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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Mah Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Alexandra Mattraw’s new poetry collection \nWe fell into Weather \nPublished by Cultural Society \nWhat has been said about We fell into Weather: \n“What you can’t see is what brings you\,” Alexandra Mattraw writes: “We throttle out of rent\, ash CFC storming lung shifts.” An uncanny\, raw awareness embodies the space of perception and opening. Mattraw’s primary language becomes action\, becomes our phenomenology\, our neurodivergence\, our fullness: “When allergies heave and blister. When CFC wind. Decibels shake cinder pink jostling pink pill.” There is surprise everywhere in these poems. This is a magical book. \n–Joseph Lease\, author of Broken World and The Body Ghost \n“Alexandra Mattraw’s We fell into weather is not only essential reading for its presentation of how an individual’s experiences can offer insight into some of the most critical challenges we face today. Her use of image\, detail\, the placement of language on the page\, her diction choices\, and her variations regarding syntax—each formal choice contributes to creating a constellation of difference that exposes not only unexpected revelations regarding the speaking agent’s interior perceptions\, but also the social environment in which these scenes of intimacy and obsession\, history and fantasy\, are set. While one tends to see forms as abstract organizing principals\, in Mattraw’s poems forms become actors in the drama and members of a chorus offering insight. They can be received in what I’ll call a language of physical dimension\, of gesture\, of shape and spatial relations. Thus\, as we read\, we can begin to perceive how\, in our own lives\, the forms which we each use to create our understanding of ourselves and our place in the culture we inhabit are as active in opening or limiting our lives as anything in the world we face today.” \n–Rusty Morrison\, Omnidawn editor and author of the true keeps calm biding its story \n“At heart conceptual and formally experimental\, Alexandra Mattraw’s We fell into weather creates visual and sonic textures that link toxicity — environmental\, historical\, domestic — with neurodivergence and disease. These poems are alive with musicality and internal rhyme\, “the way hay rips scars into wrists the way granite / field bloom back bruises\,” while offering glimpses into the stuff of everyday life – the toddler’s cough\, the broken lamp taped back together. In Mattraw’s spare and elegant lines\, an image will crystallize briefly as a family drives away from California wildfires\, but then disperse like vapor\, like “ash . . . Rend[s] the visibility of air.” Attuned to the sublime in nature and in language\, this is a poet who invites our close and sustained attention\, who invites us to improve ourselves.” \n–Mary-Kim Arnold\, writer and visual artist\, author of Litany for The Long Moment \nAbout the readers: \nTiff Dressen lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary\, a (slender) full length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019\, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time\, they enjoy playing the role of urban flâneur as well as setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book. \nAlexandra Mattraw is Berkeley poet and critic who has authored several books. small siren is available at Cultural Society (2018)\, and two of her chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press (2013\, 2017). Other poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Jacket2\, Interim\, VOLT\, and elsewhere. A mother and ecofeminist\, Alexandra curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its ninth year. We fell into weather is her second full-length book of poems. \nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet and and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects\, 2013) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press\, 2016). A full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Maw is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018)\, and her full-length book of poetry Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. Win often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley and is a member of The Writers Grotto. mawsheinwin.com \n 
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Penelope Poems
DESCRIPTION:Poet Patti Trimble and musician and composer Peter Whitehead merge their considerable skills to present a one-night theater-length spoken-word piece: The Penelope Poems. At The Marsh San Francisco main theater on Wednesday\, March 25 at 7:30 pm. A beautifully smart re-imagining of Homer’s Penelope. The Penelope Poems runs approximately 80 minutes. Tickets are limited; ($15); available at themarsh.org. \nHere’s more description if you are interested: \nTrimble’s delightful text—debuted last year at the SF Commonwealth Club— reimagines Homer’s Odyssey for the 21st century\, bridging millennia\, celebrating Penelope as a beloved literary collage. Here is a Penelope who’s been written\, again and again. And she’s clearly a woman who reads\, with muses such as Judith Butler\, Socrates\, Ovid\, Virginia Woolf\, Aristophanes\, James Joyce\, and Ferlinghetti. \nFive artists bring Penelope alive; Trimble tells the spoken-word story; voice-over artist/vocalist Julia Norton and poet Maya Kohsla deconstruct and elaborate the tale; and Peter Whitehead\, music director and musician\, weaves his evocative improvisations on flutes and strings. The set is arranged in collaboration with artist Lauren Elder. \nPenelope speaks from her experience\, and she speaks to us personally. She’s savvy on heroism\, Sirens\, gender\, monsters\, childbirth\, faithfulness\, and murder. Also about unweaving as a form of reparation\, and about the art of living on this wild Earth. \nThe Penelope Poems runs approximately 80 minutes. \nTickets ($15) are limited; available at themarsh.org. \n  \nWriter and Director: Patti Trimble \nMusic Director: Peter Whitehead \nSet Arrangement: Lauren Elder and Patti Trimble \nSpoken-Word Penelope: Patti Trimble \nSpoken-Word Chorus and song: Julia Norton \nSpoken-Word Chorus: Maya Khosla \nInstrumental Music\, Composition\, Song: Peter Whitehead \nalso songs by Leonard Cohen and Tim Buckley \nThe Penelope Poems presents an exciting collaboration among these Bay Area artists: \n  \nSince the 90s Patti Trimble (original text and spoken word) has mesmerized audiences with smart lyric spoken word\, performing in USA and Europe—with support from Lannan Foundation\, Poets&Writers\, Djerassi Foundation\, Adirondack Review\, INDA Italy\, and a Pushcart nomination. Her writings speak to our lives in publications\, and recordings. theater and dance productions\, clubs and festivals\, museum installations. New York poetry impressario Bob Holman writes\, “with her skilled blend of poesy and music\, there’s no other journey so worth taking”. Patti lives half-time in Europe; she teaches in the Bay Area and writes for the SF Ethnic Dance Festival. www.pattitrimble.com \nPeter Whitehead (musical arrangment and improvisation) is a San Francisco composer\, performer\, songwriter and instrument builder. He performs solo and creates scores for film\, television\, radio\, and dance\, including for Mikhail Baryshnikov\, Susan Marshall\, Anna Halprin\, Charles Moulton and Sarah Shelton Mann & Contraband. His music is available online and from out of round records. He is also a painter & photographer\, his most recent project a book of photographs of Treasure Island. website \nJulia Norton (spoken word and song)  is an award-winning singer\, actor\, composer and storyteller\, for 20 years teaching others how to use their whole voice. Her podcast ‘Dark and Twisty Tales’ combines grim folk tales with improvised song. Her album ‘Lullaby Island’ mixes Celtic style vocals\, traditional lullabies and Victorian poems. www.julianorton.com \nMaya Khosla (spoken word) is a wildlife biologist and currently Poet Laureate of Sonoma County. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and featured in The Literary Review\, River Teeth\, Poem\, and other journals. Her books are All the Fires of Wind and Light\, Sixteen Rivers Press; Web of Water: Life in Redwood Creek\, a guide book; Keel Bone\, winner Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize; and Heart of the Tearing\, Red Dust Press. mayakhosla website \nLauren Elder (set design) is an American artist and designer. Throughout the mid-1980s to early 1990s she worked with the interdisciplinary performance ensemble\, Contraband\, as a set designer and performer. Currently\, she lives and works in California\, teaches at California College of the Arts\, and works with environmental art\, as well as continuing in set design. www.laurenelder.com \n  \ncontact: Patti Trimble 707 360 8189 \npmtrim@gmail.com
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LOCATION:The Marsh\, 1062 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Adrienne Miller: In the Land of Men
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nAdrienne Miller discusses her new memoir\, In the Land of Men\, with Dave Eggers. \nPraise for In the Land of Men \n“Adrienne Miller did not merely find herself in the midst of a bright\, innovative\, challenging\, unforgettable moment in literary culture: she made it happen. It was easy to miss that then\, given all the attention paid to the brilliant writers\, mostly men\, that she discovered\, nurtured\, and endured. But now\, with ferocious humor and honesty she conjures once more that Narnia-like world of books before blogs\, magazines before the internet—capturing all its giddy verve\, and all its frank injustices with her own unmatchable taste and wit at the dead center\, where it always belonged.”— John Hodgman\, author of Medallion Status \n“In The Land of Men is about being the only woman in the room. But\, beyond that\, it’s about the magic of rooms themselves. It’s a revisiting of life before the age of ubiquitous screens\, when we shared physical space—sometimes uncomfortably and sometimes ecstatically—with our heroes and our nemeses alike. I was thrilled to make the trip.”— Meghan Daum\, author of The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars\n“Adrienne Miller’s voice is lucid and remorseful\, and she’s brought us a beautiful\, painful book\, a tender dissection of elusive subjects up to and including the passage of time and youth itself.”— Jonathan Lethem \n“An incredible guide to a ridiculous era and its outrages. Many will praise Miller’s ability to bring a time and place to life\, but I would also like to add that this book is very\, very funny.”— Gary Shteyngart\, author of Lake Success \nAbout In the Land of Men \nA fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties\, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire\, and Miller’s personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace \nA naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest\, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis\, powerful male egos\, and unquestioned authority of kings—GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man’s world. Three years later\, she forged her own path\, becoming the first woman to take on the role of literary editor of Esquire\, home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself— Hemingway\, Mailer\, and Carver. Up against this old world\, she would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a “mere girl.” \nBut this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement\, as exemplified by McSweeney’s and the work of David Foster Wallace. A decade older than Miller\, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her closest friend\, confidant—and antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still finding her voice. \nThis memoir—a rich\, dazzling story of power\, ambition\, and identity—ultimately asks the question “How does a young woman fit into this male culture and at what cost?” With great wit and deep intelligence\, Miller presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young woman’s education in a land of men.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adrienne-miller-in-the-land-of-men/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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