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SUMMARY:Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Literary Arts is excited to welcome author of A Lucky Man and finalist for the National Book Award\, Jamel Brinkley in conversation with SJSU’s new fiction professor\, Keenan Norris on Thursday\, February 27\, 2020 in MLK Library Room 225/229 at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public. \nA debut that Entertainment Weekly saw “creating waves within the literary sphere\,” A Lucky Man explores the charged\, complex ties between men whose mistakes threaten their relationships with friends\, lovers\, and family members. The stories in this glittering collection reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them\, especially in a world shaped by race\, gender\, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. \nJamel Brinkley was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn\, New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in California. \nKeenan Norris’s novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award for first books set in California. He is the editor of the critical volume Street Lit. His chapbook By the Lemon Tree was published in 2018 and his novella Luster will be published later this year. His short fiction appears in several literary journals\, as well as the anthologies Oakland Noir and Inlandia: A Journey Through the Literature of Southern California’s Inland Empire. He also serves as guest editor for the Oxford African-American Studies Center with a focus on improving the Center’s archive of California scholarship. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamel-brinkley/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Christopher Kerr\, Death Is but a Dream at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Hospice of Santa Cruz County\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, presents Dr. Christopher Kerr who will discuss and sign copies of his new book\, Death Is but a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End—the first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. \nChristopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who\, in the face of death\, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as “more real than real\,” these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships\, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life’s meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. \nDrawing on interviews with over 1\,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data\, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients’ stories point to death as not solely about the end of life\, but as the final chapter of humanity’s transcendence. Kerr’s book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved\, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. \nBeautifully written\, with astonishing real-life characters and stories\, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is but a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine’s and humanity’s greatest mystery. \nChristopher Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer for The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo\, New York. Born and raised in Toronto\, Canada\, Chris earned his MD as well as a PhD in Neurobiology. Outside of direct patient care\, Chris’ focus is in the area of patient advocacy. His passion is palliative care and a belief that such care should be throughout the continuum of illness. Under Dr. Kerr’s medical leadership\, Hospice Buffalo now serves 1\,000 patients a day\, half of whom receive services prior to hospice. \nDr. Kerr’s background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside\, specifically patient’s dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored\, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning\, as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated. To date\, the research team at Hospice Buffalo has published multiple studies on this topic and documented over 1\,500 end-of-life events\, many of which are videotaped. This work was the subject of his TEDx Buffalo Talk which has been viewed over 2 million times. It has been the subject of reports on The BBC\, in The New York Times\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Scientific American Mind\, Huffington Post\, and Psychology Today. It will also be featured in an upcoming Netflix production and a documentary film to be released in 2020. It has also gathered international attention and Dr. Kerr’s work will also be published in a book (Death Is But A Dream) by Penguin Random House to be released in February\, 2020. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 7th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-kerr-death-is-but-a-dream-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:features: Barbara Jane Reyes & Oscar Bermeo \nopen mic follows \n  \ndoors open 6:30pm\n$3 donation at the door\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nbios to come. \nUpcoming in Well-RED:\nApr. 14: Poetry Month Open Mic\nMay 12: Mimi Ahern & Roger Abe of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society with Mary Lou Taylor\nJune 9: Andrena Zawinski & tba
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-3/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Doren Robbins and Jory Post at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature local poets Doren Robbins and Jory Post. \nDoren Robbins is a contemporary American poet\, prose poet\, fiction writer\, essayist\, mixed media artist\, and educator. As a cultural activist\, he has organized and developed projects for Amnesty International\, the Salvadoran Medical Relief Fund\, the Romero Relief Fund\, and poetsagainstthewar.org. His latest book is an in-depth critical study titled\, Apocalypse Contemporary: A Sequence-By-Sequence Overview On Sharon Doubiago’s Naked to the Earth (2019). \nJory Post has been an educator and writer for 40 years as well as making handmade books and journals with his wife\, Karen\, as JoKa Press. He participates in a playwriting group\, a fiction writing group\, and a poetry workshop with Santa Cruz County poet laureate\, Danusha Laméris. He is the cofounder and editor of phren-z\, an online literary magazine\, serving Santa Cruz County writers for 8 years. His latest book of poetry is titled The Extra Year\, poems written after a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2018. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-doren-robbins-and-jory-post-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Admission FREE\nFree parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org \nThe Markham House and map:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play-4/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Zach Norris\, We Keep Us Safe at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:ookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris\, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, for a discussion and signing of his new book\, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities—a groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination\, othering\, and punishment. \nAs the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart\, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist systems that keep many communities struggling and in fear\, we need to reimagine what safety means. Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. In order to truly be safe\, we are going to have to dismantle our mentality of Us vs. Them. By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another\, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic\, smart investments–meaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being\, like healthcare and housing\, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins. \nWe Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized\, so they can participate fully in life\, in society\, and in the fabric of our democracy. \nZach Norris is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement\, violence prevention\, juvenile justice\, and police brutality\, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families\, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University. Connect with him @ZachWNorris. \n“Bright\, talented\, compassionate\, strategic\, and committed . . . Norris’s insights and story will be an enormously important contribution in the effort to advance human rights in this country.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“In We Keep Us Safe\, Norris masterfully captures our deep yearning for connection and compassion as we navigate the complex issue of accountability and reminds us of our humanity and that we have a choice to do things differently. Even more encouraging\, Norris invites us to tap into our resourcefulness and to rely on one another to challenge the failed experiment of the current punitive carceral state and reimagine safety and accountability together. We deserve to live in our full dignity and power and Norris\, through this book\, shows us how.” —Patrisse Cullors\, author of When They Call You a Terrorist \n“Zach Norris [is] among the most promising leaders and thinkers of our time\, wrestling with pressing questions at the intersection of racial and economic justice from a human rights perspective. . . . We Keep Us Safe powerfully demonstrates that safety\, freedom\, and justice come from relationships\, resources\, and real accountability–not more punishment\, police\, and prisons.” —Michelle Alexander \n“In his excellent new book\, Zach Norris writes with insight\, inspiring stories\, and a vision that includes everyone–just what we need to move from fear to caring\, and from a system of punishment to one of transformative justice. We Keep Us Safe identifies the roots of our fear\, insecurity and vulnerability\, offers a way forward together\, and provides practical\, workable strategies for public policy change. Reading this book will alter the way you understand safety\, security\, and justice. We so need the caring\, fierceness\, and insight Norris brings us in these challenging times.” —Paul Kivel\, educator\, activist\, and author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-norris-we-keep-us-safe-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Naomi Shihab Nye
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 26\, 2020 the Center for Literary Arts will present poet Naomi Shihab Nye at the Student Union Theatre at 7PM. The reading will be followed by an on-stage interview with Persis Karim\, professor in the Department of Comparative & World Literature at San Francisco State University\, plus an audience Q&A\, book sale and signing. \nTickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students. \nNaomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than 30 volumes. Her books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East\, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls\, Red Suitcase\, Words under the Words\, Fuel\, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006). She is also the author of Mint Snowball (paragraphs); Never in a Hurry and I’ll Ask You Three Times\, Are You Okay?\, Tales of Driving and Being Driven (essays); Habibi and Going\, Going (novels for young readers); Baby Radar\, Sitti’s Secrets\, and Famous (picture books)\, and There Is No Long Distance Now (a collection of very short stories). Other works include several prizewinning poetry anthologies for young readers\, including Time You Let Me In\, This Same Sky\, The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East\, What Have You Lost?\, and Transfer. Her collection of poems for young adults entitled Honeybee won the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children’s/Young Adult category. Her novel for children\, The Turtle of Oman\, was chosen both a Best Book of 2014 by The Horn Book and a 2015 Notable Children’s Book by the American Library Association. The Turtle of Oman was also awarded the 2015 Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature. Her most recent book is Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners. Her new book of poems is entitled The Tiny Journalist (BOA Editions Ltd.\, April 2019). \nPersis Karim is the Neda Nobari Endowed Chair and Director for the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies and a professor in the Department of Comparative & World Literature at San Francisco State University. Prior to 2017\, she was a professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San José State University for 18 years. Her poetry has been published in a number of publications including Reed Magazine\, Callaloo\, Caesura\, The New York Times\, The Raven’s Perch and others. She is also the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature. Her manuscript\, Accidental Architecture\, was a finalist for the 2019 Catamaran Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-shihab-nye/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kirsch\, Sold My Soul for a Student Loan at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the “American Dream\,” this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education—and our democracy. \nAmerican higher education boasts one of the most impressive legacies in the world\, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt. As this book shows\, increasing educational indebtedness undermines the real value of higher education in our democracy. To help readers understand this dilemma\, the book examines how student debt became commonplace and what the long-term effects of such an ongoing reality might be. Sold My Soul for a Student Loan examines this vitally important issue from an unprecedented diversity of perspectives\, focusing on the fact that student debt is hindering the ability of millions of people to enter the job market\, the housing market\, the consumer economy\, and the political process. \nAmong other topics\, the book covers the history of consumer debt in the United States\, the history of federal policy toward higher education\, and political action in response to the issue of student debt. Perhaps most importantly\, it explores the new relationship debtor-citizens have to the government as a result of debt\, and how that impacts democracy for a new generation. \nDaniel T. Kirsch\, PhD\, is an author who earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and now teachers at California State University\, Sacramento. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 24th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-kirsch-sold-my-soul-for-a-student-loan-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:ookshop welcomes acclaimed local poet\, editor\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) for a celebration of her newest book\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens. \nEver had an emotion or experience you wanted to express\, but didn’t know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices\, step up and speak their truths\, and articulate what matters to them most–both personally and politically–whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. \nYoung adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before\, and yet it’s the most difficult form for schools to teach. Written in short\, easy-to-digest chapters\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice includes prompts and inspiration\, writing suggestions and instruction\, brief interviews with some current popular poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Safia Elhillo\, and others\, and poem excerpts scattered throughout the book. \nMy Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice offers ways to express rage\, frustration\, joy\, and sorrow\, and to substitute apathy with creativity\, usurp fear with daring\, counteract anxiety with the joy of writing one word down and then another to express vital\, but previously unarticulated\, thoughts. Most importantly\, here you can discover the value of your own voice and come to believe that what you have to say matters. \nPatrice Vecchione is a poet\, nonfiction writer and teacher who discovered poetry when she needed it most–as a teenager. She has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including most recently\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience\, which Newbery Award winning author\, Matt de la Peña\, called “the most important book we will read this year\,” Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \n“My Shouting\, Shattering\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking your Truth should be required reading for beginning writers as well as those who have been writing for decades. It gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape our experiences into poetry…This book reassured me that we all have the capacity to create something beautiful and that our words need not be ‘hollow almosts.'” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, author of Children of the Land \n“Patrice Vecchione’s My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is more than a guide to writing poetry. It is an act of generosity and empathy\, a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page. Vecchione offers inspiration\, wisdom and down-to-earth advice\, covering everything from writer’s block to adjectives and stanzas. My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is an invaluable resource\, a book that honors and fosters what Adrienne Rich called “the necessity of poetry.” —Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-my-shouting-shattered-whispering-voice-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alka Joshi: The Henna Artist w/ Anita Amirrezvani
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an event with Alka Joshi\, your favorite new novelist\, in conversation with Anita Amirrezvani. We know you’ll love Alka’s debut\, The Henna Artist\, as much as we do. Beautiful and compellingly readable\, The Henna Artist evokes post-Raj 1950s Jaipur while completely enmeshing you in the conflicts that drive the protagonist Lakshmi Shastri. Against all odds\, and after fleeing an arranged marriage as a fifteen-year-old to an abusive older man\, Lakshmi carves out a living for herself as a henna artist\, friend\, and confidante to wealthy\, upper-caste women. But in an exciting twist\, all she’s built threatens to unravel. \nMore than just a romantic work of historical fiction\, The Henna Artist is based off Alka’s late mother’s life\, only this story serves as a reimagining of what life might have been like if Alka’s mother hadn’t been in an arranged marriage at 18\, with three children by 21. Instead\, the novel recreates her life as if she had been able to pursue the independence and education that she never enjoyed in real life. The independence and education that Alka’s mother advocated for her. \nAlka will be joined by Anita Amirrezvani\, author of the novels The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nTickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate \nPhoto of Alka Joshi by Garry Bailey. .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi-the-henna-artist-w-anita-amirrezvani/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche\, In the Lateness of the World at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome celebrated poet Carolyn Forché for a reading and signing of In the Lateness of the World—her new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force. \nOver four decades\, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies\, inquiries\, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. \nHer first new collection in seventeen years\, In the Lateness of the World\, is a tenebrous book of crossings\, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past\, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forché envisions a place where “you could see everything at once … every moment you have lived or place you have been.” The world here seems to be steadily vanishing\, but in the moments before the uncertain end\, an illumination arrives and “there is nothing that cannot be seen.” In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today. \nCarolyn Forché is an American poet\, translator\, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are Blue Hour\, The Angel of History\, The Country Between Us\, and Gathering the Tribes. Her memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True\, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. In 2013\, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017\, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her husband\, photographer Harry Mattison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche-in-the-lateness-of-the-world-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass\, Indigo at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Indigo merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complex grey areas. Whether her subject is oysters\, high heels\, a pork chop\, a beloved dog\, or a wife’s return to health\, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin\,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger\, desire\, touch. In this book\, joy meets regret\, devotion meets dependence\, and most importantly\, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused\, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken\, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations\, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle\, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have\, even as it attempts to slip away. \nEllen Bass is co-author of the best-selling The Courage to Heal\, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry\, including The Human Line\, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, and The New Republic. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she lives in Santa Cruz\, and teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 18th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-indigo-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T170000
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SUMMARY:Dana Gioia and Phillis Levin
DESCRIPTION:Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent. The first person in his family to attend college\, he received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in Comparative Literature. For fifteen years he worked as a businessman before quitting at forty-one to become a full-time writer. \nGioia has published five full-length collections of verse\, most recently 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016)\, which won the Poets’ Prize as the best new book of the year. His third collection\, Interrogations at Noon (2001)\, was awarded the American Book Award. His controversial book of essays\, Can Poetry Matter? (1992)\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. \nPhillis Levin is a poet\, essayist\, and editor. Her newest book\, Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books\, 2016)\, was selected by Library Journal as one of the Top Picks in poetry for spring 2016 and was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the author of four other poetry collections\, Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press\, 1988)\, The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press\, 1995)\, Mercury (Penguin\, 2001)\, and May Day (Penguin\, 2008)\, and is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English (2001). \nHer honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award\, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia\, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship\, a Bogliasco Fellowship\, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-gioia-and-phillis-levin/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Poets Tess Taylor and Judy Halebsky read from their new collections–in a graveyard! Click here to watch the video of this reading. \n \n\n\n\nAbout Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Last West\nRift Zone\, Taylor’s much-anticipated third book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines–rifts between past and present\, childhood and adulthood\, what is and what was. Circling Taylor’s hometown–an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault–these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant\, a bloody land grab\, gun violence\, valley girls\, strip malls\, redwood trees\, and the painful history of Japanese internment. \nTaylor’s ambitious and masterful poems read her home state’s historic violence against our world’s current unsteadinesses–mass eviction\, housing crises\, deportation\, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink–an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. At once sorrowful and furious\, tender and fierce\, Rift Zone is startlingly observant\, relentlessly curious–a fearsome tremor of a book. \nIn Last West\, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys\, Lange photographed migrant laborers\, Dust Bowl refugees\, tent cities and Japanese American internment camps. Taylor’s hybrid text collages lyric and oral histories against Lange’s own journals and notebook fragments\, framing the ways social and ecological injustices of the past rhyme eerily with those of the present. The result is a stunning meditation on movement\, landscape and place. \n“Scintillatingly rendered by Taylor as conversation\, meditation\, road trip\, and vivid documentary account\, Last West tracks the not-so-distant past into the erupting present\, taking on as many poetic forms as there are California topographies.” -Forrest Gander\, Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry \nAbout Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years\nFinalist\, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize\nA translator’s notebook\, an almanac\, an ecological history\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) moves between multiple intersections and sign systems connected in a long glossary poem that serves as the book’s guide to what is lost\, erased\, or disrupted in transition both from experience to written word and from one language\, location\, and time period to another. \nWriters Li Bai\, Matsuo Bashō\, Sei Shōnagon\, and Du Fu make frequent appearances in centuries ranging from the eighth to the twenty-first\, and appear in conversation with Grace Paley\, Donald Hall\, and Halebsky herself\, as the poet explores subjects ranging from work and marriage to environmental destruction. Asking what would happen if these poets—not just their work—appeared in California\, the poems slip between different geographies\, syntaxes\, times\, and cultural frameworks. \nThe role of the literary translator is to bring text from one language into another\, working to at once shift and retain the context of the original—from one alphabet to another\, one point in time to another. These are poems in homage to translation; they rely on concepts that can bridge time and space\, and as a result are as likely to find meaning in donuts or Zumba as they are to find it in the ocean. Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) finds reasons for hope not in how the world should be\, but in how it has always been.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Molly Fisk\, Fire and Rain at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Molly Fisk\, editor of a new anthology of recent topical poetry by Californian authors titled “Fire and Rain”\, as well as several of the book’s poets. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-molly-fisk-fire-and-rain-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T200000
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SUMMARY:Roshani Chokshi: Aru Shah and the End of Time
DESCRIPTION: Rick Riordan Presents (dedicated to providing entertaining middle grade fiction based on various world mythologies) with Aru Shah and the End of Time\, written by best-selling author Roshani Chokshi. It delves into Hindu mythology and is described as a mix of Riordan’s own Percy Jackson series and the Sailor Moon franchise. It’s an imaginative novel that puts girl power and diverse protagonists front and center. . \n“Have you ever read a book and thought\, Wow\, I wish I’d written that!?” said Riordan in the foreword. “For me\, Aru Shah and the End of Time is one of those books”. “It has everything I like: humor\, action\, great characters\, and\, of course\, awesome mythology!.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoshani will be chatting about Aru Shah and the Tree of Life\, the third book in the Hindu-based\, best-selling Pandava series\, in which Aru and her cohorts\, Mini\, Brynne\, and Aiden—and now a pair of twins—each search the Otherworld for Kalpavriksha\, the wish-granting tree. \nWar between the devas and the demons is imminent\, and the Otherworld is on high alert. Fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends are sent on a mission to rescue two “targets\,” one of whom is about to utter a prophecy that could mean the difference between victory and defeat. Turns out the targets\, a pair of twins\, are the newest Pandava sisters\, though the prophecy says that one sister is not true. When the Pandavas fail to prevent the prophecy from reaching the Sleeper’s ears\, the heavenly attendants ask them to step aside. Aru believes that the only way to put the shine back on their brand is to find the Kalpavriksha\, the wish-granting tree that came out of the Ocean of Milk when it was churned. If she can reach it before the Sleeper\, perhaps he can turn everything around with one wish. Careful what you wish for\, Aru . . . \nRoshani Chokshi is the author of the instant New York Times best-selling books in the Pandava series\, Aru Shah and the End of Time\, and its sequel\, Aru Shah and the Song of Death. She also wrote the New York Times best-selling YA books The Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves. She studied fairy tales in college\, and she has a pet luck dragon that looks suspiciously like a Great Pyrenees dog. The Pandava novels were inspired by the stories her grandmother told her as well as Roshani’s all-consuming love for Sailor Moon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roshani-chokshi-aru-shah-and-the-end-of-time/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T210000
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SUMMARY:Veronica Roth with Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Maybe you’re already familiar with Veronica Roth because you or someone you know reads her wildly popular YA\, including the #1 New York Times best-selling Divergent series. The talented and internationally known bestseller whose books have graced the silver screen visits in April with one of our favorite locals\, fantasy icon Charlie Jane Anders\, for something completely different. \nWhether you’re already a fan or a first-timer\, you’re going to love this. \nRoth visits to share a new fast-paced fantasy novel for adults that turns her razor-sharp wit on a strange trope in the genre: the fact that so many grown adults in fantasy stories rely on literal kids to save the world. Luke Skywalker\, Buffy Summers\, Greta Thunberg… no pressure\, kiddo! \nWhat happens to those kids? Chosen Ones follows the story of fated young heroes after they’re done saving the world\, and have to deal with the aftermath. Edgy\, riveting\, fun\, and a little dark… did you think the Harry Potter epilogue fell flat? This is the book you need. \nPart thriller\, fantasy and sci-fi\, Roth’s novel is the perfect read for people who know the fantasy genre “chosen ones” trope by heart\, and has already earned the glowing praise of readers like Blake Crouch and Diana Gabaldon. Meet the author and read it before everyone else on April 21st at Kepler’s. \n “This dark\, complex novel rocked my heart and left me with a renewed sense that saving the world is a job that never ends… You’ll never look at fantasy heroes the same way again.” —Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugo & Nebula Award winning author of The City in the Middle of the Night. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability or comfort accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nPhoto of Veronica Roth by Nelson Fitch. Photo of Charlie Jane Anders by Sarah Deragon\, Portraits to the People
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-roth-with-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T210000
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh\, Death in Her Hands at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nOttessa Moshfegh is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, a New York Times bestseller; Homesick for Another World\, a New York Times Book Review notable book of the year; Eileen\, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; and McGlue\, which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her stories have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T190000
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang\, How Much of These Hills is Gold at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 4th. \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape–trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. \n“[An] extraordinary debut. . . Gorgeously written and fearlessly imagined\, Zhang’s awe-inspiring novel introduces two indelible characters whose odyssey is as good as the gold they seek.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” –Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”–Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West\, C Pam Zhang’s debut is pure gold.” –Emma Donoghue\, author of Room
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Francesca Bell and Len Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature Francesca Bell and Len Anderson. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-francesca-bell-and-len-anderson/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T210000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Ackerman\, The Bird Way at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 17th. \n\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds\, a radical investigation into the bird way of being\, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds — how they live and how they think. \n“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring\, and lately\, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have\, for years\, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives\, how they communicate\, forage\, court\, breed\, survive. They’re also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities\, abilities we once considered uniquely our own–deception\, manipulation\, cheating\, kidnapping\, infanticide\, but also\, ingenious communication between species\, cooperation\, collaboration\, altruism\, culture\, and play. \nSome of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of–well–birdness: A mother bird that kills her own infant sons\, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own. Young birds that devote themselves to feeding their siblings and others so competitive they’ll stab their nestmates to death. Birds that give gifts and birds that steal\, birds that dance or drum\, that paint their creations or paint themselves\, birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call–and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. \nDrawing on personal observations\, the latest science\, and her bird-related travel around the world\, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan\, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay\, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect\, in plumage\, form\, song\, flight\, lifestyle\, niche\, and behavior\, birds vary. It’s what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said\, when you have seen one bird\, you have not seen them all. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Genius of Birds\, which has been translated into twenty languages and the forthcoming The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American\, National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and many other publications\, Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a Bunting Fellowship\, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-ackerman-the-bird-way-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
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SUMMARY:Ling Ma
DESCRIPTION:THE EVENT: \nThe Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present Ling Ma\, author of Severance\, on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 7PM. ​ \nThe event discussion will be moderated by Jiayang Fan. \nJiayang Fan became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2016. Her reporting on China\, American politics\, and culture has appeared in the magazine and on newyorker.com since 2010. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe it’s the end of the world\, but not for Candace Chen\, a millennial\, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat\, wryly funny\, apocalyptic satire\, Severance. \n\nCandace Chen\, self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower\, is so devoted to routine that she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone\, still unfevered\, she photographs the eerie\, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. \n\nA send-up and takedown of the rituals\, routines\, and missed opportunities of contemporary life\, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story\, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale\, and a hilarious\, deadpan satire. Most important\, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive. \n\n\nTHE BOOK:  \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTHE AUTHOR: \n\n\nLing Ma received her MFA from Cornell University. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and editor. Her writing has appeared in Granta\, Vice\, Playboy\, Chicago Reader\, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. A chapter of Severance received the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ling-ma/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T120000
DTSTAMP:20260629T025124
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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/using-invented-and-foreign-languages-as-tools-for-world-building-a-fiction-workshop-with-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Robbie Arnott\, The Rain Heron
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott will discuss The Rain Heron\, his gripping new novel of myth\, environment\, adventure\, and an unlikely friendship.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d’état. High on the forested slopes\, she survives by hunting\, farming\, trading\, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit\, led by a young female soldier\, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron—a mythical\, dangerous\, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story\, yet the soldier will not be deterred\, forcing them both into a gruelling quest. \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“Superb descriptions of nature and weather\, of human emotion and animal instinct\, by Australian novelist Arnott evoke a landscape that is both startlingly immediate and mysteriously otherworldly: the perfect setting for a tense narrative of eco-disaster and fragile endurance. At once an urgent thriller and an elegiac fable\, this mesmerizing tale is as lyrical as it is suspenseful.” ―Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robbie-arnott-the-rain-heron/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T200000
DTSTAMP:20260629T025124
CREATED:20210315T022343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T022343Z
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SUMMARY:CLA Presents: Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin\, race\, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.\nLalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.\nBrilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.\nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She the author of four novels\, including ‘The Moor’s Account’\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and ‘The Other Americans’\, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Washington Post\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cla-presents-laila-lalami-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260629T025124
CREATED:20210415T051238Z
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SUMMARY:On the Couch with Kelly! An Evening with Kelly Corrigan
DESCRIPTION:On The Couch With Kelly! An Evening of Connection and Conversation \nKelly Tells Us More! Don’t miss out on an amazing virtual experience benefiting Compass High School\, a school serving students with learning differences\, in San Mateo\, California.  Join the conversation with Kelly\, as she discusses the connections and relationships that are so vital to everyday life.  You’ll laugh\, you’ll cry\, you’ll commiserate with this New York Times bestselling author.  Kelly will share insights from her newly released book\, Hello World!  Be among the first to hear about it.  So grab a drink\, curl up on your couch\, and settle in for an intimate conversation\, all in support of Compass High School’s Scholarship Fund. \n$50-$500. \nhttps://compasshigh.org/fundraiser/ office@compasshigh.org 650-720-4248
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-couch-with-kelly-an-evening-with-kelly-corrigan/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260629T025124
CREATED:20210424T221216Z
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SUMMARY:Imani Cezanne reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The Center for Literary Arts of San José \nonline on Zoom Join here at the time of the event! \nor join be phone +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\nMeeting ID: 831 7139 8605 Passcode: 674247 \nImani Cezanne is a Black writer\, performer and tamale connoisseur living in Oakland\, CA. In March she became the 2020 Woman of the World Poetry Slam Champion for the second time and in July of the same year she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship finalist. As a two time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Imani has forthcoming work in Nimrod\, Fugue\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Crab Creek Review\, and POETRY magazine. While all are welcome to enjoy her work\, Imani writes for Black people\, Black readers and is committed to the liberation of all oppressed people. \nImani is a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s 2020 Writer’s Corp Teaching Artist in Residence Grant\, a $40\,000 award granted every year for three years to create spoken word poetry programming for the youth of San Francisco. Throughout her teaching career\, Imani has taught Creative Writing and Spoken Word in over 40 middle and high schools across the country\, using both a short and long-term residency models. Each lesson is designed to fit the needs of the students\, the length of the residency and meet intended learning outcomes. Imani has also coached poetry slam teams at San Francisco State University\, Mills College\, American University and Georgetown University. She is currently a Teaching Artist with YouthSpeaks\, SFJAZZ\, The Museum of African Diaspora and Performing Arts Workshop. This event will be moderated by Tshaka Campbell. \nTshaka Campbell is a husband and father as well as accomplished artist and performer. His appears in print and national commercials and he conducts lectures and facilitates workshops in creative writing and poetry. He was voted one of the 25 people to know in San Francisco\, holds two Grand Slam titles and was a finalist for the 2020 Santa Clara Poet Laureate honor. Tshaka is an author of “STUFF – I will write more “\, “MUTED WHISPERS” and “TUNNEL VISION as well as collaborated on a number of musical projects in the House\, Jazz and Blues genres. His literary work has appeared in journals and reviews such as 2 Bridges Review\, Tribe Magazine and others. He currently resides in San Jose and continues to ask the world to “Listen Different.” \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imani-cezanne-reading-and-in-conversation-with-tshaka-campbell/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T180000
DTSTAMP:20260629T025124
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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:How do you make and keep friendships of a lifetime? Angie Coiro interviews Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky on Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. \n\n\nAbout this Virtual Event \n\n\nResearch has shown that people with close friends are happier\, healthier\, and live longer than people who lack strong social bonds. Despite this\, the average American hasn’t made a new friend in the past five years. \nWhy— when we are seemingly more connected than ever before— can it feel so difficult to create and maintain strong friendships? Why do we spend only four percent of our time with friends? \nMillennial workplace expert and friendship visionary Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky proposes a new solution for the mounting pressures of this modern life: focus on your friendships. \nIn an hour-long interview with journalist-in-residence Angie Coiro about Friendship in the Age of Loneliness\, this wonderful author offers practical habits and playful reminders on how to create meaningful connections\, make new friends\, and deepen relationships. Smiley will help you revisit your relationship with technology\, encourage you to prioritize real-world experiences\, send snail mail\, and really see your friends. In doing this\, he shares the key to a good life—a happier\, healthier\, longer\, richer life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-friendship-in-the-age-of-loneliness/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T160000
DTSTAMP:20260629T025124
CREATED:20210731T213839Z
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SUMMARY:Poets@Play!
DESCRIPTION:After a long absence\, Poets@Play is returning! For those not familiar with it\, P@P is an informal writing group that meets at the Edwin Markham House at History Park\, which is operated by Poetry Center San José.\n\nWe plan to meet on the first Sunday afternoon of the month\, though there will be months when we do not meet\, or switch to another day. We take time to write and share whatever poetry we are working on. The option of coming to just listen is there also.\n\nWe are coming back with a cautious approach. We will be requiring masks for all attendees\, even those who have been fully vaccinated against SARS-Cov-2. Also we will be limiting this at first to only 7 attendees\, including the leader\, so that we can provide some level of social distancing. We will not be providing tea/coffee beverage service or snacks; you may bring your own if you wish.\n\nWe are making this by RSVP for now\, so that we can ensure the 7-person limit. The theme is open this time. You could choose to do some writing/revising about our pandemic experience of the past 16 months\, or select something else entirely.\n\nSunday\, August 1\, 2021\, 1 to 4 pm.\nPlease send a message to poetsatplay@pcsj.org if you would like to attend\, by Friday\, July 30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetsplay/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T130000
DTSTAMP:20260629T025124
CREATED:20210731T213608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T213619Z
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SUMMARY:Beautiful Black Books featuring Tolu Agbelusi!
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Center San José presents its new program Beautiful Black Books featuring Tolu Agbelusi reading and in conversation with host Tshaka Campbell!\nTolu Agbelusi is the author of Locating Strongwoman (Jacaranda Books 2020). A Nigerian British poet\, playwright and educator\, her work has been published nationally and internationally. She was shortlisted for the 2018 White Review Poetry Prize and has performed widely including at Cheltenham Lit Festival\, Stanza International Poetry Festival\, Lagos International Poetry Festival & Poetry Africa. Founder of Home Sessions\, a poetry development program for Black poets\, she has created and led workshops at universities\, youth centres\, art organisations\, schools\, etc. For more information about her work\, visit www.ToluAgbelusi.com\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81359770764…\nMeeting ID: 813 5977 0764\nPasscode: 376494\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,81359770764#\,\,\,\,*376494# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81359770764#\,\,\,\,*376494# US (Tacoma)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 813 5977 0764\nPasscode: 376494\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbfzQeT6F0\nThis will be a recurring program featuring Black writers in conversation followed by a Q&A for an audience that will also include young writers of Santa Clara County and surrounding communities. Subjects of discussion will include sources of inspiration that were formative\, particularly the work of writers and poets.\nPoetry Center San José promotes and supports the literary arts in San José. Over the past four decades\, PCSJ has brought hundreds of exceptional writers from around the country to read from their works and\, in many cases\, to conduct workshops for local writers. PCSJ is a nonprofit organization established in 1978. Its base of operations is in the charming turn-of-the-century Victorian home where the renown poet Edwin Markham once lived\, now located in San Jose History Park. Since the Fall of 2000\, PCSJ has sponsored a series of readings by local poets throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded\, in part\, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation\, the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affairs\, Poets & Writers\, Silicon Valley Community Foundation\, Silicon Valley Creates\, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and generous giving from Anne & Mark’s Art Party.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beautiful-black-books-featuring-tolu-agbelusi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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