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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Naima Coster / What's Mine and Yours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host Naima Coster for her novel What’s Mine and Yours. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order What’s Mine and Yours here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students\, Gee and Noelle\, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the span of the next twenty years. \nOn one side of the integration debate is Jade\, Gee’s steely\, ambitious mother. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss\, she is determined to give her son the tools he’ll need to survive in America as a sensitive\, anxious\, young Black man. On the other side is Noelle’s headstrong mother\, Lacey May\, a white woman who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. She strives to protect them as she couldn’t protect herself from the influence of their charming but unreliable father\, Robbie. \nWhen Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divide between new and old students\, their paths collide\, and their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted\, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers—each determined to see her child inherit a better life—will make choices that will haunt them for decades to come. \nAs love is built and lost\, and the past never too far behind\, What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive\, vibrant tapestry that moves between the years\, from the foothills of North Carolina\, to Atlanta\, Los Angeles\, and Paris. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together. \n\nAbout the author\nNaima Coster is the author of Halsey Street\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Kweli\, the Paris Review Daily\, Catapult\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University\, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing for over a decade\, in community settings\, youth programs\, and universities. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist\, and novelist Kazim Ali discusses his new book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water (Milkweed Editions). \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Northern Light\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a queer\, Muslim man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational? \nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused. \nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to. \nAbout Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz\nKazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light. \nNatalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem and When My Brother Was an Aztec\, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a USA fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Robbie Arnott\, The Rain Heron
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott will discuss The Rain Heron\, his gripping new novel of myth\, environment\, adventure\, and an unlikely friendship.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d’état. High on the forested slopes\, she survives by hunting\, farming\, trading\, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit\, led by a young female soldier\, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron—a mythical\, dangerous\, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story\, yet the soldier will not be deterred\, forcing them both into a gruelling quest. \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“Superb descriptions of nature and weather\, of human emotion and animal instinct\, by Australian novelist Arnott evoke a landscape that is both startlingly immediate and mysteriously otherworldly: the perfect setting for a tense narrative of eco-disaster and fragile endurance. At once an urgent thriller and an elegiac fable\, this mesmerizing tale is as lyrical as it is suspenseful.” ―Kirkus Reviews
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CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: LaRayia Gaston
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MARCH 16 AT 7PM PT WHEN LARAYIA GASTON DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, LOVE WITHOUT REASON: THE LOST ART OF GIVING A F*CK.\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL\nAS A PART OF THEIR WOMEN LIT #UNBOUND SERIES\nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nFor questions regarding tickets\, please contact ticketing@baybookfest.org \nAbout the Event \nWhen LaRayia Gaston was a child\, her mother told her “I don’t care what you do; you just have to do your part.” It was a directive LaRayia took to heart\, touching thousands of lives in the process. With her debut book\, Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck\, this firebrand activist\, visionary\, and documentarian offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy\, beautiful\, complex humanity. \nLaRayia’s “giving a f*ck” credo began when she was working at a restaurant at 14\, and took it upon herself to offer an unhoused man “perfectly good food” that would otherwise have gone to waste. Today\, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit she founded in her twenties\, Lunch On Me\, redistributes organic food\, providing meals to 10\,000 people on Skid Row every month. And\, because nourishment doesn’t end with food\, Lunch on Me also feeds the minds and spirits of those who are struggling\, offering yoga classes\, community parties\, and healing gatherings. All in all\, LaRayia lives by “following the joy\,” and Love Without Reason is the latest stop on that can’t-lose path. Says bestselling author Dr. Will Cole\, “The radical love you will learn to tap into in this book is not the vapid ‘love’ so flippantly used today\, but a deep\, authentic love. This book is a beautiful manual of how to live from that love above all else.” \nAn infectiously warm and inspiring public speaker\, LaRayia is living proof that compassion and humility come from a place of formidable strength. Shape calls her a “badass\,” and we have to concur: this is radical love served with a side of bracing truth.  If you’ve ever wondered whether the actions of a single person\, in a single moment\, can take root and empower countless lives\, this event is for you\, and for everyone you love and cherish. \nDetails \nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. All copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 16. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States. \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a copy of Love Without Reason after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here. \nTickets are available here.
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SUMMARY:DEACON KING KONG by James McBride | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of DEACON KING KONG by James McBride. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81138425681 \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpDeacon or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/DeaconAB \nOne of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” \nOprah’s Book Club Pick \nNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times\, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine \nA Washington Post Notable Novel \nFrom the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water\, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. \nIn September 1969\, a fumbling\, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn\, pulls a .38 from his pocket\, and\, in front of everybody\, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. \nThe reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong\, James McBride’s funny\, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong\, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim\, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it\, the white neighbors\, the local cops assigned to investigate\, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon\, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters\, and Sportcoat himself. \nAs the story deepens\, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge\, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden\, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear\, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. \nBringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity\, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit\, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #70
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker.\n\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\n\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\n\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\n\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: Denise Hamilton
DESCRIPTION:In Speculative Los Angeles\, bestselling author and Alta contributor Denise Hamilton reimagines her hometown in dramatically disparate ways by commissioning 13 stories from some of the city’s most prophetic and diverse voices (and adding her own). She joins Alta Live and Alta editor at large Mary Melton for a deep dive into speculative fiction in the City of Angels. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nEdgar Award finalist Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the anthology Los Angeles Noir (which includes the Edgar Award–winning short story “The Golden Gopher” by Susan Straight) and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. She is a former Los Angeles Times journalist\, a Fulbright Scholar\, a noir and sci-fi/fantasy geek\, and a proud L.A. native. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nAs an incubator of the future\, Los Angeles has mesmerized writers from Aldous Huxley to Octavia E. Butler. With its natural disasters\, Hollywood artifice\, staggering wealth and poverty\, and urban sprawl\, the city is\, arguably\, already so weird\, surreal\, irrational\, and mythic that any fiction emerging from it should be considered speculative. That’s the approach bestselling author Denise Hamilton took as she assembled 14 stories (including one of her own) and did exactly that in Speculative Los Angeles. \nIn these pages\, you’ll encounter 21st-century changelings\, dirigibles plying the suburban skies\, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia\, beachfront property in currently landlocked Century City\, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy\, psychic death cults\, robot nursemaids\, and an alternate L.A. where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization. Speculative Los Angeles features new stories from Charles Yu\, Aimee Bender\, Lisa Morton\, Alex Espinoza\, Ben H. Winters\, Denise Hamilton\, Lynell George\, Stephen Blackmoore\, Francesca Lia Block\, Duane Swierczynski\, Luis J. Rodriguez\, A.G. Lombardo\, Kathleen Kaufman\, and S. Qiouyi Lu. •
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mahogany L. Browne\, Safia Elhillo in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the San Francisco Public Library in welcoming the San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, along with celebrated authors Mahogany L. Browne and Safia Elhillo to discuss and give readings from their latest works. \nTongo Eisen-Martin is the San Francisco Poet Laureate appointed by Mayor London N. Breed in January 2021. He is the founder of Black Freighter Press. His book\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes”\, received a 2018 American Book Award\, the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Tune into his inaugural address on April 21. \nMahogany L. Browne is a writer\, organizer and educator. Executive Director of Bowery Poetry Club & Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC & Poetry Coordinator at St. Francis College\, Browne has received fellowships from Agnes Gund\, Air Serenbe\, Cave Canem\, Poets House\, Mellon Research & Rauschenberg. She is the author of most recent works: “Chlorine Sky”\, “Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice”\, “Woke Baby” & “Black Girl Magic”. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children which received the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, “Girls That Never Die” and the novel in verse “Home Is Not A Country” (Make Me A World/Random House\, 2021).?Sudanese by way of Washington\, DC\, she holds an MFA from The New School\, a Cave Canem Fellowship and a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Elhillo is a Pushcart Prize nominee and noted in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/17/author-tongo-eisen-marten-mahogany-l-browne-and-safia-elhillo-conversation sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading featuring Terrance Hayes and Simone White
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Arts Research Center in welcoming two of America’s most compelling poets\, Terrance Hayes and Simone White\, on Wednesday\, March 17\, 2021 at 4pm PST. This event is part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses program\, generously funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation. Following their individual readings\, they will be in conversation with UC Berkeley professor and Poetry & the Senses board member Chiyuma Elliott. This event will be live streamed on ARC’s YouTube channel\, and live captioned. All of ARC’s programs are free and open to the public. \nDuring spring 2021\, ARC will celebrate poetry and explore the theme of emerge/ncy: voices to carry with us in times of crisis\, with group readings every month\, and short flash readings released online. This semester-long festival of poetry is generously funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation\, and is part of ARC’s Poetry & the Senses initiative. \n\nTerrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead\, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music\, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic\, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series\, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection\, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award\, two Pushcart selections\, eight Best American Poetry selections\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Guggenheim Foundation. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Fence\, The Kenyon Review\, Jubilat\, and Harvard Review. He is a professor of English at New York University. \n\nSimone White is the author of or\, on being the other woman (forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2021)\, Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018)\, Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem\, 2016)\, and House Envy of All the World (Factory School\, 2010)\, the poetry chapbook\, Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2013)\, and the collaborative poem/painting chapbook\, Dolly (with Kim Thomas) (Q Ave\, 2008). Her poetry and prose have been featured in Artforum\, e-flux\, Harper’s Magazine\, BOMB Magazine\, Chicago Review\, The New York Times Book Review\, and Harriet: The Blog. Her honors include a 2021 Creative Capital Award\, a 2017 Whiting Award in Poetry\, Cave Canem Foundation fellowships\, and recognition as a New American Poet for the Poetry Society of America in 2013. A graduate of Wesleyan University\, she holds a JD from Harvard Law School\, an MFA from the New School\, and a PhD in English from CUNY Graduate Center. She is the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives in Brooklyn. \n\nChiyuma Elliott is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics\, visual culture\, and intellectual history from the 1920s to the present. Before joining the Berkeley faculty\, Elliott was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, and Assistant Professor of English\, Creative Writing\, and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. A Cave Canem Alumni Fellow\, she has also received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society\, the James Irvine Foundation\, and the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Elliott has published three books of poetry: At Most (2020)\, Vigil (2017)\, and California Winter League (2015) and her creative work has appeared in the African American Review\, Callaloo\, the Collagist\, the Notre Dame Review\, the PN Review\, and other journals. \n\nThis event is part of the Arts Research Center’s Poetry & the Senses program\, a two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) that explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. Funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation. \nImage credit: Simone White by Dana Scruggs.
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CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics and Dirges returns with a fabulous reading focusing on literary translation. We have three translators who are also poets and writers to present their recent translations as well as speaking about how translating and their own creative writing inform each other.\n\nWe are on Zoom (link below) and FB Live (Lyrics & Dirges page)\n\nAnna Christine Rodas\nKaveh Bassiri\nZackary Sholem Berger\n\nAnna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master’s Degree in Community Development and worked in this field both here in the Bay Area and internationally. Her academic research in Central American Literary Studies explores the social realities of war\, violence\, and trauma. Her poetry is an effort to bring the voices of these experiences to the page\, especially those of women. She views the female body as a colonized space and the written word as a practice to reclaim sovereignty.\n\nKaveh Bassiri is the author of two chapbooks: 99 Names of Exile (2019)\, winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize\, and Elementary English (2020)\, winner of Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. He is also the recipient of a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His translations have appeared in The Common\, Chicago Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, Two Lines\, The Los Angeles Review\, and The Massachusetts Review.\n\nZackary Sholem Berger (zackarysholemberger.com\, Twitter @DrZackaryBerger) is a poet and translator in English\, Yiddish\, and Hebrew. He writes frequently for the Yiddish Forward and other publications. His latest translation is Essential Prose of Avrom Sutzkever (White Goat Press\, 2020).\n\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94477442252\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,94477442252# or +12532158782\,94477442252#\nOr Telephone:\nDial:\n+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n+1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\n+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\nMeeting ID: 944 7744 2252\nInternational numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/ab18rLmNGx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-in-translation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T193000
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SUMMARY:Launch for Jeff Chang & Dave "Davey D" Cook / Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition): A Hip-Hop History
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook for the Young Adult Edition of their classic\, American Book Award-winning Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Young Adult Edition) here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nFrom award-winning author Jeff Chang\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is the story of hip-hop\, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever. \nHip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America\, giving new voice to the younger generation. It defines a generation’s worldview. Exploring hip hop’s beginnings up to the present day\, Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook provide a provocative look into the new world that the hip hop generation has created. \nBased on original interviews with DJs\, b-boys\, rappers\, activists\, and gang members\, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip hop’s forebears\, founders\, mavericks\, and present day icons\, this book chronicles the epic events\, ideas and the music that marked the hip hop generation’s rise. \nAbout the authors\nJeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Village Voice\, Vibe\, The Nation\, URB\, Rap Pages\, Spin\, and Mother Jones. He is the author of several books\, including the American Book Award-winning Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. He was a founding editor of Colorlines Magazine\, senior editor at Russell Simmons’s 360hiphop.com\, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides\, now Quannum Projects. He lives in California. Author photo by Jeremy Keith Villaluz. \nDave ‘Davey D’ Cook is a nationally recognized journalist\, adjunct professor at San Francisco State\, Hip Hop historian\, political commentator\, syndicated talk show host\, radio programmer\, media justice and community activist. Author photo by BFRESH Photography. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-jeff-chang-dave-davey-d-cook-cant-stop-wont-stop-young-adult-edition-a-hip-hop-history/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Reading "Queer Flannery O'Connor Award Winners"
DESCRIPTION:The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual publication prize named for author Flannery O’Connor. This month\, Perfectly Queer welcomes three Queer winners of this award to read from their winning short story collection. Lori Ostlund reads from THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD\, Anne Raeff from THE JUNGLE AROUND US\, and Patrick Earl Ryan from IF WE WERE ELECTRIC. A discussion will follow the readings\, including O’Connor’s racism.\n\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom Wednesday\, March 17\, from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time. Get the Zoom link by rsvping on this Facebook event page or by emailing perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com. The link will be sent by Messenger or return email.\nYou can buy these award-winning books from Dog Eared Books Castro at www.dogearedbookscastro.com/shop
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-reading-queer-flannery-oconnor-award-winners/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer San Francisco":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T164736
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SUMMARY:Reading: Crystal Williams & Yona Harvey
DESCRIPTION:This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers\, in this case pairing long-time friends who rarely have the opportunity to appear together. \nYona Harvey has published two collection of poetry: Hemming the Water\, for which she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (2020). Harvey’s work has appeared in Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING\, A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry and The Force of What’s Possible: Accessibility and the Avant-Garde. She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay. \n\n\n\n\n\nCrystal Williams’ fourth book of poetry\, Detroit as Barn was a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, Cleveland State Open Book Prize\, and the Maine Book Award. Troubled Tongues was awarded the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award\, the Idaho Poetry Prize\, and the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, PEN: America\, The Indiana Review\, The Sun\, Tin House\, Ms. Magazine\, Ploughshares\, and Callaloo. \n\nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-crystal-williams-yona-harvey/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazim Ali and Layli Long Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, March 18th at 6pm PT when Kazim Ali discusses his book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water\, with Layli Long Soldier on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88443144613\n\nAbout Northern Lights\n\n“Places do not belong to us. We belong to them.”\n\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?\n\nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused.\n\nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to.\n\nPraise for Northern Lights\n\n“Ali’s lyrical\, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of northern Canada. I was mesmerized by the voice of a poet who methodically and artistically recounts his once-i- a-lifetime journey to connect with a Cree tribe called the Pimicikamak\, the original owners and occupiers of the land and water that mesmerized him as a child. The human landscape Kazim Ali creates in his work\, interweaving his own familial and cultural disruption – with those of the Pimicikamak Cree is intriguing and profound.”—Darrel McLeod\, author of Mamaskatch\n\n“Ali’s lyrics are crafted with a controlled\, delicate quality that never stops questioning\, never stops teaching\, never stops astounding.”—American Poet\n\n“Lyrical\, political\, humorous\, light and deep—Ali strikes out in many directions. . . . The resulting harmonies—and even the discord—are beautiful.”—Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazim-ali-and-layli-long-soldier-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T200000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Joshua Merchant
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, March 18 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nFOLLOW THE ZOOM LINK TO RECEIVE A LOGIN TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtdemurjwjHdOrRhd3OOzfRBjqx50s-EN5 \nOnce you register via Zoom\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Joshua Merchant  \n \nJoshua A. Merchant is a native of East Oakland exploring queerness\, blackness\, and the complexities of their intersection through literary arts. Merchant has had the honor to be published as a finalist for the June Jordan Poetry Prize anthology ‘Walk These Streets’ in 2007\, a collaboration with Alice Walker and OUSD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-featuring-joshua-merchant/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T210000
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes... an Online Open Mic & Community Listening Space
DESCRIPTION:w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team… \nThursday\, March 18th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm PST\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: http://bit.ly/2ZXYbJp \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… is an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what you feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity. \nYou can donate via… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-an-online-open-mic-community-listening-space/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T200000
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SUMMARY:CLA Presents: Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin\, race\, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.\nLalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.\nBrilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.\nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She the author of four novels\, including ‘The Moor’s Account’\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and ‘The Other Americans’\, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Washington Post\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cla-presents-laila-lalami-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T220000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #33
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\n\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\n\nThis month’s features: TBA\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# 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 (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-33/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T180000
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SUMMARY:mai c. doan
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 19\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\nmai c. doan is a mixed femme poet and writer from Southern California. She has published and performed her work though the National Queer Arts Festival\, Entropy Magazine\, the Poetry Project\, and more. She holds an MFA from Mills College\, where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. water/tongue (Omnidawn\, 2019)\, her first full-length book\, is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award nominee\, is. Find her on the internet at maicdoan.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mai-c-doan/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T193000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #51
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# 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 (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-51/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Spirit Houses: KSW Presents Maw Shein Win & Khaty Xiong
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 19th\, KSW Presents “Spirit Houses” a reading featuring Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn\, 2020) and Khaty Xiong\, author of Poor Anima (Apogee Press\, 2015). This event is a celebration of Maw Shein Win’s newest collection and of both poets’ powerful work performing rituals of grief\, pain\, and the life after it and with it. \n\n\n\nLEARN MORE | TICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spirit-houses-ksw-presents-maw-shein-win-khaty-xiong/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T200000
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SUMMARY:Tres Pochos Y Black Freighter
DESCRIPTION:This event is a collaboration between Black Freighter Press & Alley Cat Books in San Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tres-pochos-y-black-freighter/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Illuminate: A Night of Poetry in Solidarity with Asian and Asian American Communities
DESCRIPTION:ILLUMINATE is a virtual poetry reading and open mic in response to the rise in Anti-Asian violence and hate crimes\, which have increased by 1900% since the start of the pandemic. Open mic will center Asian\, Asian American\, and BIPOC poets standing in solidarity with the Asian and Asian American community during this time. \nILLUMINATE is co-curated by Greer Nakadegawa-Lee and Lauren Ito. This programming is presented as part of the Political Inheritance Exhibition co-presented by the Asian American Women Artists Association\, and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. \nClick Here for Open Mic Sign-Ups Here! \n**Please note that once Zoom Webinar reaches capacity\, you will still be able to view the event through our YouTube Stream. \nFeatured Poetry Readers \nYume Kim\nMaya Looney\nJenny Qi\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nLauren Ito \nYume Kim \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a Kundiman fellow recipient\, as well as the runner-up for the Michael Rubin Book Award in 2013. Her debut publication\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Website: www.yumekim-poet.com \nMaya Looney \nMaya is a junior at Skyline Highschool and takes poetry classes in the basement of Temescal Library. She’s read poems for a couple years at the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival\, which when it’s not on zoom takes place near a bookstore where she spends too much money on art books. Instagram: @meyerlemonsketches \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee is 16 years old and a junior at Oakland Technical High School. She has written a poem every day for over two years now\, and she is the 2020 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Her first chapbook \, “A Heart Full of Hallways” is out now with Nomadic Press. \nLauren Ito \nLauren Ito is a Gosei (fifth generation person of Japanese ancestry) poet\, community craftswoman\, and organizer committed to advancing equity through art and design. As an artist and organizer Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, political agency\, and home. Lauren’s work has been featured by The San Francisco Public Library\, The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, and various performance venues. Instagram: @Lauren.Ito
URL:https://litseen.com/event/illuminate-a-night-of-poetry-in-solidarity-with-asian-and-asian-american-communities/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T130000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Neon: A Light History (East Coast and European audiences)
DESCRIPTION:East Coast and European audiences are invited to celebrate the book launch of Neon: A Light History \nAbout this Event\nJoin us for the virtual book launch of Neon: A Light History\, which unearths neon’s vibrant legacy of scandal\, murder\, fascists\, and forgotten inventors. For this special morning program\, audiences across the globe will have the opportunity to celebrate this indispensable neon “bible.” Hosted by SF Neon\, this program will include a panel discussion with authors Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein plus special guests including Tom Rinaldi\, author of New York Neon. \n***************************************** \nThis event is part of Seasons of Neon\, an ongoing series of illuminating talks and tours presented by the Tenderloin Museum and SF Neon that celebrate the recent publication of Neon: A Light History (Giant Orange Press\, 2021) and explore San Francisco history through the city’s rich legacy of iconic glowing signs. \nExisting at the intersection of material culture and built environment\, neon signs are emblematic of the many small businesses that comprise a vital thread in the dynamic tapestry of the urban ecosystem. The Tenderloin and Mid-Market sport the densest concentration of extant neon in the Bay Area\, which makes the Tenderloin Museum an ideal forum to consider neon and its powerful\, often overlooked ability to chronicle a city and its people. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-neon-a-light-history-east-coast-and-european-audiences-tickets-140884636741
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-neon-a-light-history-east-coast-and-european-audiences/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T130000
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SUMMARY:Denise Riley and Jennifer Soong\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, Brandon Brown \nCo-sponsored with NYRB Poets and Futurepoem \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \nPlease note early start-time\, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center is honored to welcome poets Denise Riley\, in a rare US appearance\, and Jennifer Soong. Joining us\, respectively\, from London and the Eastern US\, the poets will each read from their work\, then engage in conversation\, along with emcee Brandon Brown\, and the audience.\nMaybe; maybe not \n  \nWhen I was a child I spoke as a thrush\, I \nthought as a clod\, I understood as a stone\, \nbut when I became a man I put away \nplain things for lustrous\, yet to this day \nsquat under hooves for kindness where \nfetlocks stream with mud—shall I never \nget it clear\, down in the soily waters.\n—Denise Riley\, from Say Something Back \n  \nBritish poet Denise Riley is one of the finest and most individual writers at work in English today\, and well-known among her peers as one of a generation of poets whose works and correspondences reach across the Atlantic. A distinguished philosopher and feminist theorist as well as poet\, Riley has produced a body of work both intellectually uncompromising and emotionally open. Her first collection of poems from an American press appeared in 2020 in the New York Review of Books Poets series—Say Something Back / Time Lived\, Without Its Flow includes her widely acclaimed lyric meditation on bereavement\, composed\, as she has written\, “in imagined solidarity with the endless others whose adult children have died\, often in far worst circumstances.” The accompanying prose work returns to the subject of grief. Time Lived\, Without Its Flow is a book\, as she indicates\, “not…about death\, but an altered condition of life.” \nRiley’s poetry collections include Marxism for Infants (1977)\, Dry Air (1985)\, Mop Mop Georgette (1993)\, two selections in the Penguin Modern Poets series (with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair\, 1996; and\, in 2017\, with Maggie Nelson and Claudia Rankine)\, and\, most recently\, Selected Poems 1976–2016 (2019). Her critical and philosophical works include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983); “Am I That Name?”: Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History (1988); The Words of Selves: Identification\, Solidarity\, Irony (2000); The Force of Language (with Jean-Jacques Lecercle\, 2004); and Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005). \n  \nThe Augurs \n  \nCome July\, the yolk of a year \nis dragged to lie on lawns of velvet sheen. \nDark-light blades\, one-tenth-an-inch wide \nover which the red sun hunches\, immobilized. \nWith what do we lie\, waiting the night \nand the hot black earth to erupt from us \na muddled report? How little we do. \nHow little we rest. How much we demand \nfrom the daily murders passing \nVulture-like\, like stars. \n  \n—Jennifer Soong\, from Near\, At\nJennifer Soong was born in central New Jersey in the nineties. Her writing has appeared in Social Text\, Berfrois\, Prelude Magazine\, DIAGRAM\, and Fanzine\, among other places\, and been translated into Spanish. She holds a B.A. in English and Visual Studies from Harvard College and is currently a doctoral candidate at Princeton University\, where she works on poetry and forgetting. Near\, At is her first book. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prhew-KzRQmpM9aTE8V9Bw
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-riley-and-jennifer-soong-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac in conversation with John Freeman
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussing her new novel \nMONA \nTranslated by Adam Morris\, published by Farrar Straus Giroux \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. to register. \n———– \nMona\, a Peruvian writer based in California\, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes\, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. \nWhen she is nominated for “the most important literary award in Europe\,” Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction\, so she trades the temptations of California for a small\, gray village in Sweden\, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged—and mostly male—competitors\, arriving from Japan\, France\, Armenia\, Iran\, and Colombia. Isolated as they are\, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments\, nurse envy and private resentments\, stab\nrivals in the back\, and hop in bed together. All the while\, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. \nAs her adventures in Scandinavia unfold\, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona\, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic\, scabrous\, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters\, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won’t stay past\, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime. \nPola Oloixarac was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. Her debut novel Savage Theories was a breakout bestseller in Argentina and Spain\, and was nominated for a Best Translated Book Award; in 2010 Granta recognized her as one of the best young contemporary novelists in Spanish. Oloixarac is a regular contributor to The New York Times\, and her fiction has appeared in Granta\, n+1\, The White Review\, and in an issue of Freeman’s dedicated to “The Future of New Writing.” Previously a resident of San Francisco\, CA\, Oloixarac currently resides in Barcelona. \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s\, a literary biannual of new writing\, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing (forthcoming)\, as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality\, including Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation\, and Tales of Two Planets (forthcoming)\, which features storytellers from around the globe on the climate crisis. Maps\, his debut collection of poems\, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. He is the former editor of Granta and is a Writer in Residence at New York University. \n  \nPraise for Mona \n\n\n“Smart\, provocative . . . The rich inner life of its namesake character propels this vibrant examination of the writing world.” —Publishers Weekly \n“A rapturous tour de force by Pola Oloixarac—one of the few writers I cannot live without—Mona is that novel that\, once finished\, leaves its reader perfectly\, beautifully undone. Part mystery\, part send-up of a literary world\, part journey into night\, Mona reminds us that no matter how far you fly\, the past is always near. If Mona were any smarter\, any funnier\, any truer\, I’m not sure my tender heart could have taken it.” —Junot Diaz\, author of This is How You Lose Her \n“Sly\, bitter\, and smart\, Mona is at once a satirical comedy\, a harrowing psychological portrait of a woman’s dissociation\, and a philosophical indictment of the hubris of now. Read it and be surprised.” —Siri Hustvedt\, author of Memories of the Future \n“Pola Oloixarac’s Mona is\, simultaneously\, a hilarious satire of literary pretensions\, a sincere exploration of a damaged psyche\, and a brilliantly unnerving new chapter in this writer’s inimitable body of work. It reads as though Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy was thrown in a blender with Roberto Bolaño’s 2666\, and then lightly seasoned with the bitter flavor of Horacio Castellanos Moya. In other words: Oloixarac is one of my new favorite writers.” —Andrew Martin\, author of Cool for America
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac-4/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gina Apostal Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a book talk on The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata with award-winning author Gina Apostal and host MT Vallarta. \nHosted by Eastwind Books of Berkeley \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT \nAbout the book:\nGina Apostol’s riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata\, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary\, tracing his childhood\, his education in Manila\, his love affairs\, and his discovery of writer and fellow revolutionary\, Jose Rizal. Mata’s 19th-century story is complicated by present-day foreword(s)\, afterword(s)\, and footnotes from three fiercely quarrelsome and comic voices: a nationalist editor\, a neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic\, and a translator\, Mimi C. Magsalin. In telling the contested and fragmentary story of Mata\, Apostol finds new ways to depict the violence of the Spanish colonial era\, and to reimagine the nation’s great writer\, Jose Rizal\, who was executed by the Spanish for his revolutionary activities\, and is considered by many to be the father of Philippine independence. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata offers an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction\, uncovering lost histories while building dazzling\, anarchic modes of narrative. \nPraise for The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata:\nWinner of 2010 Philippine National Book Award\nWinner of 2010 Gintong Aklat (Golden Book) Award \n“Gina Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata weaves the complex tangle of Philippine history\, literature\, and languages (along with contemporary academic scholarship) into a brilliant tour de force of a novel. Brava!”\n–John Barth \n“Gina Apostol tells our revolutionary history–or fragments of our history–using a pastiche of writing from the academe\, a diary\, stories within stories\, jokes\, puns\, allusions\, a virtual firecracker of words. Her novel is fearlessly intellectual\, anchored firmly on the theories of Jacques Lacan. But it is also funny and witty as it picks–lice\, nits\, and all–on the hoaxes in our history. It affirms\, if it still needs to be affirmed\, the power of fiction to shape and reshape the gaps in the narratives of our history as a nation. The main character here is History\, and its protagonist\, Imagination. For this audacious sword-play of a novel\, the National Book Award is given to Gina Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata.”\n–Judges’ Citation\, Philippine National Book Award \n“Edward Said wrote that the role of the intellectual is to present alternative narratives on history than those provided by the ‘combatants’ who claim entitlement to official memory and national identity–who propagate ‘heroic anthems sung in order to sweep all before them.’ In this fearlessly intellectual novel\, Gina Apostol takes on the keepers of official memory and creates a new\, atonal anthem that defies single ownership and\, in fact\, can only be performed by the many–by multiple voices in multiple readings. We may never look at ourselves and our history the same way again.”\n–Eric Gamalinda\, author of My Sad Republic \nAbout the Author:\nGina Apostal is the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, as well as a two-time winner of the National Book Award in the Philippines for her novels Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals including The Gettysburg Review and the Penguin anthology of Asian American fiction\, Charlie Chan Is Dead\, Volume 2. \nAbout the host:\nMT Vallarta is a poet and Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Riverside\, where they study feminist theory\, queer theory\, and Filipinx poetics. Their poetry and scholarship is published and forthcoming in The Velvet Light Trap\, The Asian American Literary Review\, Breadcrumbs\, Nat. Brut\, Apogee Journal\, and others. They were raised and live in Historic Filipinotown\, Los Angeles. \n—-\nTo purchase copies of the featured authors’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\nHardcover:\nhttps://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2950/Revolution_According_to_Raymundo_Mata.html \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-apostal-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly event that celebrates writers & artists committed to social justice and determined to make a positive change in our communities.\n\n\n\n3rd Saturday of the Month\n2-4 pm\nCurators/Hosts: Adela Najarro & harold terezon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jingletown-reading-open-mic/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T140000
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SUMMARY:Sandra Salsbury on Crowdcast
DESCRIPTION:virtually launching Best Friend in the Whole World\, a charming picture book about compassion and friendship in which a lonely rabbit\, a quiet pinecone\, and their perfect bond are tested. \n“Who is the ‘Best Friend in the Whole World’? After reading this sweet\, sensitive tale\, children can decide for themselves.”—New York Times \nShe’ll read her book and show us how to draw a best pine cone friend. Be sure to have your drawing materials ready! The book is recommended for ages 3-7.  \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to purchase a signed copy of the book through our website and/or to make a donation to support Mrs. Dalloway’s virtual events. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot” on Crowdcast. Thank you! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 21\, 2021 – 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRoland lives a quiet life filled with books\, music\, and tea parties for one\, but sometimes he feels rather lonely. When Roland finds the perfect companion in Milton (Good listener! Enjoys music! Also alone!)\, he is overjoyed. It’s okay that Milton is just a pine cone; they have so much in common. But clues start popping up in the woods\, suggesting someone else might be missing their best pine cone friend. Roland must decide if it’s worth leaving someone else in their loneliness to keep Milton in his life. \nSandra Salsbury received the 2018 SCBWI Don Freeman Illustration Grant. She has a BFA and MFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley\, where she cares for numerous house plants and a software engineer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandra-salsbury-on-crowdcast/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T160000
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SUMMARY:Maxima Kahn and Indigo Moor
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Maxima Kahn\, Fierce Aria\, and Indigo Moor\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something \, online via Zoom\, free\, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading) \nMORE ABOUT THE READERS\nPlease join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Sunday\, March 21 at 3:00 pm PDT! We are excited to bring you Maxima Kahn and Indigo Moor via Zoom. To register for this reading\, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After you register\, you will receive an email invitation with a link to join the reading. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times. \nThis reading is co-sponsored by Moe’s Books in Berkeley; the featured books are available at bookshop.org/lists/poetry-flash-readings. \nMaxima Kahn’s first full-length collection of poems is Fierce Aria. Annie Finch says\, “I have learned to walk into the valley of my fears and losses\,” writes Maxima Kahn\, and the evidence of what she has learned is all over these amazing poems. Fierce Aria is a book with a post-Wallace Stevens mission: to coax the still perfection of ideas out of the abstract realm\, so they can take shape in the messy wilderness of reality. Distinctive\, honed\, vulnerable\, musical\, courageous\, honest\, Maxima Kahn’s poems are fully ripened\, fully considered—each one ready to drop richly into the hand like a subtly contoured fruit.” Kahn also writes poetry\, essays and fiction. Her work has been featured in numerous literary journals\, and on blogs such as The Creative Penn\, Tiny Buddha\, Positively Positive and The Startup; her own blog is Creative Sparks at BrilliantPlayground.com. She is also an improvisational violinist\, a composer\, and a dancer. She lives in the Sierra Nevada in California. \nIndigo Moor’s new book is Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, recipient of The Backwaters Prize in Poetry\, Honorable Mention\, University of Nebraska Press. Cornelius Eady says\, “I strongly suggest you carry Moor’s brilliant book\, Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something\, home.…In this dazzling book\, you will read just how closely this poet has been paying attention\, to us\, to his histories\, foreign and domestic\, to our mighty (and sometimes mighty confusing) nation. Jonesin’ is a verse flashlight to all the corners you thought no one was supposed to pay attention to\, line by beautifully crafted line\, truth by earned truth. You’ll reach the last line of the last poem\, and trust me\, that’s when the hunger for more will begin.” Also a scriptwriter\, Moor is Poet Laureate emeritus of Sacramento. His other works include Tap-Root\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window (winner of the Northwestern University’s Cave Canem Prize)\, and In the Room of Thirsts and Hungers: The Mirrored Tragedies of Paul Robeson and Othello.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxima-kahn-and-indigo-moor/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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