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SUMMARY:Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press\, 2019). Now after a month\, it’s finally here in Oakland\, CA at Wolfman Books or one night only. I mean the book will be there afterwards (if it isn’t sold out!) but she won’t\, so please join us for this launch event featuring readings from Ren Cook\, Alexandra Naughton\, Brent Reichenberger\, and Jesse Prado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-ivanna-baranova-confirmation-bias-launch-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir\, Native Country of the Heart. \nPraise for Native Country of the Heart \n“I love A Native Country of the Heart‘s forthright blending of a bio of Moraga’s intriguing powerhouse mom\, Elivira\, with Moraga’s own queer evolution. And that the intimate facts of Cherríe Moraga’s family history get embedded alongside such valuable public secrets as the mass deportation of Mexican workers during the depression so that dust bowl farmers could have their jobs. This book is a coup.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Afterglow \n“A beautiful\, painful\, funny\, heartening and heartfelt immersion in the life of one of the leading voices of Latino/a literature\, our very own Cherríe Moraga. Part elegy\, part history and part testimonio rife with storytelling\, Native Country of the Heart\, like all of Moraga’s work\, charts the unmapped and unspoken territories of body\, mind\, heart and soul and refuses to be confined by any border or genre. Her memoir is a defiant\, deep and soulful book about all our mothers\, mother cultures\, motherlands and languages. Telling her own mother Elvira’s story is both a political and ceremonial act. “We were not supposed to remember\,” Moraga writes. She does remember\, and in this moving and brave book she gives us all a reckoning our country needs now. —Julia Alvarez\, author of In the Time of the Butterflies \n“Cherríe Moraga\, a foundational contributor to modern Feminism\, grapples with her fierce but withholding Mexican mother who—despite their struggles—remains her strongest touchstone of identification. A raw and vulnerable story of acceptance hard won.” —Sarah Schulman\, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse \n“This a great book. In telling her mother’s life-story Cherríe Moraga ruthlessly examines her own heart and the deep complications of growing up mixed race and lesbian in a racist culture. But she also lays bare the spiritual core that strengthens and sustains her. The heart\, the soul\, familia and tribe\, the native country is as narrow as the space between clenched fingers and as wide as the sightlines to the horizon.” —Dorothy Allison\, author of Bastard Out of Carolina \nAbout Native Country of the Heart \nFrom the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back\, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline\, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora. \nNative Country of the Heart: A Memoir is\, at its core\, a mother-daughter story. The mother\, Elvira\, was hired out as a child\, along with her siblings\, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter\, Cherríe Moraga\, is a brilliant\, pioneering\, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women\, and of their people\, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation. \nAs a young woman\, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana\, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power\, sex\, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother’s journey—from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to\, later on\, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s—she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother’s memory fails\, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora\, its indigenous origins\, and an American story of cultural loss. \nPoetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma\, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga-native-country-of-the-heart/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka
DESCRIPTION:WENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said\, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to dance. The lives she sketches flame underfoot so the soles of your feet are ‘burned like little suns’ and when we read this book of grace and empathy ‘we are assured there will be sparks\, then blasts and blowups\, offerings of flame and dust…’”Her publications include the full-length books Reading Berryman to the Dog and Discount Fireworks\, plus five chapbooks\, most recently They Went Down to the Beach to Play. Her work is in anthologies such as In Plein Air\, Untold Arkansas\, and 50/50: Poems and Translations by Womxn Over Fifty. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in the Arkansas Ozarks.\n\nKIMI SUGIOKA’s brand new poetry book is Wile & Wing. Anne Waldman said\, “Kimi Sugioka is a poet with a lot of guises: maternal\, witchy\, passionate\, detached observer…She moves through the female cycle confidently\, poised\, strong in her observance and power.” Born in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley\, California\, Kimi Sugioka is a poet\, songwriter\, and educator. She performs her work frequently throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in public education for decades\, and earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-taylor-carlisle-kimi-sugioka/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MFA in Writing Reading Series - Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories\, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction\, the Story Prize\, the John Leonard Prize\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2018\, Ploughshares\, Gulf Coast\, Glimmer Train\, American Short Fiction\, and Tin House. He is currently a 2018-20 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-in-writing-reading-series-jamel-brinkley/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
DESCRIPTION:Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence\, child sexual abuse\, most notably when it’s a family member or friend\, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape\, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors\, advocates\, and Simmons’s mother\, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse\, humanely.\n\n“With this brave and healing anthology of truth-telling about sexual abuse within Black families\, Aishah Shahidah Simmons sets an example for all families. If we could all raise just one generation of children without violence or the threat of violence\, who knows what might be possible?” – Gloria Steinem\n\n \nThese co-panelists (in alphabetical order) will join Simmons: Qui Alexander\, Rosa Cabrera\, Cecelia Falls\, Thea Matthews\, Loretta Ross and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-with-accountability-digging-up-the-roots-of-child-sexual-abuse/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T170000
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SUMMARY:David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation
DESCRIPTION:In Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation Asian American young adults deal with difficulties such as depression\, suicide\, and coming out within the larger social context of race\, immigration\, and sexuality. \nThe New Yorker’s Hua Hsu writes: “There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. It’s a step toward imagining lives that we might be the authors of\, with endings that we write ourselves.” \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. \nPresented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley & Ethnic Studies \nFree and open to the public; The ESL has an ADA accessible front entrance and access to two ADA accessible restrooms | asiabookcenter.com | 510-548-2350
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-l-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library\, 30 Stephens Hall\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T200000
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SUMMARY:Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung
DESCRIPTION:The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices\, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Fifty-two percent of Chinese Americans report having no religious affiliation\, making them the least religiously identified ethnic group in the United States. Family Sacrifices reveals that Chinese Americans employ familism\, not religion\, as the primary narrative by which they find meaning\, identity\, and belonging. \nDr. Russell M. Jeung is Chair and Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. The author of books and articles on Asian Americans\, religion\, and race\, he’s a community activist and church leader in East Oakland\, CA. Dr. Jeung’s memoir\, At Home in Exile\, shares his family’s six generations in the U.S. and his life with refugees. \nCo-sponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, and San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/family-sacrifices-book-talk-with-dr-russell-jeung/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T203000
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SUMMARY:The Racket #36 : SOUND
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate our third year of existence we’ve decided to tap the senses\, to trod upon that which is most audible\, to get a bunch of people in a room to hear other people talk about SOUND. We are people who are into sound(s)\, be it music or the chirps and tweets and gusty winds of the great outdoors or just the varied beeps and boops of our cellphone alarms in the morning. We love the power of the sonic wave and damn it\, we wanted to ask some great writers to read about it. \nAlso\, free beer until there is no free beer. At the event\, not in the world. \nThe Readers (so far): \nRoy Dufrain Jr.\nSamantha Schoech\nDanielle Truppi\nAnnelies Zijderveld\nSarah Bethe Nelson\nJames Cagney\nSage The Poet \nMusical Performance by Bryson Schmidt
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-36-sound/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
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SUMMARY:Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic + free (except for restaurant purchases) 7pm. 11/18/2019\nJoyce E. Young is the author of How it Happens\, published by Nomadic Press. Her writing has been nominated for both a Pushcart and a California Book Award\nand has appeared in Smith Alumnae Quarterly\, WORDPEACE\, riverbabble\, The New Poets of the American West\, and elsewhere. She has received grants from the California Arts Council\, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and Writers on Site residency program at the Oakland Museum and Oakland Public Library through\nPoets & Writers\, Inc. Joyce has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for\nthe Creative Arts\, Hedgebrook\, Soapstone and Vermont Studio Center. She works as a Writing Consultant at John F. Kennedy University\, teaches writing privately\, and is currently at work writing poetry\, essays\, and Parallel Journey\, a novel.\nJoyce maintains regular Yoga and Chi Gung practice and is a semi-retired Afro\nCuban folkloric and modern dancer. She keeps lots of music in her life\,\nparticularly Jazz\, Salsa\, Reggae\, Samba\, and combinations of notes that defy \ncategory. In reality\, though\, she really doesn’t like to assign categories for music. \nBecause \nLike angels are supposed to\nYou don’t do it because\nyou want to be good\,\nget candy\, or ice cream \nYou do it because you love\nAnd forgetting all else\nYou tend to her or him\,\nwatching\, waiting\, praying\nfor life\, health\, the best\nfor that person or persons \nyou love
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-e-young-at-poetry-express-nov-18/
LOCATION:Poetry Express\, 1585 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
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SUMMARY:East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the East Bay release of “Disasterama”\, Alvin Orloff’s fantabulous new memoir of ’90’s SF wild club kid\, AIDS-activism\, agitprop performance\, and homocore culture. He hit it spot on with both wit and gravitas. \nAlvin will read from the book\, of course\, preceded by shiny crew Sam Sax\, Dena Rod\, Richard Loranger\, Vernon Keeve III\, & Anna Allen. Clearly a gathering that is not to be missed. \nI’ve made a second invite for this because Facebook\, in all its culture-crushing wisdom\, won’t let me send the original to more than 30 people or so. This one won’t even let me invite more than 50. I’ve tried to avoid repeats\, but if you’ve received both\, my apologies. If you can\, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD. 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/east-bay-release-for-disasterama-at-badass-bookworms-lit-loft/
LOCATION:The Legionnaire Saloon\, 2272 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Power Unit 17":MAILTO:hello@richardloranger.com
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nBecause the reading immediately follows a class\, we kindly ask that attendees arrive as close to the 5 pm start time as possible\, but not before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Writing Studio @ CCA\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T210000
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SUMMARY:Savannah Shange
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nProgressive Dystopia: Abolition\, Antiblackness\, and Schooling in San Francisco \nfrom Duke University Press \nSan Francisco is the endgame of gentrification\, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers just over 3 percent. The “Robeson Justice Academy” opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city\, with the mission of offering liberatory\, social justice–themed education to youth of color. While it features a progressive curriculum where students read Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde\, the majority Latinx school also has the district’s highest suspension rates for Black students. In Progressive Dystopia Savannah Shange explores the potential for reconciling the school’s marginalization of Black students with its sincere pursuit of multiracial uplift and solidarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and six years of experience teaching at the school\, Shange outlines how the school fails its students and the community because it operates within a space predicated on antiblackness. Seeing San Francisco as a social laboratory for how Black communities survive the end of their worlds\, Shange argues for abolition over either revolution or progressive reform as the needed path toward Black freedom. \nSavannah Shange is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and principal faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nWhat has been said about Progressive Dystopia: \n\n\n“By locating the everyday mechanisms of the neoliberal state in a progressive school in San Francisco\, Savannah Shange brings the lived experiences of social actors often only talked about as ‘black and brown bodies’ into discussions of the afterlife of slavery. And in so doing\, she reveals the fissures in Afropessimism and critical anthropology. Progressive Dystopia is scholarship at its finest and an essential contribution.” — Aimee Meredith Cox\, author of Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship \n“Who’s afraid of dystopia? Not Savannah Shange\, whose provocative and audacious book exposes ‘progressive’ multiracial social justice initiatives for what they are: a golden noose. ‘Winning\,’ she argues\, does not disrupt state logics of captivity\, containment\, accumulation\, and antiblackness. And fighting for utopias yet to be without attending to the dystopian present that is for the folks trapped in this ongoing settler-colonial catastrophe\, will not make us free. Instead\, Shange applies an abolitionist frame to reveal how Black and Brown kids who defy their saviors\, disrupt liberal teleologies\, and map new territory\, make the road toward freedom by walking\, talking\, dancing\, fighting\, and thinking. Unsettling\, persuasive\, and beautiful\, Progressive Dystopia is one of those rare books that will make you rethink everything.” — Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination \n“At the center of Savannah Shange’s powerful analysis in progressive dystopia: abolition\, anthropology\, and race in the new San Francisco are the multiple and seemingly conflicting forces brought to bear on the Black girls and boys who attend the Robeson Justice Academy in the contested space that makes up Frisco. Shange theorizes a set of ‘common sense’ ‘progressive’ logics that reproduce the carceral—what she names progressive dystopia and carceral progressivism—and then the willful defiance that characterizes the refusals and political demands of the Black girl students\, in particular\, who refuse to bear and internalize what Hartman names as ‘burdened individualism.’ This is a profoundly important book.” — Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
URL:https://litseen.com/event/savannah-shange/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Big Familia Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:I am both thrilled & nervous to announce the book release party for 💥Big Familia!! on November 19 at East Bay Booksellers / Diesel. \nIt’s a reading & conversation with Nancy Au. \nDrinks & mingling & celebration. \nKid Friendly (though it’s a school night!) \nTOMAS MONIZ edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019\, he released a chapbook with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel\, Big Familia\, on Acre Books\, will be out in November . He has stuff on the internet but loves letters and penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nNancy Au’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and The Pinch\, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-familia-book-launch/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T190000
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SUMMARY:Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR\nRaquel Salas Rivera\n\n\n\nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, published by Birds\, LLC in 2019\, and the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets for their book x/ex/exis. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books\, including lo terciario/the tertiary\, longlisted for the 2018 National book Award and winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. From 2016-2018\, they edited The Wanderer and Puerto Rico en mi corazón\, a collection of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets. They have received fellowships and residencies from Sundance Institute\, the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts\, the Arizona Poetry Center\, and CantoMundo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nCarina del Valle Schorske\n\n\n\nCarina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator living between New York City and San Juan\, Puerto Rico. Her first book\, No Es Nada: Notes from the Other Island\, a psychogeography of Puerto Rican culture is forthcoming from Riverhead.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER 20\, 2019 | 7:00PM\nRaquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske\n\nAlley Cat Books & Gallery | 3036 24th Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raquel-salas-rivera-and-carina-del-valle-schorske/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want
DESCRIPTION:Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel\, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. \nAbout The Worst Kind of Want \nA trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood\, death\, and sex \nTo cool-headed\, fastidious Pricilla Messing\, Italy will be an escape\, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that’s starting to feel like one long decline. \nRescued from the bedside of her difficult mother\, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece\, Hannah. But after years of caregiving\, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah’s youthful\, heedless world—drinking\, dancing\, smoking—relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked\, Cilla feels like she’s coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories\, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless\, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. \nWith the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith\, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina\, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liska-jacobs-the-worst-kind-of-want/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim
DESCRIPTION:CO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST \nMARILYN CHIN’s new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said\, “Marilyn Chin’s poems excite and incite the imagination through their brilliant cultural interfacings\, their theatre of anger\, ‘fierce and tender\,’ their compassion\, and their high mockery of wit.” Born in Hong Kong\, currently living in San Diego\, she is the author of four previous poetry collections and a novel. Widely anthologized\, in Best American Poetry\, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women\, and elsewhere\, her honors include five Pushcart Prizes\, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award\, and fellowships from the United States Artists Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. \nGENNY LIM—San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, born in San Francisco—is the author of the poetry collections Winter Place\, Child of War\, and Paper Gods and Rebels. She also wrote the plays Paper Angels and Bitter Cane and the children’s book Wings for Lai-Ho\, among other works. Winner of the American Book Award in 1981\, she founded the theater company Paper Angels Productions\, later known as XX Theater\, and produced many experimental performance pieces. Recipient of the Bay Guardian Goldie for Local Discovery in 1991\, she went on to record and collaborate with musician-composers Jon Jang\, Francis Wong\, Anthony Brown\, the late Max Roach\, and Herbie Lewis. Her new poetry book KRA! is a power house political and historical\, biographical work invoking figures such as James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Francisco X. Alarcon\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor\, and is a salute to Flint\, Michigan\, Standing Rock\, and Black Lives Matter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marilyn-chin-genny-lim/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 20\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nReading in November: \nKatherine Vaz\nJalyce Fairley\nCasey Walker\nJeffery Leong\nMonica Zarazua \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, November 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-13/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T203000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Feature: Linda Lappin \nWillow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nLinda Lappin is a former Professor of English\, retired in 2018. Her latest collection tentatively called “Falling Home” is in the first round of editing and revision work with April Ossmann (formerly with Alice James Books). She has an MFA from San Jose State University where she was fortunate in meeting and taking classes with Ishmael Reed\, Naomi Shehab Nye\, Jane Hershfield (through the Montalvo seminars)\, Sam Mao\, and Alan Soldofsky. She has studied with Ellen Bass and Molly Fisk (poetry bootcamp). Through the MFA she published her first collection “Not Far from the Tree” and while there published individual poems in Convergence\, Coe Review\, Sanskrit\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Though many of her poems are narrated from Boulder Creek\, he now lives in San Jose\, California. Do not confuse her with the other Linda Lappin living in Italy\, please. \nupcoming at Third Thursdays:\nDecember: Laurence Snydal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:Jerome Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:celebrating two new books \nThe President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press\nThe Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace \n\n\n\nJerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium\, coedited with Pierre Joris\, Jeffrey Robinson\, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerome-rothenberg-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T135450
CREATED:20191002T135853Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes two outstanding Latina poets\, Puerto Rican poet and activist Raquel Salas Rivera\, with us from her present home in Philadelphia\, and writer\, filmmaker\, and artist Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, here from Southern California. Both poets read from their work\, then join in conversation with one another and the audience. This evening at The Poetry Center—co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State—will be followed by a second reading the next night\, Friday November 22\, across the Bay at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Kielinski Photography. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Kielinski Photography. \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo by Beowulf Shehan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nFriday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\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 phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Latina/Latino Studies\, and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-raquel-salas-rivera-and-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eric Thurm: Avidly Reads Board Games
DESCRIPTION:Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book\, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including\, Busted!\, a game from the 1970s about trying to start a career dealing weed\, Class Struggle\, the world’s first socialist board game\, and The Grizzled\, a modern cooperative game about being in the trenches in World War I\, will be available to play. \nAvidly―the online magazine founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood & Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)―specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to the intersection of expertise and passion.  Now\, Blackwood & Mesle are partnering with NYU Press to launch Avidly Reads\, an exciting new series of books that are part memoir\, part cultural criticism\, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. \nIn Board Games\, writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal\, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat\, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart\, Class Struggle\, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships―from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night\, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns\, trivia\, and nostalgia. \nEric Thurm is a writer whose work has appeared in\, among other publications\, Esquire\, WIRED\, Real Life\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-thurm-avidly-reads-board-games/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Best Small Fictions 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody\, Natalie Hernandez\, Joy Lanzendorfer\, Kim Magowan\, J.L. Montavon\, and Kara Vernor. \nAbout The Best Small Fictions \nThe Best Small Fictions anthology\, now in its fifth year\, presents one hundred and forty-­six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-­six nations and six continents. These short\, elliptical works are varied and edgy\, sorrowful and triumphant\, provocative and visionary. The small fictions enclosed within this volume are always vibrant. They scintillate. They linger. With each story brief enough to savor at a stoplight or quick coffee break\, the tales contained within 2019’s The Best Small Fictions promise to leave a mark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-best-small-fictions-2019/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T213000
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SUMMARY:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart\n\n\n\n\n(and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino’s new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. \nA soulful\, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river.”–Lauren Collins \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Seine by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nElaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine\, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea\, and the cities\, tributaries\, islands\, ports\, and bridges in between. \nSciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman\, a riverbank bookseller\, a houseboat dweller\, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana–the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name–and follows the river through Paris\, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police\, rows with a restorer of antique boats\, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river\, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art\, literature\, music\, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way\, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of five books\, including The Seine\, The Only Street in Paris and La Seduction. Sciolino was decorated as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor\, the highest honor of the French state\, in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. She and her husband have lived in Paris since 2002. \nThad Carhart is the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Finding Fontainebleau. A resident of Paris for 25 years\, he now lives in San Francisco. \nL. John Harris is the author/illustrator of Cafe French. He lives in Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-sciolino-in-conversation-with-thad-carhart/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T220000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nFYI the 10 slot open mic list starts at 7:30 and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway). \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T210000
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CREATED:20191002T140046Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe In Common Writers Series moves across the Bay\, to Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley\, for what will be a powerful evening featuring poets Vanessa Angélica Villareal\, joining us from Southern California\, and—from Puerto Rico via Philadelphia\, Raquel Salas Rivera. The In Common Writers Series\, now in its second year\, is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Both this event and a reading and conversation by both poets the prior evening at The Poetry Center are free and open to the public. Join us! \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo: Self-portrait. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Paloma Alicea. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Paloma Alicea. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nThursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Moe’s Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-and-raquel-salas-rivera-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191123T210000
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SUMMARY:A World Without Wars - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY\n\nMAHNAZ BADIHIAN\nJIM NORMINGTON\nJOHN CURL\nBARBARA PASCHKE\nNELLIE WONG\nRAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ\nLYNNE BARNES\nCATHLEEN WILLIAMS\nGREGORY POND\nJUDITH BERNHARD\nGAYLIN WEST\nSCOTT BIRD\nVICTORIA BRILL\nDAVID VOLPENDESTA\nYOLANDA CATZALCO\nHAI PHAM\nKRISTINA BROWN\nDOREEN STOCK\nNEELI CHERKOVSKI\nKIM SHUCK\nJENNY WADE\nBOB COLEMAN
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-world-without-wars-part-1/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:Egypt + Holiday Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Holidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band together for an early evening\, relaxed community celebration on Sunday and break bread together before the end of 2019. Publisher J. K. Fowler will share a few photos of\, and stories about\, his recent community-funded trip to the Tanta international festival of poetry. \nBring one of your favorite dishes\, a dish that speaks to a favorite book of yours\, or try your hand at an Egyptian dish: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15039/world-cuisine/african/north-african/egyptian \nWine and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/egypt-holiday-potluck/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
DESCRIPTION:DS Marriot is a poet and critic\, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University\, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press\, Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press); he is currently working on Two Freedoms\, a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. His volumes of poetry include Incognegro (Salt Publications\, 2006)\, The Bloods (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, and Duppies (Commune Editions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-s-marriott-reading-from-selected-poetry/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T163000
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SUMMARY:Marcia Falk & Steven Rood
DESCRIPTION:MARCIA FALK’s new book is Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings\, which contains her own artwork side-by-side with her poetry and new blessings in English and Hebrew. She will be showing images of the artwork with her poetry at this event. Mark Podwal\, artist and scholar of Jewish culture\, says\, “Inner East is a symbiosis of word and image…Falk’s beautiful visual images are poems in paint that do not merely illustrate her written words but illuminate them.” A Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, she returned there four years later as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Among her many other books are The Days Between: Blessings\, Poems\, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season and The Book of Blessings: New English Prayers for Daily Life\, the Sabbath\, and the New Moon Festival. She is also the author of a classic verse translation of the biblical Song of Songs\, The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible\, about which Adrienne Rich said\, “it’s always a thrill when (as rarely happens) the scholar’s mind and the poet’s soul come together.” A translator from Yiddish as well\, she’s published The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda\, poetry of the twentieth century mystic\, Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky\, and With Teeth in the Earth\, poems of the Yiddish modernist Malka Heifetz Tussman. \nSTEVEN ROOD’s debut book of poems is I Say Your Name\, devoted to the memory of both the late\, great poet Jack Gilbert and Rood’s own psychotherapist. For these many years he’s been a member of the writing workshop that Gilbert founded at San Francisco State in 1967\, and he was a primary caregiver of Gilbert’s during his last Alzheimer days.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcia-falk-steven-rood/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T160000
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SUMMARY:Poets Laureate on Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Poets Laureate on Social Justice at Alibi Bookshop in downtown Vallejo\, California. Part of the tour for Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. \nPoets Laureate on Social Justice–Vallejo\nSunday\, Nov. 24\, 4PM at Alibi Bookshop in Vallejo; Napa County Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson\, former San Mateo Co. Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin\, former Sonoma Co. Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle\, Richmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton\, and hosted by Ron Reikki\n\nNapa Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson (2017-2021) writes poems; he has also written novels\, short stories\, articles\, personal essays\, stand-up comedy routines\, short films\, and many letters. Jeremy aims to cultivate a rich community of writers\, readers\, and artists\, whether as a participant\, patron\, or planner. He has emceed open mics\, curated readings\, hosted craft-ins\, led workshops\, and cof-founded the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual exchange of hand-made chapbooks.\n\nCaroline Goodwin moved to California in 1999 from Sitka\, Alaska to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Trapline (2013)\, Peregrine (2015)\, The Paper Tree (2017) and Custody of the Eyes (2019). She teaches at UC Berkeley Extension\, CA College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Studies. In fall 2013\, she was appointed San Mateo County’s first Poet Laureate\, and served for three years (2014 – 2016). http://carolinegoodw.com/\n\n\nSonoma County Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle‘s (2017-2018) poetry collections include Interrupted Geographies (Trio House Press\, 2017) Gold Passage (Trio House Press\, 2013) and There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air (Word Tech\, 2015). Her poem “Listening to the Caryatids on the Palace of Fine Arts” poem will be featured on 100 buses as part of the San Francisco Beautiful and Poetry Society of America Muni Art 2020 campaign. Her works have been published in Tin House\, San Francisco Examiner\, Fence\, Los Angeles Review of Books\,  Split Rock Review\, Taos Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market\, Women’s Studies and Chicago Quarterly Review. Her biography on Charmian London\, Jack London’s wife will be published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2020. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.\n\n\n\n\nRichmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton is helping develop a literary arts center for the city. He has been a Pushcart nominee and Gregory O’Donoghue Competition winner. His work has appeared in Interbang\, Jacaranda Review\, King Log\, Shades of Contradiction\, The Texas Observer\, Parthenon West\, New Orleans Quarterly\, Journal of Human Architecture\, Quillpuddle\, Opium Magazine\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Oberon\, Written Here\, and Southword. His book\, A Complex Bravery was published by Marick Press. He works as a spatial epidemiologist. \n\n\n\nRon Riekki wrote My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press)\, U.P.: a novel (Ghost Road Press)\, and Posttraumatic: A Memoir (Small Press Distribution). He edited Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press)\, And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing\, 1917-2017 (MSU Press)\, Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (MSU Press\, Independent Publisher Book Award)\, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press\, Michigan Notable Book)\, and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise (McFarland). Riekki is contracted for seven upcoming books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-laureate-on-social-justice/
LOCATION:Alibi Bookshop\, 624 Marin Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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