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SUMMARY:Scarlett Sabet & Janaka Stucky
DESCRIPTION:reading from new works \nScarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. She wrote\, directed and starred in her poetic short film “Burning” which was produced by BAFTA winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her first collection “Rocking Underground” was launched with a reading at the Chelsea Arts Club in November 2014. Her second collection “The Lock And The Key” was launched with a reading at Shakespeare and Company in Paris in July 2016. In October 2016 GQ online released a video of Scarlett performing her poem Feathers at Leighton House to celebrate National Poetry Day. In January 2017 Scarlett was interviewed and gave a reading for the radio program “Van Morrison And Me” hosted by journalist John McCarthy for the BBC World Service\, also featuring Sir Van Morrison\, Brian Keenan and novelist Ian Rankin. In April 2017\, Scarlett was invited by poet and Professor Dr. Dan Chiasson to give a reading at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. In December 2017 Scarlett gave a reading and her poems were exhibited alongside acclaimed photographer Jim Marshall’s work for the Peace and Light exhibition at The Troubadour in London. Scarlett has given poetry readings at the Aspects Literary Festival\, and No Alibi’s bookshop in Belfast\, The Troubadour in London\, the William Morris Gallery\, the World’s End Bookshop\, Burberry\, The Groucho Club\, Atlantis Bookshop. Scarlett has read at KGB\, Bowery Poetry and Berl’s bookshop in New York. Sir Van Morrison commented on Scarlett’s poetry: “”What strikes me about Scarlett’s work it that it’s very cutting edge and it’s making poetry interesting again. I love both the intensity and the spiritual aspect she conveys.” Scarlett is currently working on her third collection of poetry which will be released in Spring 2018. \nJanaka Stucky is an American poet\, performer\, and publisher. The founding editor of Black Ocean\, as well as the annual poetry journal\, Handsome\, he is also the author of a few poetry collections. His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly\, Fence and North American Review\, and his articles have been published by The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in The Boston Phoenix. \nIn 2015 Jack White’s Third Man Records launched a new publishing imprint\, Third Man Books\, and chose Janaka’s full-length poetry collection\, The Truth Is We Are Perfect\, as their inaugural title. Janaka’s poems are at once incantatory\, mystic\, and epigrammatic. His esoteric & occult influences\, combined with a mesmeric approach to performance\, create an almost ecstatic presence on stage. \n“Stucky’s raw works … give a dreamlike power to an antinomian religion of erotic love” \n—Publishers Weekly \n“He pulls from Eastern religious texts\, mysticism\, and the occult\, and casts dirty\, hallucinatory images onto graceful lines about love\, resulting in a collection that is empathetic\, nuanced\, and wild.” \n—The Kenyon Review \n“Stucky’s verse has the power of the best East European poets—some of his poems seem to be perfect\, magnificent\, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful\, cogent\, incisive phrase-maker.” \n—Bill Knott \n“Stucky has catapulted into the firmament of my favorite ecstatic writers alongside Diane di Prima\, Bill Callahan\, Hafiz\, e.e. cummings\, and Larkin Grimm.” \n—Phantasmaphile \n“The yearning in these poems is awash in dense\, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mishandling of promises and breakable bonds.” \n—apt Journal \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scarlett-sabet-janaka-stucky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cheston Knapp and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Cheston Knapp discusses his new essay collection\, Up Up\, Down Down with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for Up Up\, Down Down \n\n“Full of wit and disquiet\, Cheston Knapp’s Up Up\, Down Down is a glittering collection of essays about nostalgia\, skateboarding\, fathers\, waterslides\, and all kinds of community. The path toward whatever we mean by “maturity” is a flowering vine of fruitful discomfort in these pages\, and so much grows from it: acute self-awareness\, intricate curiosity\, tender interrogations. This book made me laugh out loud in embarrassing places—a quiet Swedish train\, a darkened redeye flight—and its insights will keep echoing in me for a long time.” Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n\n“Up\, Up\, Down\, Down is an always smart\, often hilarious\, and ultimately transcendent essay collection\, full of thousand-dollar words and genuine goodness. You think you’re reading about tennis\, low-rent wrestling\, the death of a neighbor\, or the perils of beer pong\, but suddenly you’re pondering the biggest questions: What is kindness? What is self-consciousness? How does articulating an experience change it? It’s an unqualified pleasure to be in Knapp’s company.” Anthony Doerr\, author of All the Light We Cannot See \n“Cheston Knapp’s Up Up\, Down Down has the uncanny\, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white\, masculinist\, Christian\, frat boy\, and so on—appear newly strange\, and newly open to analysis. He has the eye and ear of an anthropologist\, a joyously expansive vocabulary\, a prose style that feels both extravagant and exact\, and a big\, booming heart.” Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nAbout Up Up\, Down Down \n\nDaring and wise\, hilarious and tender\, Cheston Knapp’s exhilarating collection of seven linked essays\, Up Up\, Down Down\, tackles the Big Questions through seemingly unlikely avenues. In his dexterous hands\, an examination of a local professional wrestling promotion becomes a meditation on pain and his relationship with his father. A profile of UFO enthusiasts ends up probing his history in the church and\, more broadly\, the nature and limits of faith itself. Attending an adult skateboarding camp launches him into a virtuosic analysis of nostalgia. And the shocking murder of a neighbor expands into an interrogation of our culture’s prevailing ideas about community and the way we tell the stories of our lives. Even more remarkable\, perhaps\, is the way he manages to find humanity in a damp basement full of frat boys. \nTaken together\, the essays in Up Up\, Down Down amount to a chronicle of Knapp’s coming-of-age\, a young man’s journey into adulthood\, late-onset as it might appear. He presents us with formative experiences from his childhood to marriage that echo throughout the collection\, and ultimately tilts at what may be the Biggest Q of them all: what are the hazards of becoming who you are?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheston-knapp-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Terry Patten / A New Republic of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host an evening with Terry Patten\, who will read from and discuss his new book A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Join us! \nIn the midst of today’s many global crises\, many of us recognize the need for change\, both in ourselves and in our social and political institutions\, in order to build a truly sustainable future. In A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries\, Terry Patten sheds new light on this issue\, providing a practical approach to “being the change” that the world needs now more than ever. \nIn the most convincing terms\, Patten illustrates how inner and outer transformation are entirely interdependent. In fact\, the future of our very life-support system are utterly dependent on the quality\, intelligence\, tenderness\, and courage that each of us can cultivate in ourselves. The book lays out the difficult\, necessary\, creative\, and ultimately rewarding work we must each engage in to meaningfully address our most “wicked” problems. \nPatten shows how we can come together in our communities for “conversations that matter.” And he describes new communities\, enterprises\, and forms of dialogue that have already created miracles that can be replicated on larger scales. The “new republic of the heart” is already coming into being\, invisibly and quietly. More of us need to learn to animate our best qualities so that we can transform ourselves\, our societies\, and the planet. A New Republic of the Heart shows us how. \n— \nTerry Patten is a philosopher\, activist\, consultant\, coach\, teacher\, social entrepreneur\, and author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness by facing\, examining\, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. As an author\, he co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute. As a teacher he is the founder of the “Beyond Awakening” teleseminar series and Bay Area Integral. As a social entrepreneur\, he founded the pioneering consciousness technology company Tools For Exploration\, and is now involved in restorative redwood forestry and fossil-fuel alternatives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-patten-a-new-republic-of-the-heart/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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