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SUMMARY:#we : queer perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the eighth installment of #we\, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two writers\, musicians\, or performers from various segments of the queer spectrum\, who each give a talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness\, along with a reading or performance of their creative work. \nFor our eighth event\, poet Shilpa Kamat will speak on “Walking Between Worlds” and will read some relevant verse; and stand-up comic and biologist Nina Maryn will present a piece titled “Fuck it\, it’s 2020: Navigating the Gender Landscape of the 21st Century”\, mixing comedy with her discussion. \nNote that #we has a new home through 2020 at ProArts Gallery in downtown Oakland. We try to start promptly at 7 pm. Q&A and chat time will follow. \nAbsolutely all are welcome to this sharing of perspectives. The venue is wheelchair accessible\, and ASL translation for the deaf is available on request\, with a two-week notice preferred. \n  \n#we: queer perspectives\na talk and performance series \nfeaturing\nShilpa Kamat\nand Nina Maryn \nHosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nShilpa Kamat is a writer\, educator\, and healing arts practitioner with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She was a finalist for the 2018 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize\, and her chapbook\, Saraswati Takes Back the Alphabet\, was published by Newfound in 2019. Her writing is informed by ecology\, global mythologies\, and her diverse/intersecting identities; centralizes in-between and underrepresented experiences; and has an orientation towards healing and connectivity. \nNina Maryn is a queer stand-up comic\, storyteller\, and UC Berkeley PhD student from New York City. Her stand-up mostly comprises loving anecdotes highlighting the contradictions and irony of cosmopolitan liberalism. She’s performed at the Broadway Comedy Club in NYC\, and White Horse Inn and Welcome to Queer Mountain since moving to the Bay Area. She’ll be telling the story of moving from New York to Berkeley and navigating the differences in dating cultures on the East and West Coast\, being queer and single in your 20s in the 2020s\, and following with a discussion on how we define sexual orientation in an era when we’re renegotiating gender identity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-queer-perspectives/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Adrienne Miller: In the Land of Men
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nAdrienne Miller discusses her new memoir\, In the Land of Men\, with Dave Eggers. \nPraise for In the Land of Men \n“Adrienne Miller did not merely find herself in the midst of a bright\, innovative\, challenging\, unforgettable moment in literary culture: she made it happen. It was easy to miss that then\, given all the attention paid to the brilliant writers\, mostly men\, that she discovered\, nurtured\, and endured. But now\, with ferocious humor and honesty she conjures once more that Narnia-like world of books before blogs\, magazines before the internet—capturing all its giddy verve\, and all its frank injustices with her own unmatchable taste and wit at the dead center\, where it always belonged.”— John Hodgman\, author of Medallion Status \n“In The Land of Men is about being the only woman in the room. But\, beyond that\, it’s about the magic of rooms themselves. It’s a revisiting of life before the age of ubiquitous screens\, when we shared physical space—sometimes uncomfortably and sometimes ecstatically—with our heroes and our nemeses alike. I was thrilled to make the trip.”— Meghan Daum\, author of The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars\n“Adrienne Miller’s voice is lucid and remorseful\, and she’s brought us a beautiful\, painful book\, a tender dissection of elusive subjects up to and including the passage of time and youth itself.”— Jonathan Lethem \n“An incredible guide to a ridiculous era and its outrages. Many will praise Miller’s ability to bring a time and place to life\, but I would also like to add that this book is very\, very funny.”— Gary Shteyngart\, author of Lake Success \nAbout In the Land of Men \nA fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties\, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire\, and Miller’s personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace \nA naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest\, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis\, powerful male egos\, and unquestioned authority of kings—GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man’s world. Three years later\, she forged her own path\, becoming the first woman to take on the role of literary editor of Esquire\, home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself— Hemingway\, Mailer\, and Carver. Up against this old world\, she would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a “mere girl.” \nBut this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement\, as exemplified by McSweeney’s and the work of David Foster Wallace. A decade older than Miller\, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her closest friend\, confidant—and antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still finding her voice. \nThis memoir—a rich\, dazzling story of power\, ambition\, and identity—ultimately asks the question “How does a young woman fit into this male culture and at what cost?” With great wit and deep intelligence\, Miller presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young woman’s education in a land of men.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adrienne-miller-in-the-land-of-men/
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 Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:It’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business. First up: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon in conversation\, including a Q&A. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Plus the memoir A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life. \nMichael Chabon is the author of several novels\, including Moonglow\, Telegraph Ave.\, the Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. \nBoth Chabon and Waldman wrote for the recent TV series\, Star Trek: Picard. \nThe beneficiary \nPegasus Books has been delivering books and dreams to the Berkeley area since 1969\, and they’re a vital part of our book-loving community. They have an amazing selection of new and used books and a warm\, friendly atmosphere\, complete with adorable cats. They give dog treats to dogs\, and stickers to kids\, and they have some of the most fun events in the city\, and we’d be lost without them. \nEvery penny you spend on tickets to this event goes directly to Pegasus Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-and-ayelet-waldman-in-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online MoAD Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic at MoAD is going virtual! Use this link to participate in the Open Mic online. You can sign up below to read\, or just be part of the audience.\nOPEN MIC THIRD THURSDAYS continue. Because we were going to still be installing our new shows this month on the Third Thursday we decided to host Open Mic on the FOURTH THURSDAY this month! Even though we will be having the event online\, we will still hold it on March 26\, 2020 from 6-8pm. Here are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nURL: https://zoom.us/j/543019969?pwd=L2xNZ3JlTWdITXduVTJTK29ZamRkdz09\nThe Meeting ID is: 543 019 969\nPassword: 020976 \nDial-in number for folks without smartphones who only want to listen\, not video conference: 669 900 9128 \nYou do not need an account to participate in a Zoom session. Simply click on the link and follow the easy directions. For the best experience\, download the Zoom app to your phone\, laptop or tablet. It’s quick and easy. However\, you may participate from your browser without downloading the app\, but with limited functionality. Depending on the age of your computer\, you may need a speaker and microphone to hear and speak. On a smartphone\, just put the meeting on speaker or use ear/headphones for enhanced audio. Here’s a 53-second YouTube video explaining how to join a meeting: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-A-Meeting- \nHosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. \nSign up to read here: https://www.moadsf.org/event/moad-open-mic-3/?instance_id=15641 \nOur featured artist this month: \nTONGO EISEN-MARTIN \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-moad-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Geometry of Shadows: Stefania Heim on Giorgio de Chirico
DESCRIPTION:Poet and translator Stefania Heim joins Olivia Sears to talk about Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian poetry\, visual and verbal juxtapositions\, and interlingual negotiations. \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nGiorgio de Chirico\n\n\nGiorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was born in Greece to Italian parents. A gifted and prolific painter\, de Chirico is considered the founder of the metaphysical school of art and a significant influence on the surrealists. Over the course of his long career\, he was involved with many of the twentieth century’s major art-world figures: he designed costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and set productions for Luigi Pirandello; he was photographed by Irving Penn. De Chirico was also a prolific writer. His French writing has been translated by John Ashbery\, Louise Bourgeois\, and others. Geometry of Shadows compiles for the first time in translation the entirety of de Chirico’s Italian poems.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nStefania Heim\n\n\nStefania Heim is a poet\, scholar\, translator\, editor\, and educator. She is author of the poetry collections HOUR BOOK\, chosen by Jennifer Moxley as winner of the Sawtooth Prize and published in 2019 by Ahsahta Books and A Table That Goes On for Miles (Switchback Books\, 2014). Geometry of Shadows\, her book of translations of metaphysical artist Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian poems\, was published in October 2019 by A Public Space Books. Stefania is the recipient of a 2019 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work on Giorgio de Chirico.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nOlivia E. Sears\n\n\nOlivia E. Sears is the founder of the Center for the Art of Translation and served as editor of Two Lines for twelve years. She is a translator from Italian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geometry-of-shadows-stefania-heim-on-giorgio-de-chirico/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Glück
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the new edition of \nMargery Kempe \nby Robert Glück\, introduction by Colm Toibin \npublished by New York Review Books \nFirst published in 1994\, Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative\, poignant\, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One\, based on the first autobiography in English\, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe\, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia\, a visionary\, a troublemaker\, a pilgrim to the Holy Land\, and an aspiring saint\, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author’s own love for an alluring and elusive young American\, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe\, the novel\, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire\, devotion\, abjection\, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Glück’s masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. \nRobert Glück is a poet\, fiction writer\, critic\, and editor. With Bruce Boone\, he founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. His poetry collections include Reader and\, with Boone\, La Fontaine. His fiction includes the story collection Denny Smith\, and the novel Jack the Modernist. Glück edited\, with Camille Roy\, Mary Berger\, and Gail Scott\, the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative\, and his collected essays\, Communal Nude\, appeared in 2016. Glück served as the director of San Francisco State’s Poetry Center\, co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center\, and associate editor at Lapis Press. He lives in San Francisco. \nPraise for Margery Kempe  \n\nBy the bold device of telling two stories in terms of each other (one of Margery Kempe and Jesus\, and the other of a twentieth-century love affair)\, Robert Glück has produced a book without precedent. This novel brings to mind the huge wings of a painted angel—a texture of brilliant richness covered regularly with small\, detailed shadows of implication.\n—Thom Gunn \nAt once embracing and thwarting two worlds\, two centuries\, two sensibilities\, what a subtle and powerful amalgam is Margery! Gluck’s exquisitely controlled\, sensuously textured writing evokes a deeply integrated ecstatic vision that in the end spares us nothing—being nuanced and brutal\, passionate and colored with levity\, elegant and outrageous.\n—Lydia Davis \nI\, for one\, find much to admire in contemporary gay authors. One of my favorites is Robert Gluck.\n—Edmund White \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-gluck/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket 40: Light
DESCRIPTION:We can still remember celebrating our mother’s 40th birthday with a cake shaped like a coffin and a bunch of people wearing underwear on their heads. This will not be our evening. Our evening will consist of great writers from in and around the Bay Area reading on the eye-opening subject of LIGHT. It will\, as these things do\, probably get pretty dark. \nFree beer ’till there ain’t. \nThe Readers: \nJennifer Lewis\nThea Matthews\nElizabeth Gonzalez James\nLis Owuor\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nTracey Knapp\nChristine No\nAllison Landa
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-40-light/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kirsch\, Sold My Soul for a Student Loan at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the “American Dream\,” this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education—and our democracy. \nAmerican higher education boasts one of the most impressive legacies in the world\, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt. As this book shows\, increasing educational indebtedness undermines the real value of higher education in our democracy. To help readers understand this dilemma\, the book examines how student debt became commonplace and what the long-term effects of such an ongoing reality might be. Sold My Soul for a Student Loan examines this vitally important issue from an unprecedented diversity of perspectives\, focusing on the fact that student debt is hindering the ability of millions of people to enter the job market\, the housing market\, the consumer economy\, and the political process. \nAmong other topics\, the book covers the history of consumer debt in the United States\, the history of federal policy toward higher education\, and political action in response to the issue of student debt. Perhaps most importantly\, it explores the new relationship debtor-citizens have to the government as a result of debt\, and how that impacts democracy for a new generation. \nDaniel T. Kirsch\, PhD\, is an author who earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and now teachers at California State University\, Sacramento. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 24th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-kirsch-sold-my-soul-for-a-student-loan-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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SUMMARY:Jordan Kisner
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection\, Thin Places: Essays From In Between. \nPraise for Thin Places \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos: etched with a sharp and exacting blade of intellect\, but made of flesh; richly drawn in their details; comprised of equal parts pleasure and pain. Like tattoos\, their natural habitat is that strange borderland where our skin meets the world—where we confront our edges\, or everything we can’t keep out. Always\, and thrillingly\, they look inward and outward with exacting grace.” —Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are a bewitchingly original and highly personal synthesis of incisiveness\, gracefulness\, thoughtfulness\, and selflessness. She is an intellectual empath with the deepest moral instincts and a willingness to consider herself alongside her subjects\, as a person no more or less worthy of attention. Her work gives me the feeling that I’m being told an urgent secret about humanity that is meant to be savored\, then shared.” —Heidi Julavits\, author of The Folded Clock \n“Jordan Kisner is a pilgrim for our times. She ventures into the operating room where a surgeon inserts an electrode into a patient’s brain. She mingles with the debutantes of Laredo\, Texas as they navigate the fraught space between Wasp and Hispanic privilege. Wherever she is\, Kisner probes the ambiguities that we live and dream\, exploring the spaces where\, in her words\, ‘Distinctions between you and not-you\, real and and unworldly\, fall away.’ She is a tender but fierce writer; rigorous and wise.” —Margo Jefferson\, author of Negroland: A Memoir \nAbout Thin Places \nIn this perceptive and provocative essay collection\, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America’s search for meaning \nWhen Jordan Kisner was a child\, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp\, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was\, she writes\, “just naturally reverent\,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone\, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga\, talk radio\, neoatheism\, CrossFit\, cleanses\, football\, the academy\, the American Dream\, Beyoncé.” \nA curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner’s work. Her celebrated essay “Thin Places” (Best American Essays 2016)\, about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder\, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness\, the limits of the self\, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith? \nIntellectually curious and emotionally engaging\, the essays in Thin Places manage to be both intimate and expansive\, illuminating an unusual facet of American life\, as well as how it reverberates with the author’s past and present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jordan-kisner/
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:Jordan Kisner and Esmé Weijun Wang at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection\, Thin Places: Essays From In Between with Esmé Weijun Wang. \nPraise for Thin Places \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos: etched with a sharp and exacting blade of intellect\, but made of flesh; richly drawn in their details; comprised of equal parts pleasure and pain. Like tattoos\, their natural habitat is that strange borderland where our skin meets the world—where we confront our edges\, or everything we can’t keep out. Always\, and thrillingly\, they look inward and outward with exacting grace.” —Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n“Jordan Kisner’s essays are a bewitchingly original and highly personal synthesis of incisiveness\, gracefulness\, thoughtfulness\, and selflessness. She is an intellectual empath with the deepest moral instincts and a willingness to consider herself alongside her subjects\, as a person no more or less worthy of attention. Her work gives me the feeling that I’m being told an urgent secret about humanity that is meant to be savored\, then shared.” —Heidi Julavits\, author of The Folded Clock \n“Jordan Kisner is a pilgrim for our times. She ventures into the operating room where a surgeon inserts an electrode into a patient’s brain. She mingles with the debutantes of Laredo\, Texas as they navigate the fraught space between Wasp and Hispanic privilege. Wherever she is\, Kisner probes the ambiguities that we live and dream\, exploring the spaces where\, in her words\, ‘Distinctions between you and not-you\, real and and unworldly\, fall away.’ She is a tender but fierce writer; rigorous and wise.” —Margo Jefferson\, author of Negroland: A Memoir \nAbout Thin Places \nIn this perceptive and provocative essay collection\, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America’s search for meaning \nWhen Jordan Kisner was a child\, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp\, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was\, she writes\, “just naturally reverent\,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone\, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga\, talk radio\, neoatheism\, CrossFit\, cleanses\, football\, the academy\, the American Dream\, Beyoncé.” \nA curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner’s work. Her celebrated essay “Thin Places” (Best American Essays 2016)\, about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder\, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness\, the limits of the self\, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith? \nIntellectually curious and emotionally engaging\, the essays in Thin Places manage to be both intimate and expansive\, illuminating an unusual facet of American life\, as well as how it reverberates with the author’s past and present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jordan-kisner-and-esme-weijun-wang-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #2
DESCRIPTION:Donate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the “ticket” link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic (this time a little earlier for our east coast friends)! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by TBA (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSIGN-UP SHEET: \nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nJoining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #2\nTime: Mar 27\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/725497229 \nMeeting ID: 725 497 229 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,725497229# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,725497229# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 725 497 229\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5 \nHope to see you in virtual land!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200327T180000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Live Drawing
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Secession Virtual Happy Hour\nFriday\, March 27\, 6pm\nhttps://zoom.us/j/448811298 \nWhile we’re closed until the city allows us to reopen (fingers crossed for April 9)\, Secession Art & Design is hosting a live-streamed poetry reading by Silvi Alcivar and ink drawing by Joshua Coffy this Friday. This is your chance to see their show “let me tell you a sacred” from your home. Life as we know it is different after COVID-19. We had no idea that we would spend the month of March unemployed or working from home. \nPlease join us on Friday\, March 27 at 6pm for a night of healing. Meet the artists from your home\, hear Silvi read her poetry and watch Josh draw as we pass the torch via Zoom. I will be at the gallery to raise a glass to this beautiful show and sell art digitally. \nTo join\, just click this link on Friday at 6pm:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/448811298 \nShare in this experience of togetherness\, gratitude\, and community. We look forward to seeing you! \nNot able to make the online event? Please consider a gift card\, purchasing art online at https://www.secessionsf.com/art\, or donating to our GoFundMe at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-secession-art-amp-desi… . We are happy to Facetime with you to show you art\, ship if you are farther away\, or even deliver (with social distancing) if you live in SF. \nXO\nEden \nSecession Art & Design’s first show of 2020\, “let me tell you a sacred”\, features Silvi Alcivar and Josh Coffy. Both artists took risks and challenged each other to focus on the small wins and beautiful moments in life. Silvi for the first time is expressing herself with color using watercolors\, type\, and ink. A wall of monarch butterflies fly through her words and gold threads exploring themes of love\, life\, death\, and laughter. Josh plays with the juxtaposition between two series. On one wall is his quiet meditation of black-and-white ink drawings of animals. On the other are bright acrylic paintings that he made while listening to heavy metal. Together their show invites you into this sacred gallery that allows for collaboration and experimentation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-live-drawing/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T220000
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SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: Womxn Reading at The Beat Museum Celebrate Women's History Month
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month 2019\, a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nEves at the Beat has been running for a year now\, gaining momentum and new community as it goes. On March 28th 2020 we are having a celebratory marathon reading to uplift the curators and readers who have shared their hearts and poetic spirits at The Beat Museum in San Francisco throughout the past year. \nThis event will showcase approximately fifty womxn identified writers across eleven hours and will go down in history (at least The Beat Museum History) as one of the largest Womxn identified literary readings in San Francisco. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for the reader lineup and schedule of events for the day! \nMore info about “Eves at the Beat”:\nEves at the Beat is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from previous months. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nContact: Cassandra Rockwood Rice Ganem Cassandra@cca.edu for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum-celebrate-womens-history-month/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T200538
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SUMMARY:Inter•Col•Lab: A Reading and Film Screening with Valerie Witte\, Sarah Rosenthal\, and Ayana Yonesaka
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of interrelated\, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters\, an essay collection\, and a film\, all of which investigate postmodern dance. \nIn their book The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow\, poets Valerie Witte and Sarah Rosenthal engage with the work of dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Through research into these innovative women’s dances\, ideas\, and lives\, Witte and Rosenthal use language from and about the choreographers to create a series of co-written sonnets that are interwoven with letters between the two poets. These letters describe the process of composing the poems and branch into discussions of dance\, poetics\, gender\, transgression\, and the unfolding disaster of the current political scene. Together\, the poems and letters construct an environment of reflection\, intimacy\, and vulnerability\, one that is both challenging and invitational. \nWitte and Rosenthal will read from The Grass Is Greener\, and briefly describe the essay project which their book has spawned. Rosenthal and dancer-choreographer Ayana Yonesaka will then introduce and screen their short film\, We Agree on the Sun\, which draws on one of the essays to explore the intersection of dance and houselessness. A Q&A will follow. The event will feature hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. \n\nSarah Rosenthal is the author of several books and chapbooks including The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Valerie Witte) Lizard (Chax\, 2016)\, and Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive\, 2010). She has done grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, Soul Mountain\, Ragdale\, New York Mills\, Hambidge\, and This Will Take Time\, and has been a Headlands Center Affiliate Artist. She lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach\, develops curricula for the Center for the Collaborative Classroom\, and serves on the California Book Awards jury. More at sarahrosenthal.net. Author photo by Denise Newman. \nValerie Witte is the author of a game of correspondence (Black Radish Books\, 2015) and The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Sarah Rosenthal)\, as well as two chapbooks. She is a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School\, and for eight years\, she helped produce many innovative books by women as a member of Kelsey Street Press. In her daytime hours\, she edits education books in Portland\, OR. Read more at valeriewitte.com. Photo by Andrew Hedges. \nBorn and raised in Sapporo\, Japan\, Ayana Yonesaka moved to San Francisco in 2009 to pursue her career in dance. Since graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Dance from San Francisco State University in 2013\, she has worked in the Bay Area as a dance instructor\, performer\, and choreographer. In addition to teaching at San Francisco Youth Ballet Academy\, RoCo Dance & Fitness\, and ODC\, she also directs ayanadancearts\, a company she founded in 2017. Ayana aims to create highly innovative choreography that is rooted in contemporary dance aesthetics with a strong Japanese cultural narrative. Her work seamlessly navigates her Japanese and American identities\, choreographing through a unique cross-Pacific framework. Photo by jGuerzonPictorials. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Grass is Greener When the Sun is Yellow\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inter%e2%80%a2col%e2%80%a2lab-a-reading-and-film-screening-with-valerie-witte-sarah-rosenthal-and-ayana-yonesaka/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T200538
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SUMMARY:Foglifter Presents: QT Writers Now—Virtual Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:As we protect our most vulnerable populations from COVID-19 and practice social distancing\, Foglifter is responding to the marginalized communities’ necessary call to maintain connection as we face times of great uncertainty\, challenges\, and cancellations. Foglifter believes that we can support each other and reduce isolation’s detrimental effects through the literary arts and community. Foglifter is launching a virtual reading series and open mic\, so we can see / hear and be seen / heard by each other. This is a platform for the entire LGBTQ+ community and allies to come together. \nFoglifter’s goals are to be a platform and organization that supports and uplifts powerful\, intersectional\, and transgressive LGBTQ+ voices\, while centering the most marginalized to build and enrich the literary and LGBTQ+ communities. We partner with our communities to serve our communities. \nOur first reading features Miah Jeffra\, Juliana Delgado Lopera\, Zefyr Lisowski\, and Arhm Choi Wild\, followed by an open mic! \nZoom info: \nTopic: Foglifter Virtual Reading\nTime: Mar 28\, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/8851711816 \nMeeting ID: 885 171 1816 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,8851711816# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,8851711816# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 885 171 1816
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foglifter-presents-qt-writers-now-virtual-reading-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T193000
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield: Ledger
DESCRIPTION:Jane Hirshfield reads from her new collection of poems\, Ledger. \nAbout Ledger:\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nAbout Jane Hirshfield:\nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World\, and has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry\, have been finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize\, and long-listed for The National Book Award. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ledger-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T213000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Scandalous" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Scandal is “an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.” Whether it’s the short skirt your mom wore\, or the shocking things your dad said\, something Voldemort tweeted\, or maybe it was that thing you did – we want to know! Write it down and bring your best for the next SNS! \nMarch featured writers: Rebecca Foust & Halim Madi \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 28\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nRebecca Foust’s books include The Unexploded Ordnance Bin (2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award) and Paradise Drive (Press 53 Poetry Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement\, Washington Review of Books\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere and in literary journals including the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. Recognitions include the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes\, and fellowships from The Frost Place\, Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Foust was Marin County Poet Laureate in 2017-19 and works now as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change\, an assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine\, and co-producer of a new series about poetry for Marin TV\, Rising Voices. \nHalim Madi grew up in Beirut\, Lebanon. He left at 17 to study in Paris. Worked in London and Sao Paulo. And eventually landed in San Francisco. He fundraised money from friends to write a book called “Flight of the Jaguar” last year. Then actually wrote it and sent it to his friends. Recently he took his friend’s money again to write a book called “In the Name of Scandal.” He’s working on getting that one out. You can find his work on his website halimmadi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-scandalous-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T200000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Antioch Reading Series no.2
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Antioch Reading Series is a quarterly reading series curated and sponsored by alumni of Antioch University MFA Program in Creative Writing. \nBAARS no.2 features\nKaty Avila\nJeffrey Clarke\nJesus Sierra\nAlex Simand\nMireya Vela
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-antioch-reading-series-no-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200329T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200329T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T200538
CREATED:20200203T205455Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-8/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200329T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200329T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T200538
CREATED:20191227T064746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T064746Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-7/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200329T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200329T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T200538
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T214846Z
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SUMMARY:Seen and Heard
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sean-and-heard/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200330T190000
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CREATED:20200203T205813Z
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SUMMARY:Jon Mooallem / This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City\, a Voice That Held It Together
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying\, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City\, a Voice That Held It Together. Please join us! \nIn 1964\, Anchorage\, Alaska\, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis — the largest\, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday\, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history\, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. For four and a half minutes\, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped\, night fell and Anchorage went dark. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. \nSlowly\, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a woman’s familiar voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. Genie Chance was a part-time radio reporter and working mother who’d play an unlikely role in the wake of the disaster\, helping to put her fractured community back together. Genie’s tireless broadcasts over the next three days would transform her into a legendary figure in Alaska and bring her fame worldwide — but only briefly\, before her story faded away as quickly as it had surfaced after the quake. That Easter weekend in Anchorage\, Genie and an entire cast of endearingly eccentric characters — from a mountaineering psychologist to the local community theater group staging Our Town — were thrown into a jumbled world they could not recognize. Together\, they would make a home in it again. \nDrawing on thousands of pages of unpublished documents\, interviews with survivors\, and original broadcast recordings\, This Is Chance! is the hopeful\, gorgeously told story of a single catastrophic weekend and proof of our collective strength in a turbulent world. There are moments when reality instantly changes — when the life we assume is stable gets upended by pure happenstance. This Is Chance! is an electrifying and lavishly empathetic portrayal of one community rising above the randomness\, a real-life fable of human connection withstanding chaos. \n\n“Jon Mooallem is one of the most intelligent\, compassionate\, and curious authors writing today. I would go on any adventure that his mind embarks upon\, knowing that I was being led by the ablest of guides. In This is Chance!\, he draws us into the depths of a disaster only to unearth an intimate\, moving story about our capacity to care for one another when things fall apart — and\, just maybe\, on all the ordinary days\, too.”  – Elizabeth Gilbert \n\n“This Is Chance is the riveting story of a town on the brink of its own existence\, broken and held together by an unbelievable natural disaster. With grace and command\, Jon Mooallem illuminates the near-divine existential interchange between wonder and horror\, fate and self-determination. I teared up reading it\, getting to know Genie Chance\, a perfectly-named hero — grateful to brush up against the extraordinary and unforgotten.” – Jia Tolentino\, bestselling author of Trick Mirror \n“Jon Mooallem is one of the most delightful nonfiction writers working today. This is Chance! is funny\, poignant and surprising: It takes an all-too-familiar story of a woman whose work is fundamental but long forgotten and turns it on its head. With his signature wit\, depth\, and gift for storytelling\, Mooallem brings to life a strong\, fascinating character who played a crucial role in the aftermath of a disaster — and whose story shows not just how deeply women’s voices matter\, but how often they have been silenced by history.”  — Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n\nJon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous radio shows and other magazines\, including This American Life and Wired. His first book\, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying\, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review\, The New Yorker\, NPR’s Science Friday\, and Canada’s National Post\, among others. He lives on Bainbridge Island\, outside Seattle\, with his family. Photo by Meghann Riepenhoff. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of This Is Chance!\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-mooallem-this-is-chance-the-shaking-of-an-all-american-city-a-voice-that-held-it-together/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin: The Blue Absolute
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Blue Absolute\, just out from Nightboat Books. Other works include: Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books\, 2017)\, The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press\, 2015)\, and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems\, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays\, 20008). His writing has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies\, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts\, The California Arts Council\, The San Francisco Arts Commission\, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ+ studies and innovative verse\, Shurin is the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-the-blue-absolute/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200330T203000
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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-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jon Mooallem in conversation with Nellie Bowles / This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City\, a Voice That Held It Together
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying\, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City\, a Voice That Held It Together. He’ll be in conversation with Nellie Bowles. \nPlease join us … we’ll be streaming on our Facebook page! \nIn 1964\, Anchorage\, Alaska\, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis — the largest\, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday\, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history\, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. For four and a half minutes\, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped\, night fell and Anchorage went dark. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. \nSlowly\, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a woman’s familiar voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. Genie Chance was a part-time radio reporter and working mother who’d play an unlikely role in the wake of the disaster\, helping to put her fractured community back together. Genie’s tireless broadcasts over the next three days would transform her into a legendary figure in Alaska and bring her fame worldwide — but only briefly\, before her story faded away as quickly as it had surfaced after the quake. That Easter weekend in Anchorage\, Genie and an entire cast of endearingly eccentric characters — from a mountaineering psychologist to the local community theater group staging Our Town — were thrown into a jumbled world they could not recognize. Together\, they would make a home in it again. \nDrawing on thousands of pages of unpublished documents\, interviews with survivors\, and original broadcast recordings\, This Is Chance! is the hopeful\, gorgeously told story of a single catastrophic weekend and proof of our collective strength in a turbulent world. There are moments when reality instantly changes — when the life we assume is stable gets upended by pure happenstance. This Is Chance! is an electrifying and lavishly empathetic portrayal of one community rising above the randomness\, a real-life fable of human connection withstanding chaos. \n\n“Jon Mooallem is one of the most intelligent\, compassionate\, and curious authors writing today. I would go on any adventure that his mind embarks upon\, knowing that I was being led by the ablest of guides. In This is Chance!\, he draws us into the depths of a disaster only to unearth an intimate\, moving story about our capacity to care for one another when things fall apart — and\, just maybe\, on all the ordinary days\, too.”  – Elizabeth Gilbert \n\n“This Is Chance is the riveting story of a town on the brink of its own existence\, broken and held together by an unbelievable natural disaster. With grace and command\, Jon Mooallem illuminates the near-divine existential interchange between wonder and horror\, fate and self-determination. I teared up reading it\, getting to know Genie Chance\, a perfectly-named hero — grateful to brush up against the extraordinary and unforgotten.” – Jia Tolentino\, bestselling author of Trick Mirror \n“Jon Mooallem is one of the most delightful nonfiction writers working today. This is Chance! is funny\, poignant and surprising: It takes an all-too-familiar story of a woman whose work is fundamental but long forgotten and turns it on its head. With his signature wit\, depth\, and gift for storytelling\, Mooallem brings to life a strong\, fascinating character who played a crucial role in the aftermath of a disaster — and whose story shows not just how deeply women’s voices matter\, but how often they have been silenced by history.”  — Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n\nJon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous radio shows and other magazines\, including This American Life and Wired. His first book\, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying\, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review\, The New Yorker\, NPR’s Science Friday\, and Canada’s National Post\, among others. He lives on Bainbridge Island\, outside Seattle\, with his family. Photo by Meghann Riepenhoff. \nNellie Bowles covers tech and internet culture from San Francisco for The New York Times. Before joining The Times\, she was a correspondent for “VICE News Tonight.” She has written for California Sunday\, Recode\, The Guardian\, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-mooallem-in-conversation-with-nellie-bowles-this-is-chance-the-shaking-of-an-all-american-city-a-voice-that-held-it-together/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200331T193000
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SUMMARY:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own- FICTION Night
DESCRIPTION:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own- Virtual Reading Series- FICTION night \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 us on ZOOM for a virtual literary series Tuesday nights at 6:30pm PST. \nThis event features three fiction writers: Ariel Gore\, Jennifer Lewis\, and Kara Vernor. \nFind us HERE: https://zoom.us/j/494918296
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-quarantined-room-of-ones-own-fiction-night/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Archive 48 Release Party: The Earthly Days of Jose Revueltas
DESCRIPTION:Binational publisher Archive 48\, dedicated to Mexican and U.S. literature\, launches its U.S. wing with the first-ever English translation of an important work by  Jose Revueltas. Join us to celebrate its release. \n  \nTranslator Matthew Gleeson and publisher Pedro Jiménez celebrate the publication of Earthly Days by José Revueltas. \n \nMexican author Revueltas was a lifelong militant whose political activities stretched from the 1930s Communist Party to the 1968 student movement—and sent him to prison several times. His important writing career included prize-winning novels that lay bare the underbelly of Mexican society\, as well as screenplays for noir films during Mexican cinema’s Golden Age. But most of his dark and complex work still remains neglected in English. \nEarthly Days\, originally published in 1949\, is a quintessential Revueltas novel that marries Communist struggle\, noir narrative\, and psychological depth exploration. It also turned out to be his most controversial: it was withdrawn from circulation when Mexican Marxist circles attacked it as politically heretical\, and this is its first appearance in English. \nMatthew Gleeson is a writer and translator based in Mexico. With Audrey Harris\, he co-translated The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (New Directions\, 2018). With Giada Diano\, he co-edited Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Norton/Liveright\, 2015). \nPedro Jimenez is an editor\, translator and essayist. He has translated Etel Adnan’s Seasons into Spanish—to be published in Mexico by Archive48 in 2019. He has written various articles and art reviews in English and Spanish for digital outlets and print journals. He is the founder of Archive48\, a bilingual publishing project based in San Francisco. \nArchive 48‘s goal is the publication of compelling literary works in affordable editions. Like the face of Janus\, Archivo 48 looks north and south to bring the best of contemporary and modernist literature from Mexico and the United States cross borders. They seek books that have not been fully recognized by the literary status quo of each country\, in an effort to open new conversations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/archive-48-release-party-the-earthly-days-of-jose-revueltas/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Linda Sarsour / We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus\, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \n\nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents an evening with Women’s March co-organizer Linda Sarsour​ for her memoir\, We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. Please join us! \n  \n\nOn a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn\, nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour stared at her reflection\, dressed in a hijab for the first time. She saw in the mirror the woman she was growing to be — a young Muslim American woman unapologetic in her faith and her activism\, who would discover her innate sense of justice in the aftermath of 9/11. Now heralded for her award-winning leadership of the Women’s March on Washington\, in We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders Linda Sarsour offers a poignant story of community and family. \nFrom the Brooklyn bodega her father owned\, where Linda learned the real meaning of intersectionality\, to protests in the streets of Washington\, DC\, Linda’s experience as a daughter of Palestinian immigrants is a moving portrayal of what it means to find one’s voice and use it for the good of others. We follow Linda as she learns the tenets of successful community organizing\, and through decades of fighting for racial\, economic\, gender\, and social justice as she becomes one of the most recognized activists in the nation. We also see her honoring her grandmother’s dying wish\, protecting her children\, building resilient friendships\, and mentoring others even as she loses her first mentor in a tragic accident. Throughout\, she inspires readers to take action as she reaffirms that we are not here to be bystanders. \nIn his foreword to the book\, Harry Belafonte writes of Linda\, “While we may not have made it to the Promised Land\, my peers and I\, my brothers and sisters in liberation can rest easy that the future is in the hands of leaders like Linda Sarsour. I have often said to Linda that she embodies the principle and purpose of another great Muslim leader\, brother Malcolm X.” \nThis is her story. \n\nLinda Sarsour is an award-winning civil rights activist\, community organizer\, and mother of three. A Palestinian Muslim American born and raised in Brooklyn\, New York\, she is the former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and the cofounder of the first Muslim online organizing platform\, MPower Change. She is also a founding member of Justice League NYC\, a leading force of activists\, artists\, youth\, and formerly incarcerated individuals committed to criminal justice reform through direct action and policy advocacy.\n​\nSarsour served as national cochair of the largest single day protest in US history\, the Women’s March on Washington. Named among 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world\, she was also cited as one of Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders\, and featured as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. She has won numerous awards for her activism\, including a Champion of Change award from the Obama Administration. She is a frequent media commentator on issues that affect Muslim communities\, Middle East affairs\, and criminal justice reform. She is most recognized for her transformative intersectional organizing work and movement building. \n  \nFacebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/linda-sarsour-we-are-not-here-to-be-bystanders/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:ookshop welcomes acclaimed local poet\, editor\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) for a celebration of her newest book\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens. \nEver had an emotion or experience you wanted to express\, but didn’t know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices\, step up and speak their truths\, and articulate what matters to them most–both personally and politically–whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. \nYoung adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before\, and yet it’s the most difficult form for schools to teach. Written in short\, easy-to-digest chapters\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice includes prompts and inspiration\, writing suggestions and instruction\, brief interviews with some current popular poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Safia Elhillo\, and others\, and poem excerpts scattered throughout the book. \nMy Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice offers ways to express rage\, frustration\, joy\, and sorrow\, and to substitute apathy with creativity\, usurp fear with daring\, counteract anxiety with the joy of writing one word down and then another to express vital\, but previously unarticulated\, thoughts. Most importantly\, here you can discover the value of your own voice and come to believe that what you have to say matters. \nPatrice Vecchione is a poet\, nonfiction writer and teacher who discovered poetry when she needed it most–as a teenager. She has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including most recently\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience\, which Newbery Award winning author\, Matt de la Peña\, called “the most important book we will read this year\,” Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \n“My Shouting\, Shattering\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking your Truth should be required reading for beginning writers as well as those who have been writing for decades. It gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape our experiences into poetry…This book reassured me that we all have the capacity to create something beautiful and that our words need not be ‘hollow almosts.'” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, author of Children of the Land \n“Patrice Vecchione’s My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is more than a guide to writing poetry. It is an act of generosity and empathy\, a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page. Vecchione offers inspiration\, wisdom and down-to-earth advice\, covering everything from writer’s block to adjectives and stanzas. My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is an invaluable resource\, a book that honors and fosters what Adrienne Rich called “the necessity of poetry.” —Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-my-shouting-shattered-whispering-voice-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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SUMMARY:Alexandra Chang
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Chang discusses her debut novel\, Days of Distraction. \nPraise for Days of Distraction \n“A startlingly original and deeply moving debut—kaleidoscopic\, funny\, heart-rending\, beautifully observed\, and formally daring.  It struck me as a new variety of novel…. Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.”— George Saunders \n“A wholly engaging joy to read. Chang writes with wit and sharpness as she curates moments\, observations and histories that together make something of beautiful depth and significance. It takes great bravery to make art of so many of those things we fear and love. An important\, gratifying read.”— Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, author of Friday Black \n“Days of Distraction seized my attention like no other novel\, distracting me entirely from my own life. The magic of this book is that its scale seems small\, fixating on the minute details that make up our days: the anxieties\, the obsessions\, the observations made in the office\, the neighborhood\, the coffee shop. And yet inside Alexandra Chang’s brilliant narrator is a grand\, restless consciousness…. This is a book about America\, and also an American love story\, one that will leave you achingly awakened.” — Eleanor Henderson\, author of Ten Thousand Saints \nAbout Days of Distraction \nA wry\, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path\, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely—from a captivating new literary voice \nThe plan is to leave. As for how\, when\, to where\, and even why—she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication\, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. And when her longtime boyfriend\, J\, decides to move to a quiet upstate New York town for grad school\, she sees an excuse to cut and run. \nMoving is supposed to be a grand gesture of her commitment to J and a way to reshape her sense of self. But in the process\, she finds herself facing misgivings about her role in an interracial relationship. Captivated by the stories of her ancestors and other Asian Americans in history\, she must confront a question at the core of her identity: What does it mean to exist in a society that does not notice or understand you? \nEqual parts tender and humorous\, and told in spare but powerful prose\, Days of Distraction is an offbeat coming-of-adulthood tale\, a touching family story\, and a razor-sharp appraisal of our times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-chang/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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