness’ new memoir \nSpilt Milk \npublished by McSweeney’s \n———- \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. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nWhat role does a mother play in raising thoughtful\, generous children? In her literary debut\, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past—biologically\, culturally\, spiritually—and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate\, bracing\, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son’s cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? How do the stories we tell inform who we become? These powerful\, dynamic essays herald a vital new voice. \n\n\n\nCourtney Zoffness won the 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award\, the most valuable international prize for short fiction\, amid entries from 38 countries. She joins a winners list that includes Junot Díaz\, Anthony Doerr\, and Yiyun Li. (Read more about this here and here.) Other honors include an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction\, the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize\, a Bread Loaf Writers Conference scholarship\, and two residency fellowships from MacDowell. Her writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including the Paris Review Daily\, Longreads\, The Southern Review\, The Rumpus\, and No Tokens\, she had Notable essays in Best American Essays 2018 & 2019. She lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts. \n\n\nMat Johnson is the author of the novels Loving Day\, Pym\, Drop\, and Hunting in Harlem\, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot\, and the comic books Incognegro and Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the American Book Award\, the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship\, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He is a Professor at the University of Oregon. \n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Spilt Milk: \n“I don’t know what I love the most about Courtney Zoffness’s Spilt Milk. The taut originality of the prose? The acuity of its insights? The daring vulnerability? There is so much I want to say about Spilt Milk\, but honestly they’re all variations of This is fucking brilliant. Whatever you think this book is\, it’s more. A debut writer this talented and skilled is an event in itself.”\n—Mat Johnson\, author of Pym \n“Gentle\, playful and laced with subtle wit\, these essays are a welcome balm in an insane and un-gentle time.”\n—Mary Gaitskill\, author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior \n“Spilt Milk contains the wisdom of a mother\, the maturity of an older sister\, and the wide-eyed wonder of a small child. It’s a magical gift of a collection.”\n—Lisa Taddeo\, author of Three Women \n“In these ten musical\, open-hearted essays\, Courtney Zoffness establishes herself as one of our most soulful\, clear-eyed narrators. A lucid dream of a book I wished would never end.”\n—Elisa Albert\, author of After Birth \n“Wry and masterful—Spilt Milk examines the multiplicities of self and culture\, asking the tough questions with remarkable concision. Courtney Zoffness is a writer of supernatural acuity and wit.”\n—T Kira Madden\, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \n“Courtney Zoffness beautifully captures the self-aware irony and absolute panic of being an anxious parent\, illustrating how childhood terrors manifest later in life in ways that are both still childish\, and still terrifying. This book is urgent and essential.”\n—Jesse Eisenberg\, actor and author of Bream Gives me Hiccups and Other Stories \n“Courtney Zoffness’s collection is written with a fierce and sometimes funny honesty. Zoffness explores motherhood and daughterhood\, and how these early attachments make us and unmake us\, how they connect us to others—until they are us.”\n—Tiphanie Yanique\, author of Land of Love and Drowning \n“These bright\, knowing essays spill over with intelligence and wit. Courtney Zoffness traces the dizzying conflict faced by parents—the daily ricochet between burden and joy—and\, with a sharply lyric voice\, discovers hidden connections between this domestic struggle and the larger cultural and political winds shifting around us.”\n—Ben Marcus\, author of Notes from the Fog \n“On one level\, Spilt Milk is an extraordinary exploration of the connections\, small and large; real and imagined\, between childhood and parenthood. On another level\, it’s irrefutable proof that Courtney Zoffness is a wondrous calculus of a prose writer: keen\, inventive\, candid\, open-hearted\, not to mention one helluva stylist.”\n—Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-zoftness-with-rita-bullwinkel-and-mat-johnson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Interior Chinatown
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nSpring dates: \nMarch 3: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu \nApril 7: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi  Dangarembga \nMay 5: Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble \nJune 2: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart \nJuly 7: Real Life by Brandon Taylor \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-interior-chinatown/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \n\nMary Jo Bang\nMary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll for Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher\, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Her translation of Purgatorio is forthcoming from Graywolf in July 2021. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-mary-jo-bang/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Isabel Allende - The Soul of a Woman (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. \n“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten\, I am not exaggerating\,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child\, she watched her mother\, abandoned by her husband\, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl\, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. \nAs a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s\, she rode the second wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists\, Allende for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin\, as they wrote “with a knife between our teeth” about women’s issues. She has seen what the movement has accomplished in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three passionate marriages\, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner\, when to step away\, and the rewards of embracing one’s sexuality. \nSo what feeds the soul of feminists—and all women—today? To be safe\, to be valued\, to live in peace\, to have their own resources\, to be connected\, to have control over our bodies and lives\, and above all\, to be loved. On all these fronts\, there is much work yet to be done\, and this book\, Allende hopes\, will “light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us\, as we lived for our mothers\, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.” \nIsabel Allende won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel\, The House of the Spirits. Since then\, she has authored twenty-five bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, which have been translated into more than forty-two languages. In addition to her work as a writer\, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes. In 1996\, following the death of her daughter\, Paula Frias\, she established a charitable foundation in her honor\, which has awarded grants to more than one hundred nonprofits worldwide on behalf of women and girls. In 2014\, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the nation’s highest civilian honor\, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She has also received PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Raised in Chile\, she now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/isabel-allende-the-soul-of-a-woman-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett / Look Alive\, with K-Ming Chang\, Alicia Mountain\, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s debut full-length collection of poems Look Alive. She’ll be joined for a group reading by K-Ming Chang\, Alicia Mountain\, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Look Alive here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nPlease note that this event will include ASL interpretation and auto-generated live captioning. If you have any questions or additional special needs\, do not hesitate to email events@booksmith.com and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you. \nAbout the book\nLook Alive documents the construction of a queer femme self in the hostile territory of American late capitalism. Its speaker encounters darkness—in the form of violence perpetrated by both individuals and by societal systems of power and oppression—and yet\, rejects the narratives articulated by that violence\, celebrating instead softness and gentleness\, and ultimately\, cleaving to the natural world in all its radiant\, mysterious queerness. \n“This is a book composed of poems shaped like doors\, trapdoors\, and gates\, and rightly so. They offer us entry to the sublime\, to the kind of aliveness only accessible by passing through death where blooms are “bruises / both faded and freshly made” and “though the heart thuds with lack. / lack\, lack\,” it flowers. These are lean\, meticulously curated poems that nonetheless let so much in; loss\, embodiment\, injury\, victimization\, witnessed and voiced. “What chafes\,” Flynn-Goodlett writes\, “life / to light.” This lifting into the light—one of the most crucial functions of the lyric poem—allows for a survival “half-forgotten as / tampons at the bottom of a purse. / saying you’ve bled\, still bleed\, live.” Look Alive finally does not simply look alive. It lives. It aims a flashlight at my own dark corners. It sisters me.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Four-Legged Girl and Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \nAbout the authors\nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett previously published six chapbooks\, most recently Shadow Box\, winner of the 2019 Madhouse Press Editor’s Prize\, and Tender Age\, winner of the 2019 Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize. Her poetry can be found in TriQuarterly\, Third Coast\, Pleiades\, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of Foglifter in sunny Oakland\, California. \nK-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com. \nAlicia Mountain is the 2020–2021 Artist in Residence in the Department of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is a lesbian poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and educator. Mountain won the Iowa Poetry Prize with her debut collection\, High Ground Coward (Iowa\, 2018). She is also the author of Thin Fire\, a digital chapbook published by BOAAT Press. Mountain earned an MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula and her PhD at the University of Denver. She is based in New York. \nArhm Choi Wild is a queer\, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and went on to perform across the country\, including at Brave New Voices\, the New York City Poetry Festival\, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems\, CUT TO BLOOM\, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures\, and their work appears in Barrow Street\, The Massachusetts Review\, Pleiades\, Split this Rock\, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City. For more information\, visit arhmchoiwild.com. \nDeaf\, genderqueer poet Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street\, 2014)\, winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award\, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the co-editor of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades\, 2019). The 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, Day’s work can be found in\, or forthcoming from\, Best American Poetry 2020\, The New York Times\, AGNI\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, & elsewhere. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College. www.megday.com \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-luiza-flynn-goodlett-look-alive-with-k-ming-chang-alicia-mountain-arhm-choi-wild-meg-day/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jamie Figueroa and Marie-Helene Bertino
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, MARCH 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMIE FIGUEROA IS JOINED BY MARIE-HELENE BERTINO TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, BROTHER\, SISTER\, MOTHER\, EXPLORER\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81822157575\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81822157575#  or +13462487799\,\,81822157575#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keqMEp28ep \nPraise for Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer \n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is so full of voice. It is utterly bright and original.”—Tommy Orange\, author of There There \n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is a haunting of a novel centered around the hustle of an utterly unforgettable brother and sister. Jamie Figueroa’s faultless language surprises\, enchants\, and does nothing less than articulate that which is unseen and eaten by profound grief. Supervised by a wild\, booted angel (a character for the ages)\, this marvel of a first novel seems powered by a force that wrecks itself and is made glorious\, again and again\, until its stunning conclusion. Singular\, devastating\, and divine.”—Marie-Helene Bertino\, author of Parakeet \n“In language that is blade-sharp and sun-bright\, Jamie Figueroa weaves a story of generations of love and loss that is powerful and aching and utterly new. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer will never\, ever leave me.”—Ramona Ausubel\, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One Is Here Except All of Us \n“Jamie Figueroa’s writing is decadent. Sentences in this book require the reader to breathe and sigh with the revelation of their beauty; others slap you in the face with their sharp assumptiveness. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer begins in prayer and does what prayer does—gives us hope\, reveals our deepest griefs\, and sometimes even redeems.”—Tiphanie Yanique\, author of Land of Love and Drowning \nAbout Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer  \nA fableistic\, “curious and dazzling” debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (Booklist\, starred review).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jamie-figueroa-and-marie-helene-bertino/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, Carolina de Robertis \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \n\n\n\nCelebrated novelist\, poet\, and essayist Cristina Rivera Garza returns to The Poetry Center. She’ll be joined by poet and translator Kit Schluter\, in Mexico City. They’ll each read from their own writings\, then join in conversation with one another and with novelist Carolina de Robertis as emcee\, and respond to questions from the audience. \n\nOne day\, on a cloudy March afternoon to be more exact\, I was in a classroom lined with long\, rectangular windows in an old colonial building in the heart of Mexico City. Through one of those windows\, in the most surprising manner\, someone entered. It was a young man. He said he’d come from Oaxaca and that he wanted to meet me. I believe he sat in on the session in which we discussed the methods of documentary poetry\, the writing practice that incorporates and subverts\, that embraces and tests the public language of the dispossessed and the suffering…. Later\, that same young man who came in through the window as if it was a door asked me something impossible\, which is the only thing worth asking for.\n—Cristina Rivera Garza\, “Taking Shelter\,” Introduction to Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\n\nCristina Rivera Garza. “Born in Mexico and a resident of the United States for over two decades\, Rivera Garza is a prolific and multifaceted author of fiction\, essays\, and scholarship\, including nearly twenty works in Spanish. Her novels…are deeply informed by her training as a historian and frequently feature characters who stumble upon images\, texts\, or people that disturb the supposed clarity of the historical record.” (from the MacArthur Fellows citation\, 2020). Three of Rivera Garza’s acclaimed six novels have appeared in the US—most recently\, The Taiga Syndrome (El mal de la taiga\, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana); The Iliac Crest (La cresta de Ilión\, trans. Sarah Booker); and No One Will See Me Cry (Nadie me verá llorar\, trans. Andrew Hurley). \nWithin this past year\, Rivera Garza’s complete poems\, La fractura exacta: Poesía completa\, were published in Spanish (from Ediciones Libros del cardo\, in Chile). And three remarkable books of nonfiction also appeared\, in the US in English translation: Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country (tr. Sarah Booker); The Restless Dead: Necrowriting & Disappropriation (tr. Robin Myers); and La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico (tr. Laura Kanost). On the faculty at the University of Houston since 2016\, Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing. Visit her blog (in Spanish and English)\, No hay tal lugar: U-tópicos contemporáneos. \n\nTrust\nWhen I first looked in the mirror\, I thought I looked dead\, but I had simply become a child. Beside my face was a blue cake so radiant\, even its light was edible.\n—Kit Schluter\, at The Brooklyn Rail\n\nKit Schluter is a poet-translator and bookmaker. His poetry and stories have appeared in Boston Review\, BOMB\, Brooklyn Rail\, Folder\, Hyperallergic\, and in the chapbooks Inclusivity Blueprint\, Journals\, Translations of Forgetting\, Without is a Part of Origin\, and the collections of stories and drawings\, 5 Cartoons/5 caricaturas (tr. Mariana Rodríguez\, Juan Malasuerte Editores)\, The Good in Having a Nuclear Family (Despite Editions)\, and his first full-length collection of poetry\, Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books\, 2020). Among his prolific translations—from the French\, Occitan\, and Spanish—are books by Olivia Tapiero (Phototaxis\, Nightboat)\, Anne Kawala (Screwball\, Canarium)\, Jaime Saenz (The Cold\, Poor Claudia)\, Michel Surya (Dead End\, Black Sun Lit)\, Julio Torri (Essays & Poems\, Archivo48)\, Marcel Schwob (The Book of Monelle; The Children’s Crusade\, foreword by J.L. Borges; and The King in the Golden Mask\, all Wakefield Press)\, Amandine André (Circle of Dogs\, with Jocelyn Spaar; Some Thing\, with Lindsay Turner\, Aphonic Space)\, and Clamenç Llansana (Goliard Songs\, Anomalous)\, with others on the way. Schluter co-edits O’clock Press\, designs for Nightboat Books and Juan Malasuerte Editories\, and with Tatiana Lipkes organizes the monthly reading series at Aeromoto\, a public arts library in Mexico City. More\, including links to publishers and selected writings\, here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nCristina Rivera Garza\, MacArthur Foundation Fellows Citation\, 2020 \nChristina Rivera Garza\, on The Taiga Syndrome\, at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival\, Washington\, D.C. \nKit Schluter interviewed\, National Poetry Month featured poet\, at Entropy\, April 2017 \nKit Schluter\, reading with Brandon Brown and Wendy Trevino\, at Woolsey Heights\, May 25\, 2019 \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kSpx1UTcQYy9W87DIjCshg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cristina-rivera-garza-and-kit-schluter-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Mikki Kendall\, Hood Feminism
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Mikki Kendall who will discuss Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nThere have been many incredible moments and efforts in feminist history\, and women all over the world continue to fight to be seen and heard in all the chaos of modern society. However\, mainstream feminism has continually failed to recognize some of the most pressing issues facing most women today. In Hood Feminism\, Mikki Kendall\, the creator of the viral hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen\, calls out the myopia of mainstream white feminism. She argues that women of color and other marginalized people have long been doing the work of fighting for women’s rights.Their personhood and concerns should be regarded with the same—and in some cases even more—urgency as the issues that now dominate feminist rhetoric. \nThe essays in Hood Feminism draw upon Kendall’s personal experiences while looking at the cultural and political landscape of today’s feminism to shine a light on the issues that marginalized women face\, and urges the would-be feminist to embrace a kind of feminism that moves beyond just being an ally to being an accomplice\, an advocate\, and collaborator. \n“This book is an act of fierce love and advocacy\, and it is urgently necessary.”—Samantha Irby\, author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life \n“My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist (as I do) will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect. Mikki Kendall is calling out white feminists here—and it’s long overdue that we drop our defenses\, listen to her arguments carefully\, and then change our entire way of thinking and behaving. As Kendall explains in eloquent and searing simplicity\, any feminism that focuses on inequality between men and women without addressing the inequalities BETWEEN women is not only useless\, but actually harmful. In the growing public conversation about race\, class\, status\, privilege\, and power\, this text is essential reading.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mikki-kendall-hood-feminism/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch of THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK with Author Patricia Bracewell
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 4\, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Patricia Bracewell to discuss her new novel\, THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK. \nThis book is the breathtaking conclusion to Bracewell’s Emma of Normandy Trilogy\, brimming with treachery\, heartache\, tenderness and passion as the English queen confronts ambitious and traitorous councilors\, invading armies and the Danish king’s power-hungry concubine. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85120377510. \nYou can pre-order your copy here: http://bit.ly/ggpSteelBeneath \nABOUT THE STORY \nThe first two books of the trilogy\, SHADOW ON THE CROWN and THE PRICE OF BLOOD\, introduce the 11th-century queen of England\, Emma of Normandy. In 1002\, fifteen­-year-old Emma crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Æthelred of England\, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. With a husband who mistrusts her\, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown\, Emma must defend herself against her enemies. \nIn the final book\, THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK\, Emma is determined to outmaneuver her adversaries and protect her children and countrymen. She forges alliances and wins the affection of the English people. But her growing love for a man who is not her husband and the imminent threat of a Viking invasion jeopardize both her crown and her life. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nPatricia Bracewell taught literature and composition before embarking upon her writing career. A lifelong fascination with British history and a chance\, on-line reference to an unfamiliar English queen led to years of research\, a summer history course at Downing College\, Cambridge\, and a stint as writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library in Wales. Patricia lives with her husband in Northern California. Visit www.patriciabracewell.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-book-launch-of-the-steel-beneath-the-silk-with-author-patricia-bracewell/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Barbara Saunders!!!
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month 2019 a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. Come celebrate the two-year anniversary at this month’s Eves at the Beat curated by Barbara Saunders!!\n\nLineup of readers:\n\nCenta Theresa\nnialla rose\nElaine Brown\, Poet E Spoken\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nKerry O. Vineberg\n\nTopic: Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Barbara Saunders!\nTime: Mar 4\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87396584235\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,87396584235# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,87396584235# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdAPLwin6i
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
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SUMMARY:Melissa Valentine
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 5\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\nMelissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland\, California\, whose work explores themes of race\, trauma\, and healing. Her debut memoir\, The Names of All the Flowers\, was the 2019 winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She is a 2020 artist fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in Nonfiction Literature. Melissa has also been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine\, Guernica\, Jezebel\, and Apogee\, among others. She is a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-valentine/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210305T015738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T015738Z
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SUMMARY:Melissa Valentine Reading
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 5\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\n\nMelissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland\, California\, whose work explores themes of race\, trauma\, and healing. Her debut memoir\, The Names of All the Flowers\, was the 2019 winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She is a 2020 artist fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in Nonfiction Literature. Melissa has also been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine\, Guernica\, Jezebel\, and Apogee\, among others. She is a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-valentine-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210301T053237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T053237Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #49
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\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\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\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.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\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 \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-49/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210217T023940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T023940Z
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SUMMARY:Alexandria Giardino on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:A young girl and an old tree learn from each other how to find their purpose and foster healing in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandria-giardino-on-instagram-igtv/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210120T015059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T015059Z
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SUMMARY:Joyous Resilience: Book Talk & Meditation with author Anjuli Sherin
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for a book talk and guided meditation with author Anjuli Sherin\, hosted by Shivani Narang.\nWith so much information available on the most effective ways to build resilience—ranging from general tips for better mental health\, such as meditation\, exercise\, time in nature and online hygiene\, to the latest statistics and strategies that neuroscience can offer—what keeps people from implementing all this well-meaning advice? Or if you practice these techniques and still find yourself exhausted\, irritable\, unhappy\, anxious or dissatisfied\, do you ever wonder what is missing? \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT \nCopies of Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \nAbout the Book:\nIn this warm and accessible guide\, Pakistani American therapist Anjuli Sherin provides a healing path to make thriving possible for everyone. Through compelling client stories and reflective exercises\, she offers a culturally informed\, body -centered model that shows us how cultivating self-nurturance\, healthy boundaries\, pleasure\, and a soulful connection to the natural world can give us the generative energy needed to heal individual and collective trauma and shape our world from an inner magic called joyous resilience. \nWith meditations\, tools and guides throughout the book\, readers will have ample opportunity to reflect on their own unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors and develop their path to joyous resilience. \nAbout the Author:\nAnjuli Sherin\, LMFT\, is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma recovery\, resilience building and cultivating joy. She has more than 15 years of practice working with immigrant\, South Asian\, Middle Eastern\, Muslim and LGBTQ+ populations. Sherin received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Mary Washington University and her M.A. from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Sherin also trained and mentored with leading figures in trauma recovery and energy psychology\, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler\, Staci Haines and Vianna Stibal. In addition to awards for academic excellence and community service\, Sherin received the 2007 Emerging Leader Award from the E-women Network and has been featured in O Magazine as a finalist for the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyous-resilience-book-talk-meditation-with-author-anjuli-sherin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210114T010048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210114T010048Z
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SUMMARY:Poemscaping: Trim. Write. Repeat.
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you will learn a bold and effective strategy to revise your working poems! \nThis revision workshop helps poets create new horizons for their work by creating a no-pressure environment where trimming a poem leads to its rebirth. \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nIn this workshop\, participants will learn how to systematically revise a poem that they have been struggling with. They will do this by first pointing out and letting go of details they have become attached to so they can look at the piece with a fresh perspective. Then they will trim the poem to find what shines. Finally\, they will elaborate—turning that shiny poem even into something even more radiant. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• A comprehensive toolkit for revising poems \n • A fresh perspective on a poem you’ve been stuck on \n • Tangible suggestions on how you can revise your poem  \nWhat You’ll Need:\nA poem you have been working on that you are willing to play around with. \n*** \nAbout the Teacher:\nMatthew Feinstein is a poet\, educator and editor who holds a BA in English – Creative Writing from California State University\, Long Beach and is pursuing an MFA at Randolph College. He has served as a supplemental instructor in English at California State University\, Dominguez Hills. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys\, Rejection Letters\, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Plum Recruit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poemscaping-trim-write-repeat/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Surprise the Line":MAILTO:nancywoowriter@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210105T190102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T190102Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jean Shinoda Bolen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book Like a Tree\, which grew out of her experience mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her neighborhood\, provides an insightful look into the fusion of ecological issues and global gender politics. \nThat moment of loss\, combined with Bolen’s practice of walking among tall trees\, led to her deep connection with trees and an understanding of their many complexities. From their anatomy and physiology\, to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols\, Bolen expertly explores the dynamics of ecological activism spiritual activism and sacred feminism. And\, she invites us to join the movement to save trees. While there is still much work to be done to address environmental problems\, there are many stories of individuals and organizations rising up to make a change and help save our planet. The words and stories that Bolen weaves throughout this book are both inspirational and down-to-earth\, calling us to realize what is happening to not only our trees\, but our people. By writing about both the work of organizations like Greenpeace and the UN Commission on the Status of Women\, Bolen highlights her passions and shares her unique vision for the world. \nJean Shinoda Bolen is a psychiatrist\, Jungian analyst\, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology\, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute\, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women\, the International Transpersonal Association\, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions and is in three acclaimed documentaries. \nTerry Tempest Williams is the author of 17 books of creative nonfiction including the classic in environmental literature Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; When Women Were Birds; The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; and most recently\, Erosion: Essays of Undoing\, just out in paperback. A member of the American Academy of Arts and letters\, she is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and lives in Castle Valley\, Utah with the writer Brooke Williams. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-jean-shinoda-bolen-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210301T005830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T005830Z
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SUMMARY:Page Poets reading online event at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:COVID wouldn’t stop Ovid! Or any other poets worth their salt\, so please join us for an exciting online reading from The Page Poets Series and The Divers Collection this Saturday\, March 6 from 5pm – 6:15. \nFeatured poets are Katharine Harer\, Charlie Pendergast\, Stan Stone\, Garrett Caples\, Mary Julia Klimenko\, Tamsin Smith and Jason Morris. \nHere’s how the press describes their work: \nThe Page Poets Series was conceived by friends on a bright day in a dark corner of The Page bar on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. We publish important Northern California poets whose work excites us. \nThe Divers Collection expands our horizons. It is dedicated to the discovery and exploration of eclectic creative treasures\, which we wish to share. \nTo sign up for this Saturday’s reading click on this link: https://meet.google.com/vne-woki-ytq \nFor more info on their publications check their website: fmsbwpress.com \nYou will be able to order copies of some books from the evening’s poets from The Green Arcade by contacting us at: TheGreenArcade.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/page-poets-reading-online-event-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210301T053437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T053437Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alie Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand\, Jr.\, James Cagney\, Ayodele Nzinga\, and Tureeda Mikell\, it’ll be a great evening of fam and joy.\n\nEvent is free and all are welcome. Donations will be called for throughout the evening to support both Nomadic Press and Black Freighter Press.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press\nTime: Mar 6\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85424533623\nMeeting ID: 854 2453 3623\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85424533623# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,85424533623# 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+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 854 2453 3623\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcaoRx37Sx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-arrival-of-black-freighter-press/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T203000
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CREATED:20210305T013953Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic & Black Freighter Press
DESCRIPTION:Black Freighter is honored to team up with our comrades at Nomadic Press for a joint reading celebrating resistance art.\nJOIN US as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alie Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand\, Jr.\, James Cagney\, Ayodele Nzinga\, and Tureeda Mikell\, it’ll be a great evening of fam and joy.\nEvent is free and all are welcome. Donations will be called for throughout the evening to support both Nomadic Press and Black Freighter Press. \nCelebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press\, RSVP Here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-black-freighter-press/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145150
CREATED:20210204T183442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210204T183442Z
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book\, Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Simard\, a pioneering scientist who has changed the way we understand forest ecosystems\, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated first book\, Finding the Mother Tree (Knopf). \n“Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories\, connecting us to one another. Her vivid manuscript carries the stories of trees\, fungi\, soil and bears—and of a human being listening in on the conversation . . . I have great admiration for her science and her storytelling alike. These are stories that the world needs to hear.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer \nThis event is co-sponsored by Emergence Magazine and will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON. \nAbout Finding the Mother Tree\nSuzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson\, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. \nNow\, in her first book\, Simard brings us into her world\, the intimate world of the trees\, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths–that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp\, but are a complicated\, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social\, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. \nSimard writes–in inspiring\, illuminating\, and accessible ways–how trees\, living side by side for hundreds of years\, have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses\, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication\, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence\, traits that are the essence of civil societies–and at the center of it all\, the Mother Trees: the mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \nSimard writes of her own life\, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia\, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them–embarking on a journey of discovery\, and struggle. And as she writes of her scientific quest\, she writes of her own journey–of love and loss\, of observation and change\, of risk and reward\, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology\, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world\, and\, in writing of her own life\, we come to see the true connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do\, and how these inseparable bonds enable all our survival. \nAbout Suzanne Simard\nDR. SUZANNE SIMARD was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University. She is Professor of Forest Ecology in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-simard-pioneering-scientist-discusses-her-anticipated-book-finding-the-mother-tree/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T190000
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CREATED:20210301T175154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T175154Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-16/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T190000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\n\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\n\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\n\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
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SUMMARY:James Canton Discusses his new book\, The Oak Papers
DESCRIPTION:James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book\, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). \n“A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature\, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree.”—Peter Wohlleben\, author of The Hidden Life of Trees \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Oak Papers\nJoining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk\, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. \nThrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship\, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex\, England. While considering the direction of his own life\, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries\, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. \nIn this beautiful\, transportive book\, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological\, spiritual\, literary\, and historical contexts\, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation\, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. \nCanton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak\, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats\, to fuel our fires\, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose\, then\, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? \nTaking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau\, Leo Tolstoy\, Katherine Basford’s Green Man\, Thomas Hardy\, William Shakespeare\, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces\, from human development to climate change\, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious\, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us\, if only we slow down enough to listen. \nAbout James Canton\nDr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of Ancient Wonderings and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape\, which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS\, Caught by the River\, and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex\, England.
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