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SUMMARY:Take Place: SFSU Reading Series & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Virtual Reading with Masha Aleskovski & Angel Johnson\nJoin us for our second virtual reading! We had a blast last time. As the sun set in our respective homes\, we heard from many writers on how they are coping and continuing to find joy in their craft. Let’s do it again! For our open mic portion\, we’d love to hear work that has sustained you during this time – written by you or others. \nFor Passcode\, Zoom link\, & open mic sign-up\, please email takeplacereadings@gmail.com \nWHEN: Thursday\, April 30 @ 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.\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: Masha Aleskovski & Angel Johnson
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : One Last Thing
DESCRIPTION:What was the last thing you did before quarantine? Or what do you consider the last thing? Who was the last person you saw in your house who didn’t already live there? \nTo celebrate the release of Miah Jeffra’s new book –\nThe Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! – we’ll be gathering a host of writers to talk about what it is they remember. That one last thing. \nFacebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/162763408426685/ \nBring your own free beer. \nThe Readers: \nMiah Jeffra\nAbe Becker\nDanielle Truppi\nKimberly Gomes\nPaolo Bicchieri
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SUMMARY:Bob Shea To Support Charlie’s Corner
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nAward-winning children’s author Bob Shea will read via video conference from his work. This is the perfect break for parents and children ages 4-8. \nAll proceeds benefit Charlie’s Corner. 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/bob-shea-to-support-charlies-corner/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME: \nFriday\, May 1\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nLOCATION:  \nOnline\nhttps://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vpIodOGgpzsvFenKBZqv9D_MiH5zQ9SndA \nDESCRIPTION: \nTHE TRANSLATED WORLD: CRAFTING GLOBAL POETRY INTO DYNAMIC ENGLISH \nPoet Cyrus Cassells will draw on his experience as a translator of Catalan and Italian literature to discuss the challenges and craft of turning global poetry into dynamic English versions that convey the essence of the originals\, stressing the importance of translation as a vital means of transmitting world history and culture. \nCyrus Cassells is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry and two books translated from the Catalan\, Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas and To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, which is forthcoming in 2021. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow\, he has also received a Lannan Literary Award\, a Lambda Literary Award\, two NEA grants\, and a Pushcart Prize. \n 
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SUMMARY:Release of Emerson Whitney's HEAVEN\, with Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:1Emerson Whitney will be reading from Heaven\, followed by a conversation with Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart. Join the conversation and help us celebrate this beautiful book. \nJoin on McSweeney’s Instagram Live this Friday\, May 1st. at 4pm PST/7pm ET for the digital release of Heaven. \nNamed a best book by the AV Club\, PAPER\, Literary Hub\, Refinery29\, Ms. Magazine\, Chicago Review of Books\, the Observer\, and the Seattle Times.\n\nRead an exclusive excerpt from Heaven published by The Paris Review. \nEmerson Whitney writes\, “Really\, I can’t explain myself without making a mess.” What follows is that mess—electrifying\, gorgeous\, defiant. \nAt Heaven’s center\, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother\, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant\, psychedelic prose—all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler\, Donna Haraway\, and C. Riley Snorton—to engage transness and the breathing\, morphing nature of selfhood. \nAn expansive examination of what makes us up\, Heaven wonders what role our childhood plays in who we are. Can we escape the discussion of causality? Is the story of our body just ours? With extraordinary emotional force\, Whitney sways between theory and memory in order to explore these brazen questions and write this unforgettable book. \nOrder the book HERE \nPraise for Heaven“An incisive\, nuanced inquiry into gender and body.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Melodic and engagingly written\, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once.”\n—Literary Hub \n“Emerson Whitney’s first prose book is a frank and absorbing examination of transness\, brokenness\, mothering\, femininity\, embodiment and truth.”\n—Ms. Magazine \n“(W)hat Heaven does best is capture the disorienting pull of unsettling childhood memories—at once incomplete and terribly weighted.”\n—AV Club \nOne of the Observer’s Best Books of Spring \n“Heaven is an unflinching personal examination of family and identity\, bearing witness to what it means to live life on one’s own terms.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“A gripping memoir whose sentences are akin to a skipped heartbeat”\n—PAPER \n“(U)tterly hypnotic… a gorgeous book that feels like a painting”\n—The Seattle Times \n“Whitney weaves (the) various strands into a powerful\, ground-breaking account of growing up and figuring out one’s relationship to oneself and the world.”\n—Book Riot \n“Heaven delves into deep memory and deep thinking to offer an ‘account of oneself’ that questions\, if not upends\, the very idea of such a thing at every turn. The result is a poetic\, candid\, probing reckoning with childhood\, the maternal\, gender\, and the possibilities of theory which will both speak to its time and outlast it.”\n—Maggie Nelson\, author Bluets and The Argonauts \n“Emerson has written a story about Mommy and me but mainly they’re extending to us a forceful act of writing in defense of the self that is taking pictures\, running away—eyes full of tears\, then pirouetting\, and standing their ground to tell us this colossally wonderful and woefully broken story”\n—Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls and I Must Be Living Twice \n“Heaven is the book of deepest affections\, a harrowing book\, a bewitched book. Composed in a style of a bird-nest\, Heaven weaves together multiple threads of conversation with self and with brilliant voices of others\, as different as Lacan and Jos Charles\, Allen Ginsberg and Michael Ondaatje. One can’t help but be moved by this compelling record\, this book of hours for pain made utterly beautiful by its author’s patient meditation on childhood and gender\, motherhood and sorrow.”\n—Ilya Kaminksy\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Heaven goes down like a strong elixir… I can still feel its heat swirling through me.”\n—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Heaven\, although prose\, is poetry. The language is tender and present. The word performs connection and recovery… Theory from such thinkers as Butler\, Foucault\, Freud\, Haraway\, Irigaray\, and Lacan are broken down to its lived practical parts and brought back into common parlance\, brought in relation to the etymology that is Whitney’s becoming.”\n—Arisa White\, author of You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened \n“Elegantly poetic\, beautiful\, brutal\, and wise… Heaven is a wonder.”\n—Michelle Tea\, author of Valencia and Modern Tarot \n“Someone asked me recently if I ever imagine writing from today that has the strength to remain in print centuries from now. ‘Yes\, I do\,’ I said\, and told them about a book by Emerson Whitney called Heaven. Every page is beautifully written\, pitch-perfect harrowing\, but maybe more important is how it changes many things we thought we understood about life. Hundreds of years from now\, readers can better appreciate this time and this nation through Emerson Whitney’s extraordinary lens\, where they write\, ‘The history of categorization around disability in the United States was always about social control.’”\n—CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Exploring and exploding gender\, language\, desire\, this book is necessary reading for anyone who’s used language\, who has had a mother\, who has a body at all.”\n—Sam Sax\, author of Madness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-of-emerson-whitneys-heaven-with-melissa-febos/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ignatian Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Great news! Not only will the Ignatian still be hosting a release party for this year’s issue\, but it will be a virtual event so that contributors and readers from all over the world can participate! Save the date for May 1 at 5 pm PST and keep your eyes peeled for the Zoom link to come! If you have any questions\, feel free to dm us. We hope to “see” you all there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ignatian-release-party/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #6 with Chuck Atkinson\, Barbara Bloom\, Dane Cervine
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #6 with Chuck Atkinson\, Barbara Bloom\, Dane Cervine 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-6-with-chuck-atkinson-barbara-bloom-dane-cervine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T180000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #7
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nAll forms of your support matter. One of those forms is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If you can swing it in these tough times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2-tickets-100581457848;\nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \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 SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #7\nTime: May 1\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84688309997 \nMeeting ID: 846 8830 9997\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,84688309997# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84688309997# 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: 846 8830 9997\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kl5oWFfom
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-7/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T190000
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SUMMARY:Vote At Home with Amber McReynolds and Jesse Wegman
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Ian Haney Lopez\nProgram will air Friday May 1st\, 7:00 PM PST \nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut \nAs highlighted by urgent op-eds and leading journalists\, the November 2020 election will be disrupted\, perhaps severely\, by the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s a secure and well-studied solution available: voting by mail\, which promises to protect public health and the integrity of our democracy. What are the pathways to making vote-by-mail widely available? What are the challenges? Who implements this kind of policy change\, and where? And\, with the most consequential election of our lifetimes less than six months away\, how can citizens organize to push for this bipartisan mandate and actually get results within an urgent timeframe? \nJesse Wegman has written about the Supreme Court and legal affairs for the New York Times editorial board since 2013\, and his book Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College was praised by National Book Award winner and MacArthur fellow Annette Gordon-Reed as a “timely and erudite work that should interest all who are interested in the future of the United States.” He’s joined by Amber McReynolds\, CEO for the National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition and co-author of When Women Vote. These nationally recognized experts on voting rights\, the Constitution\, and electoral law engage in a spirited and forward-looking conversation moderated by Ian Haney Lopez\, author of Merge Left\, which astutely examines the role of coded racism in contemporary political campaigns. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \nRecommended Reading\nAmber McReynolds\, When Women Vote\nJesse Wegman\, et the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.\nIan Haney Lopez\, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vote-at-home-with-amber-mcreynolds-and-jesse-wegman/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Segue: Steven Seidenberg & Darcie Dennigan
DESCRIPTION:This Saturday! A reading that shall knock the very hills into the sea\, by Darcie Dennigan & Steven Seidenberg! \nDarcie Dennigan is a poet & playwright in Providence\, RI who explores otherworldliness & female absurdists. Her books include Slater Orchard (FC2)\, The Parking Lot and Other Feral Scenarios (Fofklift)\, & Madame X (Canarium). \nSteven Seidenberg is the author of plain sight (Roof Books)\, Situ (Black Sun Lit)\, Null Set (Spooky Actions Books)\, & Itch (RAW ArT Press). His collections of photographs include Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press) & Imaging Failure: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South (Contrasto). \nThe link to join is https://zoom.us/j/378232567.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/segue-steven-seidenberg-darcie-dennigan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Livestream Reading--Donald Revell\, Joseph Lease\, David Blair
DESCRIPTION:Livestream reading via ZOOM/Facebook–Donald Revell\, Joseph Lease\, David Blair\, reading from Nevada\, California & Massachusetts. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/LitBalm/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/livestream-reading-donald-revell-joseph-lease-david-blair/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Two-Way Mirror reading: Relic by Elizabeth Costello
DESCRIPTION:Join Two-Way Mirror Books for pre-release online event celebrating RELIC\, the new chapbook by Elizabeth Costello\n\nwith:\nMarina Lazzara\nJess Rowland\nStephanie Baker\nAva Koohbor\nMary Peelen\nElizabeth Costello\n\n\nTime: Saturday\, May 2\, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\, 9:30 ET\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88087081525?pwd=MSt1V2M4TUpUb3NKWXhXSVFadFh3UT09\n\nMeeting ID: 880 8708 1525\nPassword: 129348\n\nPLEASE NOTE THERE IS A PASSWORD!!\n\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,88087081525#\,\,#\,129348# US (San Jose)\n+14086380968\,\,88087081525#\,\,#\,129348# US (San Jose)\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n        +1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 646 876 9923 US (New York)\n        +1 253 215 8782 US\n        +1 301 715 8592 US\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 880 8708 1525\nPassword: 129348\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kecZgzUfQF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-way-mirror-reading-relic-by-elizabeth-costello/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: An Evening with Mikel Jollett / Hollywood Park
DESCRIPTION:Join Mikel Jollett on his Hollywoord Park book tour: an exclusive\, online event series. Mikel will discuss his remarkable life story\, perform exclusive material from the new album\, Hollywood Park\, and have a Q&A with the audience. Tickets will support your local indie bookstore and include a signed copy of the book. Private links will be emailed the day of the event. \n \nAll tickets include one single-use login and one copy of Hollywood Park to be received via direct mail in late May. We will be emailing you for your shipping address once you buy your ticket. \n\nWe were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts\, visiting us for a morning\, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds\, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they’d disappear again\, for weeks\, for months\, for years\, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams\, our questions and confusion … \nSo begins Hollywood Park\, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California\, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon\, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults.  Per the leader’s mandate\, all children\, including Jollett and his older brother\, were separated from their parents when they were six months old\, and handed over to the cult’s “School.”  After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage\, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother.  But in many ways\, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. \nIn his raw\, poetic and powerful voice\, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty\, trauma\, emotional abuse\, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol.  Raised by a clinically depressed\, narcissistic mother\, tormented by his angry older brother\, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father\, a former heroin addict and ex-con\, Jollett slowly\, often painfully\, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and\, eventually\, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. \nHollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child\, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett’s story is filled with heartbreak\, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal. \n\nMikel Jollett is the frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Prior to forming the band\, Jollett graduated with honors from Stanford University. He was an on-air columnist for NPR’s All Things Considered\, an editor-at-large for Men’s Health and an editor at Filter magazine. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s.  \n\nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nRSVP is not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-an-evening-with-mikel-jollett-hollywood-park/
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SUMMARY:Coming Together When Things Fall Apart: Giving Voice to Emotional Truth in our Times
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Anthony Doerr\, Pulitzer Prize winning author of All the Light We Cannot See and The Shell Collector; R.O. Kwon\, bestselling author of The Incendiaries; and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees. Moderated by Danielle Evans\, Hurston-Wright Award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and the forthcoming The Office of Historical Corrections \nLive conversation with audience engagement\nTICKETED EVENT (fundraiser) — VERY LIMITED SPACE!\nSaturday May 2nd\, 7:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nGet your tickets to this special event\n\n\n\n\nThis event is for everyone who’s ever been moved by a writer’s uncanny gift for describing the indescribable: a gift that makes us feel seen and understood in all our complexity. It’s a gift we need now\, more than ever. A novelist’s stock in trade is plumbing the emotional landscape of characters experiencing freefall\, upheaval\, uncertainty—just as all of us are experiencing\, in some measure\, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the overwhelming emotions of this current moment render us speechless\, who better to break the silence and put words to complicated feelings than some of contemporary literature’s most groundbreaking\, humane\, and breathtaking voices? \nAcclaimed novelist R.O. Kwon’s transcendent New York Times essay about grief in lockdown was the inspiration for this conversation. Joining her are Anthony Doerr\, whose blockbuster World War II novel All the Light We Cannot See illuminates the ways\, against all odds\, people try to be good to one another; and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, whose witty\, exquisite The Sympathizer captures the ambivalence and humanity of “a man of two minds” in the midst of a traumatic war. Moderated by award-winning author Danielle Evans\, who recently penned a beautiful essay about sheltering-in-place for The Sewanee Review’s “Corona Correspondences” series. \nThis ticketed live event\, a fundraiser for the Bay Area Book Festival\, will take us beyond the headlines and tweets into a raw\, cathartic conversation about navigating lockdown\, loss\, and massive change. In the midst of this strange time\, an hour of deep connection can bring hope and courage to us all. . \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Doerr\, All the Light We Cannot See\nR.O. Kwon\, The Incendiaries\nViet Thanh Nguyen\, The Sympathizer\nDanielle Evans\, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/coming-together-when-things-fall-apart-giving-voice-to-emotional-truth-in-our-times/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T113000
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SUMMARY:My Shadow is My Skin virtual book reading
DESCRIPTION:My Shadow is My Skin (University of Texas Press) is a new nonfiction anthology exploring the meaning of being Iranian-American. The collection brings together thirty-two authors\, both established and emerging\, whose writing captures the diversity of of Iranian diasporic experiences. Six contributors (Mandana Chaffa\, Leila Emery\, Katherine Whitney\, Dena Rod\, Shideh Etaat\, and Siamak Vossoughi) will be sharing work from their pieces as part of an online reading at 10 am PST/12 noon CST on Sunday\, May 3rd. The authors welcome all listeners interested in taking part in this effort to tell our own stories with the hope of better understanding our place in the world.\nZoom link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/827869707
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-shadow-is-my-skin-virtual-book-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T140000
DTSTAMP:20260526T170410
CREATED:20200427T195704Z
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SUMMARY:PCSJ Appreciation Party
DESCRIPTION:A special on-line reading featuring Connie Post and Kelly Grace Thomas\nopen mic to follow!\nREGISTER HERE FOR LINK (Free) \nThis is a special event featured every Spring to bring together and thank Poetry Center San Jose members\, friends\, partners and general community for the continued support of PCSJ. Join us via Zoom. Tickets are free. Zoom registration will be emailed to all registrants. Sign-up for the open mic is first come\, first served.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pcsj-appreciation-party/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T160000
DTSTAMP:20260526T170410
CREATED:20200424T211226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200424T211237Z
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SUMMARY:Write Now! SF Bay Presents: “Stand Up and Be Counted”
DESCRIPTION:.Interactive reading on Creativity and Activism by 30 Bay Area writers of color and allies. Health care providers\, educators\, and community activists will share prose and poetry on how they are responding to COVID-19. Following the reading\, the audience can join a guided discussion. For Zoom link\, register by clicking on “Find tickets” at this page: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/161388931713355/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-now-sf-bay-presents-stand-up-and-be-counted/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Write Now SF Bay":MAILTO:writenowsf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260526T170410
CREATED:20200427T194430Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon goes virtual!\nSunday\, May 3rd\, 6:00 p.m.\nReadings by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain\, Jennifer Lewis\, and Kendra Tanacea\nHosted by Peter Kline \n\nFull details coming soon – please stay tuned!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-bazaar-writers-salon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T200000
DTSTAMP:20260526T170410
CREATED:20200430T202540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T202540Z
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SUMMARY:Shedding Light\, Vanquishing Fear: End-of-Life Planning with the Experts: BJ Miller\, MD\, Katy Butler\, and Shoshana Berger
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Sunita Puri\, MD\nProgram will air Sunday May 3rd\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn a time where COVID-19 looms over us all\, difficult conversations about death have become a very real part of life. But from living rooms to hospital rooms\, there’s widespread resistance to delving into this important topic that touches us all. We tend to perceive death as too scary\, too ugly\, too overwhelming to acknowledge—let alone something to approach in a peaceful\, prepared way. In this informative\, enlightening\, and truly comforting discussion\, four remarkable experts show families and individuals how to take a clear-eyed\, compassionate approach to mortality\, one’s own and that of loved ones. These authors shed light on how medical providers and patients alike can reshape the mentality of fear around the process of dying and create a much better experience for all\, one that can be transformative and extremely meaningful. By exercising agency in planning for the “best possible death\,” we can create our best possible life. \nThis revelatory conversation features journalist Shoshana Berger and palliative care physician BJ Miller\, co-authors of A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\, praised by The Washington Post as “a gentle\, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share.” They are joined by award-winning journalist and bestselling writer Katy Butler\, author of two groundbreaking books about the end of life: Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, the Path to a Better Way of Death\, and her latest\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\, hailed as “a roadmap to the end” that “combines medical\, practical\, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe). Moderated by Dr. Sunita Puri\, whose memoir That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour is a “profound exploration for what it means for all of us to live—and to die—with dignity and purpose” (People Magazine). Dr. Puri is currently on the frontlines working with COVID-19 patients as the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShoshana Berger and BJ Miller\, A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\nKaty Butler\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\nSunita Puri\, MD\, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shedding-light-vanquishing-fear-end-of-life-planning-with-the-experts-bj-miller-md-katy-butler-and-shoshana-berger/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T170410
CREATED:20200323T055605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200329T192600Z
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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-7/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T203000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Quiet Lightning!
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Quiet Lightning\, Monday May 4\, 2020\nWe’ll be streaming at this link.\nDoors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. \nOther ways to connect:\nMeeting ID: 878 0959 2323\nOne tap mobile +16699006833\,\,87809592323# US (San Jose) +13462487799\,\,87809592323# US (Houston)\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kct9uk0fdb \nPlease note: we have a capacity of 100 people\, so if you want to make sure you can join\, don’t be late! We’ll be letting people in at 7pm and expect the readings to start at 7:15pm. \nFree and all ages\, with mature content\, featuring: \nRonny Kerr » Joe Donohoe » Keith Mark Gaboury » Jon Bennett » Cynthia Darling » Leigh Lucas » Nick Martino » Sage Curtis » Diana Donovan » Daniel Lucas » Danielle Bero » Allison Landa » Minna Dubin » Jon Bennett » Leigh Lucas » Robyn Carter » Danielle Bero » Benjamin Gucciardi \nAll selected authors will be paid + published in sPARKLE & bLINK 105\, featuring cover art by Livien Yin! \nCurated by Katie Tandy and Lauren Rosenfield \nIf you’d like a copy of the book\, donate $15 or more and we’ll send you this issue plus a surprise back issue directly to your door. As always\, we will post the full text and videos online shortly after the reading. But if you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are three easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation through Paypal or Venmo | Support us on Patreon \n— \n\nFeatured image: Bedroom by Livien Yin | http://livienyin.com\n2015\, gouache on paper\, 16″ x 12″
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-quiet-lightning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200505T200000
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SUMMARY:Queens of Mystery: Writer to Writer with Meg Gardiner and Rachel Howzell Hall
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Laurie King\nProgram will air Tuesday May 5th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegistration (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\n“Suspense is like a woman\,” said Hitchcock. “The more left to the imagination\, the more the excitement.” Well\, these two women are coming for Hitchcock’s crown with some of the most spine-tingling\, sophisticated thrillers being written today. Meg Gardiner\, bestselling novelist and president of Mystery Writers of America\, was fittingly called “Hitchcockian” by USA Today. She specializes in heroines with big brains\, from FBI agents to forensic psychiatrists to firecracker journalists (Stephen King called her Evan Delaney novels “the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years”). And Rachel Howzell Hall\, author of the Detective Elouise Norton series\, has created an unforgettable protagonist described by The New York Times as “someone you want on your side.” Hall’s newest\, which ABC News calls her “breakout novel\,” is They all Fall Down\, a wickedly clever mystery set on a pristine—and deadly—island paradise in Mexico. \nListen to these two leading ladies of suspense as they crack the case of how to make readers stay up all night. Moderated by Laurie King\, an Edgar Award-winning author of detective fiction and President of the Northern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeg Gardiner\, The Dark Corners of the Night\nRachel Howzell Hall\, They All Fall Down\nLaurie King\, Beginnings \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queens-of-mystery-writer-to-writer-with-meg-gardiner-and-rachel-howzell-hall/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T120000
DTSTAMP:20260526T170410
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SUMMARY:V. E. Schwab\, Maggie Tokuda-Hall And Charlie Jane Anders For Books Inc.
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will be a discussion between Charlie Jane Anders\, V. E. Schwab\, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall (for whom this is also a launch party). \nAll proceeds benefit Books Inc. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nMay 6 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/v-e-schwab-maggie-tokuda-hall-and-charlie-jane-anders-for-books-inc/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T153000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME: \nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nLOCATION:  \nOnline\nhttps://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vp0qde6upz8sb00VbumXa71hDPDicEk64A \nDESCRIPTION: \nTHEN WE CAME TO THE END \nWhether your parents read you bedtime stories\, or you watched a lot of television growing up\, (or both)\, you were unknowingly imprinting on story structures that reflect the culture you are from. What’s more\, the ending of those stories taught you to feel that a certain kind of resolution just seems more complete. In this talk\, we will take a look at western fairy tales and eastern fairy tales. We will see over and over how the stories overlap\, but resolve differently\, reflecting very different worldviews. The beauty of this kind of story analysis is that it can not only give us an appreciation for stories outside the usual grab bag of patterns we turn to\, but also may open us up to take greater creative risks\, and expand our understanding of what it means to be human. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\, examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T200000
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SUMMARY:HOW HAVE I NOT READ THIS! A Virtual Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Book Club Discussion of Alfred Camus The Plague featuring Emily St John Mandel\, Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan \nSponsored by Alfred Knopf and City Lights \n\n\n**This is a virtual event that will be hosted on Zoom – you will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing and sufficient Internet access. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.** \nDIGITAL DOORS: 3:40PM PST and 6:40PM EST (be the first to submit a question/participate in chat) \nEVENT START: 4:00PM PST and 7:00PM EST (or shortly after once all are checked in) \n——– \nEvent is Free\, but requires registration. \n(Register Here) click the link \n——– \nto purchase the book click (HERE) \n——– \nJoin Emily St. John Mandel\, Laura Marris\, and Alice Kaplan for a live\, virtual discussion of Albert Camus’s The Plague. \nMore than seventy years after its original publication\, The Plague has become a national bestseller. Mandel\, Marris\, and Kaplan will explore themes of the novel\, examine the era in which it was written\, and look at responses to the work in the current environment. They will also answer any questions you have about it. THE PLAGUE is a haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of an epidemic that is ravaging a North African coastal town. This inaugural selection of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group’s “How Have I Not Read This?” book club was recently hailed as “a redemptive book\, one that wills the reader to believe\, even in a time of despair” (Los Angeles Times). \nRead along with us at #HowHaveINotReadThis \nabout the participants: \nAlice Kaplan\, Yale University’s Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of French\, was quoted by NPR on April 1: “I never imagined I would be teaching this novel in the midst of an epidemic… I never imagined I’d need to give a trigger warning for teaching Camus’ The Plague… People are saying in the French press\, what do you absolutely need to read in this time? You need to read The Plague. Almost as though this novel were a vaccine — not just a novel that can help us think about what we’re experiencing\, but something that can help heal us.” \nLaura Marris is currently translating a new edition of The Plague to be published by Knopf in 2021. In The New York Times on April 16 she wrote: “I still hope that books from the past can be a kind of serum for the future\, as Camus intended his novel to be. He knew that his book would be needed again\, long after his death\, in a context he couldn’t predict or imagine.” \nEmily St. John Mandel’s latest novel\, The Glass Hotel\, is currently on bestseller lists nationwide. Her previous book\, the National Book Award finalist Station Eleven\, is itself one of our best looks at humanity before and after a pandemic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-have-i-not-read-this-a-virtual-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T200000
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SUMMARY:Readings at City Lights Bookstore: Emerson Whitney
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n>Purchase The Book Here< \n———— \nEmerson Whitney writes\, “Really\, I can’t explain myself without making a mess.” What follows is that mess—electrifying\, gorgeous\, defiant. \nAt Heaven‘s center\, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother\, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant\, psychedelic prose—all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler\, Donna Haraway\, and C. Riley Snorton—to engage transness and the breathing\, morphing nature of selfhood. \nAn expansive examination of what makes us up\, Heaven wonders what role our childhood plays in who we are. Can we escape the discussion of causality? Is the story of our body just ours? With extraordinary emotional force\, Whitney sways between theory and memory in order to explore these brazen questions and write this unforgettable book. \nEmerson Whitney is the author of Ghost Box. Emerson teaches in the BFA creative writing program at Goddard College and is a postdoctoral fellow in gender studies at the University of Southern California. \nPraise for Heaven \n“An incisive\, nuanced inquiry into gender and body.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Melodic and engagingly written\, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once.”\n—Literary Hub \n“Heaven delves into deep memory and deep thinking to offer an ‘account of oneself’ that questions\, if not upends\, the very idea of such a thing at every turn. The result is a poetic\, candid\, probing reckoning with childhood\, the maternal\, gender\, and the possibilities of theory which will both speak to its time and outlast it.”\n—Maggie Nelson\, author Bluets and The Argonauts \n“Emerson has written a story about Mommy and me but mainly they’re extending to us a forceful act of writing in defense of the self that is taking pictures\, running away—eyes full of tears\, then pirouetting\, and standing their ground to tell us this colossally wonderful and woefully broken story.”\n—Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls and I Must Be Living Twice \n“Heaven is the book of deepest affections\, a harrowing book\, a bewitched book. Composed in a style of a bird-nest\, Heaven weaves together multiple threads of conversation with self and with brilliant voices of others\, as different as Lacan and Jos Charles\, Allen Ginsberg and Michael Ondaatje. One can’t help but be moved by this compelling record\, this book of hours for pain made utterly beautiful by its author’s patient meditation on childhood and gender\, motherhood and sorrow.”\n—Ilya Kaminksy\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Heaven goes down like a strong elixir… I can still feel its heat swirling through me.”\n—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Heaven\, although prose\, is poetry. The language is tender and present. The word performs connection and recovery… Theory from such thinkers as Butler\, Foucault\, Freud\, Haraway\, Irigaray\, and Lacan are broken down to its lived practical parts and brought back into common parlance\, brought in relation to the etymology that is Whitney’s becoming.”\n—Arisa White\, author of You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened \n“Elegantly poetic\, beautiful\, brutal\, and wise… Heaven is a wonder.”\n—Michelle Tea\, author of Valencia and Modern Tarot \n“Someone asked me recently if I ever imagine writing from today that has the strength to remain in print centuries from now. ‘Yes\, I do\,’ I said\, and told them about a book by Emerson Whitney called Heaven. Every page is beautifully written\, pitch-perfect harrowing\, but maybe more important is how it changes many things we thought we understood about life. Hundreds of years from now\, readers can better appreciate this time and this nation through Emerson Whitney’s extraordinary lens\, where they write\, ‘The history of categorization around disability in the United States was always about social control.'”\n—CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Exploring and exploding gender\, language\, desire\, this book is necessary reading for anyone who’s used language\, who has had a mother\, who has a body at all.”\n—Sam Sax\, author of Madness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-at-city-lights-bookstore-emerson-whitney/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ask Again\, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Wednesday\, May 6 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen’s favorite books of the year\, ASK AGAIN\, YES by Mary Beth Keane. \nZoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85382264291 \nWe’ll be playing excerpts of the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. You can get your audiobook here: http://bit.ly/2wvRKyh \nIf you’d prefer paper\, here’s a link to our website where you can order a copy for shipment from our warehouse: http://bit.ly/2wrTqZH \n“One of the most unpretentiously profound books I’ve read in a long time…modestly magnificent.” —Maureen Corrigan\, Fresh Air
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ask-again-yes-by-mary-beth-keane/
LOCATION:A Great Good Place for Books\, 6120 La Salle Ave.\, Oakland\, California\, 94611
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading at a Distance / Tanea Lunsford Lynx and Mmakgosi Anita Tau
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 Tanea Lunsford Lynx (AIR ’20) and Mmakgosi Anita Tau (AIR ’20) for the second event of the series on Wednesday\, May 6 at 7PM PST. \nYou can join the event here. We will also be streaming on Facebook Live. \nWe’re very 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 author’s books and we’ll deliver them directly to your door; and 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!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-at-a-distance-tanea-lunsford-lynx-and-mmakgosi-anita-tau/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:My Virtual Book Launch Happy Hour on May 7th at 5PM
DESCRIPTION:My dear friends and readers\, \nI am inviting you all to the launch of my book Only the River. I hope you can attend. I promise that it will be entertaining and encourage you to treat it as a literary happy hour. If it weren’t for these extenuating circumstances\, I would be providing libations and food as well. Here is the information for how to access the event. Please share with friends and book lovers. \nHere is the information for accessing the event: \nhttps://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-anne-raeff
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-virtual-book-launch-happy-hour-on-may-7th-at-5pm/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... ONLINE!
DESCRIPTION:GLOBALLY(map)\n\n\nGoogle Calendar ICS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’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 Chelsea Coleman…\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nThursday\, May 7th\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/35466GE \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: @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-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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