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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 15\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us as the fifth group of our 2nd year graduate students read their work. 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. \n\nSterling Farrance (Creative Nonfiction)\nMelissa Landucci (Creative Nonfiction)\nNatalie Savio (Fiction)\nClayne Zollinger (Poetry)\n\n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graduate-student-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kaouther Adimi: Our Riches
DESCRIPTION:Algerian author Kaouther Adimi discusses his new novel Our Riches. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. \nPraise for Our Riches \n“An understated\, lyrical story of reading and resistance over the tumultuous generations.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred) \n“Adimi’s confident prose displays Ryad and Charlot’s emotional depth while nimbly shuttling the reader through nearly a century of history. This is a moving tribute to the enduring power of literature.”—Publishers Weekly \n“Fascinating: Adimi synthesizes the private minutiae of the great and sometimes forgotten publisher Edmond Charlot with the history of the times in a surprisingly light\, almost breezy fashion\, making this a fast\, interesting\, and engaging read.”—Adam Hocker\, Albertine Bookstore \nAbout Our Riches \nThe powerful English debut of a rising young French star\, Our Riches is a marvelous\, surprising\, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop \nOur Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot\, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth)\, the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto “by the young\, for the young\,” discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces\, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions\, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot’s story with that of another twenty-year-old\, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad’s no booklover\, but old Abdallah\, the bookshop’s self-appointed\, nearly illiterate guardian\, opens the young man’s mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad\, from the 1930s to current times\, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris\, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama into her swift and poignant novel. But most of all\, it’s a hymn to the book and to the love of books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaouther-adimi-our-riches/
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:archy and mehitabel Group Reading (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:Come on Zoom and let’s read some poems from the first archy and mehitabel book by Don Marquis. His work is in public domain. But if you need a copy of the book\, DM me\, and I’ll send you the file. \nSign up for a poem or two! \n1. the coming of archy\n2. mehitabel was once cleopatra\n3. the song of mehitabel\n4. pity the poor spiders\n5. mehitabel s extensive past\n6. the cockroach who has been to hell\n7. archy interviews a pharaoh\n8. a spider and a fly\n9. freddy the rat perishes\n10. the merry flea\n11. why mehitabel jumped\n12. certain maxims of archy\n13. warty bliggens\, the toad\n14. mehitabel has an adventure\n15. the flattered lightning bug\n16. the robin and the worm\n17. mehitabel finds a home\n18. the wall of archy\n19. mehitabel and her kittens\n20. archy is shocked\n21. archy creates a situation\n22. mehitabel sings a song\n23. aesop revised by archy – Daphne Gottleib\n24. cheerio my deario
URL:https://litseen.com/event/archy-and-mehitabel-group-reading-part-1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #2: Juliana Delgado Lopera + Miah Jeffra
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque engaging readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Sibling Rivalry Press. Our writers are Juliana Delgado Lopera (author of Quiéreme\, Nomadic Press\, and Fiebre Tropical\, The Feminist Press at CUNY) and Miah Jeffra (author of The First Church of What’s Happening\, Nomadic Press\, and The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!\, Sibling Rivalry Press. \nNoelia Cerna will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Screenside Chat #2: Miah Jeffra and Juliana Delgado Lopera\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/556001232 \nMeeting ID: 556 001 232\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,556001232# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,556001232# 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: 556 001 232\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-2-juliana-delgado-lopera-miah-jeffra/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Readings by Aaron Shurin and Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with beloved Bay Area writers Aaron Shurin (The Blue Absolute) and Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems). Please join us for a night of readings! \nAbout The Blue Absolute \nUrban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming\, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes\, dots\, perspective shifts\, and the fragmented action of San Francisco\, the great city on the edge. \nThe Blue Absolute’s prose poems are hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future. \nAaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently 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\, 2008). His work has appeared in over forty national and international anthologies\, from The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry to Italy’s Nuova Poesia Americana: San Francisco\, 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 was a member of the original Good Gay Poets collective in Boston\, and later the first graduate of the storied Poetics Program at New College of California. He has written numerous critical essays about poetic theory and compositional practice\, as well as personal narratives on sexual identity\, gender fluidity\, and the AIDS epidemic. A longtime educator\, he’s the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. \n\nAbout A Little More Red Sun on the Human \nA selection of poems by celebrated poet Gillian Conoley that spans her arresting body of work: from the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood toward an encompassing inquiry into spirit and matter\, individual and state. \nGillian Conoley’s new and selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. A Little More Red Sun on the Human: Selected Poems is forthcoming with Nightboat Books in Fall 2019. Her seventh poetry collection\, PEACE\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Her translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014. Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where she edits Volt. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Blue Absolute and/or A Little More Red Sun on the Human\, click on the appropriate title(s) in this sentence and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-by-aaron-shurin-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Terrill: Great Balls of Doubt w/ Jon Langford
DESCRIPTION:Mark Terrill’s new book of poems\, launching tonight\, is Great Balls of Doubt\, a collection of poems and prose poems with illustrations by Jon Langford\, hailed by Anne Waldman as “a solid collection from a vigilant compañero of the real work\, an ally of the Zen wing of the New American Poetry of observation & witness.” Born in Berkeley\, Terrill has lived for many years in Germany\, publishing numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including Bread & Fish (The Figures\, 2002) and Diamonds & Sapience (Dark Style\, 2017). His work has appeared in over a thousand journals and anthologies\, including City Lights Review\, Bombay Gin\, Empty Mirror\, Jacket\, Diagram\, Rattle\, RHINO\, and Talisman\, and been translated into French\, German\, and Portuguese. \nJon Langford is a musician and visual artist who first came to prominence with art/punk music collective the Mekons. He has also released many recordings as a solo artist and with other bands (the Three Johns\, the Waco Brothers\, Four Lost Souls\, and more). Tonight he will accompany Terrill’s reading on guitar and also perform songs from his own extensive repertoire. Langford’s art has been collected in two books\, Nashville Radio and Skull Orchard Revisited\, and in 2015 he was artist in residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame\, which commissioned him to paint a series of portraits for its exhibition “Dylan\, Cash\, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-terrill-great-balls-of-doubt-w-jon-langford/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : Songs From A Room
DESCRIPTION:We’re doing a weekly event. \nThis week it’s The Racket Weekly : SONGS FROM A ROOM in which a quintet of writers pen short pieces on the songs currently filtering through the murk of quarantine. There will be a playlist and you can listen along. \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88190232333 \nDoors @ 7:00. Event at 7:15. \nThe Readers: \nChelsea Davis\nSerena Chan\nD’mani Thomas\nMaddy Raskulinecz\nGark Mavigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-songs-from-a-room/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass and Marlene Mörling
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass’s poetry includes Indigo (Copper Canyon Press\, forthcoming 2020) Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon Press\, 2014)\, The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press\, 2007)\, and Mules of Love (BOA\, 2002). She co-edited\, with Florence Howe\, the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday\, 1973). Her poetry has appeared frequently in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The California Arts Council\, three Pushcart Prizes\, The Lambda Literary Award\, The Pablo Neruda Prize\, The Larry Levis Prize and the New Letters Prize. Her nonfiction books include Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies\, I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse\, and The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. \nMalena Mörling was born in Stockholm in 1965 and grew up in southern Sweden. She is the author of two books of poetry: Ocean Avenue and Astoria. She has also published translations of work by Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer and together with Jonas Ellerström\, a collection of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran\, On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems\, the collection 1933 by Philip Levine into Swedish\, and they have edited and translated the anthology\, The Star By My Head\, Poets From Sweden published by Milkweed Editions. Mörling has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Dianna L. Bennett Fellowship from the Beverly Rogers\, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina\, Wilmington and is teaching as Hugo Poet and Visiting Professor at University of Montana for the 2019-2020 school year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-and-marlene-morling/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Tess Taylor with Ilya Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Tess Taylor’s \n \nRift Zone:poems \npublished by Red Hen Press \nand \n \nLast West \npublished by Museum of Modern Art Books \nabout Rift Zone \nRIFT ZONE\, Taylor’s much-anticipated third book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines—rifts between past and present\, childhood and adulthood\, what is and what was. Circling Taylor’s hometown—an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault—these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant\, a bloody land grab\, gun violence\, valley girls\, strip malls\, redwood trees\, and the painful history of Japanese internment. Taylor’s ambitious and masterful poems read her home state’s historic violence against our world’s current unsteadinesses—mass eviction\, housing crises\, deportation\, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink—an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. \nabout Last West \nLast West is a book-length commission from the Museum of Modern Art. It will be published by the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) this February and part of the Dorothea Lange Words & Pictures exhibit. The book revisits the work of Dorothea Lange in California in contemporary poems examining issues of migrancy\, shelterlessness\, and climate change as they appear in Lange’s work and continue to affect us today. \nabout Ilya Kaminski’s Deaf Republic \nDeaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy\, Petya\, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf\, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. At once a love story\, an elegy\, and an urgent plea\, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. \nTess Taylor is a poet and the poetry critic for NPR’s All Things Considered. Her books include Work & Days (Red Hen Press\, 2016)\, named one of the best poetry books of 2016 by The New York Times; The Forage House (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award which The San Francisco Chronicle called “stunning\,” and the chapbook The Misremembered World\, which was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. In February 2020\, Last West\, an exciting book length commission from the Museum of Modern Art\, will be published in conjunction with the MOMA show\, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures. In his introduction to the collection\, Ilya Kaminsky calls Taylor’s voice “invaluable” and a “poet for our moment.”  Her work explores California and the American West\, her life as a critic\, and the intersection of poetry and journalism. \nIlya Kaminsky is the author of the widely acclaimed Deaf Republic (Graywolf\, 2019)\, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry\, which Kevin Young\, writing in The New Yorker\, called a work of “profound imagination.” Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press\, 2004)\, and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press\, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer’s Award\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award\, the Dorset Prize\, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently\, he was on the short-list for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey\, Holland\, Russia\, France\, Mexico\, Macedonia\, Romania\, Spain and China\, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His poems have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova\, Osip Mandelstam\, and Marina Tsvetaeva.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-taylor-with-ilya-kaminsky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
DESCRIPTION:Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet\, an open mic and great drinks and treats! \nHosted by Alameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month-3/
LOCATION:Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden\, 1223 Park St.\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julie's":MAILTO:julie@juliestea.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T193000
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui
DESCRIPTION:presents Why We Swim \n“A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book.” —Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \nHumans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the twenty-first century we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it’s an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It’s also one route to that elusive\, ecstatic state of flow. These reasons\, among many others\, make swimming one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what about water—despite its dangers—seduces us and why we come back to it again and again.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nBonnie Tsui lives\, swims\, and surfs in the Bay Area. A longtime contributor to the New York Times and California Sunday Magazine\, she has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her last book\, American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Her website is bonnietsui.com.\n\n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“A beautifully written love letter to water and a fascinating story. I was enchanted.”\n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n“The only thing better than reading Bonnie Tsui’s writing about swimming is swimming itself—and both are sublime. Why We Swim is an aquatic tour de force\, a captivating story filled with adventure\, meditation\, and celebration.”\n—Susan Casey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and Voices in the Ocean \n“This is a jewel of a book\, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it.”\n—James Nestor\, author of Deep: Freediving\, Renegade Science\, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves \n“Magnificent. Only a truly great story can hold my attention and Why We Swim had me nailed to the chair . . . I love this book.”\n—Christopher McDougall\, bestselling author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes \n“Why We Swim is a gorgeous hybrid of a book. Bonnie Tsui combines fascinating reporting about some of the world’s most remarkable swimmers with delightful meditations about what it means for us naked apes to leap in the water for no apparent reason. You won’t regret diving in.”\n—Carl Zimmer\, author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers\, Perversions\, and Potential of Heredity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bonnie-tsui/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Emily St. John Mandel: The Glass Hotel
DESCRIPTION:Emily St. John Mandel discusses her new novel\, The Glass Hotel. \nPraise for The Glass Hotel \n“Long-anticipated… At its heart\, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred\, from the moral to the physical… In luminous prose\, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when such fragile bonds shatter under pressure. A strange\, subtle\, and haunting novel. – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n“Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache\, loneliness\, wealth\, corruption\, drugs\, ghosts\, and guilt… This ingenious\, enthralling novel probes the tenuous yet unbreakable bonds between people and the lasting effects of momentary carelessness.”– Publisher’s Weekly\, starred \nAbout The Glass Hotel \nVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette\, a five-star hotel on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis\, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant\, a shipping executive for Neptune-Avradimis\, reads the words and orders a drink to calm down. Alkaitis\, the owner of the hotel and a wealthy investment manager\, arrives too late to read the threat\, never knowing it was intended for him. He leaves Vincent a hundred dollar tip along with his business card\, and a year later they are living together as husband and wife. \nHigh above Manhattan\, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme\, moving imaginary sums of money through clients’ accounts. He holds the life savings of an artist named Olivia Collins\, the fortunes of a Saudi prince and his extended family\, and countless retirement funds\, including Leon Prevant’s. The collapse of the financial empire is as swift as it is devastating\, obliterating fortunes and lives\, while Vincent walks away into the night. Until\, years later\, she steps aboard a Neptune-Avramidis vessel\, the Neptune Cumberland\, and disappears from the ship between ports of call. \nIn this captivating story of crisis and survival\, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless\, underground electronica clubs\, the business of international shipping\, service in luxury hotels\, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty\, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt\, love and delusion\, ghosts and unintended consequences\, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-st-john-mandel-the-glass-hotel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T223000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085911
CREATED:20200411T210242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T210242Z
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel + Open Mic at EP Foster Library
DESCRIPTION:Your host is Phil Taggart and your Featured Reader is Jan Steckel at this Ventura\, California-based library reading now online while we shelter in place.\nOne poem of two minutes or less for the open mic.\nJoin Zoom Meeting here https://zoom.us/j/474804902…\nMeeting ID: 474 804 902 \nJan Steckel’s latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-open-mic-at-ep-foster-library/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T220000
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CREATED:20200126T205104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T205104Z
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-3/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T220000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in Nomadic Press’ Zoom account. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/ewznSNDq86xmJ5NA7 \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Speaking Axolotl (April)\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/968513245 \nMeeting ID: 968 513 245\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,968513245# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,968513245# 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: 968 513 245\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085911
CREATED:20200406T024606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200406T024606Z
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SUMMARY:Katherine Applegate to Support Book Passage
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nNewberry Award winner Katherine Applegate will read via video conference from her work and talk about her extensive writing history and catalog. \nAll proceeds benefit Book Passage. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nApril 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-applegate-to-support-book-passage/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085911
CREATED:20200411T210947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T210947Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #5
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nDonate (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! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSign up to read here:\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. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #5\nTime: Apr 17\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/610388278 \nMeeting ID: 610 388 278\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,610388278# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,610388278# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\nMeeting ID: 610 388 278\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T190000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Launch for Jennifer Hasegawa / La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Jennifer Hasegawa to launch her debut book\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFrom the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus\, this is a field guide to flora\, fauna\, and mineralia encountered\, real and imagined. Packed tightly into exploratory rocket segments\, these poems ignite our gravest flaws to send our grandest potentials into orbit\, sprinkling us all with an antidotal salve to viewing any life as ordinary. \nBanzai has a literal translation of “10\,000 years” and was used by the Japanese as a rallying cry in imperialistic and militaristic contexts. Today\, the word has a comparatively neutral translation of “Hurrah!” in Japan and beyond. In La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, Hasegawa aims to reclaim banzai\, recasting the language of war and dogmatic loyalty into the language of a life and poetry created against racism and harmful norms\, and toward tolerance and self-acceptance. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a poet and photographer. She’s sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from a plastic surgery clinic in Paraguay. The manuscript for her first collection of poetry\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. Hasegawa’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, has appeared in The Adroit Journal\, Bamboo Ridge\, and Tule Review; and is forthcoming in Bennington Review and Vallum. She was born and raised in Hilo\, Hawai‘i and lives in San Francisco. \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \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 La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, 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/bindery-launch-for-jennifer-hasegawa-la-chicas-field-guide-to-banzai-living/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
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CREATED:20200415T142743Z
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SUMMARY:City Lights LIVE!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first livestream as we honor our worldwide community of friends with this special online gathering.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nWith special guests Juan Felipe Herrera\, Beth Lisick\, Joshua Mohr\, sam sax\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Janaka Stucky\, Jack Hirschman\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, Karen Finley\, and others! \nHosted by Josiah Luis Alderete. \nThis is an online gathering to thank our generous supporters all over the world who contributed to our successful GoFundMe campaign\, and an opportunity for some of our very favorite authors to read\, chat\, perform and share their thoughts as we shelter-in-place together. \nWe ask that you consider further support for indie bookstores by browsing on Bookshop.org. Our virtual storefront is located here: https://bookshop.org/shop/citylightsbooks \nStay connected with us through our social media channels on Twitter\, Facebook\, Instagram\, and Youtube. \n*** \nAll registered attendees will receive a Zoom link on the day of the event. Tune in right at 7PM!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-live/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
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CREATED:20191227T174415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T174415Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wetmore
DESCRIPTION:reads from her debut novel Valentine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWritten with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver\, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. \nMercy is hard in a place like this . . . \nIt’s February 1976\, and Odessa\, Texas\, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity\, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. \nIn the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day\, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house\, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive\, one of the town’s women decides to take matters into her own hands\, setting the stage for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. \nValentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race\, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear\, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart\, this fierce\, unflinching\, darkly funny\, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability\, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nElizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch\, Kenyon Review\, Colorado Review\, Baltimore Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Iowa Review\, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas\, she lives and works in Chicago. \n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“Fierce and complex\, VALENTINE is a novel of moral urgency and breathtaking prose. This is the very definition of a stunning debut.”\n— Ann Patchett \n“It is nearly impossible for me to believe that Elizabeth Wetmore is a first-time novelist. How can a writer burst out of the gate with this much firepower and skill? VALENTINE is brilliant\, sharp\, tightly wound\, and devastating. Wetmore has ripped the brutal\, epic landscape of West Texas out of the hands of men\, and has handed the stories over (finally!) to the girls and women who have always suffered\, survived\, and made their mark in such a hostile world. These are some of the most fully realized and unforgettable female characters I’ve ever met. They will stay with me.”\n— Elizabeth Gilbert\, New York Times bestselling author of City of Girls \n“My goodness\, what a novel. I clutched this book in both hands and by the end I could feel the dust of West Texas on my skin. Elizabeth Wetmore understands the nuances of the human heart better than almost any writer I’ve read in recent years\, and I rooted for these women with everything I have. There is violence here\, and despair\, but in the end the story is a testament to quiet courage\, to hope\, to love. Every person should read this extraordinary debut.”\n— Mary Beth Keane\, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again\, Yes \n“Valentine is a screaming flare shot into the night sky: a blazing debut that’s as tender and subversive as it is powerful. From the opening moment\, I could not look away; the characters are so complex\, so gritty and determined\, that I had the sense they were carrying me aloft\, that they wouldn’t release me until we were safe. Elizabeth Wetmore captures a place and story that’s both expansive and suffocating\, counterfeit and raw\, brutal and beautiful\, all the vivid contradictions. Wetmore is a new literary powerhouse\, and Valentine is quite simply one of the best books I’ve ever read.”\n— Jeanine Cummins\, author of American Dirt \n“Elizabeth Wetmore shows us the vivid and complex culture of Odessa\, Texas. The women in this book move through their difficult lives with strength and surprising grace. The landscape and characters are rendered with precise and lyric prose. Valentine is a beautiful book written with compassion\, understanding\, and deep honesty. A remarkable debut.”\n— Chris Offutt\, author of Country Dark \n“In Valentine\, Elizabeth Wetmore cracks open West Texas and lays bare what beats inside: a world at once ferocious\, fragile\, and furious\, where women and girls fight menace from every fanged quarter—land\, animal\, human. But fight they do\, for themselves\, for each other\, for what’s right. Wondrously\, amid the sorrow\, Valentine thrums with the most staggering beauty\, a compassion and tenderness as vast as the sky. You’ll read this book like a letter from a lost love\, clutched in your hands\, heart in your throat. You’ll carry it with you forever.”\n— Bryn Chancellor\, author of Sycamore \n“In outstanding prose\, Wetmore has created a handful of extraordinary women out of the dust of West Texas\, 1976. They are all so real\, with their hard lives lived with absolute humanity. Valentine is both heartbreaking and thrilling\, I loved it.”\n— Claire Fuller\, author of Our Endless Numbered Days \n“Stirring. . . . Wetmore poetically weaves the landscape of Odessa and the internal lives of her characters\, whose presence remains vivid after the last page is turned. This moving portrait of West Texas oil country evokes the work of Larry McMurtry and John Sayles with strong\, memorable female voices.”\n— Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“Drawing comparisons to Barbara Kingsolver and Wallace Stegner\, Wetmore writes with an evidently innate wisdom about the human spirit. With deep introspection\, she expertly unravels the complexities between men\, women\, and the land they inhabit. Achingly powerful\, this story will resonate with readers long after having finished it.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-wetmore/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T213000
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SUMMARY:The Black (W)hole
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, every member of the now award-winning Destiny Arts Center Youth Performance Company knew someone killed by violence. How they began to ask\, do we remember the “gone too soon”? It’s a question at the heart of The Black (W)hole\, a new\, multidisciplinary performance commissioned by Destiny Arts Center in collaboration with members of Oakland’s vibrant arts community that will premiere on April 17 at The Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center at Laney College. \nThe Black (W)hole combines hip hop and vertical dance\, poetic elegies\, video installations\, and mixed-media public artworks to honor six young people who died before age 32 in and around Oakland. “We commissioned Marc Bamuthi Joseph to come home to Oakland and help us create a new\, embodied language to memorialize youth in our city who have died too-soon. The Black (W)hole is a vehicle for resistance and spiritual renewal that will show how public rituals can affirm cultural memory and help us mourn and heal\,” explains Sarah Crowell\, the Center’s Artistic Director. \nThe Black (W)hole includes the Award-Winning Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC)\, together with Marc Bamuthi Joseph\, Brett Cook\, and Yoram Savion of YAKfilms\,The Elders Project\, and BANDALOOP\, DAYPC Co-Artistic Directors Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari\, and a team of powerful collaborators\, performance and art installations and a dance/theater piece for the six young “gone too soon” ancestors\, that have been guided by conversations with their family members.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-whole/
LOCATION:Laney College\, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center 900 Fallon St\, Oakland\, 94607
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Destiny Arts Center":MAILTO:info@destinyarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T054941Z
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SUMMARY:Grace Notes: Poets at Grace Cathedral
DESCRIPTION:Join Litquake for our annual National Poetry Month celebration\, at Grace Cathedral atop the city’s Nob Hill\, for readings from some of America’s best poets: Kazim Ali\, Natalie Diaz\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and Jane Hirshfield. Curated and hosted by Rebecca Foust\, bookstore provided by Russian Hill Books. Sales and signings to follow. FREE \nModerators \n\n\n \nRebecca Foust\nRebecca Foust was the Poet Laureate of Marin County and is the author of Paradise Drive\, All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song\, and God\, Seed\, as well as three chapbooks including The Unexploded Ordnance Bin\, released November 2019.\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nJane Hirshfield\nJane Hirshfield’s ninth collection\, Ledger (Knopf)\, just released. Chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets and recently elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, she works frequently at the intersection of poetry and science. Her essays\, poems\, and translations… Read More →\n\n\n \nTongo Eisen-Martin\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)\, which won the 2018 California Book Award.\n\n\n \nNatalie Diaz\nNatalie Diaz is author of the new poetry collection Postcolonial Love Poem\, as well as the award-winning When My Brother Was an Aztec. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a US Artists Ford Fellowship\, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at Arizona… Read More →\n\n\n \nKazim Ali\nKazim Ali’s many books include The Far Mosque\, which won an Alice James Books award and Inquisition (2018)\, as well as the prose books The Disappearance of Seth\, Bright Felon\, and Resident Alien. Ali co-founded Nightboat Books and is a professor at U.C. San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-notes-poets-at-grace-cathedral/
LOCATION:Grace Cathedral\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini In Conversation With Book Passage’s Elaine Petrocelli
DESCRIPTION:Live: Saturday\, April 18th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\n\n\n\n\n\nIn March 2001\, while practicing medicine\, Khaled Hosseini began writing his first novel\, The Kite Runner\, which was published by Riverhead Books in 2003. That debut went on to launch one of the biggest literary careers of our time. Today\, Khaled is one of the most recognized and bestselling authors in the world. His books\, The Kite Runner\, A Thousand Splendid Suns\, and And the Mountains Echoed\, have been published in over seventy countries and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. \nIn 2006 Khaled was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR\, the UN Refugee Agency. Inspired by a trip he made to Afghanistan with the UNHCR\, he later established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation\, a nonprofit\, which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“It may be unfair\, but what happens in a few days\, sometimes even a single day\, can change the course of a whole lifetime…”\n– The Kite Runner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-in-conversation-with-book-passages-elaine-petrocelli/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085911
CREATED:20200312T201155Z
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SUMMARY:Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman: A celebration on his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell\, by City Lights Books\, we’re assembling a gathering of poets\, artists\, and musicians on what would be the late poet’s 95th birthday. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their wonderful 3rd floor loft space\, and co-sponsored by The Poetry Center\, City Lights Books\, and The Green Arcade\, this event is free and open to the public. Please join us. Photo of Bob Kaufman by A.D. Winans. \n“He was an original voice. No one else talked like him. No one else wrote poetry like him.”––Lawrence Ferlinghetti \nBob Kaufman (April 18\, 1925\, New Orleans\, LA – January 12\, 1986) was one of the most important—and most original—poets of the twentieth century. He is among the inaugurators of what today is characterized as the Afro-Surreal\, uniting the surrealist practice of automatic writing with the jazz concept of spontaneous composition. He seldom wrote his poems down and often discarded those he did\, leaving them to be rescued by others. He was also a legendary figure of the Beat Generation\, known as much for hopping on tables to declaim his poetry as for maintaining a monastic silence for months or even years at a time. \nKaufman produced just three broadsides and three books in his lifetime. In 1967\, Golden Sardine was published by City Lights in its famed Pocket Poets Series\, and became an instant cult classic. Collected Poems is a landmark poetic achievement\, bringing together all of Kaufman’s known surviving poems\, including an extensive section of previously uncollected work\, in a long overdue return to City Lights Books. \nMusicians: Bruce Ackley and Aurora Josephson (performing Steve Lacy’s songs to Bob Kaufman’s poems); Hafez Modirzadeh\, Francis Wong\, David Boyce \nPoets and other artists: Josiah Luis Adelberte\, Will Alexander\, Arlene Biala\, James Cagney\, MK Chavez\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Dewey Crumpler\, Justin Desmangles\, Duane Deterville\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Agneta Falk\, C.S. Giscombe\, Leticia Hernández-Linares\, Jack Hirschman\, Sarah Menefee\, Alejandro Murguía\, Jevohn Newsome\, Barbara Jane Reyes\, Kim Shuck; Tate Swindell with Jessica Loos\, Niko Van Dyke\, and Michael Young (reading “Second April”); Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, A.D. Winans \n  \n\n“With this magnetic new unveiling\, Bob Kaufman trenchantly sunders endemic retrocausal error and neglect that has casted his fate into a secondary enclave of lesser mastery. To set the story straight it was his spirit that helped sire the Ginsberg that we know and not vice versa. It was he who magically hoisted the invisible umbrella under which Kerouac and others such as Corso were enabled to protractedly flourish. Arrested 39 times for poetic brilliance via bravura he was the absolute contrary of the sterile academic scrounging for golden verbal eggs. Never concerned with immediate notoriety he passed across unerring emptiness as a poetic lahar sweeping in all directions at once. He volcanically en-veined the Beats as a mirage enveloped Surrealist; not as a formal poet\, but one\, like Rimbaud\, who embodied butane. Following the scent of his butane on one anonymous North Beach afternoon led Philip Lamantia to audibly utter to me that Bob Kaufman as per incandescent singularity is ‘our poet.'” —Will Alexander\n“Bob Kaufman is one of our most vulnerable\, mysterious\, and beautiful poets\, a nomadic maudit\, surrealist saint of the streets\, votary of silence\, the consummate Outrider with trickster imagination and visionary power. What does it take to be such a poet-man\, veils/layers of existence laced with hardship\, suffering? Not many like this anymore. The Black American Rimbaud\, as he was christened in France. His poems make me weep and bow with humility and wonder. I last saw him\, shape-shifting shaman on Ken Kesey’s stage in Oregon\, swirling in a torque of rage\, enlightenment\, and prescience. Pure product of America’s madness: fury and tenderness. The writing is complex and lays its soul-baring down on jazz-inflected syllables and riffs for all to read and tremble within. No serious canon is complete without this insistent rhythm\, poetic acuity\, and a body’s last resort to sing.” —Anne Waldman\n“Uplifting the voice of this under-sung literary master to future’s light is the mission of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman. This poet’s poet on the cliff edge of no ledge is still continuing to foster new surrealizations. Read this bebopian wordsmith\, his pen turned saxophone and ink notes that are black tears.” —Kamau Daáood\n“In collecting Bob Kaufman’s work\, the editors have sought to bind earthquakes with book paste. These pages vibrate\, a pulse not from way out\, but from way in this strange\, strange country. Wearing the poet’s trembling\, subterranean eyes\, I see the dirt of imperial graves\, grocery store corpses\, swank gas chambers\, and bomb shelters cut an inverted skyline against a too orange American sun. Blinking\, I look up and the real sun seems just as radioactive\, which is perhaps what leaves me the most shaken. To call these poems ‘surreal’ seems\, now\, to muffle Kaufman’s prophetic genius. He saw us\, our images in pools of blood\, milk\, and saxophone spittle. Maybe it was ever our shivering made the ripples that distorted the reflections.” —Douglas Kearney\n“Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman should finally liberate the kaleidoscopic surrealism of this San Franciscan\, and in many respects\, secular Franciscan\, poet from the shadows of Allen Ginsberg and the other Beats. While poems like ‘Night Sung Sailor’s Prayer’ and ‘Believe\, Believe’ presage both the linguistic flights of Will Alexander and the affirmative exuberance of Ross Gay\, the bulk of the book hearkens back to familiar figures like Blake\, Apollinaire\, and Artaud. In the end\, of course\, Bob Kaufman is Bob Kaufman\, and as this collection confirms\, the poems tend to extremes\, lurching between the sweeping force of a tornado (e.g.\, ‘The American Sun’ and ‘The Ancient Rain’) and the precision of a stiletto (e.g.\, “Demolition” and ‘I Am A Camera’). Kaufman’s libertarian tendencies (see\, for example\, ‘Abomunist Manifesto’) made him a largely apolitical\, if compassionate poet\, but what comes through above all else is a human being beset by the furies and desires he/she unleashed. Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is a memoriam of unmitigated joy and abysmal despair.” —Tyrone Williams\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nCollected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell (City Lights Booksellers and Publishers) \nThe world finally catches up to Bob Kaufman\, unsung hero of Beat Generation (by Denise Sullivan\, November 1\, 2019) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman-a-celebration-on-his-95th-birthday-poetry-and-jazz/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T143000
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SUMMARY:Our Communities\, Climate Change\, and COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Sunday\, April 19th from 1pm – 2:30pm for a live panel discussion\n“Our Communities\, Climate Change\, and COVID-19” featuring \nJulie Sze\, author Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger \nAPEN Shina Robinson\nEnvironmental Justice Activist Ratha Lai\nSFSU Asian American Studies Professor Russell Jeung \n\nWatch the session on YouTube Live HERE.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjz-kfBnus&feature=youtu.be \nA recording of the event will also be posted online after. \nOr register to receive access to the April 19th Event Zoom. \nREGISTER 4/19 event \nJulie Sze is Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project at the University of California\, Davis. She has authored and edited two other books and numerous articles on environmental justice and inequality\, culture and environment\, and urban and community health and activism. \nEnvironmental Justice in a Moment of Danger \n$18.95\, Paperback
URL:https://litseen.com/event/our-communities-climate-change-and-covid-19/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T125900
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SUMMARY:Brownie Bake-In for HOME BAKED
DESCRIPTION:On April 20\, join me and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in celebrating the release of HOME BAKED from the comfort of your kitchen! \nShare a pic of YOUR brownies on twitter and/or instagram with the hashtags #HomeBaked and #BakeIn. We’ll be giving away free books\, t-shirts\, stickers and other cool swag to participants. \nI’ll also share the original Sticky Fingers Brownies recipe along with a video demonstration of how we did it back in the day!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brownie-bake-in-for-home-baked/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alia Volz":MAILTO:aliavolz@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085911
CREATED:20200323T055351Z
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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-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T193000
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SUMMARY:MIRANDA JULY in conversation with Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Watch this free upcoming webcast at: https://www.cityarts.net/youtube\nYou can support the cost of this public webcast by making a tax-deductible donation. Thank you for your support! \nAttention ticket holders: we hope you might consider donating your ticket to support the costs of this program. We also understand if you would like a refund and will happily accommodate that. To request a refund\, email City Box Office. To receive acknowledgement of a tax-deductible contribution\, no action is required. \nMiranda July is a filmmaker\, artist\, and writer. She is the author of the novel The First Bad Man\, and the short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You and writer\, director and star of the films The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Her forthcoming crime drama Kajillionaire stars Evan Rachel Wood and Gina Rodriguez. July’s participatory art works include the website Learning to Love You More\, Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale)\, New Society (a performance)\, and Somebody (a messaging app created with Miu Miu.) Her new book\, Miranda July\, is a chronological retrospective of her multidisciplinary work. \nJenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer\, and the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF\, the San Francisco Planning Department\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Palo Alto Art Center\, ODC Dance Center\, Facebook\, and the Internet Archive and currently teaches internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University. \nPhotograph credit: Elizabeth Weinberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-july-in-conversation-with-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085911
CREATED:20200412T224735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200413T221626Z
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SUMMARY:Inside Weather 2: A Night of Poems\, Stories & Art
DESCRIPTION:Join us from your room on Tuesday April 21st at 5:30 pm\, where we will Zoom-share work that in some way contemplates the rooms and roomlessness of these times. \nThis is the second in a series of three opportunities to create community and correspondence during these weeks of isolation. The events also partially act as launch readings for Mattraw’s We fell into weather (March\, Cultural Society). Mattraw’s second book explores invisible disabilities and their catalysts– environmental toxins\, illness\, and epigenetics\, among others– while considering what’s outside those rooms. \n21 April\, Tuesday\, 5:30 pm PST\nHosted by Evan Karp \nGillian Conoley\nTiff Dressen\nAlexandra Mattraw\nJennifer Soong\nMaw Shein Win \nThe writers will present in a “round” formation instead of through the patterns we find in a traditional reading. Each feature will offer approximately three minutes of work and then “pass the mic” to the next feature in a repeated\, circular pattern. \nThe concluding “Inside Weather” event will be hosted by Norman Fischer on 19 May\, 5:30 pm PST\, and will include \nMary-Kim Arnold\nNorman Fischer\nHeather June Gibbons\nAlexandra Mattraw\nRusty Morrison
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-weather-2-a-night-of-poems-stories-art/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
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SUMMARY:For Young Adults! Dallas Woodburn in Conversation with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Launch and discussion of her new novel\, The Best Week That Never Happened\, “a poignant and gripping heart-tug of a page-turner filled with heart and hope. –Jennifer Niven\, author of All the Bright Places \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Best Week That Never Happenedby speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below to order online. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 21\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter her parents’ bitter divorce\, family vacations to the Big Island in Hawaii ceased. But across the miles\, eighteen-year-old Tegan Rossi remains connected to local Kai Kapule\, her best friend from childhood. Now\, Tegan finds herself alone and confused about how she got to the Big Island. With no wallet\, no cell phone\, purse\, or plane ticket\, Tegan struggles to piece together what happened. She must have come to surprise-visit Kai. Right? As the teens grow even closer\, Tegan pushes aside her worries and gets swept away in the vacation of her dreams. But each morning\, Tegan startles awake from nightmares that become more difficult to ignore. Something is eerily amiss. Why is there a strange gap in her memory? Why can’t she reach her parents or friends from home? And what’s with the mysterious hourglass tattoo over her heart? Kai promises to help Tegan figure out what is going on. But the answers they find only lead to more questions. As the week unfolds\, Tegan will experience the magic of first love\, the hope of second chances\, and the bittersweet joy and grief of being human. \nDallas Woodburn is a recent John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She won first place in the international Glass Woman Prize and second place in the American Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and won the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award. She is also the founder of Write On! Books (www.writeonbooks.org)\, an organization empowering youth through reading and writing endeavors. \nStephanie Kuehn is the author of many books for young adults including Charm & Strange\, Complicit\, and Delicate Monsters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/55466/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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