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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mazza Writer in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from his poetry\, as part of his weeklong stint as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center. “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. \nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, will be out soon from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nThe Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence program allows Eisen-Martin to work with students of poetry\, drama and other studies\, and present performances both on and off the SF State campus\, with intensive student and community involvement. The residency pairs classroom workshop situations aimed at students\, with performances open to the general public. \nThe Mazza Writer in Residence is made possible by a generous grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-mazza-writer-in-residence/
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:Launch Party w/ Ho Lin
DESCRIPTION:Ho Lin\, co-editor of the long-running literary journal Caveat Lector\, joins us in the Marina for a Launch Party celebrating his dazzling fiction debut\, China Girl: And Other Stories. \nA modern woman adrift in modern China. Would-be lovers connected and separated by random chance. A drunken dissident and his less-then-happy minder. A researcher of war atrocities who must come to grips with her own family tragedies. A princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. Actors placed at the service of comedies and tragedies\, depending on a filmmaker’s whim… These are the characters that populate Ho Lin’s short story collection China Girl. \nIn its nine tales\, China Girl documents the collisions between East and West\, the power of myth and the burden of history\, and loves lost and almost found. The stories in this collection encompass everything from contemporary vignettes about urban life to fable-like musings on memories and the art of storytelling. Wide-ranging and playful\, China Girl is a journey into today’s Asia as well as an Asia of the imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-ho-lin/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Francisco Aragón and Nancy Morejón\, and 10 spots on the Open Mic. \nUnder the full Harvest Moon of Fall\, Lunada will host two award-winning Latinx and Caribbean literary luminaries for an historic reading entre dos maestros. FRANCISCO ARAGÓN\, San Francisco native and son of Nicaraguan immigrants\, and preeminent Cuban author NANCY MOREJÓN\, are both in town for brief visits\, and will feature their work at the next Lunada with the pueblo of the Mission\, in San Francisco. \nOPEN MIC: Sign up is at the entrance at 7pm\, 10 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. inviting poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates\, veteranos\, and first-timers to share their voices throughout the evening\, under the lunar spotlight. \nDOORS OPEN AT 7PM. \n$5.00 Admission: \nHosted by Sandra García Rivera \nGALERÍA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nA native of San Francisco\, California\, Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. Educated in the city at St. James and Riordan\, he earned a B.A. in Spanish literature across the bay at UC Berkeley before relocating to Madrid\, where he obtained an M.A. in Hispanic Civilization from New York University (“NYU in Spain”). Upon his return to the United States after a ten-year stint in Europe\, Aragón began a period of activity that included his own writing\, editing\, translating\, and literary curating. After completing graduate degrees in creative writing from UC Davis (M.A.) and the University of Notre Dame (M.F.A.)\, he joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS)\, where he established the ILS’ literary initiative—Letras Latinas\, where he has conceived of and overseen programs for Latinx poets and writers. His work in this area led him to serve the literary community at-large\, including as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts\, a nominator for various literary distinctions\, and as a trustee of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) from 2008 to 2012. In 2010\, he was awarded the “Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Arts\, Literary Arts and Publications Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and in 2015 a VIDO Award by VIDA\, Women in the Literary Arts. In 2017\, he was a finalist for Split This Rock’s Freedom Plow Award for poetry and activism. Aragón\, a CantoMundo Fellow and a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop\, is the author of two books: Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press\, 2005) and Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press\, 2010) as well as editor of the anthology\, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press\, 2007). His third book\, After Rubén\, is forthcoming next year from Northern California publisher\, Blue Oak Press. His poems and translations have appeared in various print and online journals\, as well as numerous anthologies.  He spends the fall semester on the Notre Dame campus where he teaches a literature course on Latinx poetry\, and spring in Washington\, D.C.\, where he teaches a poetry workshop featuring the work of local and visiting Latinx poets. \nNancy Morejón is Cuba’s preeminent living poet\, and is the recipient of multiple literary awards. Morejón graduated with honors at the University of Havana\, having studied Caribbean and French Literature\, and she is fluent in French\, English. The daughter of a stevedore of African descent and a mother of Chinese Cuban and European descent\, Nancy writes of Cuban mestizo culture. Also a daughter of the Cuban revolution\, her work explores a range of themes: the mythology of the Cuban nation\, the relation of the blacks of Cuba within that nation. In addition\, she also voices the situation of women within her society\, expressing concern for women’s experience and for racial equality within the Cuban revolution. Her work also treats the grievous fact of slavery as an ancestral experience. Her work treats political themes as well as intimate\, familial topics. She is a well-regarded translator of French and English into Spanish\, particularly Caribbean writers\, including Edouard Glissant\, Jacques Roumain and Aimé Césaire\, René Depestre. Her own poetry has been translated into English\, German\, French\, Portuguese\, Gallego\, Russian\, Macedonian\, and others. She has produced a number of journalistic\, critical\, and dramatic works. One of the most notable is her book-length treatments of poet Nicolás Guillén. In 1986 she won the Cuban “Premio de la crítica” (Critic’s Prize) for Piedra Pulida\, and in 2001 won Cuba’s National Prize for Literature\, awarded for the first time to a black woman. This national prize for literature was created in 1983; Nicolás Guillén was the first to receive it. She also won the Golden Wreath of the Struga poetry evenings for 2006. She has toured extensively in the United States\, Latin America\, and in other countries\, and Nancy will also be accompanied by Daisy Salas\, who works as a coordinator for Cuban artists and writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-3/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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