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SUMMARY:Lake Like a Mirror at The Ruby SF: Ho Sok Fong and Natascha Bruce in conversation with Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Ho Sok Fong’s Lake Like a Mirror\, translated by Natascha Bruce\, at The Ruby SF\, an arts and letters-focused work and gathering space for creative Bay Area women of all definitions. Ho Sok Fong and Natascha Bruce will be in conversation with writer Meng Jin. \nBy an author described by critics as “the most accomplished Malaysian writer\, full stop\,” Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization\, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government\, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. \nIn precise and disquieting prose\, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation center for wayward Muslims\, mysterious wooden boxes\, gossip in unlicensed hair salons\, hotels with amnesiac guests\, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics—a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words\, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses\, surreal and utterly true. \nLight reception at 6:00. Conversation begins at 6:30. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
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LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino\, with Zaina Alsous\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Under the heading “A border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino‘s remarkable book\, Cruel Fiction—Trevino\, The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, will be joined as part of her week-long residency by Palestinian poet Zaina Alsous\, for two public events. On Thursday April 23\, the two poets will each read and join in conversation with one another and with the audience\, at The Poetry Center. The following night\, Friday April 24\, they each read their work at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation—with the Poetry Center evening co-sponsored\, thanks to Rabab Abdulhadi\, by AMED: the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative\, at the College of Ethnic Studies\, San Francisco State University—these events are free and open to the public. \n\nWendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions) tells the truth about life as we know and endure it\, restlessly picking at the hangnails of both history and heartbreak. Trevino posits race as a “cruel fiction\,” nationality as its attendant mythology. Trevino asks: How do we resist these fictions without reproducing their murderous\, hierarchical logics? For Trevino\, “poetry is not enough” as long as we are not enough. Trevino’s insurgent colloquialism is a sleight of hand. Cruel Fiction speaks plainly but never simply. Trevino reflects on the lies with which we arm ourselves to refute the lies used against us. Against the near-orgasmic collective delusions of Obamamania\, Trevino recounts solidarities fostered during the Occupy movement. Exhilarating sonnet sequences titled “Popular Culture & Cruel Work\,” and “Brazilian Is Not a Race” interrogate the inter-sections of pop and protest. —Momtaza Mehri\, Somali-British poet\, Young People’s Laureate for London 2018-19\n\nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016\, followed by her first full-length book\, Cruel Fiction\, also from Commune Editions\, 2018. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was also published by Spoilsport Editions—an online press she started with writer Oki Sogumi—in 2017. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Selected as The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nZaina Alsous is a prison abolitionist\, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora\, and a movement worker in South Florida. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published inPOETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her chapbook Lemon Effigies won the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize and was published by Anhinga Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry\, A Theory of Birds\, won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, selected by Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah\, and was published by the University of Arkansas Press\, Fall 2019. Born and raised in North Carolina\, she currently lives in Miami\, Florida\, while pursuing an MFA in poetry and teaching undergraduate writing at the University of Miami. More at zainaalsous.com \n\nfrom “Brazilian Is Not A Race\,” Wendy Trevino\n\nA border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction\nMaintained by constant policing\, violence\nAlways threatening a new map. It takes\nTime\, lots of people’s time\, to organize\nThe world this way. & violence. It takes more\nViolence. Violence no one can confuse for\nAnything but violence. So much violence\nChanges relationships\, births a people\nThey can reason with. These people are not\nUs. They underestimate the violence.\nIt’s been awhile. We are who we are\nTo them\, even when we don’t know who we\nAre to each other & culture is a\nRecord of us figuring that out.\n \n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nZaina Alsous and Wendy Trevino\nreading from their work\nFriday April 24\n7:00 pm @ Moe’s Books\n2476 Telegraph Avenue (at Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFeatured: \n“Mexican Is Not a Race\,” Wendy Trevino in conversation with Chris Chen\, The New Inquiry\, April 6\, 2017 \nNick Estes on Wendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction\, “Verso authors pick their favorite books of the year\,” 17 December 2019 \nFree pdf download: Wendy Trevino\, Brazilian Is Not a Race\, Commune Editions\, 2016 \n“Zaina Alsous Named Winner of 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\,” University of Arkansas Press \nMore on Zaina Alsous \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-wendy-trevino-with-zaina-alsous-reading-and-in-conversation/
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:Robert Hass & Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass and Matthew Zapruder read from their new poetry collections\, Summer Snow and Father’s Day. \nAbout Summer Snow \nA major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nAbout Father’s Day \n“Zapruder’s new book\, Father’s Day\, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment\, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post \nThe poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask\, how can one be a good father\, partner\, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent\, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court\, watching a child grow off into a distance\, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike\, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-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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