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SUMMARY:Hollie Hardy + Mukta Sambrani
DESCRIPTION:Hollie Hardy\, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for her How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, reads from her book together with award judge Mukta Sambrani. \n‘Hollie Hardy’s poems in How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems are important: brave\, whimsical\, and wise. Hardy seeks dialog with other poets\, authors and artists\, burying borrowings like precious jewels\, skillfully planting Leonard Cohen and Virginia Woolf\, Thomas Pynchon and Sylvia Plath. While her use of form is consistent and understated in the less-is-more sort of way\, this quieter\, almost traditional manner allows Hardy to enhance the reader’s experience of her rich imagery and sensory detail: \nGlistening slices of moon\nSplash through the lattice of leaves… \nYour fingers find the textures of trees\nBarefoot in the moist earth\, a guidebook in Braille… \n(from “How to leave a trail for rescuers if you are lost in the wilderness”) \n‘Her poem for Oscar Grant\, “How to survive a riot\,” reminds us why it is important to be present to the most pressing need of our time: naming racial inequity before the law and doing something about police brutality and the murders of unarmed black boys and men. Hardy reminds us that we live in a war zone\, in a time where lessons in survival must become the business of poets and poetry.’\n—Mukta Sambrani \nHollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014). She holds an MFA in poetry from SFSU\, and teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute\, San Francisco State University\, and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene\, Hardy co-hosts the popular reading series Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay Open Mic. She’s a founder and core producer for the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland\, co-curator of Litquake’s Flight of Poets\, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals including Red Light Lit\, Ekphrastic California\, Fourteen Hills\, Eleven Eleven\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, The Common\, A Sharp Piece of Awesome\, Parthenon West Review\, One Ded Cow\, Transfer\, Milvia Street\, and other journals. She lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://www.holliehardy.com/ \nMukta Sambrani is an Indian born poet and educator based in the United States. Her first book of poems\, The Woman in this room isn’t lonely was published by Writer’s Workshop\, Calcutta in 1997. Her second book\, Broomrider’s book of the dead was published by Paperwall Media and Publishing\, Mumbai in 2015. Mukta’s work has appeared in Verse\, Em Literary\, Cipactli\, Fourteen Hills\, Hyphen Magazine\, Laundry Pen\, The Scribbler\, Poetry Chain and anthologies such as Bloodaxe book of contemporary Indian poets\, 60 Indian poets\, We Speak in Changing Languages\, The Dance of the Peacock\, Suvarnarekha and others. She is the recipient of the 2003 Audre Lorde creative writing award and an honorable mention for the Starcherone prize. Mukta lives in Oakland California\, where she is a school administrator. \nThis concert is FREE. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nPoetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollie-hardy-mukta-sambrani/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:McSweeney’s Social Hour: Cowboy Disco
DESCRIPTION:McSweeney’s Publishing cordially invites you to a special evening of music\, drinks and dance as we celebrate another day of book/art/merrymaking in the zesty San Francisco bay. Mostly\, we just want to hear your stories about your great aunt’s three legged show poodle and cha-cha slide with you in between Dolly Parton and Abba songs. There might even be a fog machine. \nA few memorable histories & events that have also taken place on May 4: \n1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. \n1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu\, becoming the first women to climb an 8\,000-meter peak. \n2016 – You attend the McSweeney’s Night of Cocktails and Cowboy Disco. As expected\, you are magnetic and charming. Everyone loves you. You’re absolutely contagious. You have become\, The Life of the Party. \nLet us carry on the tradition of great and beautiful things to happen on May 4th as we journey into a night of revelry. Special guests and details to be announced. \nWarmly\, \nMcSweeney’s
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mcsweeneys-social-hour-cowboy-disco/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Breaking Ground: Black British Writers
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park is proud to host Speaking Volumes’ Breaking Ground tour. \nFeaturing readings by: \nBernardine Evaristo\nColin Grant\nDiran Adebayo\nGabriel Gbadamosi\nJay Bernard\nJohny Pitts\nKaren McCarthy Woolf\nNick Makoha\nRoger Robinson \nAbout the Breaking Ground tour: \nThe Breaking Ground tour developed as a way to highlight the diversity of Black British writing\, and includes people who write novels\, poetry\, plays\, graphic stories\, travelogues\, non-fiction\, essays\, articles\, short stories\, reviews and more. It also includes people whose backgrounds may be Black British born and bred\, Caribbean\, African\, African American\, mixed race … women and men of various generations and at different stages of their careers. All of whom have had little access to American readers and audiences — until now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breaking-ground-black-british-writers/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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