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SUMMARY:Robert Williams at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination \npublished by Fantagraphics \nRobert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination is a comprehensive\, career-spanning collection of the iconic painter’s fine art\, including over 300 oil paintings as well as drawings\, sculptures\, and more. Simply put\, this is the definitive volume that Williams has been working towards his entire career. \nIn the late 20th and early 21st century\, diverse forms of commonplace and popular art appeared to be coalescing into a formidable faction of new painted realism. The new school of imagery was a product of art that didn’t fit comfortably into the accepted definition of fine art. It embraced some of the figurative graphics that formal art academia tended to reject: comic books\, movie posters\, trading cards\, surfer art\, and hot rod illustration\, to mention a few. \nThis alternative art movement found its most apt participant in one of America’s most controversial underground artists\, the painter\, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term “lowbrow” into the fine arts lexicon\, with his groundbreaking 1979 book\, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. Williams pursued a career as a fine artist years before joining the art studio of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position he moved into the rebellious\, anti-war circles of early underground comix\, as one of the celebrated ZAP cartoonists. \nFeaturing an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason along with a new foreword and annotations by Williams himself\, as well as rare photos\, artifacts\, and ephemera. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-williams-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #2
DESCRIPTION:This week Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition features Maw Shein Win\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Amanda Moore \nLearn about our readers by visiting their bio posts \nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTime: Apr 8\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/161450681 \nMeeting ID: 161 450 681 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,161450681# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,161450681# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 161 450 681\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). \nPLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus\, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door; and did you know we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire? Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mari-coates-with-peg-alford-pursell-launch-for-the-pelton-papers-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kathy Valentine: All I Ever Wanted
DESCRIPTION:Kathy Valentine\, bassist for The Go-Go’s\, discusses her new memoir All I Ever Wanted. \nAbout All I Ever Wanted \nGo-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex\, drugs\, and of course\, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself\, even when it all comes crashing down. \nAt twenty-one\, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go’s—and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go’s became the first multi-platinum-selling\, all-female band to play instruments themselves\, write their own songs\, and have a number one album. Their debut\, Beauty and the Beat\, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed.” The record’s success brought the pressures of a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild\, hazy\, substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to arenas\, where fans\, promoters\, and crew were more than ready to keep the party going. For Valentine\, the band’s success was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream—but it’s only part of her story. All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood in Texas—where she all but raised herself—to the height of rock n’ roll stardom\, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her\, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects of parental betrayal\, abortion\, rape\, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol—and the music that saved her every step of the way. Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine’s interac-tions during the 1980s with musicians and actors from the Police and Rod Stewart to John Belushi and Rob Lowe\, All I Ever Wanted is a deeply personal reflection on a life spent in music. \nAbout the Author \nKathy Valentine is a working musician and songwriter known for being part of the all-female band the Go-Go’s. She wrote or cowrote many of the band’s most renowned songs\, including “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” In addition to playing music and writing songs\, Valentine has worked as an actor\, public speaker and spokesperson\, and producer. In 2017 she created “She Factory\,” an event series to raise money for women-centered nonprofits. She currently lives in her hometown of Austin with her daughter\, where she plays in a band and is completing her first college degree. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathy-valentine-all-i-ever-wanted/
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:Litquake on Lockdown: Bring the World into Your Home with World Editions
DESCRIPTION:Let’s connect our global literary community in a time of closed borders. Hear World Editions authors read from their works\, discuss the current situation in their countries\, and talk about what books mean to them during Covid-19. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-bring-the-world-into-your-home-with-world-editions/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Racket : View From A Room
DESCRIPTION:We’re doing a weekly event\, every week until we’re allowed out into the blinding light of the future. \nThis week: VIEW FROM A ROOM \nGreat writers – Christine No\, Matt Carney\, Rebekah Bloyd\, Nick O’Brien and Vernon Keeve III – will talk about the view outside their window. \nRoom Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/832429385?pwd=TEFDbWtHKzMrYTF1dkJaUUJIZTBGQT09
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-view-from-a-room/
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SUMMARY:Melville House @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:Melville House Publishers is celebrated by City Lights! \nThree authors with recently released books join us for an evening of spirited discussion \nMalcolm Harris in conversation with Curtis White\, moderated by Jenny Odell \nMalcolm Harris celebrates the release of SHIT IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT: History Since the End of History  \nCurtis White celebrates the release of Living in a World that Can’t Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today \nJenny Odell is the author of How to Do Nothing \n—————– \nabout Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since The End Of History \n\nFrom the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality\, student debt\, and exploitation have come to define our lives. \n\n\nOur economic situation\, political discourse\, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said “Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit” to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? \nMalcolm Harris\, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics\, tackles these questions in over 30 new and selected pieces\, examining everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism–and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way\, he cops to being the guy who tricked protestors into thinking Radiohead was playing Occupy Wall Street; investigates why the robots that will replace us so often look like sex objects; and\, most comfortingly\, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we’re in. \nRarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside-down that we can finally understand it for what it really is\, but Harris’s wry and biting essays do just that\, and help us laugh at what we see. \n——————– \nabout Living In A World That Can’t Be Fixed \n\n“This is a book about counterculture\, and that’s a problem . . . “ \n\n\nSo begins Curtis White’s thrilling call for the revitalization of counterculture today. \nThe problem\, White argues\, is twofold: first\, most of us think of counterculture as a phenomenon stuck in the 1960s\, and\, second\, what passes as counterculture today … simply isn’t. Nevertheless\, a reimagined counterculture is our best hope to save the planet\, bypass social antagonisms\, and create the world we actually want to live in. Now. \nWhite—”the most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment” (Will Blythe\, Elle)—shows how the products of our so-called resistance\, from Ken Burns to Black Panther\, rarely offer a meaningful challenge to power\, and how our loyalty to the “American Lifestyle” is self-defeating and keeps us from making any real social change. \nThe result is an inspiring case for practicing civil disobedience as a way of life\, and a clear vision for a better world—full of play\, caring\, and human connection. \n——————— \n\n\nabout How To Do Nothing \n\n\nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \n\n\nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. \n———————– \n\n\n\nMalcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic\, Bookforum\, the Village Voice\, n+1\, and the New York Times Magazine. His first book was Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. He lives in Philadelphia. \nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford\, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department\, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland. \nCurtis White is a novelist and social critic whose works include Memories of My Father Watching TV\, The Middle Mind\, and\, most recently\, The Science Delusion\, We\, Robots\, and Lacking Character. He is the founder (with Ronald Sukenick) of FC2\, a publisher of innovative fiction run collectively by its authors. He lives in Port Townsend\, WA. \nMelville House is an independent publisher located in Brooklyn\, New York. It was founded in 2001 by sculptor Valerie Merians and fiction writer/journalist Dennis Johnson\, in order to publish Poetry After 9/11\, a book of material culled from Johnson’s groundbreaking MobyLives book blog. The material consisted of things sent in to the blog by writers and poets in response to the 9/11 attacks\, and Johnson and Merians felt it better represented the spirit of New York than the call to war of the Bush administration. Melville House is also well-known for its fiction\, with two Nobel Prize winners on its list: Imre Kertesz and Heinrich Boll. In particular\, the company has developed a world-wide reputation for its rediscovery of forgotten international writers — its translation of a forgotten work by Hans Fallada\, Every Man Dies Alone\, launched a world-wide phenomenon. The company also takes pride in its discovery of many first-time writers — such as Lars Iyer (Spurious)\, Tao Lin (Shoplifting from American Apparel)\, Jeremy Bushnell (The Weirdness) and Christopher Boucher (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) — all of whom have gone on to greater success.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melville-house-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Briante and Valyntina Grenier at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Briante and Grenier Take Heart and Deface the Monument at Wolfman. \n  \nABOUT OUR BOOKS:\n“Fever Dream / Take Heart is a doubled poetry book. Two chapbooks have been produced in a flip-book format [featuring paintings by Grenier]. Bound in the tête-bêche style\, Fever Dream and Take Heart provide two forays through this poet’s feverishly delicious style.\nLifting off from nature\, Grenier leaps intuitively between images that comment on humanity’s impact on the climate\, corrosive politics\, and all that is ferociously feminine.\nLeap anywhere into these works and emerge with your senses swollen and your will to enact change fortified with iron.”\n– Laine Cunningham\, Solar Flairs for Sunspot Literary Journal \nA former journalist turned university professor\, Briante started taking students to the US-Mexico border three summers ago to research and write about migration issues. What began as essays documenting the immigration crisis turned into a reflection on the acts of witnessing and writing about the suffering of others. Part documentary\, part lyric essay\, part primer\, Defacing the Monument is an exploration of the many ways we might tell stories and a guidebook for anyone who wants to write or offer help in this moment of crisis. \nABOUT US:\nSusan Briante\, is the author of three books of poetry: Pioneers in the Study of Motion\, Utopia Minus\, and The Market Wonders all from Ahsahta Press. Briante has received grants and awards from the Atlantic Monthly\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Academy of American Poets\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund\, the US-Mexico Fund for Culture\, and (most recently) the Ucross Foundation. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona\, where she also serves as co-coordinator of the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program. The program brings MFA students to the US-Mexico border to work with community-based environmental and social justice groups. New work appears in Guernica\, High Country News and through the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day program. You can read more about Susan at susanbriante.com \nValyntina Grenier is a poet and visual artist living in Tucson\, Arizona. She was born in Lancaster\, California\, and educated at The University of California\, Berkeley\, and St. Mary’s College\, Moraga. Graduating with an MFA in poetry\, she is self-taught as a painter\, installation and Neon artist. In both language and visual art\, she pushes the boundaries of representation and abstraction to create a vantage from which to view violence and prejudice. An LGBTQIA artist and activist\, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lana Turner\, High Shelf Press\, JuxtaProse\, Sunspot Lit\, Bat City Review and The Impossible Beast: Poems of Queer Eroticism from Damaged Goods Press. Find her at valyntinagrenier.com or Insta @valyntinagrenier
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-briante-and-valyntina-grenier-at-wolfman-books/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver\, for her work Spectra (Coffee House Press\, 2018). She’ll be joined by award judge Jason Bayani\, reading and in conversation. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is free and open to the public. \n\nAshley Toliver’s Spectra is an immensely moving work. Its three-act structure entrenches within the violent friction between nature and manmade forms and between nature and the human body. Under Toliver’s carefully measured pen\, this movement through violence brought to mind for me\, persistence: the persistence to withstand the structures of domesticity (and all those structures domesticity is nestled under); the persistence to withstand an attack from within the body as that same body is bearing a new life. It is Toliver’s persistence that tempers and\, at times\, wields the flame of this violence\, it is this persistence that seeks to create from absence\, and from the first page to the last it absolutely mesmerizes me. In the poem “Standing Outside Your House with a Match and a Gallon of Gasoline”\, Toliver writes “I still don’t know what kind of woman/ I am. But as the flame nears the fingers/ that trust the match\, as close as the skin/ can stand it to singe\, I call this the nerve/ to find out—”. As taken as I am by the journey within the book\, I am also moved by the vision the book creates\, a vision of a woman holding both the fire of life and death in her hands\, that searches within it all with a keen strength and wonder. And how gorgeous and powerful of a vision Ashley Toliver makes\, what this vision\, when we acknowledge it from a Black woman’s lens\, means within the context of this time; what it pulls back from erasure; what it invokes and empowers. I am deeply in awe of this book— this book that is constantly seeking\, that seeks to reclaim and repossess\, that knows this is worthy of our persistence\, at least until death\, which\, as Toliver writes\, is “the last road to awe I know.”—Jason Bayani\n\nAshley Toliver is the author of Spectra (Coffee House Press\, 2018)\, which in addition to being awarded The Poetry Center Book Award\, was a finalist for the 2018 Believer Book Award\, 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the Oregon Book Award. She teaches poetry at the The Attic Institute in southeast Portland and serves as poetry editor at Moss. A Journal of the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation\, Oregon Literary Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets. She received her MFA from Brown University in 2013. \nJason Bayani is the author of Locus (Omnidawn Publishing\, 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing\, 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. His publishing credits include World Literature Today\, Muzzle Magazine\, Lantern Review\, and other publications. Jason performs regularly around the country and debuted his solo theater show “Locus of Control” in 2016 with theatrical runs in San Francisco\, New York\, and Austin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-center-book-award-reading-ashley-toliver-and-jason-bayani-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:Mental Health Comedy Hour presented by Strut!
DESCRIPTION:Join us virtually this Thursday\, April 9th\, at 7pm PST! \nAt the Mental Health Comedy Hour “We’re not OK\, and that’s OK!” \nMental Health Comedy Hour was created by and is hosted by comedians Kristee Ono\, and Wonder Dave! The show aims to de-stigmatize mental illness and therapy through humor and open conversations about often difficult topics. Are you a queer person dealing with Depression\, Anxiety\, ADHD\, or Bipolar disorder?…why not laugh about it? At this show some of the funniest queer stand up comedians will tell jokes and talk about their life with mental illness. All in the jovial environment of a late-night talk show sponsored by Strut! Featuring interviews with licensed mental health professionals and more! \nThis show will have special guests comedians Luna Malbroux! And Jes Tom!\nOur guest mental health professional will be Nia Hamilton-Ibu! \nThe show is free\, we will be sharing the info on how to join and watch the virtual show the day of the event. Stay tuned and make sure to rsvp. \nQuestions about Strut or San Francisco AIDS Foundation events please contact the community event manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at baruch@sfaf.org \nStrut Limited Clinical Services:\nWednesday\, Thursday & Saturday\, 10 am – 4 pm\nFriday 11 am – 4 pm.\nWalk-in clients are not being seen at this time.\nPlease call the clinic at 415-581-1600 for instructions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mental-health-comedy-hour-presented-by-strut/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nIn the 1960s\, a small team of innovators gathered on a stunning sweep of land overlooking the California coast. They envisioned a new and different kind of university—one that could reinvent public higher education in the United States. Through this oral history of the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, we hear first-person accounts of the campus’s evolution\, from the origins of an audacious dream through the sea changes of five decades. More than two hundred narrators and a trove of archival images contribute to this dynamic\, nuanced account. Today\, UC Santa Cruz is a leading research university with experimental roots. This is the story of what was learned\, what was lost\, and what has grown along the way. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP for Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin HERE. LIVE on Zoom (link and instructions provided upon signup)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Seeds of Something Different:\n“I kept marveling\, ‘So that’s what was happening!’ I could not put it down.”\n—Nikki Silva of NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-3-with-irene-reti-cameron-vanderscoff-and-sarah-rabkin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200312T203248Z
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month: Stegner Fellows Reading + Happy Hour!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Ruby happy hour in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Safia Elfhillo\, Claire Meuschke\, and Taneum Bambrick; all current Stegner fellows at Stanford University. Drinks and bites served at 5:30pm followed by performances! \nAbout the poets: \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Poetry Society of America\, Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, and others. Sok has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland. She is originally from Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press\, 2017)\, which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, and Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021)\, as well as a novel in verse forthcoming in 2021 from Make Me A World/Random House. A co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, Elhillo was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30” and is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nClaire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press\, 2020). From the Bay Area\, she has lived in New York City\, New Mexico\, and Arizona. She is poetry editor for Contra Viento and assistant poetry editor for DIAGRAM. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland. \nTaneum Bambrick is the author of VANTAGE\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in theNew Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\,PENAmerica\, and elsewhere. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nNOTE: This event is co-ed but we ask that all our guests be mindful of the Ruby’s mission to create a safe space that prioritizes the voices of women and nonbinary artists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-reading-happy-hour-tickets-91356199853
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-reading-happy-hour/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200401T224503Z
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month: Stegner Fellows VIRTUAL Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special VIRTUAL Ruby gathering in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Safia Elfhillo\, Claire Meuschke\, and Taneum Bambrick; all current Stegner fellows at Stanford University. \n[This is a Virtual Ruby event\, taking place over Zoom. Join us: https://zoom.us/j/285830870?pwd=VU00MlhjZ3VTQVBLZi9Ta3R2TmVSdz09 Password will be sent with registration. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able!] \nAbout the poets: \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Poetry Society of America\, Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, and others. Sok has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland. She is originally from Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press\, 2017)\, which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, and Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021)\, as well as a novel in verse forthcoming in 2021 from Make Me A World/Random House. A co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, Elhillo was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30” and is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.\n \nClaire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press\, 2020). From the Bay Area\, she has lived in New York City\, New Mexico\, and Arizona. She is poetry editor for Contra Viento and assistant poetry editor for DIAGRAM. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland. \nTaneum Bambrick is the author of VANTAGE\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in theNew Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\,PENAmerica\, and elsewhere. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \n—————– \n*While we shelter in place during the Covid19 pandemic\, The Ruby’s physical location will be closed. As a collective\, we’ll continue to gather online for virtual workshops\, events\, and discussions. All are welcome to join us for these events. * For those who can afford it and would like to support The Ruby during this uncertain time\, we are offering 3 tiers of virtual membership: $5/week\, $15/week\, and $25/week. (Though we have some money in our emergency savings account to get us through the next little while\, we’re pretty nervous about the future\, and how long this might go on for.) Please help only if it’s feasible for you. If you’re in a tough time financially right now\, we absolutely get it. Please\, take care of yourself and stay connected to this community so we can help. \nHere are the tiers of virtual membership (use these links to sign up):\n$5/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/aRsJyABygL4FvvEJT\n$15/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/o56ggrnNNx9rzn6AA\n$25/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/q37HfmWSQMoLzPt4p \nWant to make a one-time donation of more or less? We can still accept donations through last year’s GoFundMe. Link is here. \nOur Virtual Ruby calendar will be updated as events are added. \n  \nImage\, pictured from left to right: Monica Sok (photo credit Andria Lo)\, Taneum Bambrick\, Safia Elhillo (photo credit Aris Theotokatos)\, and Claire Meuschke.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-virtual-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200331T183616Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
DESCRIPTION:Hear from the writers of Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\nas they read briefly from their contribution and engage in conversation about what’s changed\, what hasn’t\, how we weather what we’re facing not only politically but also culturally\, personally\, artistically\, and as communities who affirm our connections to each other. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlicia Garza\nAlicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer\, writer\, public speaker\, and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United… Read More →\n\n \nAya de Leon\nAya de Leon directs the Poetry for the People program\, teaching creative writing at UC Berkeley. Kensington Books publishes her award-winning feminist heist/romance series\, Justice Hustlers: UPTOWN THIEF (2016)\, THE BOSS (2017)\, THE ACCIDENTAL MISTRESS (2018)\, and SIDE CHICK NATION… Read More →\n\n \nChip Livingston\nChip Livingston is the author of the novel\, OWLS DON’T HAVE TO MEAN DEATH; a collection of essays and stories\, NAMING CEREMONY; and two poetry collections\, CROW-BLUE\, CROW-BLACK and MUSEUM OF FALSE STARTS. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, New American… Read More →\n\n \nAchy Obejas\nAchy Obejas is the author of The Tower of the Antilles\, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award\, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe\, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook\, This is What Happened in Our Other Life… Read More →\n\n \nCarolina De Robertis\nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels Cantoras\, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award\, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award\, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Gods of Tango\, winner of… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-letters-of-love-and-dissent-in-dangerous-times/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200131T185633Z
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SUMMARY:Joanne McNeil: Lurking: How a Person Became a User
DESCRIPTION:Joanne McNeil discusses her new book Lurking: How A Person Became a User with Jenny Odell. \nPraise for Lurking \n“The internet isn’t ‘out there’ somewhere; it’s coextensive with the brain of any writer who’d be worth reading on the subject. In Lurking\, Joanne McNeil writes as an internet ‘supertaster\,’ a veteran of more platforms and forums and flame wars and start-ups than most of us could ever imagine. She employs a trees-not-forest style\, immersing herself in the paradoxes\, and reinscribing her body at the scene. By risking a freely figurative language\, she hacks the mystery at its source.”—JONATHAN LETHEM \n“Without a doubt\, Joanne McNeil is the most original writer on technology working today. This poetic\, empathetic\, and incisive history of the internet will resonate deeply with anyone who goes online to listen and learn\, not shout and grandstand. Never cynical or reductive\, McNeil traces the commercialization of the digital world in unexpected and insightful ways\, revealing what has been lost\, what stolen\, and what utopian possibilities may still be recovered. Lurkers may not be inclined to rally around a manifesto\, but this profound and refreshing meditation will certainly do the trick. Lurkers of the world unite\, or at least read this book.”—ASTRA TAYLOR\, author of The People’s Platform \n“We all know what it’s like to spend time online\, but nobody has written about it with more depth and beauty than Joanne McNeil. Lurking makes the connections between internet protocol and human dignity tangible\, whether reflecting on her early days as an avid 90s web user or zooming out for critical insight into today’s tech giants and tomorrow’s possibilities. I learned something new on every page.”—JACE CLAYTON\, author of Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture \nAbout Lurking \nA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. \nIn a shockingly short amount of time\, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we communicate but who we are and who we can be. It has created a new\, unprecedented cultural space that we are all a part of—even if we don’t participate\, that is how we participate—but by which we’re continually surprised\, betrayed\, enriched\, befuddled. We have churned through platforms and technologies and in turn been churned by them. And yet\, the internet is us and always has been. \nIn Lurking\, Joanne McNeil digs deep and identifies the primary (if sometimes contradictory) concerns of people online: searching\, safety\, privacy\, identity\, community\, anonymity\, and visibility. She charts what it is that brought people online and what keeps us here even as the social equations of digital life—what we’re made to trade\, knowingly or otherwise\, for the benefits of the internet—have shifted radically beneath us. It is a story we are accustomed to hearing as tales of entrepreneurs and visionaries and dynamic and powerful corporations\, but there is a more profound\, intimate story that hasn’t yet been told. \nLong one of the most incisive\, ferociously intelligent\, and widely respected cultural critics online\, McNeil here establishes a singular vision of who we are now\, tells the stories of how we became us\, and helps us start to figure out what we do now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-mcneil-lurking-how-a-person-became-a-user/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200215T020843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200215T020843Z
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SUMMARY:Author Event /// Arroz con Pollo and Apple Pie: Raising Bicultural Children
DESCRIPTION:Author Event with Maritere R. Bellas //// Parenting Expert Topic – Bilingualism\, Biculturalism\, Multiculturalism & Award-Winning Author\, Influencer\, Speaker\, Podcast Host\, Features Writer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-event-arroz-con-pollo-and-apple-pie-raising-bicultural-children/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200216T053051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T053051Z
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SUMMARY:Dana Gioia and Phillis Levin
DESCRIPTION:Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent. The first person in his family to attend college\, he received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in Comparative Literature. For fifteen years he worked as a businessman before quitting at forty-one to become a full-time writer. \nGioia has published five full-length collections of verse\, most recently 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016)\, which won the Poets’ Prize as the best new book of the year. His third collection\, Interrogations at Noon (2001)\, was awarded the American Book Award. His controversial book of essays\, Can Poetry Matter? (1992)\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. \nPhillis Levin is a poet\, essayist\, and editor. Her newest book\, Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books\, 2016)\, was selected by Library Journal as one of the Top Picks in poetry for spring 2016 and was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the author of four other poetry collections\, Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press\, 1988)\, The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press\, 1995)\, Mercury (Penguin\, 2001)\, and May Day (Penguin\, 2008)\, and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (2001). \nHer honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award\, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia\, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship\, a Bogliasco Fellowship\, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-gioia-and-phillis-levin/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200407T002518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200407T002518Z
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SUMMARY:Inside Weather: Writing and Art
DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday evening from your room\, where the following writers and artists will Zoom-share work that in some way contemplates the rooms and roomlessness of these times. This is the first in a series of three opportunities to create community and correspondence during these weeks of isolation. The events also partially act as launch readings for Mattraw’s We fell into weather (March\, Cultural Society). Mattraw’s second book explores invisible disabilities and their catalysts– environmental toxins\, illness\, and epigenetics\, among others– while considering what’s outside those rooms. \n11 April\, Saturday\, 7 pm PST \nNancy Au\nAlexandra Mattraw\nTomas Moniz\nDonna de la Perrière\nAdam Thorman \nThe writers and artists will present in a “round” formation instead of the patterns we find in a traditional reading. Each feature will offer approximately three minutes of work and then “pass the mic” to the next feature in a repeated\, circular pattern. \nAdditional events include \n21 April\, Tuesday\, 5:30 pm PST \nGillian Conoley\nTiff Dressen\nAlexandra Mattraw\nJennifer Soong\nMaw Shein Win \n19 May\, eve\, time TBD \nNorman Fischer\nHeather June Gibbons\nAlexandra Mattraw\nRusty Morrison
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-weather-writing-and-art/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200412T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200412T221400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200412T221528Z
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:Live: Sunday\, April 19th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\n\n\n\n\n\nDave Eggers is known for writing wonderful\, gripping stories that tug at the heart. His award-winning body of work consists of several non-fiction\, fiction\, humor\, screenplays\, a series on salon.com\, several essays and articles. As editor and contributor\, he has worked on several works of post-modern literature. Almost all of his works have received significant amount of critical acclaim\, not to mention commercial success. This has helped cement his place in the world of post-modern literature. He has thrown the doors open to bridging the divide between ethnic and religious groups through his fresh and honest works of fiction and non-fiction. \nHe has found more success through his more recent work as a novelist\, screenwriter\, satirist\, album art designer\, and a proponent of grassroots journalism and alternative comics. As a philanthropist\, he is known for helping students get through college vide monetary and after-school help from his nonprofit foundation and its seven chapters. A visionary and a global thought leader\, he is often invited to knowledge forums to deliver keynote addresses and engage eager audiences to fresh forward thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”\n– Dave Eggers \n\n\nRegister now for your invitation to:\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin live conversations with writers and thinkers who value books\, BookPassage\, and independent bookstores as much as you do.\nShape these conversations by helping to prioritize the session topics you most want addressed.\nShare your thoughts before and after each session in an ongoing discussion forum created exclusively for registered participants.\nView the video archive of every session\, wherever and whenever you want.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200410T221750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200410T221750Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lisa Brown and Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Instagram live for a virtual event with Lisa Brown and Andrew Sean Greer discussing Long Story Short! Starting at 5:00pm on the greenapplebooks Instagram. \nAbout Long Story Short \nDoes Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick\, the Bhagavad Gita\, Madame Bovary\, and\, um\, Twilight? \nBestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby\, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries\, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote\, Lord of the Flies\, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved\, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, and Atonement\, conveniently organized by subjects including “Love\,” “Sex\,” “Death\,” and “Female Trouble.” Lisa Brown’s Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called “the canon” into a frolic—or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read. \nAbout Lisa Brown \nLisa Brown draws things like illustrations and comics\, writes things like books and book reviews\, and teaches things to kids and college students. Her debut picture book\, How to Be\, was one of the Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy.  She is a comics contributor at The Rumpus and teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. You can find her online at americanchickens.com or on Twitter: @lisabrowndraws. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lisa-brown-and-andrew-sean-greer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200323T055258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200329T192550Z
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
URL:https://litseen.com/event/escape-from-quarantine-reading-a-weekly-online-thing-4/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200207T232113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T232113Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Molly Fisk\, Fire and Rain at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Molly Fisk\, editor of a new anthology of recent topical poetry by Californian authors titled “Fire and Rain”\, as well as several of the book’s poets. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-molly-fisk-fire-and-rain-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
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SUMMARY:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series / POETRY night with MK Chavez\, Letisia Cruz\, and Wendy-O Matik \nIf you\, like the rest of us\, are feeling isolated with a sudden and vast amount of free time… AND you like authors and stories and amazing women\, please join host Dani Burlison on zoom for a virtual literary series Tuesday nights at 6:30pm PST. \n——- \n+ MK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis\, Dear Animal\, and Virgin Eyes. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Her most recent publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and on the Academy of American Poets website’s Poem-A-Day series. \n+ Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and artist. She is the author of The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books\, 2018). Her chapbook Chonga Nation was selected as a finalist in the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series and the 2016 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest. Her writing and artwork have appeared in [PANK]\, Ninth Letter\, The Acentos Review\, Gulf Stream\, Saw Palm\, Third Coast\, Duende\, Moko Caribbean Arts & Letters\, 300 Days of Sun\, Ink Brick\, and Sakura Review\, among others. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Florida with her partner and their two cats. \n+ Wendy-O Matik is a poet\, writer\, activist\, and the author of Love Like Rage (with manic d press) and Redefining Our Relationships (with Defiant Times Press). Back in the 90s\, you could find her doing spokenword in the Bay Area punk scene and touring with various punk bands in the US\, Canada\, UK\, Australia\, and New Zealand. Wendy has also coauthored nine mindfulness meditation books for New Harbinger Publications and is currently pounding down the virtual doors of publishers to get her feminist-anarchist graphic novel out in the world. Today\, she lives on an organic farm in Santa Rosa\, CA\, where the farm animals outnumber the humans.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-quarantined-room-of-ones-own-virtual-reading-series/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200411T204915Z
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SUMMARY:The Gringa: Andrew Altschul (VIRTUAL EVENT: In Conversation with Darcie Dennigan)
DESCRIPTION:We will be presenting this event virtually\, using Zoom. RSVP here. \nA gripping and subversive novel about the slippery nature of truth and the tragic consequences of American idealism … \nLeonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad\, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression\, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades\, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid\, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. \nTen years later\, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels\, he struggles to understand Leonora\, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants\, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering\, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? \nIn this powerful and timely new novel\, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction\, author and text\, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller\, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice. \nAndrew Altschul is the author of the novels Lady Lazarus and Deus Ex Machina. His work has appeared in Esquire\, McSweeney’s\, Ploughshares\, Best New American Voices\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford\, he now teaches at Colorado State University. \nDarcie Dennigan has published three books of poetry – Corinna a-Maying the Apocalypse\, Madame X\, and The Palace of Subatomic Bliss – one book of performance texts\, The Parking Lot and other feral scenarios\, and a novel\, Slater Orchard. She has won awards from the Poetry Society of America\, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Discovery/The Nation prize. She is the 2019-20 resident playwright at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence\, RI\, and writer in residence at the University of Connecticut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-gringa-andrew-altschul-virtual-event-in-conversation-with-darcie-dennigan/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20191231T203245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191231T203245Z
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui: Why We Swim
DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Tsui discusses her new book\, Why We Swim\, with Caroline Paul. \nPraise for Why We Swim \n “A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. I was enchanted.”–Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n“The only thing better than reading Bonnie Tsui’s writing about swimming is swimming itself—and both are sublime. Why We Swim is an aquatic tour de force\, a captivating story filled with adventure\, meditation\, and celebration.”– Susan Casey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and Voices in the Ocean \n“This is a jewel of a book\, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it.” –James Nestor\, author of Deep: Freediving\, Renegade Science\, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves \n“Magnificent. Only a truly great story can hold my attention and Why We Swim had me nailed to the chair . . . I love this book.” – Christopher McDougall\, bestselling author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes \nAbout Why We Swim \nHumans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it’s an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It’s also one route to that elusive\, ecstatic state of flow. These reasons\, among many others\, make swimming one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bonnie-tsui-why-we-swim/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200204T033110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T033110Z
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SUMMARY:Roshani Chokshi: Aru Shah and the End of Time
DESCRIPTION: Rick Riordan Presents (dedicated to providing entertaining middle grade fiction based on various world mythologies) with Aru Shah and the End of Time\, written by best-selling author Roshani Chokshi. It delves into Hindu mythology and is described as a mix of Riordan’s own Percy Jackson series and the Sailor Moon franchise. It’s an imaginative novel that puts girl power and diverse protagonists front and center. . \n“Have you ever read a book and thought\, Wow\, I wish I’d written that!?” said Riordan in the foreword. “For me\, Aru Shah and the End of Time is one of those books”. “It has everything I like: humor\, action\, great characters\, and\, of course\, awesome mythology!.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoshani will be chatting about Aru Shah and the Tree of Life\, the third book in the Hindu-based\, best-selling Pandava series\, in which Aru and her cohorts\, Mini\, Brynne\, and Aiden—and now a pair of twins—each search the Otherworld for Kalpavriksha\, the wish-granting tree. \nWar between the devas and the demons is imminent\, and the Otherworld is on high alert. Fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends are sent on a mission to rescue two “targets\,” one of whom is about to utter a prophecy that could mean the difference between victory and defeat. Turns out the targets\, a pair of twins\, are the newest Pandava sisters\, though the prophecy says that one sister is not true. When the Pandavas fail to prevent the prophecy from reaching the Sleeper’s ears\, the heavenly attendants ask them to step aside. Aru believes that the only way to put the shine back on their brand is to find the Kalpavriksha\, the wish-granting tree that came out of the Ocean of Milk when it was churned. If she can reach it before the Sleeper\, perhaps he can turn everything around with one wish. Careful what you wish for\, Aru . . . \nRoshani Chokshi is the author of the instant New York Times best-selling books in the Pandava series\, Aru Shah and the End of Time\, and its sequel\, Aru Shah and the Song of Death. She also wrote the New York Times best-selling YA books The Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves. She studied fairy tales in college\, and she has a pet luck dragon that looks suspiciously like a Great Pyrenees dog. The Pandava novels were inspired by the stories her grandmother told her as well as Roshani’s all-consuming love for Sailor Moon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roshani-chokshi-aru-shah-and-the-end-of-time/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200203T225222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T225222Z
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SUMMARY:Aya De León: Side Chick Nation
DESCRIPTION:Aya De León is a writer\, activist\, educator\, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series. The Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People\, she teaches poetry and spoken word at UC Berkeley and is an alumna of Cave Canem\, VONA and Harvard University. She is a winner of the International Latino Book Award and a two time winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards\, and her extensive writing credits include Guernica\, Essence\, Ebony\, The Huffington Post\, VICE\, Ploughshares\, Woman’s Day and Bitch magazine\, among many other websites and publications. De León first came to national attention as a spoken word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and a hip-hop theater artist. Visit her online at ayadeleon.com\, on Twitter @AyadeLeon\, or on Facebook.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aya-de-leon-side-chick-nation/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #3
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition is now weekly. Join us for readings from Thea Matthews\, Lauren Traetto\, and Pamela K. Santos and a community craft talk. \nEther Edition is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #3\nTime: Apr 15\, 2020\, 7:00PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/603664236?pwd=cW9tYldEdU0rb3YvNi9TSFR3alpRQT09 \nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: 061152\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keB99ctCO4
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20191227T024640Z
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SUMMARY:Wendy Liu
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nAbolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism \nfrom Repeater Books \nFormer insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry\, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology’s potential for the public good. \nInnovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What’s not to love about Silicon Valley? \nThese days\, it’s hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica\, Theranos\, and the workplace conditions of Amazon warehouse workers or Uber. We’re starting to see the cracks in the edifice\, as we realise that the wealth that the tech industry is so good at creating is neither sustainable nor always desirable. \nAbolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story about the wasteful inequality and unsubstantiated lies of Silicon Valley\, and a rallying call to engage in the radical politics needed to upend the status quo. Going beyond the idiosyncrasies of the individual founders and companies that characterise the industry today\, Liu delves into the structural factors of the economy that led to Silicon Valley in its current form\, and links them to the economy at large. Ultimately\, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology\, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large\, and not merely to enrich a select few. \n\nWendy Liu is a former startup founder who now writes about the political economy of the tech industry and why tech workers need to unionise.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-liu/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T220000
DTSTAMP:20260404T111545
CREATED:20200411T203328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T203328Z
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk\, the You’re Going to Die team & music from Morgan Bolender…\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nWednesday\, April 15th\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2XsZZKb \nPLEASE NOTE:\nRegistration DOES NOT guarantee a spot on the call!!!\nThere are only 100 call spots & our commitment is to keep it intimate\, so whoever needs to share\, gets to share…\nDo not wait – don’t be late!! \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @Peter-Buskirk\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU IF HE HAS TO! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together… \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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