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SUMMARY:Enter Generations
DESCRIPTION:ENTER GENERATIONS: A Night of Intergenerational QTPOC Brilliance\, curated by Shannon Prasad\, Greg Pond\, and Dazie Grego-Sykes with the support of Queer Rebels\, in their first ever queer inter-generational curatorial residency. Join us for a free night of performances featuring community elders\, Maria Medina\, Blackberri and Mali. Each of these legends will be collaborating with emerging or mid-career artists to create original performances creating conversations that have been lost throughout our generations. These performers include The Global Street Dance Masquerade\, Chibueze Crouch\, Gabriel Christian\, SNJV\, Mirza\, Benny Avalos\, and Ferny Miguel. Together with our evening’s host\, the talented Baruch Porras-Hernandez. \nAt this critical moment\, we feel the urgency in sharing the rich stories and experiences of our QTPoC community. It is vital that we take up space as a community. This multi-generational evening of performance is the beginning of a conversation and a reclaiming of our own Queer Histories. \n*Work in Progress Show will be held on Friday Jan 24th 2020 8:00 – 9:00pm at CounterPulse.* \n**This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL interpreter.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/enter-generations/
LOCATION:Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Rebecca Radner
DESCRIPTION:Clearly Meant presents: a poetry reading\, interview\, and discussion\, featuring Rebecca Radner. \nRebecca Radner\, a Berkeley poet\, is the author of What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011 (Class Action Ink).  Her poems have appeared in Harvard Magazine\, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, The Iowa Review\, and The New England Review\, as well as the anthology What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle. She has read her poems recently as part of the Bay Area Generations reading series and at the Berkeley Art Center. \nA free chapbook of Rebecca Radner’s poems will be available at all BPL locations starting in January. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-rebecca-radner/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Synchronicity by Tureeda Mikell
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated release of Tureeda Mikell‘s first full-length collection of poetry\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine. Location to be announced soon. \nPreorders help small presses gauge print runs\, so grab your copy before the event! www.nomadicpress.org/store/synchronicity \nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a poetic-prose journey into the revelation of sun medicine that shows up like a rhyme in time to forewarn and sign the body and the mind. Filled with questions\, answers\, wordplay\, interspecies connection\, religious\, scientific\, and political satire\, and prose about the Black Panthers\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine connects readers with the universal ear that takes them on a healing journey into the mysterious interwoven nature of humans\, birds\, stars\, and those from beyond. \nJames Cagney\, author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory\, winner of the 2019 Josephine Miles PEN Oakland award says: “Be careful casual reader—cold hard truths lie within. These are not poems—they are corrective sermons written to turn you around to look squarely in the face of logic and reason. Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a double-barreled book blasting holes clean through your assumptions and understanding of nature\, spirit\, history\, and race. It aims to disassemble language down to its barest elements to help readers rebuild common sense from scratch. A veteran teacher and master storyteller\, Tureeda Mikell is a lyrical wonder digging deep into the words and symbols we too often take for granted. There’s a reason events rhyme and repeat\, there’s a grander purpose behind those synchronistic events and occurrences linking like a chain around you. The answers you need are lit and laid open at your feet. The journey is yours to take.” \nAdditional readers and the musician will be announced soon. Gnosh and drinks will be provided. \nDonations will be collected throughout the evening\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-synchronicity-by-tureeda-mikell/
LOCATION:East Side Arts Alliance\, 2277 International Blvd.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:‘Heartbeat’\, A Film by Will Combs featuring Bob Kaufman\, Jack Micheline\, ‘Hube the Cube’ and others
DESCRIPTION:As a young film student immersed with the works of Godard and cinema verite’\, Will Combs barged into the backyard of the remaining Beats in San Francisco’s North Beach in the mid-1970’s. Using surplus film stock and a spring-wind Bolex\, he began to capture the temperament of the Era\, kabuki style. HEARTBEAT features rare and personal footage of Bob Kaufman\, Jack Micheline and Hube the Cube in their environment\, infusing poetry with a concise inquiry into the Beat Era.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heartbeat-a-film-by-will-combs-featuring-bob-kaufman-jack-micheline-hube-the-cube-and-others/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gish Jen's The Resisters Book Talk with Helen Zia
DESCRIPTION:A moving and important story of an America that seems ever more possible\, The Resisters is also the story of one family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value–as well as their very existence. Gish will be in conversation with Helen Zia\, activist/author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams. \n“The Resisters is palpably loving\, smart\, funny\, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” –Ann Patchett \nGISH JEN is the author of four previous novels\, a story collection\, and two works of nonfiction\, the latest of which was The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nCo-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Bay Area Chapter\, Asian Health Services\, and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nFREE\, $3-5 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gish-jens-the-resisters-book-talk-with-helen-zia/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Clement: Schulkind\, McClung\, Grafton\, & Barnes
DESCRIPTION:About the Authors \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket\nto HAIR\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She\nwas part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She is a former\npsych nurse and librarian. Her beloved partner\, Carole\, created the cover art for her book.\nFALLING INTO FLOWERS was the recipient of the 2017 Rainbow Award for Best Gay and Lesbian\nPoetry\, a finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award\, and received Honorable Mention in both\nthe “Gay” and “Poetry” categories for the 2018 San Francisco Book Festival. \nGrace Marie Grafton’s latest book\, LENS\, from Unsolicited Press\, features poems inspired by\nthe art of California. Six additional collections of her poetry have been published. Her poems\nwon first prize in the Soul Making contest (PEN women\, San Francisco)\, in Bellingham Review\,\nand from The National Women’s Book Association\, and have twice been nominated for a\nPushcart Prize. Ms. Grafton taught with CA Poets in the Schools\, earning twelve CA Arts Council\ngrants for her teaching programs. Recent poems appear in basalt\, Sin Fronteras\, Pirene’s\nFountain\, Canary\, Nostos\, Ambush\, Peacock Journal\, and Mezzo Cammin. \nKathleen McClung is the author of two poetry collections\, The Typists Play Monopoly and\nAlmost the Rowboat. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies including Southwest\nReview\, Naugatuck River Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, The MacGuffin\, Forgotten Women\,\nSanctuary\, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, and elsewhere. Winner of the Rita Dove\,\nMorton Marr\, Shirley McClure\, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes\, she is a Pushcart and\nBest of the Net nominee. Associate director of the Soul-Making Keats literary competition\, she\nhas mentored hundreds of writers at Skyline College\, The Writing Salon\, and other colleges and\nhas taught/advised student teachers in the credential program at Mills College. For ten years\nshe has directed Women on Writing: WOW Voices Now on the Skyline campus. In 2018-2019\nshe is a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.\n \nLaura Schulkind\, an attorney by day\, is entrusted with others’ stories. Through poetry she tells\nher own. She has two poetry chapbooks\, both published by Finishing Line Press\, The Long Arc of\nGrief (2019) and Lost in Tall Grass (2014). Her writing has also appeared in numerous literary\njournals including: The Dallas Review\, Diverse Voices Quarterly\, Dos Passos Review\, Forge\, The\nMacGuffin\, and Reed Magazine.\nHer recent collection The Long Arc of Grief\, dedicated to her parents\, was impelled by suddenly\nfinding herself in a world without them. But it also moves beyond grief\, exploring how we all\nnot merely carry on\, but live. In telling these stories\, she has been described as\, “a fearless\ntruth-teller\, shining the light of her poetic language on details we well might have missed\notherwise–the small\, miraculous moments of discovery\, heartbreak and redemption.” Barbara\nQuick (Vivaldi’s Virgins) Her published work\, and additional reviews can also be found at:\nwww.lauraschulkind.com\, along with musings on why “lawyer-poet” isn’t an oxymoron.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clement-schulkind-mcclung-grafton-barnes/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books Clement Street\, 506 Clement Street\, San Francisco\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Swap!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our semiannual Book Swap at Novel Brewing Co.! \nHow does it work?\nBring a book\, or a few books. We prefer ones from home that you finished reading and would like to share with others \nAND/OR come in to find the next book you want to read! \nEach book included in the Book Swap needs a BOOKMARK!\nBookmarks and writing utensils are provided. Please write (1) your first name and last initial\, and (2) the top 2 reasons someone should read the book. Place the books\, with the bookmark in it\, on the Book Swap Book Cart. \nNovel Brewing Company’s Book Swap host (Teresa) will push around the Book Swap Book Cart from 4 to 6 pm to get each book a new home! \nSuccess = Extra $1 off your next pint!\nIf your book is selected by someone to take home\, the bookmark will be given to the beer server SO ASK if you have a bookmark behind the bar during your next pint purchase to redeem an extra $1 off your pint! \nIf books remain at the end\, no worries\, they will be put in the Lending Library over the next few months. \nHave fun and READ MORE in your daily life!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-swap/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Conor Dougherty - Golden Gates w/Nellie Bowles
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Conor Doughertyto read from his new book\, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America on Monday\, February 17th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation by Nellie Bowles. \nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today\, however\, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. \nWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting\, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter\, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. \nTo tell this new story of housing\, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \nSweeping in scope and intimate in detail\, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nConor Dougherty is an economics reporter at The New York Times. He previously spent a decade in New York covering housing and the economy for The Wall Street Journal. He grew up in the Bay Area and lives with his family in Oakland. \nNellie Bowles is a reporter for the New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conor-dougherty-golden-gates-w-nellie-bowles/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dia Felix and Matt Longabucco
DESCRIPTION:Come out for an impromptu reading featuring Dia Felix and their longtime pal Matt Longabucco!! Also featuring super surprise guests!! Come for the reading and stay for the surprise!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-felix-and-matt-longabucco/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T193000
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SUMMARY:Typewriter Art: Typestracts\, Artyping\, and Constellation Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Before ASCII art there was typewriter art. Taking advantage of a widely available office tool\, artists and poets used the typewriter to forge a new genre of art and poetry. Breaking the grid and exploding words\, these artists and poets used the limitations and practicalities of the typewriter to create beautiful and thought provoking pieces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/typewriter-art-typestracts-artyping-and-constellation-poetry/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lewis Watts - Harlem of the West
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Lewis Watts to read from is new book\, Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era on Tuesday\, February 18th at 7pm. \nIn the 1940s and 50s\, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment\, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block-radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants\, pool halls\, theaters\, and stores\, many of them owned and run by African Americans\, Japanese Americans\, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians\, Harlem of the Westcaptures a joyful\, exciting time in San Francisco\, taking readers through an all-but-forgotten multicultural neighborhood and revealing a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist\, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lewis-watts-harlem-of-the-west/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T210000
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SUMMARY:Dennis Baron at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She \nPublished by Liveright \n\n\n\n\n\nAddressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation\, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular-they. \nLike trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms\, pronouns are sparking a national debate\, prompting new policies in schools\, workplaces\, even prisons\, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space to add pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a by-product of the culture wars\, gender-neutral pronouns are\, however\, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context\, noting that Shakespeare used singular-they; women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women’s rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she); and people have been coining new gender pronouns\, not just hir and zie\, for centuries. Based on Baron’s own empirical research\, What’s Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played—and continue to play—in establishing both our rights and our identities. It is an essential work in understanding how twenty-first-century culture has evolved. \nDennis Baron\, professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois\, has long been a national commentator on language issues\, from the Washington Post to NPR and CNN. He is the author of A Better Pencil: Readers\, Writers\, and the Digital Revolution. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, he lives in Champaign\, Illinois. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dennis-baron-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T210000
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SUMMARY:Conor Dougherty: Golden Gates
DESCRIPTION: Conor Dougherty discusses his new book Golden Gates: Fighting For Housing in America. \nPraise for Golden Gates \n“Golden Gates is a careful consideration of the Bay Area’s slow-burning housing crisis and deepening socioeconomic cleft\, and a finely reported exploration of some more recent accelerants: political infighting\, arcane policy\, the strictures and incentives of capitalism\, and\, of course\, the rapid growth and ascendance of Silicon Valley tech corporations. With precision\, insight\, and flashes of humor\, Conor Dougherty delivers intimate glimpses of a region in transition\, and a sobering reminder that San Francisco\, these days\, is not so much an exception as a harbinger of the future for America’s cities.”—Anna Wiener\, author of Uncanny Valley \n“Golden Gates is a terrific work of explanatory journalism. If you want to understand the colliding forces that have turned the San Francisco Bay Area into a housing powder keg and threaten to engulf many more cities across the country\, you need to read this book.”—John Carreyrou\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood \n“How do we solve a problem like California\, with its three-hour commutes and sky-high rents? Deeply-reported and fast-paced\, Golden Gates introduces you to the people fighting for and against affordable housing in one of the world’s hottest real estate markets. In following the clashes between political leaders\, tenant activists\, developers\, and working families\, Dougherty brings a novel perspective to one of the nation’s most urgent problems.”— Matthew Desmond\, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City \nAbout Golden Gates \nA stunning\, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis \nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today\, however\, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. \nWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting\, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter\, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. \nTo tell this new story of housing\, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \nSweeping in scope and intimate in detail\, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conor-dougherty-golden-gates/
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:20200218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T210000
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SUMMARY:Devi S. Laskar discusses The Atlas of Reds and Blues
DESCRIPTION:Devi S. Laskar will be joined in conversation by Vijaya Nagarajan\, Christine O’Brien\, and Elizabeth Stark\, to celebrate the paperback release of The Atlas of Reds and Blues. \n  \nAbout the Book: \n“Devi S. Laskar’s The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal. In prose that moves between cushioning characters’ falls and ushering our understandings of characters’ utopias\, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating. I’ve never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages. Laskar has changed how we will all write about state-sanctioned terror in this nation.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \n“The entire novel takes place over the course of a single morning\, as Mother lies waiting for help\, and the effect is devastatingly potent.” —Marie Claire \nWhen a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs\, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades\, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No\, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants\, she finds that her answer—Here—is never enough. \nMother’s simmering anger breaks through one morning\, when\, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home\, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound\, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India\, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters\, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home. \nThe Atlas of Reds and Blues grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience\, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace\, and a sister\, a wife\, and a mother to daughters in today’s America. Drawing inspiration from the author’s own terrifying experience of a raid on her home\, Devi S. Laskar’s debut novel explores\, in exquisite\, lyrical prose\, an alternate reality that might have been. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDevi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Tin House and Rattle\, among other publications. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and is an alumna of The OpEd Project and VONA. The Atlas of Reds and Blues is her first novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nVijaya Nagarajan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Feeding A Thousand Souls: Women\, Ritual and Ecology in India\, An Exploration of the Kolam (Oxford University Press\, 2019) \nChristine O’Brien’s lyrical essays and short stories have appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile Magazine\, among other publications. Her memoir\, CRAVE\, A Memoir of Food and Longing\, released in 2018\, was hailed as a “page turner” by Booklist and “a 20th Century fairytale” by The New York Times. She is currently an adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s College of California where she has taught composition for nine years. \nElizabeth Stark is host of the Story Makers Show podcast. She produced the 2019 film Lost in the Middle\, the documentary FtF: Female to Femme\, and the film short\, Little Mutinies. She has taught at UCSC\, Pratt\, St. Mary’s and more\, and is currently teaching at SonomaCountyWritersCamp.com and BookWritingWorld.com. Look out for Optical Illusions\, a forthcoming novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devi-s-laskar-discusses-the-atlas-of-reds-and-blues/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Steve Almond Q&A with Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 19\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 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\nQ&A and discussion with Steve Almond\, author of William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life. The plot of the John Williams’s 1965 novel Stoner is straightforward enough—“Stoner\, the only son of subsistence farmers\, attends college\, unexpectedly falls in love with literature\, and becomes a teacher; he endures a disastrous marriage\, a prolonged academic feud\, and a doomed love affair\, then falls ill and dies\,” Almond writes—but in William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life\, the author sees the novel as a personal reckoning\, a catalyst for sharing his own struggles as a writer\, father\, and husband grappling with his own mortality. \nSteve Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Against Football and Candyfreak. His short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, the Best American Mysteries\, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, and elsewhere. He hosts the New York Times “Dear Sugars” podcast with Cheryl Strayed. Steve lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. \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/steve-almond-qa-with-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Vincent Meis Reads at Dog Eared Books Castro
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Vincent Meis reads from his just off the presses new novel\, Four Calling Birds\, 7pm\, Wednesday\, February 19 from at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. The event is free. \nThe four Burd siblings head to Mexico to heal and regroup after the death of their mother. Midlife crises are revealed. At the age of forty-seven\, M wonders if she is too old to transition to the man she has been hiding inside her. Augie has a perfect gay family with a loving husband and an adorable bi-racial son. And yet\, something is missing. The charismatic Lio has squandered his marriage and relationship with his daughter in favor of a hedonistic lifestyle. The youngest sibling\, AJ\, is married to a man emboldened by the election of a fascist bully as president. It takes a kidnapping to shake them out of their self-absorption\, sending them on a new journey. \nMeis has published four previous novels: Eddie’s Desert Rose (2011)\, Tio Jorge (2012)\, and Down in Cuba (2013)\, and Deluge (2016). Tio Jorge received a Rainbow Award in the category of Bisexual Fiction in 2012. Down in Cuba received two Rainbow Awards in 2013\, and Deluge a Rainbow Award in 2016. Recently\, his stories have been published in three collections: With: New Gay Fiction\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica\, Vol. 1. He has published pieces in publications such as The Advocate\, LA Weekly\, In Style\, and Our World. He lives in San Leandro\, California with his husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-meis-reads-at-dog-eared-books-castro/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T193000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-14/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T210000
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SUMMARY:Month of Love: February Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Bring a date to this lit reading by five Northern Californian writers. We are feature local talent along with refreshments and a book store cat. All free!! Come enjoy and warm your winter bones. \nAntmen Pimentel Mendoza\nGrace Loh Prasad\nApollo Papafrangou\nWill Preston\nLisa Rosenberg \nHosted and curated by Sharon Coleman \nantmen pimentel mendoza (he\, him\, his & she\, her\, hers) is a scorpio\, bakla\, and writer. antmen is based in Huichin Ohlone Land (the San Francisco Bay Area) where he talks about pop music nearly all day and plays with friends. She works at a cultural center where she conspires with undergraduate students of color toward more free and just worlds\, manages a community lending library\, and geeks on curriculum development and workshop facilitation. \nApollo Papafrangou is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Wings of Wax (Olive Leaf Editions\, 2016) and the story collection Concrete Candy\, published by Anchor Books/Doubleday in 1996\, with French and Danish editions. He has also written for HBO Films\, which optioned the film rights to his story The Fence (2000-2004). His fiction and poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA magazine\, Oakland Review\, The Bookends Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and the Simon & Schuster anthology Trapped. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nGrace Loh Prasad was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey and Hong Kong before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grace received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College\, and is an alumna of the VONA workshop for writers of color along with residencies at Hedgebrook and the Ragdale Foundation. Her essays have appeared in Longreads\, Catapult\, Jellyfish Review\, Ninth Letter\, Blood Orange Review\, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine\, Memoir Mixtapes\, The Manifest-Station\, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is a contributor to the anthology Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration\, Identity and Coming to America and has work forthcoming in Panorama\, and the anthologies Ms. Aligned 3 and Chrysanthemum: Voices of the TaiwanesDiaspora\, Vol. II. Grace is a member of The Writers Grotto and Seventeen Syllables\, an Asian Pacific American writers collective. She is currently finishing her memoir entitled The Translator’s Daughter (www.translatorsdaughter.com). \nWill Preston was born in Oakland where he is now a middle school teacher\, and will complete the MFA program in creative writing at St. Mary’s College where he is also the Senior Fiction Editor for the literary journal Mary. His short fiction appears in Milvia Street. \nPoet and recovering engineer\, Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics\, winner of the Red Mountain Poetry Prize. She holds degrees in physics and creative writing\, and worked for many years in the space program. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford\, she served as the 2017/2018 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Lisa’s poems explore natural and cultural landscapes\, the art of making\, and the drive to question inherited models. She was recently named a MOSAIC Fellow with Sangam Arts\, and has been awarded a 2020 Djerassi Residency for Scientists and Artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/month-of-love-february-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T162147
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SUMMARY:Radar: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
DESCRIPTION:SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers work with Hormel Center LGBTQIA archives around a specific queer theme\, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at a local venue. \n  \nFEATURING:\nal aguas\nKiyaan Abadani\nmadhvi trivedi-pathak\nManeo Refiloe Mohale
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-show-us-your-spines-resident-reading/
LOCATION:El Rio\, 3158 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen featuring Kaecey McCormick
DESCRIPTION:Willow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nKaecey McCormick is an author\, artist\, and educator whose mission is to help people access creativity as a tool for effecting change in their lives. Named the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate for the City of Cupertino\, she enjoys helping the community celebrate poetry. Kaecey works as a writer and creativity coach\, and her writing appears in her book Pixelated Tears (Prolific Press) and numerous journals and anthologies. When not creating\, Kaecey enjoys time with her husband and four daughters..
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-featuring-kaecey-mccormick/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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SUMMARY:“Poetry from Prisoners”
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to present a sampling of “Poetry from Prisoners” incarcerated in California. Readers will include poets Rose Black and Ken Weisner\, currently teaching at the Salinas Valley State Prison poetry workshop. \nRose and Ken are also two of the founders of Right to Write Press – Promoting the growth of emerging writers incarcerated in California State prisons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-from-prisoners/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nThe Lucky Star: A Novel \npublished by Viking/Penguin \nThe National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco–with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society \nIn such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family\, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps\, prostitutes\, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. In this new novel\, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves\, and who has to love them all back. \nAfter being initiated into a coven of island witches\, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard\, the introverted\, alcoholic\, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane\, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank\, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much\, Judy’s retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. \nCrafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic\, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture\, gender identity\, incest\, Christian sacrifice and\, most of all\, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way\, and stand up for who they are. \nPraise for The Lucky Star \n“[A] provocatively playful novel . . . As Neva evolves from an innocent to an icon on par with Marlene Dietrich\, at least in the eyes of the Y Bar circle\, she guides and mentors their sexual self-discovery\, helping define their boundaries and gain confidence . . . Vollmann’s challenging novel is full of memorable moments.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Vollmann pours his signature fascination with outcasts\, women’s sexuality\, violence\, and injustice into this gargantuan\, omnivorously explicit\, ravening orgy of trauma and resilience. Rooted in interviews with women survivors\, this is a molten amalgam of cynicism and compassion\, horror and beauty.” —Booklist \nWilliam T Vollmann is an award winning novelist\, journalist\, war correspondent\, short story writer\, essayist\, and painter. He is the author of ten novels\, four short story collections\, nine works of non-fiction\, and numerous limited special editions. His novel Europe Central won the 2005 National Book Award. He has won numerous honors for his work including the Whiting Foundation Award and the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Award for his fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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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! \nAlameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane hosts. All attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the Alameda Food Bank that night to support those needing help this holiday season. \nAs Charles Dickens wrote\, “it is a time\, of all others\, when Want is keenly felt\, and Abundance rejoices.” Let’s all rejoice by sharing our cultures\, our words\, and our hearts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month-2/
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:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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SUMMARY:The Racket : Revenge
DESCRIPTION:There are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and lust and backstabbing and danger and excitement and sex (there is has to be sex right?) and for some reason we think everything is covered in thick\, red velvet and dimly lit and maybe there’s a vampire because vampires are probably pretty vengeful but maybe that’s just because now we’re thinking thick\, red velvet and goblets full of red wine and maybe some of these stories will be set in castles with vampires… Could somebody please dump some ice on us so we can cool down? \nAnyways\, it’s going to be quite the evening. \nFree beer\, until it is not around anymore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-revenge/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers\, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event—the first of two evenings with Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto—is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nJennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Vermont College. She is the author of Hindrances of a Householder (Chax 2016)\, Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (theenk Books\, 2014)\, lullaby without any music (Chax Press\, 2012)\, and Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press\, 2007). Of her work\, Nathaniel Tarn writes\, “Jennifer Bartlett has created not a new form of surrealism\, nor of magical realism\, but a kind of supernal realism which leaves room for dreams\, visions\, and angels as well as the panoplies of both country and urban life.” \nBartlett is currently finishing a biography on the life of Black Mountain poet Larry Eigner. In 2017\, she cofounded Zoeglossia\, a literary organization pioneering an inclusive space for poets with disabilities. With Sheila Black and Michael Northen\, she also coedited Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press\, 2011). Bartlett has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, and the University of Connecticut\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and she works part-time in the Office of the President of New York City Transit. Here she works with a team on bringing accessibility to the New York City transit system. In addition to being a poet and writer\, she is an activist for people with disabilities throughout New York. \nDenise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet\, writer\, editor\, and dance dramaturge. She wrote the book of poetry for the collaborative dance performance Your Body is Not a Shark\, exploring feminist embodiment\, voice\, and disability poetics. Her work has appeared in publications such as Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art; The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde; and Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa\, Naropa University\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, the Breadloaf Poetry Fellowship in Sicily\, and the Queer Sugarloaf Art Residency. Denise is a member of Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. The collaborative article\, “In Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation” with Sima Belmar was published in the December issue of In Dance. Her current project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay. New poems are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Rogue Agent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nDenise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett\nreading from their work\nFriday February 21\n7:00 pm @ The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street (at Gough)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \nZoeglossia: A Community for Writers with Disabilities \nIn Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation with Denise Leto (with Sima Belmar) \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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-jennifer-bartlett-and-denise-leto-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elwin Cotman\, Vernon Keeve\, Adrienne Oliver\, and Alexandra Mattraw Reading
DESCRIPTION:Local writers Elwin Cotman\, Vernon Keeve\, and Adrienne Oliver read from their work. \nElwin Cotman grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, whee the post-industrial landscape was a great inspiration for him. He is a writer of urban fantasy. He is also the author of two collections of speculative short stories\, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP and Hard Times Blues. His work has appeared in Grist\, Weird Fiction Review\, Black Gate\, The Thought Erotic\, The Southwestern Review\, and Cabinet des Fees\, among others. His third collection\, Dance on Saturday\, is being published by Small Beer Press in 2020. \nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia born writer. He currently lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives\, sharing their experiences\, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from CCA\, and a MA in Teaching Literature from Bard College. His full-length collection of poetry\, Southern Migrant Mixtape\, was published by Nomadic Press in 2018 and is the recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. \nAdrienne Danyelle Oliver is a poet-educator currently living in Oakland\, CA. Her previous work has appeared in Digital Paper\, The Womanist\, Storytelling\, Self & Society (Wayne State University Press 2018) and The Musuem of African American Diaspora’s poet corner. A Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) alumna\, Adrienne enjoys writing about intergenerational healing and 1930s era history leading up to the civil rights era. When she is not writing\, Adrienne is reading or watching documentaries. She also leads a monthly writing and healing circle for Black women.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elwin-cotman-vernon-keeve-adrienne-oliver-and-alexandra-mattraw-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000
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SUMMARY:Paul E. Joseph in conversation with with Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. \npublished by Basic Books \n\nThis dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century’s most iconic African American leaders. \nTo most Americans\, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence\, black power vs. civil rights\, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy\, the movement’s militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield\, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who\, despite markedly different backgrounds\, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography\, not only of Malcolm and Martin\, but also of the movement and era they came to define. \nPeniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan professor of political values and ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written several previous books on African American history\, including Stokely: A Life. He lives in Austin\, Texas. \nDr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. is a life long activist and educator. He is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California\, Berkeley and the author of numerous important books on African American history which include: “No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America” and as co-author with Joshua Bloom “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party”\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-e-joseph-in-conversation-with-with-dr-waldo-e-martin-jr-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Offill: Weather
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. \nPraise for Weather \n“This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong \n“Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds with her steady\, near-pointillist technique. One feels a whole heaving\, breathing universe behind her every line. Dread\, the sensation of sinking\, lostness\, and being cast away from any sense of safety infiltrates every interaction and private moment in this book\, like ashes from the burning world she describes.”–Sheila Heti \n“Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need to wake up to it.  Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices\, because she writes about essential things\, in sentences so clipped and glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.”–Jonathan Dee \nAbout Weather \nFrom the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation–one of the New York Times Book Review‘s Ten Best Books of the Year–a shimmering tour de force about a family\, and a nation\, in crisis \nLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment\, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor\, Sylvia Liller\, makes a proposal. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast\, Hell and High Water\, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world\, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse\, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience–but still she tries to save everyone\, using everything she’s learned about empathy and despair\, conscience and collusion\, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in–funny\, disturbing\, and increasingly mad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-offill-weather/
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:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:reads from her new collection of essays\, Try To Get Lost \n\nThrough the author (TM)s travels in Europe and the United States\, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry\, how politics infuse geography\, media (TM)s depictions of an idea of home\, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word oehotel\, � and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate\, inhabited place “the oevastest real estate we know\, � with a oestunningly short � lease.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T220000
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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-5/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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