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SUMMARY:Songs of Dismantling: Standing as Witness in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Poets Randall Mann and  Fernando Pérez \nread poetry and discuss the poetic experience as a method of cultural healing \nmoderated by Ingrid Rojas Contreras \nA night of reading and discussion where “Standing as witness” is the over-riding theme. An exploration of the demonization and marginalization of the “other” in the U.S. What do we need to admit to ourselves to move beyond injustice and totalitarian impulses. What memes could be useful to us in spreading a message of inclusion. Poetry is explored as a vehicle to transform culture. \nFernando Pérez celebrates the release of a new book of poetry \nA Song of Dismantling: Poems \npublished by University of New Mexico Press \nIn this dynamic debut collection\, Fernando Pérez employs lyric and nonce forms to interrogate identity politics and piece together a complex family history. The book embodies fragmentation in form and story\, exploring how migration affects relationships between people of different generations. Pérez invites readers on the journey as his family story unfolds over time and distance. \nRandal Mann’s most current collection is titled: \nProprietary \npublished by Persea Press \nProprietary and critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. For years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. \nFernando Pérez teaches at Bellevue College. His poems have been widely published in literary journals\, including Crab Orchard Review\, Más Tequila Review\, Exquisite Corpse\, and Hinchas de Poesia. \nRandall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004)\, which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009)\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013)\, also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017). He is co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). Mann received the 2013 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry. His most recent book is Proprietary: Poems\,  published by Persea Press. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/songs-of-dismantling-standing-as-witness-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jimmy O. Yang
DESCRIPTION:Jimmy O. Yang is an actor\, stand-up comedian\, and writer best known for his portrayal of Jian Yang on HBO’s Emmy-nominated series Silicon Valley and his dramatic turn opposite Mark Wahlberg in the highly acclaimed film Patriot’s Day. Born in Hong Kong\, Yang made his television debut on the CBS series 2 Broke Girls and his first late-night stand-up appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show\, where he received a rare standing ovation. He’s based in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jimmy-o-yang/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning / Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog?
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning for a reading and live music in celebration of their new book\, Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog?. Join us! \nA very true love story\, told in counterpoint\, about friendship\, politics and rock n roll. \nIn Barbara Browning’s eyes\, Imre Lodbrog is the greatest aging French rock star you’ve never heard of\, with the appeal of “Leonard Cohen\, Bob Dylan or Serge Gainsbourg on shrooms.” For Imre Lodbrog\, music is an alter-ego experience―a late-in-life outlet for a mild-mannered screenwriter deeply shaped by the generation of May ‘68. Both ask the same questions: What revolution has wreaked more havoc and beauty than rock ‘n’ roll? And why do a certain few geniuses inside every revolution go silent and unrecognized? \n— \nSébastien Régnier is an award-winning screenwriter from France (Kabloonak\, Martha Martha). \nBarbara Browning has published three novels\, including The Gift (or\, Techniques of the Body) – a New York Times Editor’s Choice – as well as I’m Trying to Reach You and The Correspondence Artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sebastien-regnier-and-barbara-browning-who-the-hell-is-imre-lodbrog/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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