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SUMMARY:Lyric & Dirges: Ether Edition #1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launching of Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition\nWe have a new format and the same literary wonderland.\nOur inaugural virtual reading is happening on April 1st with three amazing writers Norma Liliana Valdez\, Georgina Marie\, and Nick Johnson \nWe will be meeting on Zoom\, specific details below and if you’re new to Zoom you can download the app here:\nhttps://zoom.us/ and here’s a handy\nDescription:\n──────────\nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/404739063 \nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nPassword: 381415 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,404739063# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,404739063# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #1: Thea Matthews\, MK Chavez\, JP Howard
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque engaging readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers\nquestions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Red Light Lit (founded and run by Jennifer Lewis). Our writers are Thea Matthews (author of Unearth [The Flowers]\, forthcoming with Red Light Lit)\, Mk Chavez (author of Dear Animal\, and Mothermorphosis published by Nomadic Press)\, and JP Howard (author of SAY/MIRROR published by The Operating System & Liminal Lab). Jennifer Lewis will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nZoom Joining Information \nTime: Apr 2\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/175010261 \nMeeting ID: 175 010 261 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,175010261# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,175010261# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 175 010 261\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... ONLINE!
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die Team!\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nThursday\, April 2nd\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nSeating is first come\, first served… to the person who gets the seat in your house.\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/33US8Gz \nPLEASE NOTE:\nRegistration DOES NOT guarantee a spot on the call!!!\nThere are only 100 call spots – our commitment is to keep it intimate\, so whoever needs to share\, gets to share…\nDo not wait – don’t be late!! \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly 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.\nVenmo: @Peter-Buskirk\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes ONLINE!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, 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 – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU IF HE HAS TO! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, 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. \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together… \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Poets for National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Join Litquake for our annual National Poetry Month celebration\, for readings from some of America’s best poets: Kazim Ali\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and Jane Hirshfield. Curated and hosted by Rebecca Foust. Originally scheduled to be held at Grace Cathedral atop the city’s Nob Hill\, now streaming live for you! \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nRebecca Foust\nRebecca Foust was the Poet Laureate of Marin County and is the author of Paradise Drive and The Unexploded Ordnance Bin\, released November 2019. A new book\, ONLY\, will come out with Four Way Books in 2022.\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nJane Hirshfield\nJane Hirshfield’s ninth collection\, Ledger (Knopf)\, just released. Chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets and recently elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, she works frequently at the intersection of poetry and science. Her essays\, poems\, and translations… Read More →\n\n \nTongo Eisen-Martin\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)\, which won the 2018 California Book Award.\n\n\n\n\n\nKazim Ali\nKazim Ali’s many books include The Far Mosque\, which won an Alice James Books award and Inquisition (2018)\, as well as the prose books The Disappearance of Seth\, Bright Felon\, and Resident Alien. Ali co-founded Nightboat Books and is a professor at U.C. San Diego.
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #3
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nDonate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the “ticket” link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic (this time a little earlier for our east coast friends)! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSIGN-UP SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nJoining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #3\nTime: Apr 3\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/787778071 \nMeeting ID: 787 778 071 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,787778071# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,787778071# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 787 778 071\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Beth Lisick and "Edie on the Green Screen"
DESCRIPTION:Beth Lisick’s canceled book tour for her debut novel transmogrifies into an at-home spoken word and music performance with her husband\, musician and studio wizard Eli Crews (Tune-yards\, Deerhoof). Though rarely in the same place at the same time\, they’ve spent the last few weeks collaborating on making hand sanitizer\, falafel\, and music. Beth will read excerpts from her new book accompanied by organs\, synths\, and other assorted gadgetry. Presented live from their Spillway Sound recording studio in New York’s Hudson Valley.\nBook releases March 26\, 2020. \nOrder from your favorite indie bookstore at bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nEli Crews\nEli Crews is a sound engineer and record producer based in New York. He is a house engineer at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn\, where he has lived and worked since 2012. He also just built a getaway\, residential recording studio in the Catskills near the Ashokan Reservoir\, called Spillway… Read More →\n\n\nBeth Lisick\n Beth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently living in Brooklyn. She is the author of six books\, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool\, and co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series. Beth has also worked as a baker… Read More →
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SUMMARY:Bess Kalb / Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a live-stream with Bess Kalb for her new book Nobody Will Tell You This but Me. \nPlease join us … we’ll be streaming on our Facebook page! \n\n“When I stop crying\, I’m calling my mother immediately and making her read it.” – Jodi Picoult \n“Comic lines as good as in any movie\, and pathos as deep as in any novel” – Mike Birbiglia \nBess Kalb\, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor\, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force–irrepressible\, glamorous\, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then\, at ninety\, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir\, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more\, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. \nRecounting both family lore and family secrets\, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother\, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms\, and Bess’s mother\, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. Then there’s Bess\, who grew up in New York and entered the rough-and-tumble world of L.A. television. Her grandma Bobby was with her all the way–she was the light of Bess’s childhood and her fiercest supporter\, giving Bess unequivocal love\, even if sometimes of the toughest kind. \nIn Nobody Will Tell You This But Me\, Bobby reminds Bess of the experiences they shared\, and she delivers–in phone calls\, texts\, and unforgettable heart-to-hearts brought vividly to the page–her signature wisdom: \nIf the earth is cracking behind you\, you put one foot in front of the other. \nNever. Buy. Fake. Anything.\nI swear on your life every word of this is true. \nWith humor and poignancy\, Bess Kalb gives us proof of the special bond that can skip a generation and endure beyond death. This book is a feat of extraordinary ventriloquism and imagination by a remarkably talented writer. \n\nBess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Her writing for the show earned her a Writer’s Guild Award in 2016. She has also written for the Oscars and the Emmys. A regular contributor to The New Yorker‘s “Daily Shouts\,” her work has been published in The New Republic\, Grantland\, Salon.com\, Wired\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Lucas Foglia. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bess-kalb-nobody-will-tell-you-this-but-me/
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: "Home Baked" Booty Shake
DESCRIPTION:In the seventies\, when author Alia Volz was tucked into in her stroller\, her parents ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that delivered more than 10\,000 marijuana edibles each month in San Francisco. From the frothy 1970s through the depths of the AIDS crisis and the dawn of medical marijuana\, Volz’s new memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a city in the throes of change and the community that came together when things fell apart. \nPour yourself a tequila sunrise\, twist a doobie\, and join Volz and luminaries Rebecca Skloot and Marke Bieschke for a taste of home-baked San Francisco love. Followed by a funkalicious living-room dance party with special guest DJs. \nBook is released on April 20\, 2020\, pre-order it from your favorite indie bookstore\, at bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of the event!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nRebecca Skloot\nRebecca Skloot is author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, which was made into an Emmy-nominated HBO film. Lacks took more than a decade to research and write\, and instantly hit the New York Times bestseller list\, where it has remained for… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nMarke Bieschke\nMarke Bieschke is the publisher and arts editor of 48 Hills and the SF Bay Guardian\, and the author most recently of Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens (Zest Books\, 2019) and the forthcoming Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States (Lerner… Read More →\n\n \nAlia Volz\nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco\, due for release on 4/20 of this year. You’ll find her work in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Tin House\, and elsewhere.
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SUMMARY:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic Online!
DESCRIPTION:We are giving ONLINE Smack Dab Queer & Trans Open Mic a try. Meet us on Zoom at our usual time 🙂 \nSmack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQ2SIA community event. Our slogan? “All ages\, all genders\, all the time.” We’re the longest running Q/T Open mic in the bay and we welcome YOU to join us to share: stories\, poems\, a song\, dance\, your visual art or your latest manifesto. Want to simply join us as friends\, family and supportive allies in Queer and Trans community? Our hosts Larry-bob Roberts {he/him} and Dana Hopkins {she/her} welcome you to come on in! \nIf you’d like to perform at the open mic\, please come sign up at 4:45 pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share {we do pay attention to time.} \nFor Zoom details and instructions about how to join in message us here at Smack Dab Queer Open Mic OR stay tuned to this space for those details. We will post them here on Sunday .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smack-dab-queer-open-mic-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Met Cute--The Happy Side of Gay Romance
DESCRIPTION:In these stressful times\, everyone could use a little fun. Because sometimes loving goes best with laughter\, four bestselling authors of gay romance read from their lighter works–J. Scott Coatsworth\, Kim Fielding\, Angel Martinez\, and Amy Lane. Discussion and Q&A about why love stories help soothe frayed nerves and anxious minds to follow. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKim Fielding\nKim Fielding is the bestselling author of numerous m/m romance novels\, novellas\, and short stories. Like Kim herself\, her work is eclectic\, spanning genres such as contemporary\, fantasy\, paranormal\, and historical. Her stories are set in alternate worlds\, in 15th century Bosnia\, in… Read More →\n\n \nJ. Scott Coatsworth\nScott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library\, but as he grew up\, he wondered where all the people like him were. He decided that if there weren’t… Read More →\n\nAM \nAngel Martinez\nAngel Martinez is the pen name of a writer of several genres who writes both kinds of queer fiction – Science Fiction and Fantasy. (What? There are others?) Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware\, (and full time inside the author’s head) Angel has… Read More →\n\n \nAmy Lane\nAmy Lane has two kids who are mostly grown\, two kids who aren’t\, two cats\, and two Chi-who-whats at large. She lives in a crumbling crapmansion with most of the children and a bemused spouse. She also has too damned much yarn\, a penchant for action adventure movies\, and a need to… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-met-cute-the-happy-side-of-gay-romance/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: DIY Flash with the Flash Fiction Collective
DESCRIPTION:A reading of dozens of tiny stories from micro-fictionistas\, including guest readers\, plus a discussion of the Art of Flash and prompts—including visual prompts—to write and submit your own\, with a selection to be published on the Flash Fiction Collective Facebook page. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nJane Ciabattari\nJane Ciabattari\, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire\, writes the Between the Lines column for BBC Culture. She is a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Writers Grotto. Her reviews\, interviews and cultural criticism have appeared… Read More →\n\n \nGrant Faulkner\nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He has published two books on writing\, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo\, and Brave the Page\, a teen writing guide… Read More →\n\n \nKirstin Chen\nKirstin Chen‘s second novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, was named a best book of the year by Entropy\, Popsugar\, and Book Bub\, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle. She is also the aut… Read More →\n\n \nMeg Pokrass\nMeg Pokrass is the U.K. based author of six flash fiction collections\, an award-winning collection of prose poetry\, and a novella-in-flash from the Rose Metal Press. Her latest is a flash fiction collection called The Dog Seated Next To Me\, published in 2019 by Pelekinesis Press. A new novella in flash The Smell Of Good Luck will be published in 2020 by Flash: The International Short Short Story Press. Meg’s work has been recently anthologized in two Norton Anthology Readers: New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co\, 2018) and Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co.\, 2015)\, The Best Small Fict… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-diy-flash-with-the-flash-fiction-collective/
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
URL:https://litseen.com/event/escape-from-quarantine-reading-a-weekly-online-thing-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:WHY WE SWIM with Bonnie Tsui\, Daniel Handler\, and Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Join these three author-swimmers in a discussion of Bonnie Tsui’s fascinating new book\, Why We Swim. \nJoin us here at 5pm PDT on Tueday\, April 7! \nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/476150449?pwd=MGtobFBYWXFINHVOUTAzNWdiYXpidz09
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-we-swim-with-bonnie-tsui-daniel-handler-and-andrew-sean-greer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin\, live streamed from Bird & Beckett
DESCRIPTION:Live Stream:  https://www.facebook.com/bird.and.beckett/ \nTongo Eisen-Martin\, a child of the Bay Area\, seemed to emerge full blown on the Bay Area poetry front in 2015 with his debut Someone’s Dead Already from Bootstrap Press and a cascade of uncanny readings\, hands in pockets\, gaze fixed in the middle distance of his mind. \nBut by that point he had already achieved deep hip hop/spoken word credibility and had gone full on into prison work that had taken him nationwide for years. City Lights’ Pocket Poets series followed up with Heaven is All Goodbyes in 2017\, #61\, and as a brilliant poet he’s been a presence to be reckoned with nationally since.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-tongo-eisen-martin-live-streamed-from-bird-beckett/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA's 35th Anniversary Issue Release
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate ZYZZYVA’s 35th anniversary issue\, to be released in early April\, with contributors from the issue which includes such authors and writers as Bryan Washington\, Lauren Markham\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Kristen Iskandrian\, Lysley Tenorio\, Dave Madden\, Peter Orner\, Meg Hurtado Bloom\, and many others. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-zyzzyvas-35th-anniversary-issue-release/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:A fundraiser for Pegasus Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business. First up: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon in conversation\, including a Q&A. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Plus the memoir A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life. \nMichael Chabon is the author of several novels\, including Moonglow\, Telegraph Ave.\, the Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. \nBoth Chabon and Waldman wrote for the recent TV series\, Star Trek: Picard. \nThe beneficiary \nPegasus Books has been delivering books and dreams to the Berkeley area since 1969\, and they’re a vital part of our book-loving community. They have an amazing selection of new and used books and a warm\, friendly atmosphere\, complete with adorable cats. They give dog treats to dogs\, and stickers to kids\, and they have some of the most fun events in the city\, and we’d be lost without them. \nEvery penny you spend on tickets to this event goes directly to Pegasus Books. \nHow does it work? \nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-and-ayelet-waldman-in-conversation-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: We All Want to Change the World
DESCRIPTION:Fiction writers are often told – by teachers\, editors\, and agents – that politics and literature don’t mix. But in these times of political polarization and dissatisfaction\, many writers are reconsidering this conventional wisdom. How can ambitious writers find a space to explore the matters of life and death\, wealth and poverty\, war and governance\, that affect us all? How should art respond to the terrors of modern life? Join five accomplished writers as they share work that has grappled with these questions. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKirstin Chen\nKirstin Chen‘s second novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, was named a best book of the year by Entropy\, Popsugar\, and Book Bub\, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle. She is also the aut… Read More →\n\n \nAndrew Altschul\nAndrew Altschul’s third novel\, The Gringa\, was published in March. In a starred review\, Booklist called it “a captivating depiction of passion\, disenchantment\, and hope gone violently awry.” His previous novels are Deus Ex Machina and Lady Lazarus. His work has appeared in Best… Read More →\n\n \nRamona Ausubel\nRamona Ausubel is the author of two novels and two story collections. Her most recent book\, Awayland\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection\, a Finalist for the California Book Award\, Colorado Book Award and long-listed for the Story Prize. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA… Read More →\n\n \nDanielle Evans\nDanielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self\, and the forthcoming collection The Office of Historical Corrections. She is the winner of the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Hurston-Wright award for fiction\, a National Book… Read More →\n\n \nJoshua Furst\nJoshua Furst’s critically acclaimed novel Revolutionaries was published last year.  He’salso the author of The Sabotage Café—named to the 2007 year-end best-of lists of the Chicago Tribune\, the Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia City Paper\, as well as being awarded the… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-we-all-want-to-change-the-world/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #2
DESCRIPTION:This week Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition features Maw Shein Win\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Amanda Moore \nLearn about our readers by visiting their bio posts \nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTime: Apr 8\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/161450681 \nMeeting ID: 161 450 681 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,161450681# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,161450681# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 161 450 681\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). \nPLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus\, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door; and did you know we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire? Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mari-coates-with-peg-alford-pursell-launch-for-the-pelton-papers-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Take Place: SFSU Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This is a time for all of us to come together and support one another & our SFSU writing community. Join us on Zoom for our first virtual Take Place. We’ll still have our featured readers originally planned for March\, and we’d love to hear what you’ve been working on during our open mic portion. Sign-ups below. \nWHEN: Thursday\, April 9 @ 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.\nWHERE: https://sfsu.zoom.us/j/137877419\nWHAT:  Featured reading and open mic. All literary and experimental genres are welcome! Open mic slots are about 2 minutes each and open to SFSU students (future\, present or past)\, professors (please!) & community members.\nWHO: Celeste Chan & Alysia Gonzales \nOpen mic sign-up here. \n  \nSFSU Featured Readers: \nCeleste Chan \nCeleste Chan moved to SF to find creative community in 2004. Since that time\, she founded Queer Rebels festival for LGBTQ artists of color and served as co-director for ten years. She created experimental film programs for MIX NYC and OUTsider\, coordinated QTPOC Free School\, joined Foglifter as an editor and now board member\, wrote and performed a one-woman show\, and toured with Sister Spit’s feminist literary roadshow. When not working on her memoir\, she cares for a ninety-five year old activist\, and leads youth workshops for the Queer Ancestors Project. \n  \nAlysia Gonzales \nAlysia Gonzales is an MFA candidate in Fiction at San Francisco State University.  She received her B.A. in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California\, then found her way back home to San Francisco.  After writing about software for 8 hours a day as a Technical Writer\, she spends her free time hiking\, baking bread\, watching film and TV\, and of course\, reading and writing.  Her work deals with racial and socioeconomic identity\, as well as ancestry and complicated familial relationships. It also sometimes includes food.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/take-place-sfsu-reading-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Bring the World into Your Home with World Editions
DESCRIPTION:Let’s connect our global literary community in a time of closed borders. Hear World Editions authors read from their works\, discuss the current situation in their countries\, and talk about what books mean to them during Covid-19. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-bring-the-world-into-your-home-with-world-editions/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Racket : View From A Room
DESCRIPTION:We’re doing a weekly event\, every week until we’re allowed out into the blinding light of the future. \nThis week: VIEW FROM A ROOM \nGreat writers – Christine No\, Matt Carney\, Rebekah Bloyd\, Nick O’Brien and Vernon Keeve III – will talk about the view outside their window. \nRoom Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/832429385?pwd=TEFDbWtHKzMrYTF1dkJaUUJIZTBGQT09
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-view-from-a-room/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mental Health Comedy Hour presented by Strut!
DESCRIPTION:Join us virtually this Thursday\, April 9th\, at 7pm PST! \nAt the Mental Health Comedy Hour “We’re not OK\, and that’s OK!” \nMental Health Comedy Hour was created by and is hosted by comedians Kristee Ono\, and Wonder Dave! The show aims to de-stigmatize mental illness and therapy through humor and open conversations about often difficult topics. Are you a queer person dealing with Depression\, Anxiety\, ADHD\, or Bipolar disorder?…why not laugh about it? At this show some of the funniest queer stand up comedians will tell jokes and talk about their life with mental illness. All in the jovial environment of a late-night talk show sponsored by Strut! Featuring interviews with licensed mental health professionals and more! \nThis show will have special guests comedians Luna Malbroux! And Jes Tom!\nOur guest mental health professional will be Nia Hamilton-Ibu! \nThe show is free\, we will be sharing the info on how to join and watch the virtual show the day of the event. Stay tuned and make sure to rsvp. \nQuestions about Strut or San Francisco AIDS Foundation events please contact the community event manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at baruch@sfaf.org \nStrut Limited Clinical Services:\nWednesday\, Thursday & Saturday\, 10 am – 4 pm\nFriday 11 am – 4 pm.\nWalk-in clients are not being seen at this time.\nPlease call the clinic at 415-581-1600 for instructions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mental-health-comedy-hour-presented-by-strut/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T170000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nIn the 1960s\, a small team of innovators gathered on a stunning sweep of land overlooking the California coast. They envisioned a new and different kind of university—one that could reinvent public higher education in the United States. Through this oral history of the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, we hear first-person accounts of the campus’s evolution\, from the origins of an audacious dream through the sea changes of five decades. More than two hundred narrators and a trove of archival images contribute to this dynamic\, nuanced account. Today\, UC Santa Cruz is a leading research university with experimental roots. This is the story of what was learned\, what was lost\, and what has grown along the way. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP for Zoom Forward! #3 with Irene Reti\, Cameron Vanderscoff\, and Sarah Rabkin HERE. LIVE on Zoom (link and instructions provided upon signup)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Seeds of Something Different:\n“I kept marveling\, ‘So that’s what was happening!’ I could not put it down.”\n—Nikki Silva of NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-3-with-irene-reti-cameron-vanderscoff-and-sarah-rabkin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month: Stegner Fellows VIRTUAL Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special VIRTUAL Ruby gathering in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok\, Safia Elfhillo\, Claire Meuschke\, and Taneum Bambrick; all current Stegner fellows at Stanford University. \n[This is a Virtual Ruby event\, taking place over Zoom. Join us: https://zoom.us/j/285830870?pwd=VU00MlhjZ3VTQVBLZi9Ta3R2TmVSdz09 Password will be sent with registration. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able!] \nAbout the poets: \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Poetry Society of America\, Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, and others. Sok has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland. She is originally from Lancaster\, Pennsylvania. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press\, 2017)\, which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, and Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021)\, as well as a novel in verse forthcoming in 2021 from Make Me A World/Random House. A co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, Elhillo was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30” and is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.\n \nClaire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press\, 2020). From the Bay Area\, she has lived in New York City\, New Mexico\, and Arizona. She is poetry editor for Contra Viento and assistant poetry editor for DIAGRAM. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland. \nTaneum Bambrick is the author of VANTAGE\, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (Copper Canyon Press). Her chapbook\, Reservoir\, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in theNew Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\,PENAmerica\, and elsewhere. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \n—————– \n*While we shelter in place during the Covid19 pandemic\, The Ruby’s physical location will be closed. As a collective\, we’ll continue to gather online for virtual workshops\, events\, and discussions. All are welcome to join us for these events. * For those who can afford it and would like to support The Ruby during this uncertain time\, we are offering 3 tiers of virtual membership: $5/week\, $15/week\, and $25/week. (Though we have some money in our emergency savings account to get us through the next little while\, we’re pretty nervous about the future\, and how long this might go on for.) Please help only if it’s feasible for you. If you’re in a tough time financially right now\, we absolutely get it. Please\, take care of yourself and stay connected to this community so we can help. \nHere are the tiers of virtual membership (use these links to sign up):\n$5/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/aRsJyABygL4FvvEJT\n$15/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/o56ggrnNNx9rzn6AA\n$25/week – https://www.joinit.org/o/the-ruby/q37HfmWSQMoLzPt4p \nWant to make a one-time donation of more or less? We can still accept donations through last year’s GoFundMe. Link is here. \nOur Virtual Ruby calendar will be updated as events are added. \n  \nImage\, pictured from left to right: Monica Sok (photo credit Andria Lo)\, Taneum Bambrick\, Safia Elhillo (photo credit Aris Theotokatos)\, and Claire Meuschke.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-stegner-fellows-virtual-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
DESCRIPTION:Hear from the writers of Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\nas they read briefly from their contribution and engage in conversation about what’s changed\, what hasn’t\, how we weather what we’re facing not only politically but also culturally\, personally\, artistically\, and as communities who affirm our connections to each other. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nAlicia Garza\nAlicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer\, writer\, public speaker\, and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United… Read More →\n\n \nAya de Leon\nAya de Leon directs the Poetry for the People program\, teaching creative writing at UC Berkeley. Kensington Books publishes her award-winning feminist heist/romance series\, Justice Hustlers: UPTOWN THIEF (2016)\, THE BOSS (2017)\, THE ACCIDENTAL MISTRESS (2018)\, and SIDE CHICK NATION… Read More →\n\n \nChip Livingston\nChip Livingston is the author of the novel\, OWLS DON’T HAVE TO MEAN DEATH; a collection of essays and stories\, NAMING CEREMONY; and two poetry collections\, CROW-BLUE\, CROW-BLACK and MUSEUM OF FALSE STARTS. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, New American… Read More →\n\n \nAchy Obejas\nAchy Obejas is the author of The Tower of the Antilles\, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award\, among other honors. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe\, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook\, This is What Happened in Our Other Life… Read More →\n\n \nCarolina De Robertis\nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels Cantoras\, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award\, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award\, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Gods of Tango\, winner of… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-letters-of-love-and-dissent-in-dangerous-times/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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/
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200411T203000
DTSTAMP:20260610T114019
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SUMMARY:Inside Weather: Writing and Art
DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday evening from your room\, where the following writers and artists will Zoom-share work that in some way contemplates the rooms and roomlessness of these times. This is the first in a series of three opportunities to create community and correspondence during these weeks of isolation. The events also partially act as launch readings for Mattraw’s We fell into weather (March\, Cultural Society). Mattraw’s second book explores invisible disabilities and their catalysts– environmental toxins\, illness\, and epigenetics\, among others– while considering what’s outside those rooms. \n11 April\, Saturday\, 7 pm PST \nNancy Au\nAlexandra Mattraw\nTomas Moniz\nDonna de la Perrière\nAdam Thorman \nThe writers and artists will present in a “round” formation instead of the patterns we find in a traditional reading. Each feature will offer approximately three minutes of work and then “pass the mic” to the next feature in a repeated\, circular pattern. \nAdditional events include \n21 April\, Tuesday\, 5:30 pm PST \nGillian Conoley\nTiff Dressen\nAlexandra Mattraw\nJennifer Soong\nMaw Shein Win \n19 May\, eve\, time TBD \nNorman Fischer\nHeather June Gibbons\nAlexandra Mattraw\nRusty Morrison
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-weather-writing-and-art/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200412T160000
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:Live: Sunday\, April 19th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\n\n\n\n\n\nDave Eggers is known for writing wonderful\, gripping stories that tug at the heart. His award-winning body of work consists of several non-fiction\, fiction\, humor\, screenplays\, a series on salon.com\, several essays and articles. As editor and contributor\, he has worked on several works of post-modern literature. Almost all of his works have received significant amount of critical acclaim\, not to mention commercial success. This has helped cement his place in the world of post-modern literature. He has thrown the doors open to bridging the divide between ethnic and religious groups through his fresh and honest works of fiction and non-fiction. \nHe has found more success through his more recent work as a novelist\, screenwriter\, satirist\, album art designer\, and a proponent of grassroots journalism and alternative comics. As a philanthropist\, he is known for helping students get through college vide monetary and after-school help from his nonprofit foundation and its seven chapters. A visionary and a global thought leader\, he is often invited to knowledge forums to deliver keynote addresses and engage eager audiences to fresh forward thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”\n– Dave Eggers \n\n\nRegister now for your invitation to:\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin live conversations with writers and thinkers who value books\, BookPassage\, and independent bookstores as much as you do.\nShape these conversations by helping to prioritize the session topics you most want addressed.\nShare your thoughts before and after each session in an ongoing discussion forum created exclusively for registered participants.\nView the video archive of every session\, wherever and whenever you want.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T170000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lisa Brown and Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Instagram live for a virtual event with Lisa Brown and Andrew Sean Greer discussing Long Story Short! Starting at 5:00pm on the greenapplebooks Instagram. \nAbout Long Story Short \nDoes Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick\, the Bhagavad Gita\, Madame Bovary\, and\, um\, Twilight? \nBestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby\, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries\, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote\, Lord of the Flies\, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved\, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, and Atonement\, conveniently organized by subjects including “Love\,” “Sex\,” “Death\,” and “Female Trouble.” Lisa Brown’s Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called “the canon” into a frolic—or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read. \nAbout Lisa Brown \nLisa Brown draws things like illustrations and comics\, writes things like books and book reviews\, and teaches things to kids and college students. Her debut picture book\, How to Be\, was one of the Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy.  She is a comics contributor at The Rumpus and teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. You can find her online at americanchickens.com or on Twitter: @lisabrowndraws. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-lisa-brown-and-andrew-sean-greer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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