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SUMMARY:Go Home! A Celebration of a New Anthology of Asian Diasporic Writing
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Press in conjunction with Asian American Writers’ Workshop present \nRowan Hisayo Buchanan and Esmé Weijun Wang celebrating: \nA book Release Party for \nGo Home! \nEdited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan \nForeword by Viet Thanh Nguyen \npublished by The Feminist Press \nAsian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction\, memoir\, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative\, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong. \nGo Home! is published in collaboration with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Established in 1991\, AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating\, publishing\, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans through a New York events series and online editorial initiatives. \nRowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You. She has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was an Asian American Writers’ Workshop fellow\, and her short work has appeared in Grant\, the Guardian\, Guernica\, Apogee\, and the White Review\, among other places. She has received residencies from the Gladstone Library and Hedgebrook. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an essayist\, the author of The Border of Paradise: A Novel\, and the recipient of the 2016 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area\, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has been awarded the Sudler Award\, Hopwood Award for Novel-in-Progress\, and the Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. Her work has appeared in Salon\, Elle\, Catapult\, Hazlitt\, the Beliver\, and Lenny Letter. \nWhat has been said about Go Home! \n“The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories\, poems\, and testaments\, perhaps home is not so much a place\, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people—see us—and feel\, in our collective outsiderhood\, at home.” —Ocean Vuong\, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds \n“There is a whole range of expression in this book\, delving deeply into the manifold experiences of being a perpetual alien. To be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora\, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated\, rarely counted\, hardly seen. Here\, we begin to draw the hopeful outlines of a collective history for those so disparate yet often lumped together.” —Jenny Zhang\, author of Sour Heart \n“Go Home! is a bold\, eclectic chorus that provides an invigorating antidote to the xenophobia of our times.” —Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being \n“This anthology displays the colors of the liminal—half-tones and undertones mixing the wry\, the irreverent\, the outraged\, the lyric\, and the longing. A composite portrait of the Asian diasporic experience today.” —Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre: Poems \n“Hats off to Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for putting together such a rich and diverse anthology. In these dark times\, we need these voices and stories more than ever.” —Jessica Hagedorn\, author of The Dogeaters \n“In this new and daring collection\, I find myself reliving moments of heartbreak that can only come from living in between two cultures—but also feeling profound relief in discovering I am not alone in these private burdens and joys. Go Home! should be celebrated\, as reading it is a homecoming in itself.” —Yumi Sakugawa\, author of There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/go-home-a-celebration-of-a-new-anthology-of-asian-diasporic-writing/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Scarlett Sabet & Janaka Stucky
DESCRIPTION:reading from new works \nScarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. She wrote\, directed and starred in her poetic short film “Burning” which was produced by BAFTA winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her first collection “Rocking Underground” was launched with a reading at the Chelsea Arts Club in November 2014. Her second collection “The Lock And The Key” was launched with a reading at Shakespeare and Company in Paris in July 2016. In October 2016 GQ online released a video of Scarlett performing her poem Feathers at Leighton House to celebrate National Poetry Day. In January 2017 Scarlett was interviewed and gave a reading for the radio program “Van Morrison And Me” hosted by journalist John McCarthy for the BBC World Service\, also featuring Sir Van Morrison\, Brian Keenan and novelist Ian Rankin. In April 2017\, Scarlett was invited by poet and Professor Dr. Dan Chiasson to give a reading at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. In December 2017 Scarlett gave a reading and her poems were exhibited alongside acclaimed photographer Jim Marshall’s work for the Peace and Light exhibition at The Troubadour in London. Scarlett has given poetry readings at the Aspects Literary Festival\, and No Alibi’s bookshop in Belfast\, The Troubadour in London\, the William Morris Gallery\, the World’s End Bookshop\, Burberry\, The Groucho Club\, Atlantis Bookshop. Scarlett has read at KGB\, Bowery Poetry and Berl’s bookshop in New York. Sir Van Morrison commented on Scarlett’s poetry: “”What strikes me about Scarlett’s work it that it’s very cutting edge and it’s making poetry interesting again. I love both the intensity and the spiritual aspect she conveys.” Scarlett is currently working on her third collection of poetry which will be released in Spring 2018. \nJanaka Stucky is an American poet\, performer\, and publisher. The founding editor of Black Ocean\, as well as the annual poetry journal\, Handsome\, he is also the author of a few poetry collections. His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly\, Fence and North American Review\, and his articles have been published by The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in The Boston Phoenix. \nIn 2015 Jack White’s Third Man Records launched a new publishing imprint\, Third Man Books\, and chose Janaka’s full-length poetry collection\, The Truth Is We Are Perfect\, as their inaugural title. Janaka’s poems are at once incantatory\, mystic\, and epigrammatic. His esoteric & occult influences\, combined with a mesmeric approach to performance\, create an almost ecstatic presence on stage. \n“Stucky’s raw works … give a dreamlike power to an antinomian religion of erotic love” \n—Publishers Weekly \n“He pulls from Eastern religious texts\, mysticism\, and the occult\, and casts dirty\, hallucinatory images onto graceful lines about love\, resulting in a collection that is empathetic\, nuanced\, and wild.” \n—The Kenyon Review \n“Stucky’s verse has the power of the best East European poets—some of his poems seem to be perfect\, magnificent\, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful\, cogent\, incisive phrase-maker.” \n—Bill Knott \n“Stucky has catapulted into the firmament of my favorite ecstatic writers alongside Diane di Prima\, Bill Callahan\, Hafiz\, e.e. cummings\, and Larkin Grimm.” \n—Phantasmaphile \n“The yearning in these poems is awash in dense\, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mishandling of promises and breakable bonds.” \n—apt Journal \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scarlett-sabet-janaka-stucky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cheston Knapp and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Cheston Knapp discusses his new essay collection\, Up Up\, Down Down with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for Up Up\, Down Down \n\n“Full of wit and disquiet\, Cheston Knapp’s Up Up\, Down Down is a glittering collection of essays about nostalgia\, skateboarding\, fathers\, waterslides\, and all kinds of community. The path toward whatever we mean by “maturity” is a flowering vine of fruitful discomfort in these pages\, and so much grows from it: acute self-awareness\, intricate curiosity\, tender interrogations. This book made me laugh out loud in embarrassing places—a quiet Swedish train\, a darkened redeye flight—and its insights will keep echoing in me for a long time.” Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n\n“Up\, Up\, Down\, Down is an always smart\, often hilarious\, and ultimately transcendent essay collection\, full of thousand-dollar words and genuine goodness. You think you’re reading about tennis\, low-rent wrestling\, the death of a neighbor\, or the perils of beer pong\, but suddenly you’re pondering the biggest questions: What is kindness? What is self-consciousness? How does articulating an experience change it? It’s an unqualified pleasure to be in Knapp’s company.” Anthony Doerr\, author of All the Light We Cannot See \n“Cheston Knapp’s Up Up\, Down Down has the uncanny\, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white\, masculinist\, Christian\, frat boy\, and so on—appear newly strange\, and newly open to analysis. He has the eye and ear of an anthropologist\, a joyously expansive vocabulary\, a prose style that feels both extravagant and exact\, and a big\, booming heart.” Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nAbout Up Up\, Down Down \n\nDaring and wise\, hilarious and tender\, Cheston Knapp’s exhilarating collection of seven linked essays\, Up Up\, Down Down\, tackles the Big Questions through seemingly unlikely avenues. In his dexterous hands\, an examination of a local professional wrestling promotion becomes a meditation on pain and his relationship with his father. A profile of UFO enthusiasts ends up probing his history in the church and\, more broadly\, the nature and limits of faith itself. Attending an adult skateboarding camp launches him into a virtuosic analysis of nostalgia. And the shocking murder of a neighbor expands into an interrogation of our culture’s prevailing ideas about community and the way we tell the stories of our lives. Even more remarkable\, perhaps\, is the way he manages to find humanity in a damp basement full of frat boys. \nTaken together\, the essays in Up Up\, Down Down amount to a chronicle of Knapp’s coming-of-age\, a young man’s journey into adulthood\, late-onset as it might appear. He presents us with formative experiences from his childhood to marriage that echo throughout the collection\, and ultimately tilts at what may be the Biggest Q of them all: what are the hazards of becoming who you are?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheston-knapp-and-matthew-zapruder/
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:Michael David Lukas: The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
DESCRIPTION:Michael David Lukas reads from The Last Watchman of Old Cairo — the spellbinding new novel from the author of the internationally bestselling\, The Oracle of Stamboul. \n  \nABOUT THE LAST WATCHMAN OF OLD CAIRO \nIn this spellbinding novel\, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. \nJoseph\, a literature student at Berkeley\, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day\, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep\, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations\, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo\, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali\, a Muslim orphan who nearly a thousand years earlier was entrusted as the first watchman of the synagogue and became enchanted by its legendary—perhaps magical—Ezra Scroll. The story of Joseph’s family is entwined with that of the British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret\, who in 1897 depart their hallowed Cambridge halls on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue. \nThe Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces—potent magic\, forbidden love—that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. \nAdvance praise for The Last Watchman of Old Cairo \n“A beautiful\, richly textured novel\, ambitious and delicately crafted\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is both a coming-of-age story and a family history\, a wide-ranging book about fathers and sons\, religion\, magic\, love\, and the essence of storytelling. This book is a joy.”—Rabih Alameddine\, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman \n“Michael David Lukas has given us an elegiac novel of Cairo—Old Cairo and modern Cairo—with a bit of Berkeley thrown in. His prose is deeply evocative\, and a sense of mystery and profound tristesse pervade this unusual narrative\, which tells the story of a young California man on a quest to understand a puzzling gift left for him by his late father\, the descendant of generations of watchmen at the venerable Ben Ezra synagogue in the depths of Old Cairo. The novel is enhanced by Lukas’ impressive historical research on the Geniza and the colorful characters involved in rescuing its treasure trove of documents. But his greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful\, haunted\, shabby\, beleaguered\, yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”—Lucette Lagnado\, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant Years \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He works in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas-the-last-watchman-of-old-cairo/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Terry Patten / A New Republic of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host an evening with Terry Patten\, who will read from and discuss his new book A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Join us! \nIn the midst of today’s many global crises\, many of us recognize the need for change\, both in ourselves and in our social and political institutions\, in order to build a truly sustainable future. In A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries\, Terry Patten sheds new light on this issue\, providing a practical approach to “being the change” that the world needs now more than ever. \nIn the most convincing terms\, Patten illustrates how inner and outer transformation are entirely interdependent. In fact\, the future of our very life-support system are utterly dependent on the quality\, intelligence\, tenderness\, and courage that each of us can cultivate in ourselves. The book lays out the difficult\, necessary\, creative\, and ultimately rewarding work we must each engage in to meaningfully address our most “wicked” problems. \nPatten shows how we can come together in our communities for “conversations that matter.” And he describes new communities\, enterprises\, and forms of dialogue that have already created miracles that can be replicated on larger scales. The “new republic of the heart” is already coming into being\, invisibly and quietly. More of us need to learn to animate our best qualities so that we can transform ourselves\, our societies\, and the planet. A New Republic of the Heart shows us how. \n— \nTerry Patten is a philosopher\, activist\, consultant\, coach\, teacher\, social entrepreneur\, and author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness by facing\, examining\, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. As an author\, he co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute. As a teacher he is the founder of the “Beyond Awakening” teleseminar series and Bay Area Integral. As a social entrepreneur\, he founded the pioneering consciousness technology company Tools For Exploration\, and is now involved in restorative redwood forestry and fossil-fuel alternatives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-patten-a-new-republic-of-the-heart/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Afternoon Series Welcomes Brynn Saito on "Intimate Ecologies: Crisis\, Community\, and the Poem"
DESCRIPTION:Intimate Ecologies: Crisis\, Community\, and the Poem  \nThis talk will inquire into the limits\, complexities\, and possibilities of community-based poetry and poetics in this moment of social and economic precarity. Drawing on recent work with the Yonsei Memory Project—an arts-based initiative surfacing connections between the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and current civil liberties debates—we’ll explore a number of threads\, questions: What is the role of poem-making and poem-speaking in maintaining communal memory? What are the implications of considering the poet as diagnoser\, preserver\, creator\, or disrupter within a particular collective? Considering “community” as one form of public intimacy/assembly\, we’ll ask: can the poem\, too\, enact a coalitional space and way of loving? We’ll move through a variety of fields (zen buddhism; critical theory) and conjure writings by Judy Grahn\, June Jordan\, Gloria Anzaldúa and others in order to trace these lines of inquiry. \n\nBrynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and a California State Library Civil Liberties grant. Saito is the 2018 Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry in the MFA in Creative Writing program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-afternoon-series-welcomes-brynn-saito-on-intimate-ecologies-crisis-community-and-the-poem/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Winter
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Clement street on Wednesday\, March 21st at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome poet Kathleen Winter who will read from her latest collection I will not kick my friends. \n\nKathleen Winter was born in McAllen\, Texas. Her poems have appeared in AGNI\, The New Republic\, Field\, The Cincinnati Review and other journals. Her awards include fellowships from Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia G. Piper Center\, and the Prague Summer Program. She is a graduate of the University of Texas\, Austin; Boston College; the University of California\, Davis\, School of Law; and Arizona State University. Winter lives with her husband in Sonoma County\, California\, and teaches writing at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathleen-winter/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass / David Koehn
DESCRIPTION:Omnidawn Press presents \nDavid Koehn \ncelebrating the release of \nCompendium: Donald Justice’s Prosody Syllabus  \nEdited by David Koehn & Alan Soldofsky \npublished by Omnidawn Books \nRichard Haas \nreading from \nA Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry \nby Richard Haas \npublished by ECCO Press \nAbout Compendium: \nAs prosody is the very medium of the poet’s domain\, Donald Justice saw prosody as a set of nomenclatures for the poet composers to use in making their music. The collage process Justice employed to present his instructional materials possesses a composer’s quality\, the structure of which possesses a unique beauty. His insights serve as a sort of de facto taxonomy\, an organically designed system that he uses to present his lecture on each respective aspect of the evolution of poetic form. There is no formal thesis here\, but rather a kind of scrapbook that has a broader motive. The material possesses no hidden secrets; the treasures lie in plain sight and simply need be discerned to open the artist’s mind to their possibilities. \nDavid Koehn has taught at the University of Florida\, Eastern Oregon State College\, Blue Mountain Community College\, the University of Alaska\, and San Francisco State University. He has published several books of poetry\, Coil (a chapbook of poems)\, Tunic (a letterpress chapbook of translations of Catullus) and Twine (a full length collection of poems). David also edited Compendium about Donald Justice’s thoughts on prosody. His next full-length book of poems\, Scatterplot\, is due for release in 2020. \nAbout A Little Book on Form: \n\nAn acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass. \nRobert Hass—former poet laureate\, winner of the National Book Award\, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize—illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this sophisticated\, graceful\, and accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \nA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic and reflects his profound education in the art of poetry. Starting with the exploration of a single line as the basic gesture of a poem\, and moving into an examination of the essential expressive gestures that exist inside forms\, Hass goes beyond approaching form as a set of traditional rules that precede composition\, and instead offers penetrating insight into the true openness and instinctiveness of formal creation. \nA Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our longest lasting mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-david-koehn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Poetry! Boom!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 6:30PM and poetry starts at 7PM-10PM. \nEveryone is welcome! Helen Hyojoo Kang as always will be MC’ing for the evening\, so come prepared with a poem or two\, and if you’re shy to get up on the stage\, your listening ears is all we need.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-poetry-boom/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Sarvas and Marie Mockett
DESCRIPTION:Mark Sarvas discusses his new novel\, Memento Park\, with Marie Mockett. \n\nPraise for Memento Park \n\n“Mark Sarvas has written a gripping mystery novel about art that is also a powerful meditation on fathers and sons\, and the need to face up to the falsehoods spawned by the horror of the past.”–Salman Rushdie \n\n“What does the next generation carry forward\, and why is it so compelling? In his powerful novel MEMENTO PARK\, Mark Sarvas explores the essential questions of history and its burdens and legacies. The gifted novelist Sarvas takes you by the hand and tells you the important story you need to hear.” – Min Jin Lee\, National Book Award finalist author of Pachinko \n\n“A thrilling\, ceaselessly intelligent investigation into the crime known as history.”  – Joseph O’Neill\, author of Netherland and The Dog \n\nAbout Memento Park \n\nAfter receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate\, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting\, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father\, uncover his family history\, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. Along the way to illuminating the mysteries of his past\, Matt is torn between his girlfriend Tracy and his attorney Rachel\, with whom he travels to Budapest to unearth the truth about the painting and\, in turn\, his family. \n  \nAs his journey progresses\, Matt’s revelations are accompanied by equally consuming and imaginative meditations on the painting and the painter at the center of his personal drama\, Budapest Street Scene by Ervin Kálmán. By the time Memento Park reaches its conclusion\, Matt’s narrative is as much about family history and father-son dynamics as it is about the nature of art itself\, and the infinite ways we come to understand ourselves through it. \n  \nOf all the questions asked by Mark Sarvas’s Memento Park―about family and identity\, about art and history―a central\, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-sarvas-and-marie-mockett/
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:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students\, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary’s College.\nAll readings are free and open to the public. \nSecond Year MFA Students Reading their Work: \nYiwei Li (Creative Nonfiction)\, Briana Swain (Poetry)\, William Montes (Poetry)\, Laura Zink (Fiction) \n  \nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graduate-student-reading-series/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:LEGACY OF POETRY SLAM: FINALS
DESCRIPTION:The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the United States and in California by writers born outside the United States or who are the children or grandchildren of immigrant families facilitates cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication and understanding. \nOur 8 finalists will perform their poem in front of a great audience and judges at the SJSU Student Union Auditorium. So\, come out and support these amazing poets who will pour out a myriad of words in form of poems around our theme: migration and diaspora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-slam-finals/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Poets and Writers Coalition":MAILTO:legacyofpoetry@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Poetry Slam: Finals
DESCRIPTION:The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the United States and in California by writers born outside the United States or who are the children or grandchildren of immigrant families facilitates cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication and understanding. \nOur 8 finalists will perform their poem in front of a great audience\, judges and emcee Mighty Mike McGee\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. So\, come out and support these amazing poets who will pour out a myriad of words in form of poems around our theme: migration and diaspora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-slam-finals-2/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Poets and Writers Coalition":MAILTO:legacyofpoetry@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Matthew Dickman and Emily Strelow
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Dickman celebrates the release of a new poetry collection \nWonderland \nfrom W.W. Norton \nEmily Strelow celebrates the release of her new novel \nThe Wild Birds \nfrom Rare Bird Lit \nabout Wonderland \nLuminous and hypnotic\, this dynamic collection explores the dark edges of childhood\, violence\, race\, class\, and masculinity\, by one of the most fearless poets of his generation. \n“Known for poems of universality of feeling\, expressive lyricism of reflection\, and heartrending allure” (Major Jackson)\, award-winning poet Matthew Dickman returns with a collection that engages the traces of his own living past\, suffusing these poems with ghosts of longing\, shame\, and vulnerability. In the southeast Portland neighborhood of Dickman’s youth\, parents are out of control and children are in chaos. With grief\, anger\, and\, ultimately\, understanding\, Dickman confronts a childhood of ambient violence\, well-intentioned but warped family relations\, confining definitions of identity\, and the deprivation of this particular Portland neighborhood in the 1980s. Wonderland reminds us that\, while these neighborhoods are filled with guns\, skateboards\, fights\, booze\, and heroin\, and home to punk rockers\, skinheads\, poor kids\, and single moms\, they are also places of innocence and love. \nLuminous and hypnotic\, this dynamic collection explores the dark edges of childhood\, violence\, race\, class\, and masculinity\, by one of the most fearless poets of his generation. \n“Known for poems of universality of feeling\, expressive lyricism of reflection\, and heartrending allure” (Major Jackson)\, award-winning poet Matthew Dickman returns with a collection that engages the traces of his own living past\, suffusing these poems with ghosts of longing\, shame\, and vulnerability. In the southeast Portland neighborhood of Dickman’s youth\, parents are out of control and children are in chaos. With grief\, anger\, and\, ultimately\, understanding\, Dickman confronts a childhood of ambient violence\, well-intentioned but warped family relations\, confining definitions of identity\, and the deprivation of this particular Portland neighborhood in the 1980s. Wonderland reminds us that\, while these neighborhoods are filled with guns\, skateboards\, fights\, booze\, and heroin\, and home to punk rockers\, skinheads\, poor kids\, and single moms\, they are also places of innocence and love. \nabout The Wild Birds \nCast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother\, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper’s assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world unkind to young women. In 1941\, nomad Victor scours the Sierras searching for refuge from a home to which he never belonged. And in the present day\, precocious fifteen year-old Lily struggles\, despite her willfulness\, to find a place for herself amongst the small town attitudes of Burning Hills\, Oregon. Living alone with her hardscrabble mother Alice compounds the problem―though their unique relationship to the natural world ties them together\, Alice keeps an awful secret from her daughter\, one that threatens to ignite the tension growing between them. \nEmily Strelow’s mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an American mosaic alive with birdsong and gunsmoke\, held together by a silver box of eggshells―a long-ago gift from a mother to her daughter. Written with grace\, grit\, and an acute knowledge of how the past insists upon itself\, The Wild Birds is a radiant and human story about the shelters we find and make along our crooked paths home. \nMatthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press\, 2008)\, 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman\, Copper Canyon Press\, 2012)\, Mayakovsky’s Revolver (W.W. Norton & Co\, 2012)\, Wish You Were Here (Spork Press\, 2013)\, 24 HOURS (One Star Press\, Paris\, France\, 2014)\, Brother (Faber&Faber UK\, 2016)\, and the forthcoming poetry collection Wonderland (W.W. Norton & Co\, 2018) He is the recipient of The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College\, and a 2015 Guggenheim. His poems have appeared in Poetry London\, McSweeny’s\, The London Review of Books\, Esquire Magazine\, Best American Poetry and The New Yorker among others. \nEmily Strelow was born and raised in Oregon’s Willamette Valley but has lived all over the West and now\, the Midwest. For the last decade she combined teaching writing with doing seasonal avian field biology with her husband. While doing field jobs she camped and wrote in remote areas in the desert\, mountains and by the ocean. She is a mother to two boys\, a naturalist\, and writer. The Wild Birds is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-dickman-and-emily-strelow/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Symptoms
DESCRIPTION:Teadings from Pola Oloixarac (Savage Theories)\, Raina Leon (Profeta Without Refuge)\, Anne-christine d’Adesky (The Pox Lover)\, Eryk Salvaggio (Antlers)\, and Faruk Ates.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-symptoms/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kirstin Chen / Bury What We Cannot Take
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host Kirstin Chen as she launches her new novel Bury What We Cannot Take. Join us! \nOne summer day in 1957\, nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother\, Ah Liam\, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed portrait of Chairman Mao. To prove his loyalty to the Party\, Ah Liam reports his grandmother to the authorities. But his belief in doing the right thing sets in motion a terrible chain of events. Now the family must flee their home on Drum Wave Islet\, which sits just a few hundred meters across the channel from mainland China. But when their mother goes to procure visas for safe passage to Hong Kong\, the government will only issue them on the condition that she leave behind one of her children as proof of the family’s intention to return. San San’s family must grapple with their agonizing decision\, its far-reaching consequences\, and their hope for redemption. \n— \n“This beautifully plotted\, suspenseful\, and deeply compassionate novel shows Kirstin Chen\, whose work I’ve long admired\, at her absolute finest. Bury What We Cannot Take is a vital book.”—Laura van den Berg\, author of Find Me \n“San San’s family flee Drum Wave Islet\, leaving her behind. An epic story follows that explores gender roles\, oppressive ideologies\, sacrifice\, and what it means to be free\, all through the microcosm of one family. This is a book set in the past\, on the other side of the world\, that is more than relevant in today’s America. Chen delivers a page turner that holds a historical mirror up to our fuzzy\, complicit world.”—Matthew Salessas\, author of The Hundred Year Flood \n— \nKirstin Chen is the author of the novels Bury What We Cannot Take\, forthcoming from Little A in 2018\, and Soy Sauce for Beginners\, a Kindle First selection\, an O\, The Oprah Magazine “book to pick up now\,” and a Glamour book club pick. She has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She is the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore.\n— \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Bury What We Cannot Take\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirstin-chen-bury-what-we-cannot-take/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael David Lukas
DESCRIPTION:reads from his new novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. \n“A beautiful\, richly textured novel\, ambitious and delicately crafted.”– Rabih Alameddine \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 22\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this spellbinding novel\, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. \nJoseph\, a literature student at Berkeley\, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day\, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep\, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations\, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo\, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali\, a Muslim orphan who nearly a thousand years earlier was entrusted as the first watchman of the synagogue and became enchanted by its legendary–perhaps magical–Ezra Scroll. The story of Joseph’s family is entwined with that of the British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret\, who in 1897 depart their hallowed Cambridge halls on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue. \nThe Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces–potent magic\, forbidden love–that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He works in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Two Languages / One Community w/ Poets Chun Yu and Michael Warr
DESCRIPTION:Over the course of three workshops\, participants will be guided by the authors through structured exercises\, individually\, and in small groups\, with the goal of supporting participants as they chronicle their experiences through creative storytelling. Participants will write an original short poem or memory\, which will be translated into English and Chinese\, published\, and shared at a public culminating event at OACC in May. The workshops will be conducted at OACC on Fridays 2/23\, 3/23\, and 4/13 from 1-2p\, with optional time from 2-3p for participants to continue writing or working together. Workshops are limited to ten participants who can commit to attending the entire series\, and who would ideally be willing to share their work both verbally at a culminating event at OACC in May 2018\, and in print. \nThe poem “Black Star” based on the photograph of Michael Warr’s mother\, Gaynell Warr\, has been translated into Mandarin by Chun Yu. \nSign-up online at https://tinyurl.com/2Lang1Community or call 510-637-0455. Registration deadline noon on Wed. 2/21/18.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-languages-one-community-w-poets-chun-yu-and-michael-warr/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gearbox Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an afternoon of poetry!\nWe meet the fourth Saturday every month. \nGearbox Poetry\nSaturday\, March 24\, 2018\nat Gearbox Gallery\n770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland. \nPoetry Feature: Clive Matson. Clive began his career as a poet among the Beats in 1960s Greenwich Village. He was mentored and influenced by Allen Ginsberg\, John Wieners\,\nDiane di Prima and Herbert Huncke. He is the author of 9 volumes of poetry and the creative writing text “Let The Crazy Child Write!” and has been a creative writing teacher for 30 years. He frequently performs his works in Bay Area reading venues and will perform excerpts from his newest poem\, “Hello Paradise\, Paradise Good-bye”. The long poem was premiered last year in Paris\, France\, the city of Climate Accord\, and treats the topic of modern day threats of extinction and civil unrest. Clive is the recipient of the Berkeley Lifetime Achievement in Poetry Award in 2012\, was named the Best East Bay Writing Teacher in 2006 and received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Award in 2003. To learn more\, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Matson and http://matsonpoet.com/ \nPlease join us for Clive’s reading\, along with an open mic. \nThe poetry reading is from 2 – 4 pm\, with open mic sign-up starting at 1:30.\nHosted by David Zeltzer\, dzeltzer@acm.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gearbox-poetry/
LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 nW. Grand\, Oakland
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Zeltzer":MAILTO:dzeltzer@acm.org
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SUMMARY:National Geographic and the White Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an artists’ talk and book party with Michelle Dizon and Viet Le in conversation with Laura Fantone and Targol Mesbah. In conjunction with the exhibition WHITE GAZE\, these artists and scholars will be talking about the role of photography-and specifically the images of National Geographic-in reinforcing racist hierarchies in the cultural imaginary of the West. \nWHITE GAZE\, an exhibition of works by Michelle Dizon with the poetry of Viet Le. deconstructs an archive of National Geographic magazines to explore the visual and narrative structure of the publications’s White Gaze\, the Western-centric bias that informed its editorial decision-making for decades. Drawing from her archive of magazines\, Dizon uses poetic subtraction\, the erasure of most of the text on the page\, to give us back the original language in fragments or threads that together write a decolonial counterpoint to the Western-centric focus of the pictures. \nIn April National Geographic will publish an issue that explicitly embarks on a reckoning with its past and its complicity in reinforcing the racism of the white American narrative through a photographic language. Join us to talk about this history and explore the implications of the magazine’s decision. \nWhite Gaze has also been published as a book by Bay Area-based Sming Sming Books\, Chicago-based Candor Arts\, and Los Angeles-based at lands edge\, and includes text by Viet Le\, who uses Dizon’s work as a starting point for a poetic exploration of the legacies of war and empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-geographic-and-the-white-gaze/
LOCATION:DESAI | MATTA GALLERY\, CIIS Main Building\, 1453 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="The Arts at CIIS":MAILTO:arts@ciis.edu
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SUMMARY:The Racket #17 : Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:We’re seven months from Halloween\, but what the hell\, let’s talk about GHOSTS. The ones that haunt mansions\, the ones that haunt our pasts\, the ones that linger just behind our shadows.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-17-ghosts/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes award winning author Luis Alberto Urrea for a book discussion and signing of The House of Broken Angels. \nIn his final days\, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz\, known affectionately as Big Angel\, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches\, his mother\, nearly one hundred\, dies herself\, leading to a farewell doubleheader. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood\, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti\, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother\, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore\, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.The story of the De La Cruzes is the American story. This indelible portrait of a complex family reminds us of what it means to be the first generation and to live two lives across one border. Teeming with brilliance and humor\, authentic at every turn\, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best\, and it cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. \n“[Urrea]’s most personal book… One of the most vivid and engrossing family epics in the last twenty years.” —Dave Eggers \n“In one of the spring’s must-read fiction titles\, Luis Alberto Urrea tells a layered\, complex\, galvanizingly authentic story of the Mexican-American immigrant experience and what it means to live two lives across one border.” —Entertainment Weekly \nIn 2017\, Luis Alberto Urrea received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature\, the latest prestigious honor in a long and distinguished career\, one full of accolades. His books\, which have frequently been listed as among the best of the year by numerous publications\, have also been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize (The Devil’s Highway) and the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Water Museum); winners of an American Book Award (Nobody’s Son)\, the Lannan Literary Award (The Devil’s Highway again)\, and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize (The Hummingbird’s Daughter); and a Big Read selection by the National Endowment for the Arts (Into the Beautiful North). \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Open seating. Seats are generally set up one hour prior to the event’s start time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #17
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-17/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T053153Z
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Michael Nava
DESCRIPTION:Michael Nava reads from and discusses his fiction work. His latest book is Street People: A Novella (Korima Press\, 2017). “Nava writes an excellent mystery featuring crisp dialogue\, diabolical suspense and a subtle wit\, but it’s his unflinching look at what it’s like to be an openly gay man today that makes this series special.” — Booklist. Free.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Room 211\n\n\nDirections: View on Google Maps\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Rios novels won six Lambda Literary awards and Nava was dubbed “one of our best” by The New York Times. In 2001 he won the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants\, he divides his time between San Francisco and Palm Springs. Nava has also had a distinguished legal career\, having earned his law degree from Stanford University. He retired from the law in July 2016. \n\nThe Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public this spring. Taught by Dodie Bellamy\, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-michael-nava/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fady Joudah
DESCRIPTION:Fady Joudah’s fourth poetry collection is Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. His poetry and translations have earned him numerous national and international prizes\, the Yale Series\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Griffin Poetry prize among others. He is a practicing physician of internal medicine in Houston\, Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fady-joudah/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katherine Applegate
DESCRIPTION:Meet beloved author Katherine Applegate  and fall in love with Wishtree\, a heartwarming story that reveals the powers of love\, healing\, and community \n\n\n\n\n\nRed is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood “wishtree”―people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red’s hollows\, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all.  Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming\, and Red’s experience as a wishtree is more important than ever. \nFunny\, deep\, warm\, and nuanced\, this is Katherine Applegate at her very best―writing from the heart and from a completely unexpected point of view. \nKatherine Applegate is the Newbery Medal–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous books for young readers\, including The One and Only Ivan\, Crenshaw\, Wishtree\, and the Animorphs series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-applegate/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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CREATED:20180129T115634Z
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SUMMARY:Songs of Dismantling: Standing as Witness in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Poets Randall Mann and  Fernando Pérez \nread poetry and discuss the poetic experience as a method of cultural healing \nmoderated by Ingrid Rojas Contreras \nA night of reading and discussion where “Standing as witness” is the over-riding theme. An exploration of the demonization and marginalization of the “other” in the U.S. What do we need to admit to ourselves to move beyond injustice and totalitarian impulses. What memes could be useful to us in spreading a message of inclusion. Poetry is explored as a vehicle to transform culture. \nFernando Pérez celebrates the release of a new book of poetry \nA Song of Dismantling: Poems \npublished by University of New Mexico Press \nIn this dynamic debut collection\, Fernando Pérez employs lyric and nonce forms to interrogate identity politics and piece together a complex family history. The book embodies fragmentation in form and story\, exploring how migration affects relationships between people of different generations. Pérez invites readers on the journey as his family story unfolds over time and distance. \nRandal Mann’s most current collection is titled: \nProprietary \npublished by Persea Press \nProprietary and critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. For years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. \nFernando Pérez teaches at Bellevue College. His poems have been widely published in literary journals\, including Crab Orchard Review\, Más Tequila Review\, Exquisite Corpse\, and Hinchas de Poesia. \nRandall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004)\, which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009)\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013)\, also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017). He is co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). Mann received the 2013 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry. His most recent book is Proprietary: Poems\,  published by Persea Press. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/songs-of-dismantling-standing-as-witness-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning / Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog?
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning for a reading and live music in celebration of their new book\, Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog?. Join us! \nA very true love story\, told in counterpoint\, about friendship\, politics and rock n roll. \nIn Barbara Browning’s eyes\, Imre Lodbrog is the greatest aging French rock star you’ve never heard of\, with the appeal of “Leonard Cohen\, Bob Dylan or Serge Gainsbourg on shrooms.” For Imre Lodbrog\, music is an alter-ego experience―a late-in-life outlet for a mild-mannered screenwriter deeply shaped by the generation of May ‘68. Both ask the same questions: What revolution has wreaked more havoc and beauty than rock ‘n’ roll? And why do a certain few geniuses inside every revolution go silent and unrecognized? \n— \nSébastien Régnier is an award-winning screenwriter from France (Kabloonak\, Martha Martha). \nBarbara Browning has published three novels\, including The Gift (or\, Techniques of the Body) – a New York Times Editor’s Choice – as well as I’m Trying to Reach You and The Correspondence Artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sebastien-regnier-and-barbara-browning-who-the-hell-is-imre-lodbrog/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 22 – Friday\, April 20\, 2018\, with award-winning Oakland author Nayomi Munaweera\,  local novelist Yang Huang\, East Bay writer Stevan Cavalier and the debut of local musical group Postcapitalism. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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