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SUMMARY:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:A [quarantined] Room of One’s Own: Virtual Reading Series / POETRY night with MK Chavez\, Letisia Cruz\, and Wendy-O Matik \nIf you\, like the rest of us\, are feeling isolated with a sudden and vast amount of free time… AND you like authors and stories and amazing women\, please join host Dani Burlison on zoom for a virtual literary series Tuesday nights at 6:30pm PST. \n——- \n+ MK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis\, Dear Animal\, and Virgin Eyes. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Her most recent publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and on the Academy of American Poets website’s Poem-A-Day series. \n+ Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and artist. She is the author of The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books\, 2018). Her chapbook Chonga Nation was selected as a finalist in the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series and the 2016 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest. Her writing and artwork have appeared in [PANK]\, Ninth Letter\, The Acentos Review\, Gulf Stream\, Saw Palm\, Third Coast\, Duende\, Moko Caribbean Arts & Letters\, 300 Days of Sun\, Ink Brick\, and Sakura Review\, among others. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Florida with her partner and their two cats. \n+ Wendy-O Matik is a poet\, writer\, activist\, and the author of Love Like Rage (with manic d press) and Redefining Our Relationships (with Defiant Times Press). Back in the 90s\, you could find her doing spokenword in the Bay Area punk scene and touring with various punk bands in the US\, Canada\, UK\, Australia\, and New Zealand. Wendy has also coauthored nine mindfulness meditation books for New Harbinger Publications and is currently pounding down the virtual doors of publishers to get her feminist-anarchist graphic novel out in the world. Today\, she lives on an organic farm in Santa Rosa\, CA\, where the farm animals outnumber the humans.
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SUMMARY:The Gringa: Andrew Altschul (VIRTUAL EVENT: In Conversation with Darcie Dennigan)
DESCRIPTION:We will be presenting this event virtually\, using Zoom. RSVP here. \nA gripping and subversive novel about the slippery nature of truth and the tragic consequences of American idealism … \nLeonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad\, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression\, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades\, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid\, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. \nTen years later\, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels\, he struggles to understand Leonora\, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants\, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering\, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? \nIn this powerful and timely new novel\, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction\, author and text\, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller\, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice. \nAndrew Altschul is the author of the novels Lady Lazarus and Deus Ex Machina. His work has appeared in Esquire\, McSweeney’s\, Ploughshares\, Best New American Voices\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford\, he now teaches at Colorado State University. \nDarcie Dennigan has published three books of poetry – Corinna a-Maying the Apocalypse\, Madame X\, and The Palace of Subatomic Bliss – one book of performance texts\, The Parking Lot and other feral scenarios\, and a novel\, Slater Orchard. She has won awards from the Poetry Society of America\, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Discovery/The Nation prize. She is the 2019-20 resident playwright at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence\, RI\, and writer in residence at the University of Connecticut.
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