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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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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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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
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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.
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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
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T130000
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kim Addonizio and Bob Hicok
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, March 22nd at 6pm PT when Kim Addonizio joins us to discuss her latest collection\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, with Bob Hicock on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86298421877\n\nAbout Now We’re Getting Somewhere\nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world.\n\nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more.\nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf.\n\nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar.\n\nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.”\n\nAbout Kim Addonizio\nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kim-addonizio-and-bob-hicok-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kim Addonizio and Bob Hicok
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, MARCH 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN KIM ADDONIZIO JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST COLLECTION\, NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE\, WITH BOB HICOK ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86298421877\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86298421877#  or +13462487799\,\,86298421877#\nWebinar ID: 862 9842 1877\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbLep4IiCz \nAbout Now We’re Getting Somewhere \nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world. \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. \nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. \nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \nAbout Kim Addonizio \nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kim-addonizio-and-bob-hicok/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210322T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210322T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Iain S. Thomas / The Truth of You: Poetry about Love\, Life\, Joy\, and Sadness
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Iain S. Thomas again for his new book The Truth of You: Poetry About Love\, Life\, Joy\, and Sadness. He’ll be joined by Amanda Lovelace\, author of the celebrated series Women Are Some Kind of Magic and You Are Your Own Fairy Tale. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Truth of You here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nThis is the truth of you. \nBecause you are all I see. \nBecause you are all I breathe. \nBecause when I cannot find you\, I am lost. \nBecause when I’m with you\, I am found. \nBecause you have the fire of the universe in you\, and sometimes you forget. \nSo this book is here to remind you. \nDear You\, \nI want you to know that I see you. \nI want you to know that even if no one else does\, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop\, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer\, wherever you’re reading this\, I see you. \nI see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story\, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream. \nI see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be. I see you and in looking at you\, I want you to know that whoever you’ve had to be to survive all this\, I will not look away. \nI want you to know that there’s a space inside this book for you. \nSo if you have the time and the inclination\, you can sit here with me\, just for a while. \nAnd perhaps between us\, we can see everything that matters. \n-pleasefindthis \nAbout the authors\nIain S. Thomas is a writer and new media artist. He is the author of several books including Every Word You Cannot Say and the internationally bestselling I Wrote This For You series. When he’s not writing\, drawing or working\, he spends time with his family in the outdoors in Cape Town\, South Africa. \namanda lovelace is the author of several bestselling poetry titles\, including her celebrated “women are some kind of magic” trilogy as well as her new “you are your own fairy tale” series. she is also the co-creator of the believe in your own magic oracle deck. when she isn’t reading\, writing\, or drinking a much-needed cup of coffee\, you can find her casting spells from her home in a (very) small town on the jersey shore\, where she resides with her poet-spouse & their three cats. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-iain-s-thomas-the-truth-of-you-poetry-about-love-life-joy-and-sadness/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T190000
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SUMMARY:Melanie Challenger
DESCRIPTION:Melanie Challenger is joined by Paul Greenberg for a conversation about her new book\, How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to be Human (Penguin Books). \n“With this book\, Melanie Challenger fearlessly plunges into the biggest question of our time: how can we rediscover our animal selves\, before it is too late? How can we discover our true place in the wider world we are destroying? Each of us has to answer this question for ourselves. This book is a guide for you on the journey.” —Paul Kingsnorth\, author of The Wake \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast Channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout How to Be Animal\nHuman are the most inquisitive\, emotional\, imaginative\, aggressive\, and baffling animals on the planet. But we are also an animal that does not think it is an animal. How well do we really know ourselves? \nHow to Be Animal tells a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our existence is a profound struggle with being animal. We possess a psychology that seeks separation between humanity and the rest of nature\, and we have invented grand ideologies to magnify this. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this mindset evolved\, Challenger’s book examines the wide-reaching ways in which it affects our lives\, from our politics to the way we distance ourselves from other species. We travel from the origin of homo sapiens through the agrarian and industrial revolutions\, the age of the internet\, and on to the futures of AI and human-machine interface. Challenger examines how technology influences our sense of our own animal nature and our relationship with other species with whom we share this fragile planet. \nThat we are separated from our own animality is a delusion\, according to Challenger. Blending nature writing\, history\, and moral philosophy\, How to Be Animal is both a fascinating reappraisal of what it means to be human\, and a robust defense of what it means to be an animal. \nAbout Melanie Challenger\nMelanie Challenger works as a researcher on the history of humanity and the natural world\, and on environmental philosophy. She is the author of On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature. She received a Darwin Now Award for her research among Canadian Inuit and the Arts Council International Fellowship with the British Antarctic Survey for her work on the history of whaling. She lives with her family in England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melanie-challenger/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear - The Consequences of Fear (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation\, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain’s war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series. \nOctober 1941. While on a delivery\, young Freddie Hackett\, a message runner for a government office\, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house\, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address\, he’s shocked to come face to face with the killer. \nDismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime\, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering a message: Maisie Dobbs. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help\, she must maintain extreme caution: she’s working secretly for the Special Operations Executive\, assessing candidates for crucial work with the French resistance. Her two worlds collide when she spots the killer in a place she least expects. She soon realizes she’s been pulled into the orbit of a man who has his own reasons to kill—reasons that go back to the last war. \nAs Maisie becomes entangled in a power struggle between Britain’s intelligence efforts in France and the work of Free French agents operating across Europe\, she must also contend with the lingering question of Freddie Hackett’s state of mind. What she uncovers could hold disastrous consequences for all involved in this compelling chapter of the “series that seems to get better with every entry” (Wall Street Journal). \nJacqueline Winspear is author of the New York Times bestsellers A Lesson in Secrets\, The Mapping of Love and Death\, Among the Mad\, An Incomplete Revenge\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Journey to Munich\, In This Grave Hour\, To Die But Once\, and her latest in the Maisie Dobbs series\, The Conseqeunces of Fear; as well as What Would Maisie Do?\, a non-fiction book based upon the series; and her memoir\, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing. In addition\, her recent published essays include “Writing About War\,” for which she interviewed writers including Kate Atkinson\, Rhys Bowen\, Jeff Shaara\, and Adam Hochschild\, exploring the impact of writing about war on the author; and “Women On Fire\,” about women working in wildfire management. Her essay on writing the historical mystery will appear in the upcoming anthology/handbook from Mystery Writers of America\, How To Write A Mystery\, edited by Lee Child (April 2021). Winspear has won numerous awards for her work\, including the Agatha\, Alex\, and Macavity awards for Maisie Dobbs\, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was a New York Times Notable Book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-the-consequences-of-fear-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205232
CREATED:20210127T175420Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Nicola DeRobertis-Theye / The Vietri Project
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Nicola DeRobertis-Theye and her debut novel The Vietri Project. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Vietri Project here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nWorking at a bookstore in Berkeley in the years after college\, Gabriele becomes intrigued by the orders of signor Vietri\, a customer from Rome whose numerous purchases grow increasingly mystical and esoteric. Restless and uncertain of her future\, Gabriele quits her job and\, landing in Rome\, decides to look up Vietri. Unable to locate him\, she begins a quest to unearth the well-concealed facts of his life. \nFollowing a trail of obituaries and military records\, a memoir of life in a village forgotten by modernity\, and the court records of a communist murder trial\, Gabriele meets an eclectic assortment of the city’s inhabitants\, from the widow of an Italian prisoner of war to members of a generation set adrift by the financial crisis. Each encounter draws her unexpectedly closer to her own painful past and complicated family history—an Italian mother diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized during her childhood\, and an extended family in Rome still recovering from the losses and betrayals in their past. Through these voices and histories\, Gabriele will discover what it means to be a person in the world; a member of a family and a citizen of a country—and how reconciling these stories may be the key to understanding her own. \n\nAbout the author\nNicola DeRobertis-Theye was an Emerging Writing Fellow at the New York Center for Fiction\, and her work has been published in Agni\, Electric Literature\, and LitHub. A graduate of UC Berkeley\, she received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina\, Wilmington\, where she was the fiction editor of its literary magazine Ecotone. She is a native of Oakland\, CA and lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-nicola-derobertis-theye-the-vietri-project/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chris Colin and Rinee Shah with Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MARCH 23 AT 6PM FOR THE LAUNCH OF CHRIS COLIN’S OFF: THE DAY THE INTERNET DIED: A BEDTIME FANTASY WITH DANIEL HANDLER AND ILLUSTRATOR RINEE SHAH ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83945098586\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83945098586#  or +12532158782\,\,83945098586#\nWebinar ID: 839 4509 8586\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb3D3OG8kI \nPraise for Off \n“So funny and so necessary. For humanity to stay sane\, this must be read like the Bible.” –Dave Eggers\, author of The Captain and the Glory \n“A beautiful\, hilarious children’s book (for grownups). It’s funny and smart and if you don’t like it you must still have dial-up. OFF is the bedtime story our Internet-addled brains dream of. I love this book.”–Wendy MacNaughton\, artist/illustrator/journalist\, Salt Fat Acid Heat\, The Gutsy Girl\, and Meanwhile in San Francisco. \n”I did not know how badly I needed this weird and hilarious book until I read it. I laughed harder reading this than I do at most things. And\, honestly\, I’m a pretty hard laugher.” –Carson Ellis\, author and illustrator\, Home and Du Iz Tak? \nAbout Off \nOne day all the screens went dark—and we couldn’t even post about it. \nWe all dream about it: a life free of scrolling\, tweeting\, liking\, faving\, streaming\, replying\, apologizing for not replying\, and other assaults on our poor\, saturated brains. But what would an analog world actually look like? Chris Colin\, author of What to Talk About\, paints a picture that’s a little Edenic and a little demented. Un-barraged by celeb gossip and political news\, we begin to notice nature again. We take walks\, stare at the clouds\, and listen to podcasts consisting of our own thoughts. Snapchatting gives way to endless rounds of Go Fish. Minecraft is a game involving sticks and leaves. We talk to our neighbors—not about the TV shows we’re streaming—and occasionally we fall in love. Delivered in a pitch-perfect\, tongue-in-cheek biblical style\, this little book imagines an alternate reality that will hit home in our tech-addled worlds. Rinee Shah’s playful illustrations perfectly capture the absurdity of life reflected in our screens. Whether you’re addicted to tech or not\, you’ll see something of yourself when you put down your phone and pick up this smart\, funny book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-chris-colin-and-rinee-shah-with-daniel-handler/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
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CREATED:20210223T161155Z
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SUMMARY:David Thomson in conversation with Jonathan Kiefer
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the book launch of \nA Light In The Dark: A History of Movie Directors \npublished by Alfred Knopf \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. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nFrom the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film–an essential work on the preeminent\, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged\, and continues to forge\, the landscape of modern film. \nDirectors operate behind the scenes\, managing actors\, establishing a cohesive creative vision\, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions on-screen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production–to say nothing of their having marshaled a script\, a studio\, and other people’s money. David Thomson\, in his usual brilliantly insightful way\, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and\, through their work\, studies the very nature of film direction. With his customary candor about his own delights and disappointments\, Thomson analyzes both landmark works and forgotten films from classic directors such as Orson Welles\, Alfred Hitchcock\, Jean Renoir\, and Jean-Luc Godard\, as well as contemporary powerhouses such as Jane Campion\, Spike Lee\, and Quentin Tarantino. He shrewdly interrogates their professional legacies and influence in the industry\, while simultaneously assessing the critical impact of an artist’s personal life on his or her work. He explores the male directors’ dominance of the past\, and describes how diversity can change the landscape. Judicious\, vivid\, and witty\, A Light in the Dark is yet another required Thomson text for every movie lover’s shelf. \n\nDAVID THOMSON is the author of more than twenty-five books\, including The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, Sleeping With Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire\, biographies of Orson Welles and David O. Selznick\, and the pioneering novel Suspects\, which was peopled with characters from film. He was born in London in 1941 and educated at Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. He worked in publishing\, at Penguin; he directed the film studies program at Dartmouth College; he did the series Life at 24 Frames Per Second for BBC radio; he scripted the film The Making of a Legend: Gine with the Wind; and he was on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival. He has been called the best or the most imaginative or reckless writer on film in English\, but he presses on. His residence is in San Francisco\, but he lives in his head. \nJONATHAN KIEFER is a film critic\, film editor\, and filmmaker. He is a member of both SFFILM’s filmmaker residency program and the SF Film Critics Circle\, and the former editorial director of Fandor. His debut film Around the Sun has appeared at numerous film festivals. He has served as a reader for Zoetrope: All-Story. \nPraise for the work of David Thomson \n\n“Thomson’s own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history\, without shying away from the controversial. Cinephiles seeking provocative arguments will appreciate his work.” \n—Lisa Henry\, Library Journal  \n  \n“Compulsive reading: thoughtful and thought-provoking in equal measure. David Thomson’s knowledge is comprehensive and his response to all films humane and entirely uncorrupted by the conventional hagiography of so much writing about film. He’s engagingly unafraid of challenging received opinion.” \n—Richard Eyre\, director  \n  \n“David Thomson has spent his life thinking hard and deep about cinema\, and so he’s uniquely placed to write this lovely\, brutal book about the glory of being a film-maker and vainglory of being an auteur.” \n—David Hare\, screenwriter and playwright  \n  \n“A Light in the Dark took over my life for two days. It is a summary of cinema and a requiem. Love and sadness. A prodigious masterwork.” \n—John Boorman\, director\, The Tailor of Panama \n  \nFounded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997\, Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly print magazine of short fiction\, one-act plays\, and essays on film. Among the most celebrated literary periodicals in the world\, it has won every major story award\, including four National Magazine Awards for Fiction\, along with a number of design commendations. The magazine’s contributors comprise the most promising and significant writers of our era: Mary Gaitskill\, Colum McCann\, Rachel Cusk\, Jim Shepard\, Elena Ferrante\, Daniel Alarcón\, Karen Russell\, Yiyun Li\, Jonathan Lethem\, Wes Anderson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Mamet\, Ha Jin\, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Margaret Atwood\, Pedro Almodóvar\, Ethan Coen\, Yoko Ogawa\, Charles D’Ambrosio\, Neil Jordan\, Haruki Murakami\, and many more. \nZoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine—the editors invite a different artist to design each edition in its entirety. Past guest designers include David Lynch\, Zaha Hadid\, William Eggleston\, Agnès Varda\, Kara Walker\, David Bowie\, Ed Ruscha\, Iggy Pop\, Guillermo del Toro\, Abbas Kiarostami\, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte\, PJ Harvey\, Elizabeth Peyton\, Gus Van Sant\, Tom Waits\, Laurie Anderson\, Julian Schnabel\, Mary Ellen Mark\, David Byrne\, Helmut Newton\, Lou Reed\, and John Baldessari\, among others. \nThe magazine is published quarterly in March\, June\, September\, and December and printed in California. \nTo learn more visit: Zoetrope: All-Story \n  \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the City Light Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-thomson-in-conversation-with-jonathan-kiefer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Carla Malden - Shine Until Tomorrow (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:Social misfit Mari Caldwell desperately wants to get on with her life. If only she could get there faster—specifically to Yale—and leave behind all the things that make her anxious: driving a car\, crossing bridges\, her peers\, her parents’ divorce. Mari only feels at ease behind the lens of her vintage Leica. Her camera keeps the world—and the people in it—at a safe distance. \nWhen Mari comes across an old scrapbook of her mother’s\, she discovers her white collar parents were once blue denim hippies. She ends up fighting with her mother and storming out. She pedals her bicycle into a downpour\, swerves to avoid an oncoming jeep\, and flies smack into a tree. Mari climbs into an abandoned VW van bearing the ghost of a psychedelic paint job\, and passes out. \nThe next morning\, Mari wakes up to the sound of music. A young couple wander through the glen like hippie gypsies\, playing recorder and tambourine. Mari accepts their offer of a ride into San Francisco. But something is wrong; Mari can’t quite figure out what. The skyline\, her father’s address\, the music on the radio. Everything is slightly off. Except Jimmy\, the driver of the van. There’s something about him that calms her inner chatter. Only after she says good-bye to the merry band and runs headlong into a war protest does Mari being to realize: it is June\, 1967. \nIn the epicenter of the Summer of Love\, Mari makes friends with the would-be rock band\, meets the grandfather she never knew\, and falls in love. In spite of herself\, Mari discovers that love changes everything. It even changes her. \nA fun and touching novel about the people who raise us\, the times that define us\, and the stumbling blocks on our way to being a grown-up\, Shine Until Tomorrow tells the story of a girl obsessed with the future who must visit the past to learn to live in the present. \nRaised in Los Angeles\, Carla Malden began her career working in motion picture production and development before becoming a screenwriter. Along with her father\, Academy Award winning-actor Karl Malden\, she co-authored his critically acclaimed memoir When Do I Start? More recently\, Malden published Afterimage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of a Charmed Life\, her own fiercely personal account of battling the before and surviving the after of losing her first husband to cancer. Afterimage is a journey through grief to gratitude that alerts an entire generation: this is not your mother’s widowhood. Carla’s feature writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, highlighting the marvels and foibles of Southern California and Hollywood. She sits on the Board of the Geffen Playhouse. Her first novel\, Search Heartache\, came out from Rare Bird Books in 2019. Shine Until Tomorrow is her second novel. Carla Malden lives in Brentwood with her husband and ten minutes (depending on traffic) from her daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carla-malden-shine-until-tomorrow-online-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210324T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210324T213000
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SUMMARY:Sky Nelson-Isaacs: Leap to Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:The Dance Palace presents local Sky Nelson-Isaacs for a presentation of his latest book\, Leap to Wholeness (North Atlantic Books). \nThis is a free event. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Leap to Wholeness\nThe reductionism and materialism of our modern world make it easy to imagine everything can be cleanly broken down into smaller and smaller parts. Yet the straightforward example of light in a hologram\, which can’t be reduced to its parts\, points to an underlying interconnected reality–a wholeness. Physicist Sky Nelson-Isaacs uses numerous familiar examples–rainbows\, music\, photography–to illustrate a fundamental wholeness found in nature. \nJust as light is filtered as it passes through a filmstrip\, Nelson-Isaacs points out that our human experience is filtered through thoughts and feelings. This view provides an explanation as to why\, in our daily lived reality\, we can feel so broken and not-whole. Nelson-Isaacs weaves together cutting-edge ideas into the nature of space and time and original research\, with a compelling message of urgency. The filters we use to make choices everyday hide important information from us\, leading us away from experiences of flow. Through synchronicities\, we are led to life lessons tailored to our readiness for change. Nelson-Isaacs reconsiders the view of time itself\, suggesting that we live not just in this moment but on a timeline of history\, part of a wave moving from our past into our future. Every choice we make shifts what is available to us. Can we learn to rethink our lives and reality to remove our filters and realize the wholeness that we have inherent in ourselves and in our world? Yes\, says Nelson-Isaacs–and once we do that\, we can use the multiverse of possibilities to make choices that help us heal and grow into a greater sense of ourselves. \nAbout Sky Nelson-Isaacs\nSKY NELSON-ISAACS is a theoretical physicist\, speaker\, author\, and musician. He has a masters degree in physics from San Francisco State University\, with a thesis in String Theory\, and a BS in physics from UC Berkeley. Nelson-Isaacs has dedicated his life to finding his own sense of purpose\, beginning as a student of the Yogic master Sri Swami Satchidananda when he was less than five years old. Discovering an early fascination with holograms and some of the most fundamental questions in physics\, he has sought for over two decades to establish a connection between synchronicity\, physics\, and real life using research and original ideas. His most recent research has been published in the scientific journal Quantum Reports. An educator with nine years of classroom experience\, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sky-nelson-isaacs-leap-to-wholeness-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210325T200000
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SUMMARY:Jesse McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nWho Will Pay Reparation On My Soul: Essays \npublished by Liveright Books/W.W\, Norton \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———– \nRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to D’Angelo’s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice\, Jesse McCarthy’s dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art\, literature\, and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic intensity. \nIn “Notes on Trap\,” McCarthy borrows a conceit from Susan Sontag to dissect the significance of trap music in American society\, while in “The Master’s Tools\,” Velázquez becomes a lens through which to view Kehinde Wiley’s paintings. Essays on John Edgar Wideman\, Terrance Hayes\, and Claudia Rankine survey the state of black letters. In “The Time of the Assassins\,” McCarthy\, a black American raised in France\, writes about returning to Paris after the Bataclan massacre and finding a nation in mourning but dangerously unchanged. Taken together\, these essays portray a brilliant critic at work\, making sense of our dislocated times while seeking to transform our understanding of race and art\, identity and representation. \nJesse McCarthy is assistant professor of English and African American studies at Harvard University. He is an editor at the Point and has written for n+1\, Dissent\, the Nation\, and the New Republic. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesse-mccarthy-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205232
CREATED:20210301T054342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T054342Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #52
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \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:\n\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-52/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T193000
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CREATED:20210314T212415Z
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SUMMARY:HIGH DAWN 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis
DESCRIPTION:Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present the seventh installment of HIGH DAWN\, a reading series featuring poets and musicians from the Bay Area and beyond. \nReadings by Bahaar Ahsan & Lara Mimosa Montes\nIntroduced by Trisha Low\nMusic by Ryanaustin Dennis\nArtist bios below \n## RSVP for Zoom link: spt-march.eventbrite.com \nAll upcoming Small Press Traffic events: https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/upcomingevents \n## Artist Bios:\nBahaar Ahsan is a poet in the Bay Area. Bahaar’s work is both speculative and deeply embedded in lineage(s). Recent work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review\, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics(forthcoming from Nightboat Books)\, and elsewhere. \nLara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES (Coffee House Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in Fence\, BOMB\, Jacket2\, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has been awarded residencies from Storm King: Shandaken\, Marble House Project\, and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2018\, Lara was awarded a McKnight Fellowship in Poetry. Currently\, she is a senior editor of Triple Canopy. She lives in Minnesota. \nTrisha Low is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions 2013) and Socialist Realism (Emily Books\, 2019). She lives in the East Bay. \nRyanaustin Dennis is an Oakland based art work and cultural strategist. Their practice is concerned with how 20th and 21st century experimental performance\, film\, and writing histories are shaped by the metaphysics of blackness. They have done curatorial work for Kadist\, SFMOMA Open Space\, Eastside Arts Alliance\, and Soundwave Biennial. They currently co-curate the Black Life series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Pro Arts Gallery & Commons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-7-ahsan-montes-low-dennis-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shira Spector and Phoebe Gloeckner
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, MARCH 26 AT 6PM PT WHEN SHIRA SPECTOR IS JOINED BY PHOEBE GLOECKNER TO DISCUSS HER GRAPHIC MEMOIR\, RED ROCK BABY CANDY\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81360595558\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81360595558#  or +12532158782\,\,81360595558#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/km5ajZW5S \nPraise for Red Rock Baby Candy \n“Using lithesome\, intricate drawings and mixed-media collages\, Spector debuts with a graphic memoir of desire and loss that expresses emotions viscerally and with a tactile immediacy.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“There are so many styles\, so many layers to both the art and the story. Open it up to any page and you’re met with an explosion of color\, images\, and words.” – Book Riot \n“Every page of this formally inventive\, kaleidoscopic graphic memoir is a work of art in and of itself. … [A] book that will change the literary landscape in 2021.” – O The Oprah Magazine \n“Shira Spector’s deeply moving graphic memoir is about love and sorrow\, and the wondrousness of being alive despite everything. The inventive combination of text and drawing works perfectly to draw the reader in.” – Roz Chast\, Can’t We talk About Something More Pleasant? \n“Shira Spector has created an ecstatic book about a life lived deeply\, fully\, and with the extreme bravery we must all have if we want to truly love and be loved.” – Eleanor Davis\, How To Be Happy \nAbout Red Rock Baby Candy \nSelf-described as “an infertile\, high-femme\, low income\, non-biological Jewish mom\, dyke drama queen\, and ectopic pregnancy survivor\,” the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir. \nShira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life\, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant\, the emotional turmoil of her father’s cancer diagnosis and eventual death\, and her recollections of past relationships with her parents and her partner. Set in a kaleidoscope of Montreal and Toronto\, Red Rock Baby Candy unfolds as one of the most formally inventive comics in the history of the medium. It begins in subtle\, tonal shades of black ink\, introduces color slowly over the next 50 pages until it explodes into a glorious full color palette. The irreverent characters begin to bloom and to live life fully\, resurrecting the dead in order to map the geography among infertility\, sexuality\, choice\, and mortality. The drawing is visceral\, symbolic\, and naturalistic. The visual storytelling eschews traditional comics panels in favor of a series of unique page compositions that convey both a stream of consciousness and the tactile reality of life\, both the subjective impressions of the author at each moment of her life and the objective series of events that shape her narrative. It is the most formally revolutionary visual storytelling since Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shira-spector-and-phoebe-gloeckner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210326T210000
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SUMMARY:Eastwind Book Club: The Sympathizer
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to discuss the month’s book selection. March’s book club pick is The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. This month’s selection is part of a two-part series featuring works by Viet Thanh Nguyen.\nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Friday\, March 26 at 7pm PST. Register to receive the meeting link.\nBook Club members can use coupon code EWBOOKCLUB21 for a 10% discount.\nCopies of The Sympathizer are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704.\nJoin our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub\nSAVE THE DATE!\nSpecial Series Part 2 will feature The Committed\, sequel to The Sympathizer and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s newest release. Save the date for April\, 2021.\n~\nThis event is co-sponsored by DVAN – Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network\, UNAVSA – the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations) OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and AsAmNews (www.asamnews.com).\nAbout the book:\nThe winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, as well as seven other awards\, The Sympathizer is one of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov\, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator\, a communist double agent\, is a “man of two minds\,” a half-French\, half-Vietnamese army captain who comes to America after the Fall of Saigon\, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America\, a gripping spy novel\, and a powerful story of love and friendship.\nAbout the author:\nViet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Committed\, which continues the story of The Sympathizer\, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction\, alongside seven other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees; the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing\, The Displaced. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.\nPraise for The Sympathizer:\n“A layered immigrant tale told in the wry\, confessional voice of a ‘man of two minds’—and two countries\, Vietnam and the United States.”—Pulitzer Prize Citation\n“[A] remarkable debut novel . . . [Nguyen] brings a distinctive perspective to the war and its aftermath. His book fills a void in the literature\, giving voice to the previously voiceless . . . The nameless protagonist-narrator\, a memorable character despite his anonymity\, is an Americanized Vietnamese with a divided heart and mind. Nguyen’s skill in portraying this sort of ambivalent personality compares favorably with masters like Conrad\, Greene\, and le Carré. . . . Both thriller and social satire. . . . In its final chapters\, The Sympathizer becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet.”—Philip Caputo\, New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n~~~\nEastwind Book Club is co-sponsored by OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD) and AsAmNews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastwind-book-club-the-sympathizer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Lisa Scottoline with Lisa See (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events\, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome under the creeping shadow of fascism. \nElisabetta\, Marco\, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy\, kind-hearted and thoughtful\, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love\, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta’s heart. But in the autumn of 1937\, all of that begins to change as Mussolini asserts his power\, aligning Italy’s Fascists with Hitler’s Nazis and altering the very laws that govern Rome. In time\, everything that the three hold dear—their families\, their homes\, and their connection to one another—is tested in ways they never could have imagined. \nAs anti-Semitism takes legal root and World War II erupts\, the threesome realizes that Mussolini was only the beginning. The Nazis invade Rome\, and with their occupation come new atrocities against the city’s Jews\, culminating in a final\, horrific betrayal. Against this backdrop\, the intertwined fates of Elisabetta\, Marco\, Sandro\, and their families will be decided\, in a heartbreaking story of both the best and the worst that the world has to offer. \nUnfolding over decades\, Eternal is a tale of loyalty and loss\, family and food\, love and war—all set in one of the world’s most beautiful cities at its darkest moment. This moving novel will be forever etched in the hearts and minds of readers. \nLisa Scottoline is the New York Times-bestselling author of thirty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed\, “Justice in Fiction” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School\, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area. \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the Historymaker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-lisa-scottoline-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205232
CREATED:20210319T022644Z
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SUMMARY:At The Door: Chapter Two
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly reading series\, featuring only Black & Brown voices. We’re already a chapter in – join us for the incredible lineup we have for “Chapter Two”!\n\nFeatured Readers:\nJosiah Alderete\nKathleen Naytia\nRosa De Anda\nYeva Johnson\nRebeca Flores\nBrian Kim Stefans\n\nWHEW – we just got chills thinking about what this night is gonna be like. Come through!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-door-chapter-two/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T200000
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SUMMARY:Southeast Asian American Poetry Reading with Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri
DESCRIPTION:Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri will be joined by youth poets from Oakland’s Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants and UC Berkeley’s Southeast Asian Student Coalition (SASC) anthology group.\n\nAbout the poets:\n\nMonica Sok’s debut poetry collection A Nail in the Evening Hangs On uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime — memory that is both real and imagined — according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables\, the book seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.\n\nKrysada Phounsiri is a Lao American professional dancer\, award winning poet\, engineer\, and photographer from San Diego\, CA. He is a Physics & Astrophysics double major\, with a minor in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley. He published his debut poetry book\, “Dance Among Elephants”\, and 2nd poetry book\, “Every Passing Minute”\, under Sahtu Press. Krysada is currently a Senior Optical Engineer working in the BioTech industry. His dance resume includes various competition wins around the globe\, performing in Jabbawockeez MUS.I.C show in Las Vegas\, dancing on movie sets\, and other creative projects. Many of his creative endeavors are connected to exploring Lao / Southeast Asian American identity and how it can be integrated in various spaces.\n\nRSVP at https://seapoetry.eventbrite.com\n—\nTo purchase copies of the featured poets’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\n—\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.\n\nLearn more about Eastwind here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaSXsyGkjz8
URL:https://litseen.com/event/southeast-asian-american-poetry-reading-with-monica-sok-and-krysada-phounsiri-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210328T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210328T160000
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SUMMARY:Barbara Hamby and Barbara Ras
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Barbara Hamby\, Holoholo\, and Barbara Ras\, The Blues of Heaven\, 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 28 at 3:00 pm PDT! We are excited to bring you Barbara Ras and Barbara Hamby via Zoom. To register for this reading\, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 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. \nBarbara Ras’s new book of poems is The Blues of Heaven\, both personal\, dealing with grief over the death of a brother and memories of growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Polish immigrants\, and national\, reflecting on gun violence\, the climate crisis\, and the fecklessness of an ignorant\, corrupt government. Naomi Shihab Nye said\, “The Blues of Heaven radiates with immense tenderness—here are poems of vivid painterly wonderment\, perfect pacing and weight\, elegantly woven counterpoints of shimmering imagery.” Ras’s previous collections include Bite Every Sorrow\, winner of the Walt Whitman Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, One Hidden Stuff\, and The Lost Skin. Her poetry has been published in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, Granta\, Orion\, and elsewhere\, and she’s been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, among others. She lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, and is the founding director emerita of the Trinity University Press. \nBarbara Hamby’s new book of poems is Holoholo\, the Hawaiian word for strolling without a fixed destination. A collage of one woman’s consciousness\, spoken in an American lingo\, including Yiddish and street talk\, its three sections motor across wars\, racial tension\, street violence\, and other assorted national chaos. Billy Collins said\, “”Barbara Hamby’s poems are wild\, outspoken\, seriously funny\, motor-mouth rambles that take us through hoops of association to places both unexpected and unimpeachable. This collection offers a generous helping of poems so crackling with references and busy with verbal energy you might feel them buzzing in your hands.” She’s the author of seven previous collections\, most recently Bird Odyssey and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. Her book of linked stories\, Lester Higata’s 20th Century\, was the winner of the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award. A 2010 Guggenheim fellow\, she is also co-editor\, with her husband David Kirby\, of Seriously Funny\, an anthology of poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-hamby-and-barbara-ras/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210328T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210328T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205232
CREATED:20210127T184745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T051027Z
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SUMMARY:Carribean Fragoza
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of her new book \nEat the Mouth that Feeds You \npublished by City Lights Books \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. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \nIn gritty\, sometimes fantastical stories about Latinx life\, women challenge feminine stereotypes and make sense of fractured family histories \n“In Carribean Fragoza’s weirdly sweet short story collection Eat the Mouth that Feeds You\, eyebrows are Sharpie-thin\, children say I love you with axes\, and dying is an adventure. Her Chicanx gothic tales root horror in the most terrifying of places\, the family. The creepiest pockets of the Brown imagination are her playground. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You renders the feminine grotesque at its finest.”—Myriam Gurba\, author of Mean \n“Every story in this luminous collection creates its own lush\, beautiful\, and utterly singular universe. Carribean Fragoza reaches deep into the bodies and souls of her subjects\, and writes about desire and fear like few other writers can. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You will establish Fragoza as an essential and important new voice in American fiction.”—Héctor Tobar\, author of The Barbarian Nurseries \nThis stunningly original collection of stories illuminates a spectrum of Latinx\, Chicanx\, and immigrant women’s voices. In confrontations with fraught matrilineal lines\, absent or abusive fathers\, and the effects of historical violence\, these women and girls navigate a male-dominated world where they rely on a resilient mujer network to get them through sometimes supernatural obstacles. \nIn visceral\, embodied prose\, Fragoza’s imperfect characters are drawn with an authentic\, sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college\, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter\, whose penchant for ingesting grandma’s letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture\, and then to the backyard fence\, until finally she attacks the family’s beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship\, and women’s wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border. \n\nThe daughter of Mexican immigrants\, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte\, California. After graduating from UCLA\, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts\, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. Today\, Fragoza co-edits UC Press’s acclaimed California cultural journal\, Boom California\, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse\, an interdisciplinary arts collective. \nHer fiction and nonfiction have appeared numerous publications\, including BOMB\, Huizache\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the co-editor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte\, published February 2020 by Rutgers University Press and Senior Writer at the Tropics of Meta. Carribean is the Coordinator of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award at Claremont Graduate University\, and she lives in the San Gabriel Valley in LA County. \nMore at Carribean’s web site: http://carribeanfragoza.com/ \nAdvance praise for Eat the Mouth That Feeds You \n“The magic realism of Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories themselves\, strung through the warp and weft of family\, community\, and what it means as a child\, as a mother\, as a woman\, to both belong and not belong. These are powerful stories about making one’s way\, and about the things that keep a grip on you no matter where you are\, even if you’re dead.”—Brian Evenson\, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World \n“Fragoza’s prose\, a switchblade of a magical glow\, cauterizes as it cuts. In a setting of barren citrus trees\, poison-filled balloons\, and stuccos haunted by the menace of the past\, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You reinvents the sunny noir.“—Salvador Plascencia\, author of The People of Paper \n“I felt this collection deep in my bones. Like the Chicanx women whose voices she centers\, Carribean Fragoza’s writing doesn’t flinch. It is sharp and dream-like\, tender-hearted and brutal\, carved from the violence and resilience of generations past and present.”—Natalia Sylvester\, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home \n“Carribean Fragoza goes deep. This book makes central the lives of women\, whether sourced locally or rooted in Mexico\, whether alive or dead to the world\, surrealistic or hyper realistic\, in the flesh or as spirits centuries old. This is storytelling that astonishes\, passing through industrialized lives of women like gamma rays or cosmic rays—and I was not only astonished\, I was moved. Kafka said\, ‘A book must be an axe for the frozen sea that is within us.’ Be careful how you heft this book—it’s sharp as obsidian\, this axe.”—Sesshu Foster\, author of Atomik Aztex \n“This collection establishes Carribean Fragoza as a new American voice to be reckoned with—her invigoratingly imaginative stories are nothing short of brilliant.”— J. Ryan Stradal\, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Ji Hyang Padma / Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Ji Hyang Padma and her new book Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Field of Blessings here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nJi Hyang Padma believes that we are hungry for a direct experience of the sacred in this culture. We try to fill the void with technology\, and its ‘quick fix’ of images and information. This leaves us hungry for true connectivity. We don’t need more information. We need more appreciation. Gratitude opens the heart\, and gives our life meaning; it becomes a form of spiritual experience that gives us strength. Field of Blessings explores how meaning-making can be approached by deep examination of the stories of our lives\, which bridge the gap between the inner world and the outer world\, giving shape to our experience. How can these narratives be spoken\, written\, or embodied? Ritual is the story brought-to-life\, and a powerful vehicle for spiritual transformation\, for reconnecting people with an embodied wholeness. Ji Hyang Padma shows that Chod\, Medicine Buddha practices\, and other Tibetan rituals are used by healers to evoke sacred energies\, radical empathy\, and to contact deep archetypal realms of the psyche. \nAbout the author\nJi Hyang Padma holds a doctorate in psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University. Her dissertation research focused on consciousness and healing\, through the lens of traditional Buddhist healing practices. She recently served as Director of the Comparative Religion & Philosophy Program at the California Institute for Human Science. In response to the pandemic\, she currently serves as a chaplain resident at UCSF Parnassus. She has also taught Zen at Wellesley College\, Harvard University and Omega Institute. She lives in Encinitas\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-ji-hyang-padma-field-of-blessings-ritual-consciousness-in-the-work-of-buddhist-healers/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nick Greene
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US TUESDAY\, MARCH 30 AT 6PM PT WHEN NICK GREENE DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\,\nHOW TO WATCH BASKETBALL LIKE A GENIUS : WHAT GAME DESIGNERS\, ECONOMISTS\, BALLET CHOREOGRAPHERS\, AND THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICISTS REVEAL ABOUT THE GREATEST GAME ON EARTH\, WITH N. CUZZI ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89717306557\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89717306557#  or +13462487799\,\,89717306557#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbgovPwsVV \nPraise for How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius\n“A hilarious\, smart\, wildly unpredictable book that will forever change the way you look at basketball.”—Sarah Spain\, writer for ESPN\, TV personality\, and radio host \n“How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius pulls off a rare trick: It makes you feel smarter as you’re reading it\, but it does so without ever making you feel like you weren’t smart in the first place.”—Shea Serrano\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Basketball (and Other Things) \n  \nAbout How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius \nA brilliant\, entertaining deconstruction of basketball\, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators\, magicians\, therapists\, and more \nBasketball is the second-most popular sport in the world—an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism\, craftiness\, rules\, intangibles\, and superstardom. However\, while it’s enjoyable to watch\, the real reason it works is because it’s a game of culture\, art\, and all the things that make us human. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again\, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts\, however\, are a diverse group: wine critics weighing in on LeBron’s ability to delegate on the fly\, magicians analyzing Chris Paul’s mystifying dribbling techniques\, cartographers breaking down Steph Curry’s deadeye three-point shooting. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court\, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles. There’s a reason it has conquered the world\, and every game is a chance to learn about pop culture\, fashion\, history\, science\, art\, and anything else that bounces our way. \nAbout the Author \nNick Greene is a contributing writer for Slate\, prior to which he worked as editor at large at Mental Floss and as web editor at the Village Voice. His work has been published in Vice\, Men’s Health\, and Chicago Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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