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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052 \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
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SUMMARY:SFPL Live - Benjamin Bac Sierra in convo with Luis Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latino Heritage Month SFPL is honored to host Benjamin Bac Sierra as our On the Same Page author. We will celebrate this local author\, educator\, poet\, activist and Mission District native. Bac Sierra’s new book Pura Neta\, the long awaited sequel to Barrio Bushido is due out in mid September Pochino Press. Benjamin Bac Sierra will be interviewed by  Luis Rodriguez\, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca and most recently From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice.  \nBenjamin Bac Sierra  was raised by a widowed mother and the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. After serving as a grunt in the Marine Corps\, where he participated in front-line combat during the first Gulf War\, Ben completed his B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley\, earned a teaching credential and a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and merited a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California\, Hastings College of the Law. Currently\, he is a professor at City College of San Francisco and a community innovator and keynote speaker throughout the Bay Area. Ben’s essays and stories have been published in newspapers and literary magazines His first novel Barrio Bushido was presented a Best of the Bay Award and an International Latino Book Award.  \nLuis Rodriguez is a former Los Angeles Poet Laureate. He has 16 books\, is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-founder Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center & Bookstore. Rodriguez has two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction\, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love\, Addiction\, Revolutions\, and Healing (Touchstone\, 2012)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\, and a mandatory read\,  Always Running: La Vida Loca\, Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Books\, 1993)\, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His latest book\, From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer\, explores race\, culture\, identity and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation.  \nConnect with Ben Bac Sierra: Website \nConnect with Luis Rodrigues: Website | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/PuraNeta9-30-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live:  https://youtu.be/gzha5aCxQhY \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-live-benjamin-bac-sierra-in-convo-with-luis-rodriguez/
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