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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nJose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, and Tony-nominated producer. His work has appeared internationally in Time magazine\, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. In 2014\, he received the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants\, he founded the non-profit media and culture organization Define American\, named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. An elementary school named after him will open in his hometown of Mountain View\, California in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-in-conversation-with-jose-antonio-vargas/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spoken Poetry with Afro-Mexican poet Jeremy Vasquez & Afro-Salvadoreña writer Olivia Peña
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX\nSaturday February 8\, 2pm\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review\, Primary Treasure Magazine\, and Spectrum Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy M. Vasquez is an entrepreneur\, published author\, San Francisco Educator\, healer\, artist and unapologetically Black. Jeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, healer and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist\, he has performed at many community events as well as educational and correctional facilities. Serving as a keynote speaker at conferences\, colleges\, universities\, and public schools nationwide\, Jeremy continues to use his pain as a platform for change. With his poetry\, he has been called to free people through stories \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate and bring awareness to Latinos of African Descent through art\, performances\, workshops\, classes and historical archives in El Tecolote. Paseo Artistico honors The Mission District’s Ancestors of African Descent and the movements for racial justice both locally and throughout the Americas.   \nmore info at www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-poetry-with-afro-mexican-poet-jeremy-vasquez-afro-salvadorena-writer-olivia-pena/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zora Neale Hurston | Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by MoAD & Litquake \nIn 1925\, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York\, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period\, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life\, transforming her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later\, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Released just in time for Black History Month\, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (Amistad Press) unveils an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration\, gender and class\, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume\, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories\, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting\, satiric humor\, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions. \nWith readings and discussion from UC Berkeley African American studies professor Chiyuma Elliott\, poet and CCA professor Tonya M. Foster\, and bestselling novelist Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Moderated by writer and radio journalist Jenee Darden. Audience discussion and book sales to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zora-neale-hurston-stories-from-the-harlem-renaissance-3/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:P: Carl Becoming a Man
DESCRIPTION:Renowned artist and activist P. Carl uncovers the intricacies of transitioning and finding himself anew in his memoir\, Becoming A Man. Carl is an award-winning producer and dramaturg\, and co-founder of Howlround\, a free and open platform for theater-makers worldwide. When working with Claudia Rankine on her new play “The White Card\,” Carl was transitioning\, and this book came from that experience. “On March 16 of 2017 I become a man\, a white man\,” writes Carl\, just months after Trump’s election\, two months shy of Carl’s fifty-first birthday\, and just a few more months away from the eruption of the #MeToo movement. \nAgainst the backdrop of our pivotal political moment\, Carl’s personal journey interweaves with a broader mission: Carl delivers a cutting\, clear-eyed dissection of gender and identity in America. Carl has a unique vantage point—having moved through the world for decades as a woman before walking those same streets as a man. And he uses his first-hand experience to shine a light on the subtle double standards and injustices that run through the daily lives of millions in America. Even as Carl is finally able to celebrate his arrival in the world as the man he has always known himself to be\, he must reimagine masculinity and challenge it. “To construct that man\,” he writes\, “knowing what I know as a woman\, is my work now.” \nCarl delivers a singular\, heart-baring story—about what it’s like to transition at age fifty\, to become oneself after waiting a lifetime\, and how this transformation ripples through all the habits and relationships (including his roles as spouse and sibling) he has built over half a century. \nP. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Emerson College in Boston and was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation\, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018\, the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington\, and the Anschutz Fellowship at Princeton for spring of 2020. He made theater for twenty years and now writes and teaches. He resides in Boston and lives with his wife of twenty-one years\, the writer Lynette D’Amico\, and their dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/p-carl-becoming-a-man/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nFEB\n8\n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, Poetry\, Reading\nQueerbound Queer Open Mic\n\nSaturday\, February 8\, 2020\n6:00 PM 9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQueerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Charles Yu and Meng Jin!
DESCRIPTION:January’s Writers With Drinks features the long-awaited second novel by Charles Yu\, plus acclaimed debut author Meng Jin. Plus sex and feminism\, science fiction\, and poetry\, and tons more. We’re going to turn all your bodily fluids into bodily druids! \nWhen: Saturday\, Feb. 8\, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open 7 PM\nWho: Charles Yu\, Meng Jin\, Tracy Clark Flory\, Aaron Glantz\, Juliette Wade and Barbara Tomash\nHow much: $5 to $20 sliding scale\, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nWhere: The Make Out Room\, 3225 22nd. St.\, San Francisco\, CA \nAbout the readers/performers: \nCharles Yu is the author of three books\, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award\, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series\, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX\, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Wired. \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel is Little Gods. \nTracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan\, Elle\, Esquire\, Marie Claire\, Salon\, The Guardian\, Women’s Health\, and the yearly “Best Sex Writing” anthology. She has appeared on “20/20\,” MSNBC and NPR. \nAaron Glantz is the author of Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins\, Hedge Fund Magnates\, Crooked Banks\, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream. He’s a journalist at Reveal\, whose work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings\, numerous laws\, and criminal probes by the DEA\, FBI\, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission. A two-time Peabody Award-winner\, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, multiple Emmy nominee\, and winner of the Selden Ring and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award\, his work has appeared in New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, NBC Nightly News\, Good Morning America and the PBS NewsHour. His previous books include The War Come Home and How America Lost Iraq. He lives in San Francisco. \nJuliette Wade never outgrew of the habit of asking “why” about everything. This path led her to study foreign languages and to complete degrees in both anthropology and linguistics. Combining these with a fascination for worldbuilding and psychology\, she creates multifaceted science fiction that holds a mirror to our own society. The author of short fiction in magazines including Analog\, Clarkesworld\, and Fantasy & Science Fiction\, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her Aussie husband and her two sons\, who support and inspire her. Her debut novel\, Mazes of Power\, will come out from DAW publishing on February 4\, 2020. \nBarbara Tomash is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently\, PRE- (Black Radish Books) and Arboreal (Apogee). Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, Verse\, VOLT\, and elsewhere. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-featuring-charles-yu-and-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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