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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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 →
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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/
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T170000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200410T221750Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200413T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200323T055258Z
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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-4/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T193000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200411T205555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T205555Z
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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-quarantined-room-of-ones-own-virtual-reading-series/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200414T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200411T204915Z
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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-gringa-andrew-altschul-virtual-event-in-conversation-with-darcie-dennigan/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T120000
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CREATED:20200412T222606Z
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SUMMARY:Carl Zimmer and Apoorva Mandavilli in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Carl Zimmer and Apoorva Mandavilli will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through a creative lens. All proceeds benefit Green Apple Books. \nBuy a gift card right now! \n\nFundraising goal: $2000\nApril 15 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite \n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carl-zimmer-and-apoorva-mandavilli-in-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200411T205347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T205347Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #3
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition is now weekly. Join us for readings from Thea Matthews\, Lauren Traetto\, and Pamela K. Santos and a community craft talk. \nEther Edition is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #3\nTime: Apr 15\, 2020\, 7:00PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/603664236?pwd=cW9tYldEdU0rb3YvNi9TSFR3alpRQT09 \nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\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: 603 664 236\nPassword: 061152\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keB99ctCO4
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T220000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200411T203328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T203328Z
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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 & music from Morgan Bolender…\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nWednesday\, April 15th\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2XsZZKb \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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T205958Z
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SUMMARY:archy and mehitabel Group Reading (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:Come on Zoom and let’s read some poems from the first archy and mehitabel book by Don Marquis. His work is in public domain. But if you need a copy of the book\, DM me\, and I’ll send you the file. \nSign up for a poem or two! \n1. the coming of archy\n2. mehitabel was once cleopatra\n3. the song of mehitabel\n4. pity the poor spiders\n5. mehitabel s extensive past\n6. the cockroach who has been to hell\n7. archy interviews a pharaoh\n8. a spider and a fly\n9. freddy the rat perishes\n10. the merry flea\n11. why mehitabel jumped\n12. certain maxims of archy\n13. warty bliggens\, the toad\n14. mehitabel has an adventure\n15. the flattered lightning bug\n16. the robin and the worm\n17. mehitabel finds a home\n18. the wall of archy\n19. mehitabel and her kittens\n20. archy is shocked\n21. archy creates a situation\n22. mehitabel sings a song\n23. aesop revised by archy – Daphne Gottleib\n24. cheerio my deario
URL:https://litseen.com/event/archy-and-mehitabel-group-reading-part-1/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T190000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #2: Juliana Delgado Lopera + Miah Jeffra
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small 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 questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Sibling Rivalry Press. Our writers are Juliana Delgado Lopera (author of Quiéreme\, Nomadic Press\, and Fiebre Tropical\, The Feminist Press at CUNY) and Miah Jeffra (author of The First Church of What’s Happening\, Nomadic Press\, and The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!\, Sibling Rivalry Press. \nNoelia Cerna 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 \nTopic: Screenside Chat #2: Miah Jeffra and Juliana Delgado Lopera\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/556001232 \nMeeting ID: 556 001 232\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,556001232# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,556001232# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 556 001 232\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-2-juliana-delgado-lopera-miah-jeffra/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200416T173443Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : Songs From A Room
DESCRIPTION:We’re doing a weekly event. \nThis week it’s The Racket Weekly : SONGS FROM A ROOM in which a quintet of writers pen short pieces on the songs currently filtering through the murk of quarantine. There will be a playlist and you can listen along. \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88190232333 \nDoors @ 7:00. Event at 7:15. \nThe Readers: \nChelsea Davis\nSerena Chan\nD’mani Thomas\nMaddy Raskulinecz\nGark Mavigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-songs-from-a-room/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T223000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200411T210242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T210242Z
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel + Open Mic at EP Foster Library
DESCRIPTION:Your host is Phil Taggart and your Featured Reader is Jan Steckel at this Ventura\, California-based library reading now online while we shelter in place.\nOne poem of two minutes or less for the open mic.\nJoin Zoom Meeting here https://zoom.us/j/474804902…\nMeeting ID: 474 804 902 \nJan Steckel’s latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-open-mic-at-ep-foster-library/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T220000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200411T210835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T210835Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in Nomadic Press’ Zoom account. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/ewznSNDq86xmJ5NA7 \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Speaking Axolotl (April)\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/968513245 \nMeeting ID: 968 513 245\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,968513245# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,968513245# 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: 968 513 245\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200406T024606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200406T024606Z
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SUMMARY:Katherine Applegate to Support Book Passage
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nNewberry Award winner Katherine Applegate will read via video conference from her work and talk about her extensive writing history and catalog. \nAll proceeds benefit Book Passage. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nApril 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-applegate-to-support-book-passage/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200410T214131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200410T214131Z
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SUMMARY:Homewreck: A Shipwreck Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Get ready\, matchmakers: we’re going back to Austenland for a night of charming romantic misunderstandings and youthful hubris. Join us to wreck EMMA from the comfort of your home. \nTo the best of technology’s ability\, this will be like a regular Shipwreck. Six great writers will submit erotic fanfiction about a character from Emma\, Baruch will read them anonymously\, Amy and Casey will host\, you’ll laugh and drink too much. The show will stream for free on Booksmith’s Facebook page and our Twitch stream. At the end\, anyone who’s donated by purchasing a ticket will vote for the winner. \nTicket proceeds—and do please feel free to buy in multiples—go toward keeping our skeleton crew running during the shutdown (and paying the writers and performer). \nThanks\, as ever\, for laughing with us. \nFeatured writers: Joe Wadlington\, Alan Leggitt\, Molly Sanchez\, Sarah Lynn Rogers\, Nate Waggoner\, and Viv Pustell. \nvv “TICKET” PRICES BELOW vv \n  \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n$5 Ticket\n\n$5.00\nSKU: SW5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$10 Ticket\n\n$10.00\nSKU: SW10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$25 Ticket\n\n$25.00\nSKU: SW25
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homewreck-a-shipwreck-fundraiser/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200411T210947Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #5
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! 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 to read here:\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. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #5\nTime: Apr 17\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/610388278 \nMeeting ID: 610 388 278\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,610388278# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,610388278# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\nMeeting ID: 610 388 278\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200415T142743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T142743Z
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SUMMARY:City Lights LIVE!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first livestream as we honor our worldwide community of friends with this special online gathering.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nWith special guests Juan Felipe Herrera\, Beth Lisick\, Joshua Mohr\, sam sax\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Janaka Stucky\, Jack Hirschman\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, Karen Finley\, and others! \nHosted by Josiah Luis Alderete. \nThis is an online gathering to thank our generous supporters all over the world who contributed to our successful GoFundMe campaign\, and an opportunity for some of our very favorite authors to read\, chat\, perform and share their thoughts as we shelter-in-place together. \nWe ask that you consider further support for indie bookstores by browsing on Bookshop.org. Our virtual storefront is located here: https://bookshop.org/shop/citylightsbooks \nStay connected with us through our social media channels on Twitter\, Facebook\, Instagram\, and Youtube. \n*** \nAll registered attendees will receive a Zoom link on the day of the event. Tune in right at 7PM!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-live/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T160000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200412T221719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200412T221719Z
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini In Conversation With Book Passage’s Elaine Petrocelli
DESCRIPTION:Live: Saturday\, April 18th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\n\n\n\n\n\nIn March 2001\, while practicing medicine\, Khaled Hosseini began writing his first novel\, The Kite Runner\, which was published by Riverhead Books in 2003. That debut went on to launch one of the biggest literary careers of our time. Today\, Khaled is one of the most recognized and bestselling authors in the world. His books\, The Kite Runner\, A Thousand Splendid Suns\, and And the Mountains Echoed\, have been published in over seventy countries and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. \nIn 2006 Khaled was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR\, the UN Refugee Agency. Inspired by a trip he made to Afghanistan with the UNHCR\, he later established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation\, a nonprofit\, which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“It may be unfair\, but what happens in a few days\, sometimes even a single day\, can change the course of a whole lifetime…”\n– The Kite Runner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-in-conversation-with-book-passages-elaine-petrocelli/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T143000
DTSTAMP:20260526T145330
CREATED:20200415T143026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T143026Z
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SUMMARY:Our Communities\, Climate Change\, and COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Sunday\, April 19th from 1pm – 2:30pm for a live panel discussion\n“Our Communities\, Climate Change\, and COVID-19” featuring \nJulie Sze\, author Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger \nAPEN Shina Robinson\nEnvironmental Justice Activist Ratha Lai\nSFSU Asian American Studies Professor Russell Jeung \n\nWatch the session on YouTube Live HERE.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjz-kfBnus&feature=youtu.be \nA recording of the event will also be posted online after. \nOr register to receive access to the April 19th Event Zoom. \nREGISTER 4/19 event \nJulie Sze is Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project at the University of California\, Davis. She has authored and edited two other books and numerous articles on environmental justice and inequality\, culture and environment\, and urban and community health and activism. \nEnvironmental Justice in a Moment of Danger \n$18.95\, Paperback
URL:https://litseen.com/event/our-communities-climate-change-and-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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