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SUMMARY:Ayşegül Savaş Reading
DESCRIPTION:You must register to attend this event! \nFree and Open to the Public. \nCo-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. \n\n\n\n\n\nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling. Her second novel White on White is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and The Guardian. She lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Harmada: Juan Cárdenas and Edgar Garbelotto celebrate João Gilberto Noll
DESCRIPTION:Join Unabridged Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating João Gilberto Noll’s Harmada\, a mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto. \nEdgar Garbelotto will be in conversation with Juan Cárdenas\, author of Ornamental. Sign up on Unabridged Bookstore’s website to join this virtual event. And while you’re there don’t forget to grab a copy of the book for yourself and a friend! \nAbout Harmada: \nLike an Edenic Adam birthed from the clay\, our narrator rises to his feet from the muck—reborn\, or something like that. Unbeknownst to him\, he’s on a desperate search for Harmada\, the capital city of an unnamed nation and the land of his former glory. Told using Noll’s characteristic fragmented logic and spirited prose\, Harmada traces the life of this nameless man on a voyage that takes him from aimless outcast to revered director of avant-garde theater\, from asylum patient to father to God\, conjuring along the way essential questions about the power of art and storytelling\, the vanity of glory\, and the meaning of freedom. \nA mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto\, Harmada serves as yet another reminder of João Gilberto Noll’s sublime literary power: generous in its mystery; earthbound in its essential urges; and entirely unpredictable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harmada-juan-cardenas-and-edgar-garbelotto-celebrate-joao-gilberto-noll/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection\, If We Were Electric\, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88012383591 \n  \nPraise for If We Were Electric \nSelected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n“If We Were Electric\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay \nAbout If We Were Electric \nIf We Were Electric‘s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical\, muddy and exquisite\, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair\, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis\, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities\, about people on the outside who don’t fit in\, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. \nIn “Feux Follet\,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw\, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange\, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant\, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight\, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again. \nAbout Patrick Earl Ryan \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, Cairn\, and the James White Review. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly\, Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrick-earl-ryan-and-martin-pousson-2/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents "Cut to Bloom"
DESCRIPTION:This November\, KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom\,” a celebration of Arhm Choi Wild’s collection of poetry. Joined by Isabella “Isa” Borgeson and Hieu Minh Nguyen\, this event features three powerful poets reading works transforming the cut\, the chasm\, the hyphen—of identity\, of the body\, of queerness\, home and healing. \n  \nNO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. Email info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll take care of you. \n  \n\n\n\nFeatured Artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nArhm Choi Wild \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and went on to perform across the country\, including at Brave New Voices\, the New York City Poetry Festival\, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems\, CUT TO BLOOM\, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures\, and their work appears in Barrow Street\, The Massachusetts Review\, Pleiades\, Split this Rock\, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City. For more information\, visit arhmchoiwild.com. \nphoto by Sy Klipsch-Abudu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nHieu Minh Nguyen \n\n\n\n\nis a queer Vietnamese American poet and performer. He is a Kundiman fellow\, the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry\, a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship\, the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts\, the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center\, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Summer Residency. His work has appeared in PBS Newshour\, POETRY Magazine\, Gulf Coast\, BuzzFeed\, Poetry London\, Nashville Review\, Indiana Review\, and more. In 2014\, his debut collection of poetry\, This Way to the Sugar\, was a finalist for both the Lambda Book Award and Minnesota Book Award. His second collection\, Not Here\, was published in April 2018 by Coffee House Press. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College and is currently a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIsabella “Isa” Borgeson \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, mixed race\, white and Filipina poet\, community organizer\, and teaching artist from Oakland. Isa was named a “Best New Poet” of 2018. She has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nation Art Foundation (2015\, 2017)\, the Poetry Incubator through Crescendo Literary (2016)\, and AIR Serenbe as their 2019 Spoken Word Artist with a commitment to Community and Collaboration (SWACC!) Fellow. Most recently\, she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Isa is a co-founder of The Root Slam – a free poetry venue in Oakland dedicated to promoting the artistic growth of the Bay Area poetry community. She currently organizes with the #StopSanQuentinOutbreak coalition around COVID-19 rapid response work to decarcerate all prisons. Isa’s commitment toward teaching poetry as a tool for resistance keeps her grounded in her communities from Oakland to Tanauan. \nphoto by Andrea Gutiérrez \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT CUT TO BLOOM \nWhat does it take to unlearn the survival instinct of trauma? What does it take to choose our tools instead of wearing down the ones we’ve been handed? In Cut to Bloom\, Arhm Choi Wild attempts to forge answers to these questions by navigating the hyphen\, sometimes chasm\, between the Asian and American identity\, between queerness and the politics of belonging\, between survival and the possibility of choice. \nWhile talking back to the colonialism of strict poetic form\, this book attempts to disrupt clear definitions and redefine the American identity as one that is constructed more by questions than answers. This book celebrates the self-made\, rogue bouquet\, the taking of what you were given and transforming it into something you could make a gift of\, and examines what needs to be pruned in order to arrive at this transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-cut-to-bloom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Night of Memoir with Alden Jones and Rick Moody
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, November 18 at 5pm PST for a special Night of Memoir with writers Alden Jones and Rick Moody\,\nas they discuss their latest books and answer your questions about the art of memoir! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84986160532 \nAbout The Wanting Was a Wilderness \nHow did Cheryl Strayed turn a solo hike into an inspirational memoir\, beloved by millions? Memoirist and professor Alden Jones sets out to explore why. But when a sudden personal crisis occurs while she is writing\, Jones realizes she must confront some difficult truths\, both in her life and on the page. THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS is a profoundly original work that blends criticism\, craft analysis\, and a memoir of Jones’s own time in the wilderness. The result is a celebration of WILD and a map of our long path to self-discovery. \nAbout The Long Accomplishment \nRick Moody\, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm\, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful\, month-by-month account. \nAt this story’s start\, Moody\, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression\, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is\, fully and for the first time in his life\, “Yes.” \nAnd so his second marriage begins as he emerges\, humbly and with tender hopes\, from the wreckage of his past\, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages\, the deaths of friends\, and robberies\, just for starters. As Moody has put it\, “This is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists\, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment\, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times\, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple\, lifting them above their hardships\, and the reader is buoyed along with them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-night-of-memoir-with-alden-jones-and-rick-moody-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez
DESCRIPTION:November 19\, 2020\nJewish Community Center/Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez\nMill Valley poet Jane Hirshfield’s most recent\, ninth poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf\, 2020). Among her many honors are the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she was elected in 2019 to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Meryl Natchez\, the chair of the Marin Poetry Center\, is a poet\, translator and reviewer. Her fourth book\, Catwalk\, was released in June from Longship Press. The two poets will read from their new books and talk about their experiences as writers during a time of crisis\, the importance of community\, and their shared sense of reverence for the natural world. This event is cosponsored by The Marin Poetry Center. \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-present-jane-hirshfield-meryl-natchez/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Author: Rand Quinn\, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
DESCRIPTION:Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. \nSan Francisco’s school board is once again rethinking its student assignment system. Debates over student assignment trace back over a half century and map the long struggle to desegregate the city’s schools. In Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools\, Rand Quinn explains the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. Student assignment — once the remedy for government discrimination through busing and other desegregative mechanisms — soon became a tool intended to create diversity. \nRand Quinn is associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the origins and political consequences of private sector engagement in public education\, the politics of race and ethnicity in urban school reform and the impact of community-based institutions\, organizations and action in education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-rand-quinn-class-action-desegregation-and-diversity-in-san-francisco-schools/
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SUMMARY:Panel: How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America\, the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series\, with a roundtable conversation about Indigenous narratives\, visibility\, and storytelling. \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n  \nHow We Go Home\, edited by oral historian Sara Sinclair\, shares contemporary first-person Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land\, rights\, and life. In myriad ways\, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss\, injustice\, resilience\, and the struggle to share space with settler nations. In this roundtable conversation\, narrator Ashley Hemmers will be joined by the book’s editor\, Sara Sinclair\, and News from Native California editor\, Terria Smith\, to discuss representation and visibility of Indigenous communities today. \nThis event is cosponsored by Voice of Witness (VOW)\, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. The VOW Book Series depicts human rights issues through the edited oral histories of people—VOW narrators—who are most deeply impacted and at the heart of solutions to address injustice. The series explores issues of race-\, gender-\, and class-based inequity through the lenses of the criminal justice system\, migration\, and displacement. The VOW Education Program connects over 20\,000 educators\, students\, and advocates each year with these stories and issues through oral history-based curricula\, trainings\, and holistic educational support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/panel-how-we-go-home-voices-from-indigenous-north-america/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nKeep an eye out for our upcoming auction of an archival print of Stevie by Tracy Anne Hart. Posting November 20\, 2020! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958 \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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