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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
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SUMMARY:MFA Reading Series: Shapes of Native Nonfiction - Deborah Miranda\, Theresa Warburton\, Elissa Washuta
DESCRIPTION:Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013)\, recipient of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award; and four poetry collections: Altar for Broken Things (2020)\, Raised by Humans (2015)\, The Zen of La Llorona (2005)\, and Indian Cartography (1999). She is co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature\, and her work has appeared in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: An Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing. She is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. \nTheresa Warburton is the author of Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Literatures in Contemporary Anarchist Movements (forthcoming\, Northwestern University Press). With Elissa Washuta\, she is co-editor of Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University where she is also affiliate faculty in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and Canadian-American Studies. She lives on Lummi\, Nooksack\, and Coast Salish Territories in Bellingham\, WA. \nElissa Washuta is the author of the nonfiction collections My Body Is a Book of Rules (2014)\, Starvation Mode (2018)\, and White Magic (forthcoming\, Tin House Books). With Theresa Warburton\, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient\, a Creative Capital awardee\, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University. She is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
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SUMMARY:Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer\nCo-presented with Impact Justice \nMonday\, March 8\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/21/2021\, 03/23/2021\, 03/24/2021\nTICKETS \n  \n\n\nThis event is a presented in partnership with Impact Justice \nReuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist\, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration where he studies and writes about race\, democracy\, and the social life of the city. His book\, Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\, shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate\, and how parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished\, unstable\, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society. Miller has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey\, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago\, he lives with his wife and children on the city’s Southside. \nTerah Lawyer has been an advocate for incarcerated people for more than a decade as a peer health educator\, a certified drug and alcohol counselor\, a youth diversion specialist\, and now as program manager for the Homecoming Project\, an innovative re-entry housing program at Impact Justice. Ms. Lawyer is herself a formerly incarcerated person\, and that experience informs her commitment to improving the justice system. \nImpact Justice is a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform. Impact Justice was founded in 2015 on an idea: to create an organization that would imagine\, innovate\, and accept absolutely nothing about the status quo of our current justice system. We know the problems: too many people locked up\, including far too many people of color; families broken up and broken by our justice system; and a culture that too often treats people based on fear\, oppression\, and bias. For us to build the future we need\, we must build the world we want today. Info at https://impactjustice.org/ \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sam Cohen and Andrea Lawlor
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, March 10th at 6pm PT when Sam Cohen discusses her story collection\, Sarahland\, with Andrea Lawlor on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85188314830\n\nPraise for Sarahland\n“A bold collection that explores how we might break free from or reimagine ourselves and our places in the universe.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n“Reading SARAHLAND is pure pleasure – what a voice! What a constant flow of funny and vulnerable and distinct awarenesses! Sam Cohen’s writing is joyously itself and places its own keen\, insightful gaze on the ways we relate to ourselves and to others.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\n“I’m deeply struck by the emotional wisdom\, the cultural smarts\, the literary vulnerability and serious skills happening in SARAHLAND. Rarely do I feel so seen by a book. I gobbled this work up with feverish excitement and gratitude\, and weeks later feel like I am carrying these stories around in my head and in my heart.”—Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir\n\n“Cohen handles her sentences\, her Sarah’s\, both gently and confidently. The result: a debut of equal parts ugly and beauty\, a debut full of heartbreakingly real characters.” —Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of Pizza Girl\nAbout Sarahland\n\n“Queer\, dirty\, insightful\, and so funny” (Andrea Lawlor)\, this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.\n\nNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29\n\nIn Sarahland\, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us\, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories\, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it\, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story\, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure—and a new set of problems—by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the collection progresses\, Cohen explodes this search for self\, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving “Sarah” gets recast: as a bible-era trans woman\, an aging lesbian literally growing roots\, a being who transcends the earth as we know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday end\, “Sarah” will continue.\n\nIn each Sarah’s refusal to adhere to a single narrative\, she potentially builds a better home for us all\, a place to live that demands no fixity of self\, no plague of consumerism\, no bodily compromise\, a place called Sarahland.
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio\nThu Mar 11th 5:00pm – 6:30pm\nBuy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nLitquake is thrilled to welcome Lysley Tenorio to our Seismic Salon series! Of his recent novel The Son of Good Fortune (paperback due April 13)\, Refinery 29 writes: “Tenorio’s brilliant\, witty novel about the love of a mother and son\, the immigrant experience in America\, and the surreality of our current reality\, is bold\, ambitious\, and unforgettable.” He is also author of the story collection Monstress\, which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, the Edmund White Award\, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares. Born in the Philippines\, he lives in San Francisco\, and is a professor at Saint Mary’s. Prep your favorite cocktail and ask the very entertaining Lysley about how he manages to move between short and long fiction. \nBuy Lysley Tenorio’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
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SUMMARY:Word Week 2021 "Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan & Michelle Gallen Read Contemporary Irish Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Irish authors Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan\, and Michelle Gallen read from new work Saturday\, March 13\, 11 a.m. Pacific time via Zoom. Colm gives us a preview of his upcoming 2021 novel THE MAGICIAN\, based on the life of Thomas Mann\, from Los Angeles. Michelle reads from her rollicking debut novel set in Northern Ireland BIG GIRL\, SMALL TOWN from Dublin (7 p.m. Irish time). Paula shares poetry from her just-published retrospective work AS IF BY MAGIC from Greece\, where it will be 9 p.m.\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom. Get the Zoom link by rsvping Going on this event page or by emailing wordweeknoevalley@gmail.com. In response\, you will receive the Zoom information. Audience limit: 100 people.\n\nBuy books from Folio Books at www.foliosf.com/word-week-2021.
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Momtaza Mehri and Zoé Samudzi\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, alex cruse \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \nPlease note early start-time\, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK\, and elsewhere. \nFor our third program in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\, we are delighted to welcome two of the more outstanding young Black writers and intellectuals at work in the US and UK. Momtaza Mehri\, in London\, and Zoé Samudzi\, here in the Bay Area\, will each read from their work\, engage in conversation with one another and with emcee alex cruse\, and respond to questions from the audience. We welcome this rare opportunity to bring these two Afro-diasporan writers and thinkers together across continents. \n\n“…A poet is drenched in a singularity\, sodden with its viscous specificity. A poem speaks for itself exactly when it declares it speaks for others. The Black poet is an isotope of both hope & despair. The Black poet is both a reluctant & enthusiastic interlocutor of what is known as the Black condition\, which conditions & structures the World that invented it. The Black poem asks you where it hurts & demands no particular answer. The Black poet knows this is a question one can spend a life trying to answer….”\n—Momtaza Mehri\, “Harlem Is Hijaz Is Havana Is Harar\, Or: The Whole Point of the Black Arts Movement Is That They Were Moving”\n“We [Afro-]diasporans joke often about the genre of poetry and prose born out of a longing for a motherland animated only by hungry verses. There’s a cowardice to this: nostalgic memory\, a narrativized nostalgia for memories and experiences and beauty that never belonged to you\, is easy. But situating oneself in the wake and afterlife of those traumas and beautiful/beautified struggles is far harder still.”\n—Zoé Samudzi on Momtaza Mehri\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, Summer 2020\n\nMomtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in Granta\, Artforum\, The Guardian\, BOMB\, and Real Life Mag. She is the former Young People’s Laureate for London. Her latest pamphlet\, Doing the Most with the Least\, was published in 2019 by Goldsmiths Press. More here. \n\n“As Black as Resistance [by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson] is an urgently needed book…a call to action through an embrace of the anarchy of blackness as a recognition and a refusal of the deathly logics of liberalism and consumption. In the face of the ever expanding carceral state\, levels of inequality\, environmental degradation\, and resurgent fascism\, this book offers a map to imagining the liberated futures that we can and mus and do make.”\n—Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being\n\nZoé Samudzi is a writer\, photographer\, and a doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, Open Space\, and Verso\, among others. With William C. Anderson\, Samudzi is coauthor of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (foreword by Mariame Kaba\, AK Press\, 2018). More here. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nMomtaza Mehri\, Granta Podcast\, Ep. 94\, October 7\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri\, “Poets Should Ride the Bus: On Diane di Prima (1934–2020)\,” at Verso Books\, November 3\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri at Open Space\, 2018 \n“Blackness As a State of Matter: A Conversation with Zoé Samudzi\,” by Will Furtado\, at Contemporary And\, C&’s Top Articles of 2019 \nZoé Samudzi at Open Space\, 2018–2019 \nVideo: \nView earlier events in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3fVkVa5mS2iU5P5jmed6TQ
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Michaeleen Doucleff
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, March 15 at 6pm PT when Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff joins us to discuss her book\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy\, Helpful Little Humans\, on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88078828927 \nPraise for Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\n“Parents: You don’t have to go to kid birthday parties anymore! Or awkwardly straddle playground equipment! Or create chore charts! In her funny\, honest\, and practical book\, Michaeleen Doucleff collects ancient wisdom that can restore sanity to parenting.”\n—Amanda Ripley\, New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World and High Conflict \n“THIS IS THE PARENTING BOOK I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! Frustrated by the challenges of being a new parent\, investigative journalist Michaeleen Doucleff straps her kid on her back and travels thousands of miles to learn why and how indigenous cultures seem to raise kids to be far more skilled\, confident\, and content than the kids back at home. Armed with respect and curiosity\, Doucleff realizes that incessant communication with her child while attempting to control every small thing leads her child to feel anxiety and act out. And that giving a child autonomy while building a loving connection yields highly skilled kids who cooperate\, regulate their emotions\, and pitch in without waiting to be asked. Smart\, humbling\, and revealing\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent should force a re-set of modern American parenting and return a healthier and happier childhood to both parents and children.”\n—Julie Lythcott-Haims\, New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult and Real American \n“Michaeleen Doucleff’s Hunt\, Gather\, Parent breathes a gust of fresh air onto the parenting bookshelf. She gives us a whole new way of looking at raising kids\, and it is so beautifully intuitive even as it runs counter to everything we have been taught as Western parents. I loved all the families she introduces us to\, the landscapes she brings to life\, and her honesty about her relationships with her own daughter. It really does take a village to raise a child\, and it is pure joy to follow Michaeleen and Rosy from village to village seeing how it can be done. I can’t wait to talk to other parents about this book.”\n—Angela C. Santomero\, creator\, head writer\, and executive producer of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Blue’s Clues\, and author of Radical Kindness and Preschool Clues \nAbout Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\nThe oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy\, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them? \nWhen Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother\, she examines the studies behind modern parenting guidance and finds the evidence frustratingly limited and the conclusions often ineffective. Curious to learn about more effective parenting approaches\, she visits a Maya village in the Yucatán Peninsula. There she encounters moms and dads who parent in a totally different way than we do—and raise extraordinarily kind\, generous\, and helpful children without yelling\, nagging\, or issuing timeouts. What else\, Doucleff wonders\, are Western parents missing out on? \nIn Hunt\, Gather\, Parent\, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities: Maya families in Mexico\, Inuit families above the Arctic Circle\, and Hadzabe families in Tanzania. She sees that these cultures don’t have the same problems with children that Western parents do. Most strikingly\, parents build a relationship with young children that is vastly different from the one many Western parents develop—it’s built on cooperation instead of control\, trust instead of fear\, and personalized needs instead of standardized development milestones. \nMaya parents are masters at raising cooperative children. Without resorting to bribes\, threats\, or chore charts\, Maya parents rear loyal helpers by including kids in household tasks from the time they can walk. Inuit parents have developed a remarkably effective approach for teaching children emotional intelligence. When kids cry\, hit\, or act out\, Inuit parents respond with a calm\, gentle demeanor that teaches children how to settle themselves down and think before acting. Hadzabe parents are world experts on raising confident\, self-driven kids with a simple tool that protects children from stress and anxiety\, so common now among American kids.\nNot only does Doucleff live with families and observe their techniques firsthand\, she also applies them with her own daughter\, with striking results. She learns to discipline without yelling. She talks to psychologists\, neuroscientists\, anthropologists\, and sociologists and explains how these strategies can impact children’s mental health and development. Filled with practical takeaways that parents can implement immediately\, Hunt\, Gather\, Parent helps us rethink the ways we relate to our children\, and reveals a universal parenting paradigm adapted for American families. \nAbout the Author\nMichaeleen Doucleff is a correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk. In 2015\, she was part of the team that earned a George Foster Peabody award for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Prior to joining NPR\, Doucleff was an editor at the journal Cell\, where she wrote about the science behind pop culture. She has a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a master’s degree in viticulture and enology from the University of California\, Davis. She lives with her husband\, daughter\, and German shepherd\, Mango\, in San Francisco.
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SUMMARY:One City One Book: Chanel Miller
DESCRIPTION:One City One Book: Chanel Miller\nTue Mar 16th 6:00pm – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with San Francisco Public Library \nLitquake is honored to partner with San Francisco Public Library to celebrate its 16th annual One City One Book selection\, Know My Name by Chanel Miller. A citywide literary event\, One City One Book encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in a variety of public programs. Chanel Miller joins Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art\, and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the California court system. \nClick here to register and buy books. \nUniversally acclaimed and rapturously reviewed\, Chanel Miller’s breathtaking New York Times bestselling memoir “gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe\, but as Chanel Miller the writer\, the artist\, the survivor\, the fighter” (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators\, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable\, and\, ultimately\, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book\, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, People\, and NPR\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian-American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. Her contribution to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ special issue #WeToo: A Reader details her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member\, and the healing process she went through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-city-one-book-chanel-miller/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Chanel Miller in conversation with journalist Robynn Takayama
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Public Library is honored to announce its 16th Annual One City One Book selection\, Chanel Miller’s\, Know My Name. \nChanel Miller will join Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the CA court system.  Zoom doors will open at 5:50. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, NPR and the Washington Post\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. \nTakayama has contributed to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ #WeToo Reader. In it\, she shares her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member and the healing process she went through. \nFor Spanish or Cantonese\, please register. Closed captioning will be available in English. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/16/author-chanel-miller-conversation-journalist-robynn-takayama sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chanel-miller-in-conversation-with-journalist-robynn-takayama/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T170000
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mahogany L. Browne\, Safia Elhillo in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the San Francisco Public Library in welcoming the San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, along with celebrated authors Mahogany L. Browne and Safia Elhillo to discuss and give readings from their latest works. \nTongo Eisen-Martin is the San Francisco Poet Laureate appointed by Mayor London N. Breed in January 2021. He is the founder of Black Freighter Press. His book\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes”\, received a 2018 American Book Award\, the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Tune into his inaugural address on April 21. \nMahogany L. Browne is a writer\, organizer and educator. Executive Director of Bowery Poetry Club & Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC & Poetry Coordinator at St. Francis College\, Browne has received fellowships from Agnes Gund\, Air Serenbe\, Cave Canem\, Poets House\, Mellon Research & Rauschenberg. She is the author of most recent works: “Chlorine Sky”\, “Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice”\, “Woke Baby” & “Black Girl Magic”. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children which received the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, “Girls That Never Die” and the novel in verse “Home Is Not A Country” (Make Me A World/Random House\, 2021).?Sudanese by way of Washington\, DC\, she holds an MFA from The New School\, a Cave Canem Fellowship and a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Elhillo is a Pushcart Prize nominee and noted in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/17/author-tongo-eisen-marten-mahogany-l-browne-and-safia-elhillo-conversation sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-mahogany-l-browne-safia-elhillo-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210317T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Reading "Queer Flannery O'Connor Award Winners"
DESCRIPTION:The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual publication prize named for author Flannery O’Connor. This month\, Perfectly Queer welcomes three Queer winners of this award to read from their winning short story collection. Lori Ostlund reads from THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD\, Anne Raeff from THE JUNGLE AROUND US\, and Patrick Earl Ryan from IF WE WERE ELECTRIC. A discussion will follow the readings\, including O’Connor’s racism.\n\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom Wednesday\, March 17\, from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time. Get the Zoom link by rsvping on this Facebook event page or by emailing perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com. The link will be sent by Messenger or return email.\nYou can buy these award-winning books from Dog Eared Books Castro at www.dogearedbookscastro.com/shop
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-reading-queer-flannery-oconnor-award-winners/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T190000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Offill in conversation with Brit Marling
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Jenny Offill in conversation with Brit Marling\nThursday\, March 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/28/2021\, 03/30/2021\, 03/31/2021\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n“Offill’s fragmentary structure evokes an unbearable emotional intensity: something at the core of the story that cannot be narrated directly\, by straight chronology\, because to do so would be like looking at the sun…” —The New York Times \nJenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things\, Dept. of Speculation\, and\, most recently\, Weather–an ambitious work that balances the concerns of daily life as a wife and mother with the looming apocalypse of climate change. Both hilarious and heartbreaking\, the novel asks readers to think about the mundane ways we live and grapple with our rapidly deteriorating environment. Offill lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-offill-in-conversation-with-brit-marling/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazim Ali and Layli Long Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, March 18th at 6pm PT when Kazim Ali discusses his book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water\, with Layli Long Soldier on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88443144613\n\nAbout Northern Lights\n\n“Places do not belong to us. We belong to them.”\n\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?\n\nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused.\n\nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to.\n\nPraise for Northern Lights\n\n“Ali’s lyrical\, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of northern Canada. I was mesmerized by the voice of a poet who methodically and artistically recounts his once-i- a-lifetime journey to connect with a Cree tribe called the Pimicikamak\, the original owners and occupiers of the land and water that mesmerized him as a child. The human landscape Kazim Ali creates in his work\, interweaving his own familial and cultural disruption – with those of the Pimicikamak Cree is intriguing and profound.”—Darrel McLeod\, author of Mamaskatch\n\n“Ali’s lyrics are crafted with a controlled\, delicate quality that never stops questioning\, never stops teaching\, never stops astounding.”—American Poet\n\n“Lyrical\, political\, humorous\, light and deep—Ali strikes out in many directions. . . . The resulting harmonies—and even the discord—are beautiful.”—Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazim-ali-and-layli-long-soldier-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T200000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Joshua Merchant
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, March 18 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nFOLLOW THE ZOOM LINK TO RECEIVE A LOGIN TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtdemurjwjHdOrRhd3OOzfRBjqx50s-EN5 \nOnce you register via Zoom\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Joshua Merchant  \n \nJoshua A. Merchant is a native of East Oakland exploring queerness\, blackness\, and the complexities of their intersection through literary arts. Merchant has had the honor to be published as a finalist for the June Jordan Poetry Prize anthology ‘Walk These Streets’ in 2007\, a collaboration with Alice Walker and OUSD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-featuring-joshua-merchant/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T210000
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes... an Online Open Mic & Community Listening Space
DESCRIPTION:w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team… \nThursday\, March 18th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm PST\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: http://bit.ly/2ZXYbJp \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… is an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what you feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity. \nYou can donate via… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-an-online-open-mic-community-listening-space/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T200000
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SUMMARY:Spirit Houses: KSW Presents Maw Shein Win & Khaty Xiong
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 19th\, KSW Presents “Spirit Houses” a reading featuring Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn\, 2020) and Khaty Xiong\, author of Poor Anima (Apogee Press\, 2015). This event is a celebration of Maw Shein Win’s newest collection and of both poets’ powerful work performing rituals of grief\, pain\, and the life after it and with it. \n\n\n\nLEARN MORE | TICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spirit-houses-ksw-presents-maw-shein-win-khaty-xiong/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T200000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T022703Z
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SUMMARY:Tres Pochos Y Black Freighter
DESCRIPTION:This event is a collaboration between Black Freighter Press & Alley Cat Books in San Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tres-pochos-y-black-freighter/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T203000
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SUMMARY:Illuminate: A Night of Poetry in Solidarity with Asian and Asian American Communities
DESCRIPTION:ILLUMINATE is a virtual poetry reading and open mic in response to the rise in Anti-Asian violence and hate crimes\, which have increased by 1900% since the start of the pandemic. Open mic will center Asian\, Asian American\, and BIPOC poets standing in solidarity with the Asian and Asian American community during this time. \nILLUMINATE is co-curated by Greer Nakadegawa-Lee and Lauren Ito. This programming is presented as part of the Political Inheritance Exhibition co-presented by the Asian American Women Artists Association\, and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. \nClick Here for Open Mic Sign-Ups Here! \n**Please note that once Zoom Webinar reaches capacity\, you will still be able to view the event through our YouTube Stream. \nFeatured Poetry Readers \nYume Kim\nMaya Looney\nJenny Qi\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nLauren Ito \nYume Kim \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a Kundiman fellow recipient\, as well as the runner-up for the Michael Rubin Book Award in 2013. Her debut publication\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Website: www.yumekim-poet.com \nMaya Looney \nMaya is a junior at Skyline Highschool and takes poetry classes in the basement of Temescal Library. She’s read poems for a couple years at the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival\, which when it’s not on zoom takes place near a bookstore where she spends too much money on art books. Instagram: @meyerlemonsketches \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee is 16 years old and a junior at Oakland Technical High School. She has written a poem every day for over two years now\, and she is the 2020 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Her first chapbook \, “A Heart Full of Hallways” is out now with Nomadic Press. \nLauren Ito \nLauren Ito is a Gosei (fifth generation person of Japanese ancestry) poet\, community craftswoman\, and organizer committed to advancing equity through art and design. As an artist and organizer Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, political agency\, and home. Lauren’s work has been featured by The San Francisco Public Library\, The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, and various performance venues. Instagram: @Lauren.Ito
URL:https://litseen.com/event/illuminate-a-night-of-poetry-in-solidarity-with-asian-and-asian-american-communities/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T130000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Neon: A Light History (East Coast and European audiences)
DESCRIPTION:East Coast and European audiences are invited to celebrate the book launch of Neon: A Light History \nAbout this Event\nJoin us for the virtual book launch of Neon: A Light History\, which unearths neon’s vibrant legacy of scandal\, murder\, fascists\, and forgotten inventors. For this special morning program\, audiences across the globe will have the opportunity to celebrate this indispensable neon “bible.” Hosted by SF Neon\, this program will include a panel discussion with authors Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein plus special guests including Tom Rinaldi\, author of New York Neon. \n***************************************** \nThis event is part of Seasons of Neon\, an ongoing series of illuminating talks and tours presented by the Tenderloin Museum and SF Neon that celebrate the recent publication of Neon: A Light History (Giant Orange Press\, 2021) and explore San Francisco history through the city’s rich legacy of iconic glowing signs. \nExisting at the intersection of material culture and built environment\, neon signs are emblematic of the many small businesses that comprise a vital thread in the dynamic tapestry of the urban ecosystem. The Tenderloin and Mid-Market sport the densest concentration of extant neon in the Bay Area\, which makes the Tenderloin Museum an ideal forum to consider neon and its powerful\, often overlooked ability to chronicle a city and its people. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-neon-a-light-history-east-coast-and-european-audiences-tickets-140884636741
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-neon-a-light-history-east-coast-and-european-audiences/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T130000
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SUMMARY:Denise Riley and Jennifer Soong\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, Brandon Brown \nCo-sponsored with NYRB Poets and Futurepoem \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \nPlease note early start-time\, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center is honored to welcome poets Denise Riley\, in a rare US appearance\, and Jennifer Soong. Joining us\, respectively\, from London and the Eastern US\, the poets will each read from their work\, then engage in conversation\, along with emcee Brandon Brown\, and the audience.\nMaybe; maybe not \n  \nWhen I was a child I spoke as a thrush\, I \nthought as a clod\, I understood as a stone\, \nbut when I became a man I put away \nplain things for lustrous\, yet to this day \nsquat under hooves for kindness where \nfetlocks stream with mud—shall I never \nget it clear\, down in the soily waters.\n—Denise Riley\, from Say Something Back \n  \nBritish poet Denise Riley is one of the finest and most individual writers at work in English today\, and well-known among her peers as one of a generation of poets whose works and correspondences reach across the Atlantic. A distinguished philosopher and feminist theorist as well as poet\, Riley has produced a body of work both intellectually uncompromising and emotionally open. Her first collection of poems from an American press appeared in 2020 in the New York Review of Books Poets series—Say Something Back / Time Lived\, Without Its Flow includes her widely acclaimed lyric meditation on bereavement\, composed\, as she has written\, “in imagined solidarity with the endless others whose adult children have died\, often in far worst circumstances.” The accompanying prose work returns to the subject of grief. Time Lived\, Without Its Flow is a book\, as she indicates\, “not…about death\, but an altered condition of life.” \nRiley’s poetry collections include Marxism for Infants (1977)\, Dry Air (1985)\, Mop Mop Georgette (1993)\, two selections in the Penguin Modern Poets series (with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair\, 1996; and\, in 2017\, with Maggie Nelson and Claudia Rankine)\, and\, most recently\, Selected Poems 1976–2016 (2019). Her critical and philosophical works include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983); “Am I That Name?”: Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History (1988); The Words of Selves: Identification\, Solidarity\, Irony (2000); The Force of Language (with Jean-Jacques Lecercle\, 2004); and Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005). \n  \nThe Augurs \n  \nCome July\, the yolk of a year \nis dragged to lie on lawns of velvet sheen. \nDark-light blades\, one-tenth-an-inch wide \nover which the red sun hunches\, immobilized. \nWith what do we lie\, waiting the night \nand the hot black earth to erupt from us \na muddled report? How little we do. \nHow little we rest. How much we demand \nfrom the daily murders passing \nVulture-like\, like stars. \n  \n—Jennifer Soong\, from Near\, At\nJennifer Soong was born in central New Jersey in the nineties. Her writing has appeared in Social Text\, Berfrois\, Prelude Magazine\, DIAGRAM\, and Fanzine\, among other places\, and been translated into Spanish. She holds a B.A. in English and Visual Studies from Harvard College and is currently a doctoral candidate at Princeton University\, where she works on poetry and forgetting. Near\, At is her first book. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prhew-KzRQmpM9aTE8V9Bw
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-riley-and-jennifer-soong-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly event that celebrates writers & artists committed to social justice and determined to make a positive change in our communities.\n\n\n\n3rd Saturday of the Month\n2-4 pm\nCurators/Hosts: Adela Najarro & harold terezon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jingletown-reading-open-mic/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210322T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210322T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kim Addonizio and Bob Hicok
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, March 22nd at 6pm PT when Kim Addonizio joins us to discuss her latest collection\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, with Bob Hicock on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86298421877\n\nAbout Now We’re Getting Somewhere\nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world.\n\nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more.\nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf.\n\nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar.\n\nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.”\n\nAbout Kim Addonizio\nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kim-addonizio-and-bob-hicok-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T190000
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness & Medicine with Larry Brilliant & Jack Kornfield
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Mindfulness & Medicine\nwith Larry Brilliant & Jack Kornfield\nTuesday\, March 23\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 04/04/2021\, 04/06/2021\, 04/07/2021\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nConversations on Science & Health: A Miniseries \n \n\n\n\nA man who has always been in the right place at the right time\, Larry Brilliant has engaged with some of the most prominent thought leaders\, spiritual masters\, heroes\, and icons in the world–including Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji)\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Steve Jobs\, Mikhail Gorbachev\, Wavy Gravy\, the Grateful Dead\, the Dalai Lama\, and Barack Obama. Brilliant’s life’s journey across continents has resulted in the direct involvement of some of the most significant medical\, spiritual\, and social achievements of the past century: the eradication of smallpox in India\, curing blindness in over 4 million people\, introducing the teachings of the Maharajji to the Woodstock Generation\, launching Google’s philanthropic enterprises\, and more. In a new book\, Sometimes Brilliant\, he reflects on his remarkable life and his extraordinary experiences as a doctor\, innovator\, philanthropist\, and cultural revolutionary. \n\nJack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand\, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and was one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967\, he joined the Peace Corps and worked on rural health and tropical medicine teams in northeast Thailand\, which is home to several of the world’s oldest Buddhist forest monasteries. After returning to the United States\, Kornfield co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. He is also a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre\, California. Over the past 40 years\, Kornfield has taught in centers and universities worldwide\, led International Buddhist Teacher meetings with the Dalai Lama\, and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a father and activist. His many books include The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology\, A Path with Heart\, and After the Ecstasy\, the Laundry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mindfulness-medicine-with-larry-brilliant-jack-kornfield/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T125326
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SUMMARY:At The Door: Chapter Two
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly reading series\, featuring only Black & Brown voices. We’re already a chapter in – join us for the incredible lineup we have for “Chapter Two”!\n\nFeatured Readers:\nJosiah Alderete\nKathleen Naytia\nRosa De Anda\nYeva Johnson\nRebeca Flores\nBrian Kim Stefans\n\nWHEW – we just got chills thinking about what this night is gonna be like. Come through!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-door-chapter-two/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T183000
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salons: Tom Perrotta
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Tom Perrotta\nThu Apr 1st 5:00pm – 6:30pm\nBuy Tickets \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to have your fiction translated to the screen not once but many times\, to be nominated for numerous awards including the Oscar and the Golden Globe\, and to walk a red carpet\, join us for a fascinating conversation with Tom Perrotta. This Seismic Salon features the bestselling author of nine works of fiction\, including Election and Little Children\, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films\, and The Leftovers\, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed\, Peabody Award-winning HBO series. His other books include Bad Haircut\, The Wishbones\, Joe College\, The Abstinence Teacher\, Nine Inches\, and his newest\, Mrs. Fletcher. His work has been translated into a multitude of languages. Perrotta grew up in New Jersey and lives outside of Boston. \nBuy Tom Perrotta’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salons-tom-perrotta/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T200000
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CREATED:20210301T183701Z
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SUMMARY:Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, Brent Awa Jensen \nSupported by the National Endowment for the Arts \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youmna-chlala-and-ken-chen-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210405T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210405T193000
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SUMMARY:Better Ancestors: Kai Sugioka-Stone\, Amanda Muñiz\, Isabelle Khoo-Miller\, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents the second Better Ancestors\, featuring readings and performance by Kai Sugioka-Stone\, Amanda Muñiz\, Isabelle Khoo-Miller\, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin! This show curated by the artists who performed at the first Better Ancestors (pictured top left\, clockwise L-R): Josiah Luis Alderete\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Greer Nakadegawa-Lee\, Nia McAllister and Brontez Purnell—find out more about them and watch their performances here\, then join us on April 5! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS (pictured above\, clockwise from top right)\nKai Sugioka-Stone is a Japanese-American poet\,  mindfulness-based meditator\, musician\, actor\, photographer\, and upcoming filmmaker. His writing focuses on liminal identity\, and growing up in the era of California Wildfires\, the Trump presidency\, and COVID. He featured at San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck’s event Sudden Return of The Fire Thieves. His work was featured in the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day Project. He was published in The Berkeley Times’ Poetry Edition Vol. 10\, No. 16\, as well as Quiet Lightning’s zine sPARKLE & bLINK #104. He read at Tea Root’s Recovery A.C.T. and gave an online writing workshop reflecting on Japense-American identity with Nikkei Rising. He is part of Lauren Ito’s upcoming exhibit\, Political Inheritcance. Photo by Kristen Murakoshi. \nAmanda Muñiz is a Mexican writer born in Puebla and raised in Oakland\, California. She majored in English Literature from San Francisco State University. Her work has been published by Pochino press and more recently in the Translating Migration poetry anthology project. Amanda has been a featured reader in various shows in the Bay Area including the electrifying ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? the hilarious ¿Donde Esta mi Comedy?\, BEASTCrawl\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitQuake’s legendary LitCrawl\, as well as the Carnival of Poetry organized by Writers of Singapore. The immigrant experience has inspired most of her writing\, which she considers a reflection and a testament of her family’s resilience as well as a never-ending letter of love and gratitude to her parents. Photo courtesy of the author. \nIsabelle Khoo-Miller is a child of earth\, like all of us. They are alive and in abundant love. They create in many mediums\, including imagination. They are from the ocean and have roots and familia in Coastal Miwok and Ohlone land\, the Bay Area. Photo courtesy of the author. \nArlene Biala (she/her) is a Pinay poet born in San Francisco and raised in the South Bay. She has been participating in poetry performances and workshops for over 30 years and was the 2016-2017 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. She is the author of several collections of poetry: bone\, continental drift and her beckoning hands\, which won the 2015 American Book Award. Her latest book\, one inch punch\, was published in January 2019. Photo courtesy of the author. \nMelissa Merin has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She is established as a parent\, a lover & partner\, a queer\, an anti-authoritarian and\, a consistently retiring punker. Melissa believes in utilizing a diversity of tactics to build the world we need; one of her favorite tactics is writing. Melissa is also a long-time educator and agitator and has never been able to get it together to “publish” though\, many zines and blogs tell the story of trying. Melissa has the distinction of being one of a few Black cis-women of her generation to not love Beyonce or Oprah. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nOne of Quiet Lightning’s efforts to diversify and move toward racial equity\, Better Ancestors is a new quarterly showcase of writers of color. Developed in partnership with Michael Warr\, the series features 5 authors reading or performing whatever they choose. Each author selects one performer for the following show\, so the series – and community – is self-generating. All authors are paid and published in an end of the year anthology. \nWhy Better Ancestors? As one of our initiatives to diversify from a board that has historically been mostly white\, this showcase aims to provide a long-term\, forward-thinking goal. As a society\, we are suffering the consequences of pervasive systemic injustice against people of color\, queer and trans people\, the poor\, disabled\, and otherwise disadvantaged. But we are all ancestors of the future. If the planet is to remain inhabitable; if the function of humanity is not to sort and oppress our descendants based on their skin color\, accent\, or material property\, we must be better ancestors. This begins by listening to one another\, and by giving each other space to be heard. \n\nABOUT MICHAEL WARR (pictured above\, right)\nMichael Warr’s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, edited by Michael Warr (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other poetry honors include a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has extensive experience in community-based arts. He became a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. In 2020\, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nABOUT QUIET LIGHTNING\nNow in its 11th year\, Quiet Lightning is a literary movement to create and foster community around the written and spoken word. QL aims to democratize public space by offering performances\, curation opportunities\, and programming with no barriers to entry\, providing a launchpad for new and emerging artists\, a reliable platform for professional writers\, and an inclusive\, accessible gathering place for the public. QL is committed to care-taking and progressing the rich threads of literary culture that exist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recognized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as one of the 100 “people\, organizations\, and movements who are shaping the future of culture”\, Quiet Lightning’s flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a blind selection process and different curators for each show. The shows\, which are free to attend\, are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people\, and all participating artists are paid. QL has now produced 137 shows featuring 1\,673 readings by 879 local authors in 91 venues\, ranging from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks\, and has published 115 books and produced two films\, all selected by 74 different curators. In 2019\, Quiet Lightning pioneered an application process for limited-term board-membership\, called Disruptors\, to regularly bring new ideas and energy into the organization. QL maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nMAKE A ONE-TIME DONATION OR SUPPORT US ON PATREON\nEvery tax deductible donation helps Quiet Lightning invest in a sustainable\, ethical arts ecosystem\, with the goal of building that culture into the fabric of our lives. You can donate by Venmo or PayPal or pledge a recurring donation by becoming one of our supporters on Patreon\, which comes with a few additional perks and helps us expand on the work that we do.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/better-ancestors-kai-sugioka-stone-amanda-muniz-isabelle-khoo-miller-arlene-biala-and-melissa-merin/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T170000
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-brontez-purnell-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T180000
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SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents the Panel: Creating Our Own 'Table'
DESCRIPTION:Many marginalized writers celebrate the moment that they receive “a seat at the table\,” and this is quite often their goal. Yet\, others of us believe that having a seat at the table is another way of waiting to be included or invited to attend\, thereby still centering whiteness. This panel will focus on writers of color who are creating their own tables\, including Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Tara Betts\, and Neelanjana Banerjee. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin was recently named San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate and is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is launching Black Freighter Press\, a platform for building movement culture and supporting Black literary arts\, with a specific focus on incarcerated poets\, Bay Area poets of color\, and Black women. \nTara Betts is the author of the poetry collections Break the Habit\, Arc & Hue\, and the forthcoming Refuse to Disappear. Aside from coediting several anthologies\, Tara is Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and the Lit Editor at Newcity. She is currently working on establishing The Whirlwind Learning Center on Chicago’s South Side as a space for arts education\, community space\, and cultural programming. \nNeelanjana Banerjee’s writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, PANK Magazine\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, World Literature Today and many other places. She is the Managing Editor of Kaya Press\, an independent press dedicated to Asian Pacific American and Asian Diasporic literature. She teaches writing and literature classes at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Los Angeles\, and is at work on a novel. \nThis event is the second installment of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United to support marginalized writers\, made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aunt-lute-and-poc-united-presents-the-panel-creating-our-own-table/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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