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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Rufi Thorpe and Chloe Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Rufi Thorpe joins us on Instagram Live to discuss her new novel The Knockout Queen with Chloe Benjamin. Wednesday April 29th at 5:00pm PDT. \nPraise for The Knockout Queen \n“Is it cheesy to say The Knockout Queen knocked me off my feet? I couldn’t put it down\, and when I had to\, I did so only reluctantly\, shakily. With unrelenting humor and terrifying intelligence\, Rufi Thorpe tells the story of an unlikely high school friendship—the kind of friendship from which you never recover—with intensity and attentiveness. This captivating\, generous book is a moving examination on human motivation\, darkness\, and love—calling attention to the ways we can be deeply different\, and yet so much the same.”—Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \n“Fearless\, tender\, and savagely alive\, The Knockout Queen is unlike anything you’ll read this year. Rufi Thorpe’s third novel is about unruly thoughts and unruly bodies\, about violence and love\, about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the drag of human being. You won’t be able to look away. You might even recognize yourself.”—Chloe Benjamin\, best-selling author of The Immortalists \n“The Knockout Queen is an intense\, unflinching examination of friendship\, the threads that connect us in such strange ways. Rufi Thorpe navigates this difficult terrain thanks to a masterful use of detail and a wonderfully dark sense of humor that lands at just the right moment. Michael and Bunny are two of the most unique characters I’ve ever met\, drawn with such precision that it’s impossible to leave them behind. This is a hypnotic\, beautiful novel\, and Rufi Thorpe is an unbelievably unique talent.”—Kevin Wilson\, best-selling author of Nothing to See Here \nAbout The Knockout Queen \nA dazzling and darkly comic novel of love\, violence\, and friendship in the California suburbs \nBunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful\, tall\, blond\, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard\, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three\, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams of standing out and competing in the Olympics\, she is desperate to fit in\, to seem normal\, and to get a boyfriend\, all while hiding her father’s escalating alcoholism. Michael has secrets of his own. At home and at school Michael pretends to be straight\, but at night he tries to understand himself by meeting men online for anonymous encounters that both thrill and scare him. When Michael falls in love for the first time\, a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible\, brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunny’s futures⁠⁠—and of their friendship. With storytelling as intoxicating as it is intelligent\, Rufi Thorpe has created a tragic and unflinching portrait of identity\, a fascinating examination of our struggles to exist in our bodies\, and an excruciatingly beautiful story of two humans aching for connection.
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SUMMARY:Deborah Madison\, An Onion in My Pocket
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz to share An Onion in My Pocket\, her warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nThanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, Deborah Madison\, though not a vegetarian herself\, has long been revered as this country’s leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables\, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name\, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest\, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir\, she tells her story—and with it the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse\, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere\, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking\, and a manifesto for how to eat well. \nDEBORAH MADISON\, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz\, is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks\, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. Her books have received four James Beard Foundation awards and five awards from the IACP; in 2016 she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She lives in New Mexico. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 9th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-madison-an-onion-in-my-pocket/
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer and Miah Jeffra to Support Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nAndrew Sean Greer and Miah Jeffra will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through a creative lens. \nAll proceeds benefit Alley Cat Books. Support their GoFundMe now! \n\nApril 22 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.e
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T153000
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SUMMARY:Queer Russophone Poetry: Readings\, Translations\, and Contexts
DESCRIPTION:This exceptional three-part panel opens Globus Books Literary Translation Series at Globus Books YouTube Channel. \nWe present three sets of authors and translators: \nIlya Danishevsky – Alex Karsavin \nLida Yusupova – Hilah Kohen \nOksana Vasyakina – Ainsely Morse \nTranslators discuss a few of the challenges of translating their authors. \nPart II: Spotlight on Translation. \nTranslators discuss a few of the challenges of translating their author. Danishevsky will say a few words about his experience of the (im)(p)act of translation as the translatee. \nPart III: The Social Context \nPanelists will discuss some current trends and issues manifesting in queer Russophone poetry today. \nBios: \nIlya Danishevsky is one of the best-known (and youngest) literary editors in Russia. Formerly in charge of the alternative publishing project Anhedonia at the leading publishing house AST\, Danishevsky writes texts that blur the boundary between poetry and prose\, produces regular literary features for the online edition of the journal Snob\, and curates the literary program at Moscow’s Voznesensky Center. His latest book\, Mannelig in Chains (2018)\, has been translated into Ukrainian and German. \nAlex Karsavin is a translator and writer based in Chicago & New York. They are the translations & poetry editor at H​​omintern m​agazine​\, and occasionally the ​​Zahir Review​.​ Their writing and translations have appeared in ​​The New Inquiry\, Homintern​ and are forthcoming in the ​Columbia Journal. ​In their academic and literary work they explore the channelways in between queer poetics\, Marxism\, and environmental history. They are currently working on their debut collection of poems. \nHilah Kohen is the News Editor of Meduza in English (meduza.io/en)\, the Anglophone edition of a Russian-language news outlet. Kohen’s work on the intersections of Russophone literature and politics can also be found in Music & Literature\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. Her translations of poetry by Lida Yusupova are forthcoming in Nashville Review and a volume published by Cicada Press. \nAinsley Morse teaches at Dartmouth College and translates Russian and former Yugoslav literatures. Recent publications include Permanent Evolution\, a collection of theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov (ASP; edited and translated with Philip Redko)\, Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s “Soviet pastoral” Beyond Tula (ASP)\, and\, with Bela Shayevich\, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin (UDP) and Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See (UDP 2013). \nIn 2019 Anne O. Fisher’s translations included “Monitor-1” by Shura Burtin (winner of the inaugural True Story Award for long-form journalism); “Nervous\,” a one-act play by Julia Lukshina (Asymptote); and poetry and prose by Ilya Danishevsky and Dmitry Kuzmin in the folio Fisher co-edited\, Life Stories\, Death Sentences: Contemporary Russian-Language LGBTQ+ Writing (In Translation). Fisher teaches remotely for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Translation and Interpreting Studies program and is the Vice-President of ALTA (the American Literary Translators Association). \nGlobus Books is an independent bookstore serving San Francisco since 1971. It offers a wide-ranging stock of books on all things Russia. Globus is actively working with the libraries across the states on completing their holdings for Russian publications\, both contemporary and out-of-print. The Globus Books team is well-known for its expertise in first editions of Russian literature\, books on the Russian avant-garde\, early imprints and travel and voyage books. Under the new management\, Globus strives to serve the Bay Area\, bridging gaps\, continuing cultural traditions and giving voice to unrepresented communities in Russia and the US. \nIn the future\, these events will be held at Globus Books store in San Francisco. For now\, we are honored to feature these authors and translators via a Zoom event. Please message us if you want to participate in the Zoom event. Dut to the format and setting\, we will have a limited amount of guests. The panel will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel.
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SUMMARY:Lunada: New Moon Virtual Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:MAJOR LUNADA ANNOUNCEMENT: \nFor two decades\, Lunadas have fortified Bay Area communities on the full moon. On this month’s full moon when the moon is the closest to earth\, also known as the pink moon\, we want to announce the return of Lunada Literary Lounge! \nRecognizing the need to pull together\, Galería de la Raza joins forces with Borderlands Theater and Lunada founder Marc David Pinate\, in a historic collaboration to present an evening of truth-telling and testimonials on the dark side of the moon. In light of the COVID-19 shelter in place order\, for the next literary lounge\, we will host virtually and move the gathering to the new moon – a time for intention setting and realignment. This virtual gathering will featuring the best Latinx poets in the country\, this is an evening of medicine for the heart and spirit. \n*Please note: we acknowledge the open mic as an integral aspect of Lunada tradition\, but\, unfortunately\, due to limited technical capacity and overall logistics in regulating an open mic remotely\, Lunada will only be featuring a curated lineup of poets and performers. We hope we can continue the open mic tradition in the future. \nMark your calendars for Wednesday\, April 22\, 2020 @ 6 p.m. PST. \nFull line up to be announced soon! \nLivestream information will be posted on our Facebook page\, so RSVP\, or follow us to be notified when links are up!
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition#4
DESCRIPTION:Weekly virtual reading series\n3 readers and a community craft talk \nLyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #4\nTime: Apr 22\, 2020 06:30 PM 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-edition4/
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Reading at a Distance / Laura Mullen and Ploi Pirapokin
DESCRIPTION:We’ve partnered with the Headlands Center for the Arts to bring you a series of distanced literary readings with Headlands Artists\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). Join Laura Mullen (AIR ’20) and Ploi Pirapokin (AFF ’17–’20) for the kickoff event of the series on Wednesday\, April 22 at 7PM PST. \nWe’ll be streaming directly to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/booksmith \nWe are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are closed in the interest of public health. \nIf you would like to support us during this difficult time\, you can make donations here now or during the event: http://paypal.me/booksmith \nYou can also buy Laura’s books from us and we’ll deliver them directly to your door:\nhttps://www.booksmith.com/search/site/laura%20mullen \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n— \nThe author of eight books\, Laura Mullen (AIR ’20) is McElveen Professor of English at LSU. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and the Rona Jaffe Award. Her work has been widely anthologized\, and she is the librettist for Nathan Davis’ a Sound Uttered\, a Silence crossed\, commissioned by the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus. Recent poems have appeared in The Nation\, 1111\, Conjunctions\, and Lana Turner. She was the Arons poet at Tulane and affiliate faculty at Stetson University for 2018. Her translation of Veronique Pittolo’s Hero was published in 2019. \nPloi Pirapokin’s work is featured and forthcoming in Tor.com\, The Offing\, Apogee Journal\, the Bellingham Review\, Cleaver Magazine\, and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, the Creative Capacity Fund\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Ragdale Foundation\, Kundiman and others. She holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University and is based in San Francisco. \n— \nHeadlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary\, international arts center occupying a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands\, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Headlands provides an unparalleled environment in support of the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public\, we offer opportunities for reflection\, dialogue\, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. \nBooksmith is an an off-center general interest independent bookstore and legacy business\, a flagship of San Francisco’s Haight Street since 1976. Booksmith is the force behind The Bindery\, a multi-purpose events parlor established in 2017 that features The Arcana Project: a deep\, highly inclusive array of books—fiction and nonfiction\, from all over the world—presented in chronological order by the date they were written. Booksmith also organizes Berkeley Arts & Letters\, an East Bay speaker series since 2009 that features exceptional authors with new books. Between the three programs\, Booksmith produces over 250 events per year. \n— \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-at-a-distance-laura-mullen-and-ploi-pirapokin/
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SUMMARY:Linda Norton & Stephanie Sauer
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Department of UC Davis is pleased to announce the first ever digital-only event in our Creative Writing Reading Series\, featuring Stephanie Sauer and Linda Norton. Broadcast live to wherever you access the world wide web\, two incredible readers will read from their work and also hold a Q&A after their readings. Some information on our exceptional guests is as follows: \nStephanie Sauer is the author of Almonds Are Members of the Peach Family (winner of the 2018 Noemi Press Book Prize in Prose) and The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force (University of Texas Press). Her work has appeared in Drunken Boat\, Verse Daily\, Asymptote\, PRISM International\, So To Speak\, The Florida Review\, Alimentum\, Boom: A Journal of California\, Lavender Review\, In These Times\, and Grain Magazine. She has earned fellowships from Yaddo\, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild\, and won the So To Speak Hybrid Book Award\, two Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission grants\, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Fellowship in Writing\, and the Barbara Deming Award for Nonfiction. She earned her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and is the founding editor of Copilot Press and co-founding editor of A Bolha Editora. She currently teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute. \nLinda Norton is the author of The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer\, 2011; introduction by Fanny Howe) and two chap-books\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome\, 2007) and Dark White (Omerta\, 2019). Wite Out\, her memoir (with poems & lyric essays)\, will be published by Hanging Loose Press in spring 2020. She works as a writing consultant for labor organizers in the Unite Here LEAD Project. Norton was a resident at the Guthrie Centre in Ireland in 2015 and at the Lannan Foundation in Marfa\, Texas\, in the summer of 2002. In 2014\, she was awarded a William Dickey Fellowship at San Francisco State University and a Creative Work Fund award. In 2018\, Norton was awarded a Ucross Foundation residency (with a Whiting Foundation travel grant) in Wyoming. \nThis is an event that is open to the public. If you would like to attend\, simply register using the following link: \nhttp://bit.ly/april22reading \nIn these unprecedented times\, we’re thrilled to offer another opportunity to foster community and intellectual friendship through great literature. We look forward to seeing everyone. \nThe last two (March & April 2020) of Linda’s five posts for SFMoMA’s Open Space included excerpts from Wite Out. They include things that are not in the book\, like pictures and collages. You can find them here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/linda-norton-stephanie-sauer/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Event: R.O. Kwon in conversation with C Pam Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Instagram Live Virtual Book Event event\nR.O. Kwon in conversation with C Pam Zhang author of How Much of These Hills is Gold\nThursday\, April 23rd at 5:00pm\non @greeenapplebooks Instagram Live \nPlease send your questions in advance for C Pam Zhang and R.O. Kwon via direct message to the @greenapplebooks social media (Facebook or Instagram) thank you! \nPraise for How Much of These Hills is Gold\nAvailable at Green Apple Books:\nhttps://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9780525537205 \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”—Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“This exhilarating novel unweaves the myths of the American West and offers in their place a gorgeous\, broken\, soulful\, feral song of family and yearning\, origin and earth. C Pam Zhang is a brilliant\, fearless writer. This book is a wonder.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nAbout How Much of These Hills is Gold \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Sopan Deb with Kabir Akhtar / Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a live-stream with Sopan Deb for his new book Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me. He’ll be in conversation with Kabir Akhtar. \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\nApproaching his 30th birthday\, Sopan Deb had found comfort in his day job as a writer for the New York Times and a practicing comedian. But his stage material highlighting his South Asian culture only served to mask the insecurities borne from his family history. Sure\, Deb knew the facts: his parents\, both Indian\, separately immigrated to North America in the 1960s and 1970s. They were brought together in a volatile and ultimately doomed arranged marriage and raised a family in suburban New Jersey before his father returned to India alone. \nBut Deb had never learned who his parents were as individuals—their ages\, how many siblings they had\, what they were like as children\, what their favorite movies were. Theirs was an ostensibly nuclear family without any of the familial bonds. Coming of age in a mostly white suburban town\, Deb’s alienation led him to seek separation from his family and his culture\, longing for the tight-knit home environment of his white friends. His desire wasn’t rooted in racism or oppression; it was born of envy and desire—for white moms who made after-school snacks and asked his friends about the girls they liked and the teachers they didn’t. Deb yearned for the same. \nDeb’s experiences as one of the few minorities covering the Trump campaign\, and subsequently as a stand up comedian\, propelled him on a dramatic journey to India to see his father—the first step in a life-altering journey to bridge the emotional distance separating him from those whose DNA he shared. Deb had to learn to connect with this man he recognized yet did not know—and eventually breach the silence separating him from his mother. As it beautifully and poignantly chronicles Deb’s odyssey\, Missed Translations raises questions essential to us all: Is it ever too late to pick up the pieces and offer forgiveness? How do we build bridges where there was nothing before—and what happens to us\, to our past and our future\, if we don’t? \n\nSopan Deb is a writer for The New York Times\, as well as a New York City-based stand up comedian. Before joining the Times\, Deb was one of a handful of reporters who covered Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from start to finish as a campaign embed for CBS News. He covered hundreds of rallies in more than 40 states for a year and a half and was named a “breakout media star” of the election by Politico. \nAt The New York Times\, Deb has interviewed high profile subjects such as Denzel Washington\, Stephen Colbert\, the cast of Arrested Development\, Kyrie Irving and Bill Murray. Deb’s work has previously appeared on NBC\, Al Jazeera America and The Boston Globe\, ranging from examining the trek of endangered manatees to following a class of blind filmmakers in Boston led by the former executive producer of Friends. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for a documentary he produced for the Boston Globe called “Larger Than Life\,” which told the story about the NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell’s complicated relationship with the city of Boston. \nKabir Akhtar\, ACE is an Emmy-winning director-editor whose work includes The Academy Awards\, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\, Arrested Development\, and Unsolved Mysteries. \nA three-time Emmy nominee\, Kabir won the award in 2016 for editing the pilot of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\, becoming the first person of color to win in the category. He worked on all 62 episodes of Crazy Ex\, rising from editor to director/producer as the series progressed. Kabir directed twelve episodes of television last year\, including the season finales of the critically acclaimed shows Grown-ish and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series\, the first Disney-branded series on Disney Plus. His new work premiering in 2020 includes episodes of Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix show\, Never Have I Ever. With a passion for musical projects\, Kabir has directed thirty music videos with a combined 13 million Youtube views\, as well as comedy segments of the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmy Awards. \nHe has edited ten pilots which were later picked up\, and has directed the pilot episodes of two series: 8th & Ocean for MTV\, and the relaunched edition of Unsolved Mysteries. Kabir has served as Co-Chair of the Asian-American Committee at the DGA\, and as a Peer Group Executive Committee member at the Television Academy. He has been a featured speaker at many industry events and festivals\, including SXSW. \nHe lives in New York City. Author photo by Amy Lombard. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-sopan-deb-with-kabir-akhtar-missed-translations-meeting-the-immigrant-parents-who-raised-me/
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SUMMARY:Alex Gino & Mike Jung to Support the Multicultural Children’s Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nAlex Gino and Mike Jung will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through a creative lens. \nAll proceeds benefit the Multicultural Children’s Bookstore. Donate to support them now! \n\nApril 24 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/alex-gino-mike-jung-to-support-the-multicultural-childrens-bookstore/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T170000
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CREATED:20200422T221035Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #5 with Brad Crenshaw\, Deb Gorlin\, Anna Citrino
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #5 with Brad Crenshaw\, Deb Gorlin\, and Anna Citrino. This online event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-5-with-brad-crenshaw-deb-gorlin-anna-citrino/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T193000
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CREATED:20200421T060505Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #6
DESCRIPTION:Donate (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 #6\nTime: Apr 24\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/92141723946 \nMeeting ID: 921 4172 3946\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,92141723946# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,92141723946# 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: 921 4172 3946\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-6/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T160000
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SUMMARY:Jason Rezaian In Conversation With Yeganeh Rezaian
DESCRIPTION:Live In Conversation: Saturday\, April 25th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\nJason Rezaian is an Iranian-American journalist who served as Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post. He was convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial in Iran in 2015. \nHis book Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison\, published in January 2019\, details his experience in captivity in Iran. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“If you have goals in life and want to avoid regret\, time with loved ones is best measured in quality\, not quantity”\n– Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-rezaian-in-conversation-with-yeganeh-rezaian/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T190000
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CREATED:20200420T053735Z
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SUMMARY:But Also #23: Gabriel\, Awkward-Rich\, van Dyck\, Wilson & Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:The But Also returns virtually on Saturday\, April 25th featuring Kay Gabriel\, Cameron Awkward-Rich\, Stephen van Dyck\, Claudia Wilson and Paula Mendoza \nKay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. She’s the author of Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 (BOAAT Press\, 2017) and a member of the editorial collective for the Poetry Project Newsletter. With Andrea Abi-Karam she’s co-editing We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\, forthcoming from Nightboat in fall 2020. Find her recent work in the Brooklyn Rail\, Social Text and the LA Review of Books. \nA poet and scholar\, Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry: Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions 2016) and Dispatch (Persea Books\, 2019). His writing has appeared/is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day\, American Quarterly\, Signs\, Science Fiction Studies and elsewhere. Cameron has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, The Watering Hole\, and Duke University’s program in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies. Presently\, he is an assistant professor of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. \nStephen van Dyck’s People I’ve Met From the Internet is a queer\nreimagining of the coming-of-age narrative set at the dawn of the internet era. In 1997\, AOL is first entering suburban homes just as thirteen-year-old Stephen is coming into his sexuality\, constructing selves and cruising in the fantasyscape of the internet. Through strange\, intimate\, and sometimes perilous physical encounters with the hundreds of men he finds there\, Stephen explores the pleasures and pains of growing up\, contends with his mother’s homophobia and early death\, and ultimately searches for a way of being in the world. Spanning twelve years\, the book takes the form of a very long\nannotated list\, tracking Stephen’s journey and the men he meets from adolescence in New Mexico to post-recession adulthood in Los Angeles\, creating a multi-dimensional panorama of gay men’s lives as he searches for glimpses of utopia in the available world. \nCLAUDIA M. WILSON is a poet\, instructor\, & social worker who lives and plays in Amherst\, MA. They have featured at various venues in Ohio & Boston such as Writer’s Block\, Fazenda Queer Reading\, & The Oberon. Claudia’s present work in progress centers embodiment\, familial relationships\, blackness and living in the woods\, and WWF wrestlers from the mid-’80s. Claudia is a TWH & VONA graduate. Their chapbook GROWN was published through Game Over Books Press and is about Claudia’s time in foster care. They study poetry at Umass Amherst and they live with their cat Pablo a.k.a Lil Pooder a.k.a Pooderbutt. They’re originally from Cleveland & Columbus\, Ohio. \nPaula Mendoza earned her MFA at the University of Michigan and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. Her first book\, Play for Time\, winner of the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize\, is due out May 2020. She lives and writes in Salt Lake City\, Utah. \nReading will start at 7pm EST. Zoom link coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/but-also-23-gabriel-awkward-rich-van-dyck-wilson-mendoza/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Be About It Birthday Kitchen
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Naughton (editor of Be About It)\, Amy Berkowitz (host of Amy’s Kitchen)\, and Tyler Vile (birthday celebrant) are teaming up to host an online reading that spans genres and coasts. \nTune in for readings by:\nVenus Selenite\nAngel Dominguez\nTyler Vile\nAmy Long\nAlexandra Naughton\n& more TBA \nWe’ll share a Zoom link as the date approaches.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/be-about-it-birthday-kitchen/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: We've Been Too Patient
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the third event in our Disability Book Series featuring Kelechi Ubozoh and LD Green\, and their recently published book “We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health”. \nIn this turbulent moment\, we at SDA feel that this book and the voices within have much to offer. The urgency of the title speaks to the change we must fight for in all our efforts to create a society that values and respects the inherent worth of all our lives. Reserve your spot for free at the ticket link above to get the information for the Zoom. You do not need to have read the book to participate! \nKelechi and LD will be sharing timely readings from the book and fostering discussion. They feel their experience with their own mental health has given them each heightened capacity to navigate a shifting world with resilience and grace. We’re looking forward to a community discussion on mental health\, surviving and thriving\, and fostering mutual aid during this time of change. \nMore information about the book can be found here: www.wevebeentoopatient.org and the eventbrite registration can be accessed here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weve-been-too-patient-voices-from-radical-mental-health-tickets-101932284206?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch. \nAccessibility\nFor any accessibility needs\, please contact Peter at (415) 546-1333 ext 309 or peter@sdaction.org. Updates on our protocol will be posted here. \nAbout Kelechi Ubozoh\nKelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American singer\, writer\, and mental health advocate. Originally from Brooklyn\, New York\, Kelechi holds a BA in journalism from Purchase College\, and was the first undergraduate ever published in The New York Times. Recently\, Kelechi was featured in the SAMSHA Voice Award-Winning documentary\, The S Word\, which follow the lives of suicide attempt survivors in an effort to end the stigma and silence around suicide. Previously\, Kelechi supervised stigma discrimination reduction programs and led communication operations at a mental health non-profit organization\, PEERS\, including a mental health stigma reduction research program for Chinese mental health consumers where she partnered with Dr. Larry Yang and Columbia University. She also was the lead project coordinator in a California Mental Health Service Act funded statewide project\, where she applied evidence-based research from working with Dr. Patrick Corrigan to train speakers’ bureau on how to share targeted mental health recovery stories across 41 California counties. When she isn’t working she runs a Bay Area quarterly\, submission-based reading series called MoonDrop Productions\, and performs at literary readings across the Bay. Her work was recently published in an Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers & Artists of Color\, called Endangered Species\, Enduring Values from Pease Press. https://kelechiubozoh.wordpress.com/ \nAbout L.D. Green\nL.D. Green is an artivist: a genderqueer writer\, performer\, college educator\, and mental health advocate living in Oakland\, California. Their work has been published on Salon\, The Body is Not an Apology webzine\, in Sinister Wisdom\, Foglifter\, sPARKLE + bLINK\, on truth-out.org and elsewhere. They have featured at dozens of reading series\, slams\, showcases\, and workshops in schools\, colleges\, and open mics locally and across the country. LD was on two national slam teams in 2004 and 2005. As a playwright and writer/performer\, they have had their work performed at multiple local and national theater festivals including the National Queer Arts Festival three times as well as the San Francisco Fringe Festival. LD received their BA from Vassar College and their MFA from Mills College in Creative Writing. They were a 2010 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. They attended Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and was a Catwalk Artist in Residence in 2013. LD is a long-time advocate of radical\, critical pedagogy and applies this to their classrooms and theater work. LD is Assistant Professor of English at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg\, California where they teach composition\, creative writing\, and literature. LD was an active member of The Icarus Project from 2009-2011 and has presented with Youth in Mind and the California Mental Health Advocates for Children and Youth. LD writes poetry\, plays\, speculative fiction and non-fiction. They were waitlisted for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in 2018. For more information\, visit https://www.ldgreen.org/ \nAbout the Disability Book Series\nThe intent of this book reading series is to highlight authors with disabilities\, disabled writers\, and to interrogate ableism and societal conceptions of disability. As we recognize the 30th anniversary of the ADA this year\, we are working to bring together a broad set of perspectives on disability\, disability rights\, and disability justice. \nWe welcome any and all suggestions for future authors\, free venues in San Francisco\, and feedback as to how our events can be more accessible\, inclusive\, or generally better.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reading-weve-been-too-patient/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A Virtual Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SNS ONLINE – Please sign up in advance to read \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts one week in advance (open now) and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts. \nTo sign up\, please email holliehardy@gmail.com \nApril featured writers: Rebecca Foust & Halim Madi \nApril theme: Scandal\, “an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.” Whether it’s the short skirt your mom wore\, or the shocking things your dad said\, something Voldemort tweeted\, or maybe it was that thing you did – we want to know! Write it down and sign up to read at SNS’s very first virtual open mic on ZOOM. \nShare your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nSaturday\, April 25\, 2020\n7 – 9 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nZoom info: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91963727704 \nPassword: 585677 \niPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,91963727704# \nTelephone: +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) \nMeeting ID: 919 6372 7704 \nBIOS \nRebecca Foust’s books include The Unexploded Ordnance Bin (2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award) and Paradise Drive (Press 53 Poetry Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement\, Washington Review of Books\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere and in literary journals including the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. Recognitions include the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes\, and fellowships from The Frost Place\, Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Foust was Marin County Poet Laureate in 2017-19 and works now as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change\, an assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine\, and co-producer of a new series about poetry for Marin TV\, Rising Voices. \nHalim Madi grew up in Beirut\, Lebanon. He left at 17 to study in Paris. Worked in London and Sao Paulo. And eventually landed in San Francisco. He fundraised money from friends to write a book called “Flight of the Jaguar” last year. Then actually wrote it and sent it to his friends. Recently he took his friend’s money again to write a book called “In the Name of Scandal.” He’s working on getting that one out. You can find his work on his website halimmadi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-virtual-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... ONLINE! - THE NEW YORK EDITION
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nTHE NEW YORK EDITION for the East Coast Time Zone\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. \nSaturday\, April 25th\nVirtual Doors at 7pm EASTERN\nShow at 7:30pm EASTERN\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2xx3WDe \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: @YG-2D\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 gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – 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…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online-the-new-york-edition/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T160000
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: UPDATE – the April 26 Silent Book Club meetup will take place online. \nFor the health and safety of our community and out of respect to the social distancing measures enacted in San Francisco\, we will be canceling the in-person meeting of Silent Book Club SF. Instead\, we will be hosting a group video chat from 4-4:30pm. We’d love to see your faces\, hear your voices\, and learn about what you’re reading. \nPlease stay tuned to the Facebook event for a link to join the virtual meetup on April 26. \nNote: You’ll need to download the Zoom video app for your computer or mobile device prior to the meetup. You can find a free version at zoom.us \nQuestions? Please email guinevere@silentbook.club. Thanks! \n\nBring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-silent-book-club-sf/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T180000
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SUMMARY:We Are The Voices Presents: Social Listening w/ MK Chavez + More
DESCRIPTION:We Are The Voices Presents: SOCIAL LISTENING\nSocial Listening is a new series of virtual readings from local artists. \nReserve your spot here through eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-the-voices-presents-social-listening-with-mk-chavez-more-tickets-103398327180 \nTo wrap up National Poetry Month\, we have the honor of hosting MK Chavez\, Maw Shein Win\, and Dena Rod. \nEach guest will be doing a reading along with a brief Q&A afterwards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-voices-presents-social-listening-w-mk-chavez-more/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200427T203000
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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-6/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200428T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200428T200000
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SUMMARY:Queer Your Darlings Zoom Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with a reading of our li’l poetry writing group\, Queer Your Darlings. 7pm April 28\, 2020 on Zoom–just click this link to join: https://sjsu.zoom.us/j/385485173 \nTiff Dressen lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary (https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Astral-Bestiary-Tiff-Dressen/dp/1889098132)\, a (slender) full-length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019\, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time\, they enjoy urban flâneuring\, chasing their cats in the backyard\, and setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book. \nMichael Tod Edgerton is the author of Vitreous Hide (Lavender Ink: https://www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/vitreous-hide/?v=76cb0a18730b). His poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Coconut\, Denver Quarterly\, Drunken Boat\, EOAGH\, Interim\, New American Writing\, Posit\, and Sonora Review\, among other journals. He holds an MFA from Brown University and a PhD from the University of Georgia. He teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University and lives with his husband in San Francisco. More info can be found on his website at https://michaeltodedgerton.blogspot.com/ \nMegan Breiseth is the author of the chapbook Zia (Mrs. Maybe Press)\, co-author of the chapbook the longer you stay here (Featherboard) and a full-length manuscript-in-progress. She works in higher ed and lives in Alameda\, CA with her wife\, son\, and cats. \nAlexandra Mattraw is the author of small siren and We fell into weather (Cultural Society\, 2018 and March 2020\, respectively)\, as well as several chapbooks\, including flood psalm (Dancing Girl Press\, 2017). A mother\, critic\, and ecofeminist\, her poems and reviews have appeared in places including Denver Quarterly\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, and The Volta. In San Francisco\, she curates a reading and performance series called Lone Glen. Consider her books\, and Zoom release events\, set for 11 April and 21 April\, at https://alexandramattraw.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-your-darlings-zoom-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T163346
CREATED:20200406T024925Z
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SUMMARY:Myriam Gurba and Juli Delgado Lopera to Support Dog-Eared Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nMyriam Gurba and Juli Delgado Lopera will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through a creative lens. \nAll proceeds benefit Dog-Eared Books. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nApril 29 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/myriam-gurba-and-juli-delgado-lopera-to-support-dog-eared-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T170000
DTSTAMP:20260526T163346
CREATED:20200428T195316Z
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SUMMARY:Marga & Friends: HIGH TEA
DESCRIPTION:Join Marga’s zoom HIGH TEA – it’s Downton Abbey meets The View meets Cheech & Chong! Different cast every week. FREE with registration.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nRegister now and recieve your log in details. Please only register if you are sure you will attend. The show runs 50 minutes. \nWed. April 29th at 4pm PDT Marga welcomes Alia Volz\, author of the new memoir “Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \nAlso appearing\, comedian Diane Amos (AKA ‘The Pine Sol Lady’) Christian Cagigal (five-time winner of SF Bay Guardian’s “Best Magician” award) jazz and gospel pianist Tammy L. Hall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marga-friends-high-tea/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T163346
CREATED:20200423T154408Z
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SUMMARY:Rhapsody in Alchemy Creative Salon: Love in the Time of Corona
DESCRIPTION:So excited to be bringing this event online for the first time and open up participation to friends outside of SF! Join us for an evening of musical performances\, readings\, reflection and connection. How does love show up in our lives during these trying times of fear and uncertainty? In what ways can we cultivate more love and compassion for ourselves? Where are you finding silver linings? \nFeaturing songs by:\nLiam McCormick (The Family Crest)\nJesse Nolan (Caught A Ghost)\nSarah Margaret Huff (JEMS)\nZachary Murdock (Channel the Sun)\nAn-Nhien Le (The Who Cares)\nAbstract Rude\nSasha Bayan\nRemy Vale\n\nWriting by:\nAllyson Darling + Suzy Lambert\nPeter Thomas\nKar Johson\nAri Moskowitz\nDanielle Dennis\nHale May \nStay tuned for a private zoom link and be safe out there loves ❤️
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhapsody-in-alchemy-creative-salon-love-in-the-time-of-corona/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T130000
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SUMMARY:Surviving the Pandemic: The Future of Local Media
DESCRIPTION:As advertisers pull back and publications lay off or furlough journalists\, how will the local news media survive the COVID-19 pandemic? \nIn Part II of an online series on news media during the public health crisis\, experts will discuss news media challenges facing community journalism before and during the crisis and how the future will require more diverse and sustainable business models that don’t rely exclusively on advertising. \nThe panel includes: \nMartin Reynolds\, co-executive director of the Maynard Institute and director of the Reveal Investigative Fellowships from the Center for Investigative Reporting \nMichael Stoll\, executive director\, San Francisco Public Press \nThe discussion will be moderated by Gina Baleria\, assistant professor of communications & media studies at Sonoma State University\, and host of the new podcast “News in Context\,” that explores media bias and how information is delivered and consumed. It airs on KSFP 102.5 FM Fridays at 8:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. \nYou must RSVP. Zoom details will be included in the “Additional Information” section in your confirmation email. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/surviving-the-pandemic-the-future-of-local-media/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T173000
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CREATED:20200428T193813Z
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Rebecca Skloot with HOME BAKED on Instagram Live
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Instagram Live @SquareBooks for a virtual event with Alia Volz and Rebecca Skloot (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) on Thursday\, April 30th at 5:30 PM CST. \nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \nAbout the Author \nALIA VOLZ is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-rebecca-skloot-with-home-baked-on-instagram-live/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T183000
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CREATED:20200424T011056Z
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SUMMARY:Shelter in Poems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Shelter in Poems: a virtual reading of uplifting poems to bring us together.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIn this unprecedented time\, as more and more of us are turning to poetry\, the Academy of American Poets launched Shelter in Poems\, an initiative that invites poets and poetry lovers to share poems on social media that give them comfort or courage. \nShelter in Poems: A Virtual Reading extends this idea with a special offering of poems read by poets laureate\, actors\, musicians\, artists\, and more. \nThe evening will include poems presented by: \nElizabeth Alexander \nSam Beam \nRichard Blanco \nJulia Bullock \nMarilyn Chin \nRita Dove \nPatrick Gaspard \nAmanda Gorman \nJoy Harjo \nJuan Felipe Herrera \nEdward Hirsch \nStephin Merritt \nMaulik Pancholy \nAlison Pill \nDan Rather \nAlberto Ríos \nMustafa Shakir \nNaomi Shihab Nye \nLorna Simpson \nAmber Tamblyn \nand other special guests. \n\n\n\nThe event will raise funds to support our free publications and programs\, including our K–12 education program. \nAs National Poetry Month comes to a close\, many of us will have weathered a month of solitude in an act of solidarity to protect each other. During these weeks\, poetry has brought us all closer together\, even as we remain physically apart. \nWe look forward to sharing an evening of poetry with you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shelter-in-poems/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T170000
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SUMMARY:We Are The Voices Presents:::::: Social Listening
DESCRIPTION:We Are The Voices Presents::::::\nSOCIAL LISTENING \nA series of virtual readings by local artists \nThis Thursday (4/30)\, we have our next reading in our series of virtual readings done by artists here in Oakland and surrounding Bay Area. Now is the time to maintain a connection with our community as we shelter in place. \nFor our second event\, THIS THURSDAY\, we have Juliana Spahr\, Cecily Nicholson\, and Wendy Trevino! \nOur virtual reading will be held on Zoom!\nNo tickets are necessary! Simply go to this link: https://bit.ly/2y5C9dd\, at the start of our event and be let through our virtual waiting room once we begin! \n*** “Tickets” section is the same link to use on the day of the event! \nEnjoy these readings from the comfort of your own home. \nWe hope you can join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-voices-presents-social-listening/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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