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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall in conversation with Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of Margaret Randall’s new book \nI Never Left Home: Poet\, Feminist\, Revolutionary \nfrom Duke University Press \nIn 1969\, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country\, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home\, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. \nFrom living among New York’s abstract expressionists in the mid-1950s as a young woman to working in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture to instill revolutionary values in the media during the Sandinista movement\, the story of Randall’s life reads like a Hollywood production. Along the way\, she edited a bilingual literary journal in Mexico City\, befriended Cuban revolutionaries\, raised a family\, came out as a lesbian\, taught college\, and wrote over 150 books. Throughout it all\, Randall never wavered from her devotion to social justice. \nWhen she returned to the United States in 1984 after living in Latin America for twenty-three years\, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her to be deported for her “subversive writing.” Over the next five years\, and with the support of writers\, entertainers\, and ordinary people across the country\, Randall fought to regain her citizenship\, which she won in court in 1989. \nAs much as I Never Left Home is Randall’s story\, it is also the story of the communities of artists\, writers\, and radicals she belonged to. Randall brings to life scores of creative and courageous people on the front lines of creating a more just world. She also weaves political and social analyses and poetry into the narrative of her life. Moving\, captivating\, and astonishing\, I Never Left Home is a remarkable story of a remarkable woman. \nPraise for the work of Margaret Randall \n“A revolutionary woman and remarkable writer places her long journey within the context of her conflicted past and our own divided present. . . . A striking remembrance by an intellectual whose radical\, fierce nature is unflappable.” — Kirkus Reviews \n\n“Every Margaret Randall book or poem is a jewel to be savored\, but this text may be the best yet. Beautifully written\, it is Randall’s first comprehensive memoir. With her moves through the 1950s’ expressionist art world in New York through the 1960s Mexican literary scene\, the Cuban Revolution looms large and beckons Randall to participate\, which eventually brings the scrutiny of Uncle Sam attempting to strip her of her citizenship. Throughout\, Randall’s early and deep feminism is a guiding light.” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \n“Margaret Randall hails from a heroic era when poets aspired to change life. Nominally a memoir\, I Never Left Home is really a full-blown autobiography\, chronicling her life as a poet\, a woman\, a feminist\, a mother\, a lesbian\, an incest survivor\, and a participant in a quarter century of Latin American social and political revolution. Her experiences as coeditor of one of the 1960s most important international literary magazines are gripping\, but it’s her account of the Reagan administration’s attempt to deport her from the land of her birth as an undesirable alien that makes I Never Left Home so necessary in the present moment. Few U.S. poets have dared to dream as big\, fight as hard\, or accomplish as much.” — Garrett Caples\, coeditor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia \n“Margaret Randall’s life is the story of our twentieth century\, with all of its lucid wonder\, its dark passages and contradictions. Illuminating and enthralling.” — Achy Obejas\, author of The Tower of the Antilles \nGarett Caples is the poetry editor at City Lights Books\, journalist\, and a published poet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-in-conversation-with-garrett-caples/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:For the final double-program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series for Spring 2020\, we are delighted to host renowned poet and art critic John Yau\, on a rare visit from New York City. He’ll be joined by poet\, translator\, and SF State faculty member Andrew Joron\, reading and in conversation at The Poetry Center on Thursday May 7; then the following night\, Friday May 8\, we move across the Bay\, for John Yau together with poet/performer and editor of SFMOMA’s online magazine Open Space\, Claudia La Rocco\, reading and in conversation at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\, right downtown (12th Street BART) in Frank Ogawa Plaza. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, these events are free and open to the public. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJohn Yau and Claudia La Rocco\nreading and in conversation\nFriday May 8\n7:00 pm @ Pro Arts Gallery & Commons\n150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \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/in-common-writers-series-john-yau-and-andrew-joron-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:Jia Tolentino & Jenna Wortham
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nCalled “the best young essayist at work in the United States” by Rebecca Solnit\, Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for The New Yorker\, covering everything from the viral video app TikTok\, to the ubiquitous upscale activewear brand Outdoor Voices\, to Edith Wharton’s heroine and the new norm of begging celebrities to run you over with a truck. Her essay collection Trick Mirror examines religion\, psychedelic drugs\, weddings\, the internet\, and everything in between\, tied together by the logic of an immensely sharp cultural critic observing and thinking hard about the world she exists within. Previously\, Tolentino was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Her criticism has appeared in the Times Magazine\, Grantland\, the Awl\, Pitchfork\, The Fader\, Time\, and Slate. \nJenna Wortham is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in medical anthropology from the University of Virginia\, Wortham moved to San Francisco to work with San Francisco Magazine\, Girlfriend Magazine\, write for SFist and later\, Wired. Wortham joined The New York Times in 2008 and has since covered pop culture\, technology\, race\, and queer identity. Her writing has appeared in Girl Crush Zine\, The Morning News\, Matter\, Vogue\, The Awl\, Bust\, The Hairpin\, and The Fader among other publications. In 2016\, Wortham started co-hosting the culture podcast Still Processing with Wesley Morris. She is coeditor of the forthcoming visual anthology Black Futures with Kimberly Drew. \n\nPhotograph credit: Elena Mudd (left) & Ryan Pfluger (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jia-tolentino-jenna-wortham/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff: Only the River
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff discusses her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. \nPraise for Only the River \n“In this novel\, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and war while at the same time casting a magic spell. Her authorial voice is incantatory. Characters and events caught in recent tragedies take on aspects of myth. The novel feels unique\, timely\, and yet timeless. I couldn’t put it down.” ––Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author of A Train Through Time  \nAbout Only the River \nFrom California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff\, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways. \nFleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna\, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo\, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell of the jungle and the town’s eccentric inhabitants. But Pepa’s life–including her relationship with local boy Guillermo–comes to a halt when her family abruptly moves to New York\, leaving the young girl disoriented and heartbroken. \nAs the years pass\, Pepa’s and Guillermo’s lives diverge\, and Guillermo’s homeland slips into chaos. Nicaragua soon becomes engulfed in revolutionary fervor as the Sandinista movement vies for the nation’s soul. Guillermo’s daughter transforms into an accidental revolutionary. Pepa’s son defies his parents’ wishes and joins the revolution in Nicaragua\, only to disappear into the jungle. It will take decades before the fates of these two families converge again\, revealing how love\, grief\, and passion are intertwined with a nation’s destiny. \nSpanning generations and several wars\, Only the River explores the way displacement both destroys two families and creates new ones\, sparking a revolution that changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-only-the-river/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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