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SUMMARY:Rufi Thorpe: The Knockout Queen
DESCRIPTION:Rufi Thorpe discusses her new novel\, The Knockout Queen. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rufi-thorpe-the-knockout-queen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Femail: The Art of Sustainable Fashion
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \n\n\nCamilla Carper and Janelle Abbott met at Parsons School of Design in 2008. After college\, both returned to their respective homelands on the West Coast: San Francisco and Seattle. Their need to maintain a friendship from afar was resolved with FEMAIL: an art and fashion collaboration conducted remotely by sending work back and forth through the USPS. Each time the pair passes work from one to the next\, new scraps and remnants are added\, sometimes\, things are taken away. They work reactively\, intuitively\, and with commas\, always. In this way\, what is created by FEMAIL is a documentation of duo’s conversations and ultimately\, their friendship. \n  \nAvery Trufelman produces original pieces about architecture and design for the award-winning podcast 99% Invisible by Radiotopia. In September of 2018\, she made a six-part series about clothing and fashion called Articles of Interest\, which was declared one of the best podcasts of 2018 by the New Yorker\, and the finale was called the”best podcast episode of the year” by Vulture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/femail-the-art-of-sustainable-fashion/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aaron Smith: The Book of Daniel
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection\, The Book of Daniel\, with sam sax and Randall Mann. \nPraise for The Book of Daniel \n“Smith’s poems expound a complicated and distinctly queer relationship to beauty. . . . He levels a caustic wit at the pantheons of pop culture and modern poetry\, but also strikes resounding notes of hurt and rage at homophobia\, misogyny\, rejection\, and loss.”\n–The New Yorker \n“Aaron Smith writes with arresting\, melancholy literalness about bruises\, exaltations\, arousals\, delectations\, and defeats. He doesn’t mess around with filigree. He sticks to abject delineation\, punchy straightforwardness—a new way of being formal and naked. I believe in these gripping poems\, and in their message to the world.”– Wayne Koestenbaum \n“‘Does anyone have / a poem to Cher?’ I doubt it’s as honest or fresh as the poems in The Book of Daniel. Can a poet be as well-versed in Plath\, Lorde\, Olds\, and Baraka as he is in celebrity and pop culture? Spoiler alert: hell\, yeah. With the gift of a high-speed Internet connection\, Smith maneuvers the confusing messages of grief\, rejection\, and\, yes\, contemporary poetry. Poets beware: you are not off the hook. Smith brilliantly challenges everything you hold sacred.”– Yona Harvey \nAbout The Book of Daniel \nA tour de force\, Aaron Smith’s fourth collection of poetry\, The Book of Daniel\, resists the easy satisfactions of Beauty while managing the contemporary entanglements of art\, sex\, and grief. Part pop-thriller\, part queer rage\, and part mourning\, these poems depict not only the complications of representation in the age of social media but a critique of identity. Taking on subjects as diverse as the literary canon\, his mother’s incurable cancer diagnosis\, gay bashing\, celebrity gossip\, bigotry\, violence on TV\, and Alexander McQueen’s suicide\, Smith proves that the confessional lyric is not dead. In tangents as wild as they are reigned\, with his characteristic blend of directness\, vulnerability and humor\, these poems take on the world as it is\, a world we love even as it resists all intimacy. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-smith-the-book-of-daniel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Kaag: Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds
DESCRIPTION:John Kaag discusses his new book\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. \nPraise for Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \n“Kaag’s reading of James is as elucidating as readers have come to expect from him. Once again\, he writes in a clear\, focused\, and winningly self-aware style that makes friends of James and himself for anyone who wonders if life is worth living. A book in which Kaag further carves out his niche in philosophy: personal\, practical\, and crucial.”– Kirkus Reviews \n“Not since Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have I read such a mesmerizing confluence of personal experience and formal thought as John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story. That combination is on display again in his Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds—a brief and powerful book about one of America’s most profound minds\, William James\, and what he can teach us about what makes life worth living.”―Robert D. Richardson\, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism \n“In this beautifully written book\, which is filled with bracing insights\, John Kaag shows why William James has had a deep\, life-altering\, therapeutic effect on his readers over the past century—and can continue to have the same effect on new readers today.”—Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen\, author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas \nAbout Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \nIn 1895\, William James\, the father of American philosophy\, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James\, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed\, as John Kaag writes\, “James’s entire philosophy\, from beginning to end\, was geared to save a life\, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours\, too. Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology—and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous—can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. \nKaag tells how James’s experiences as one of what he called the “sick-souled\,” those who think that life might be meaningless\, drove him to articulate an ideal of “healthy-mindedness”—an attitude toward life that is open\, active\, and hopeful\, but also realistic about its risks. In fact\, all of James’s pragmatism\, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives\, is a response to\, and possible antidote for\, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way\, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James. \nEloquent\, inspiring\, and filled with insight\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book you’ll ever read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-kaag-sick-souls-healthy-minds/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ali Warren
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nLittle Hill \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nAward-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment. \nThe third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren\, Little Hill comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion\, examining our present\, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energetic and contemplative\, intimate and direct\, as Warren focuses her attention on capitalism\, gender\, love\, inequality\, and resistance. Despite the dystopian now\, Warren finds promise in the smallest human instances of tenderness\, ecological connection\, and political solidarity. Little Hill is about learning to live and love in the 21st century while not shying away from all there is to struggle against. \n“[Warren] has begun writing longer poems\, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young\, Anselm Berrigan\, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear the durational projects\, the self-conscious day-scores\, of Bernadette Mayer and of Lewis Warsh farther back in the tradition.”—Brian Blanchfield\, pen.org \nPraise for Little Hill: \n“In Little Hill Alli Warren’s principle method is articulation of exquisite units of speech (thought) that\, maintaining separation\, are capable of connection. The line might be a sentence or a part of one . . . I mean a delicious sense of grammatical distinctness is maintained. The poet\, also a lone unit\, seems to exist less in relation than as that lone one\, condemning this hard world with its villain work and elusive hierarchies. The language is precise\, lush\, unexpected and often thrilling. Articulation would seem to be the true other\, or maybe nature is. The book is gift more than condemnation\, though as the latter it’s unsparing. Still\, it’s a gift.”––Alice Notley\, author of For the Ride and Benediction \n“The number of gasps and everything else gets lost in the concentration of Little Hill. Alli Warren keeps company with those rare poets whose every new book is their best. ‘This is an old machine with a pulley / It makes music work\,’ Warren writes\, reworking the ancient technology of poetry to a shine! Dear Poet\, thank you for the wow WOW wowing!”––CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Reading Alli Warren’s Little Hill\, I find it incredible that amidst the relentless circulation of capital and commodities—and despite attempts to make all life yield to the logics of extraction\, work\, accumulation\, and the entrepreneurial self—a remainder is created\, that of poetry. Little Hill embodies a poetics of radical uncertainty\, one that attends to its horrific condition of possibility and is produced through the unmooring catastrophes that define our present moment: the destruction of the earth\, mass imprisonment\, late-capitalism—the litany does not end there. ‘I saw the death of the earth in a child’s toy\,’ she writes. Everywhere the speaker looks there is ‘congealed shit\, sometimes on sale.’ Yet yearning\, even as it is raised tentatively\, is not crushed. In and against it all\, a question is raised—the question of what it means to love in times of terror.”—Jackie Wang\, author of Carceral Capitalism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-warren/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daniel Denvir at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It \npublished by Verso Books (part of the Jacobin Series) \n\nAmerican history told from the vantage of immigration politics \n\n\nIt is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all\, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to block foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. But although his actions may often seem unprecedented\, they are not as unusual as many people believe. This story doesn’t begin with Trump. For decades\, Republicans and Democrats alike have employed xenophobic ideas and policies\, declaring time and again that “illegal immigration” is a threat to the nation’s security\, wellbeing\, and future. \nThe profound forces of all-American nativism have\, in fact\, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that\, for many people\, Trump began to look reasonable. As Daniel Denvir argues\, issues as diverse as austerity economics\, free trade\, mass incarceration\, the drug war\, the contours of the post 9/11 security state\, and\, yes\, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right movement are united by the ideology of nativism\, which binds together assorted anxieties and concerns into a ruthless political project. \nAll-American Nativism provides a powerful and impressively researched account of the long but often forgotten history that gave us Donald Trump. \nDaniel Denvir is a Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute and host of The Dig\, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. His journalistic work covers criminal justice\, the drug war\, immigration\, and politics and has appeared in the New York Times\, Jacobin\, Vox\, the Nation\, the Guardian\, and elsewhere. \nPraise for All-American Nativism \n\n“As Daniel Denvir’s exceptional book shows\, the history of US immigration politics is central to understanding how our many crises have converged in this moment. It’s precisely the kind of analysis our movements need to pry open the fissures of the current order\, and join in common struggle for a better world.” \n– Naomi Klein\, author of No Is Not Enough \n\n\n\n“This is the book we need\, a searing work of scholarship that explains how we entered the current hellscape of American politics and what we have to do to get out. The roots of white nativism are deep\, as Denvir’s book makes clear\, but like all roots can be pulled up and killed. All-American Nativism will help us do so.” \n– Greg Grandin\, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America \n\n\n“In this timely book\, Daniel Denvir tackles an important question: what is old and what is new in Trump’s nativism? Denvir helps us understand both the historical roots and the more recent routes by which ‘build the wall’ came to be the central rallying cry of racial-nationalism. A must-read for anyone who wants to know how we got here.” \n– Mae Ngai\, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America \n\n\n“All American Nativism excavates the history of anti-immigrant politics in the United States and reveals a difficult truth: Donald Trump is the symptom\, and not the cause\, of a bipartisan consensus underlying the current war on immigrants. In this sense\, Denvir’s book is an invaluable tool for organizers and activists who subscribe to what Paulo Freire meant by praxis\, where reflection and action are required to bring about transformative change.” \n– Pablo Alvarado\, National Day Laborer Organizing Network \n\n\n“All-American Nativism powerfully explores the deep roots of nativism in national life as well as how Trump’s agenda is itself the culmination of the policies and the logic pursued for decades by both major parties. In the process\, Daniel Denvir masterfully demonstrates the relationship between today’s debates over immigration and ongoing struggles against neoliberal austerity\, mass incarceration\, and the violence of the security state. In this way\, the book not only offers a diagnosis of the present\, but also a stirring vision of solidarity and change. This is an essential and profound work\, providing critical insights about the American experience and where to go from here.” \n– Aziz Rana\, author of The Two Faces of American Freedom \n\n\n“Traces the development of anti-immigrant sentiment.” \n– Cora Currier\, The Intercept \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-denvir-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T203000
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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from \nWe Cast A Shadow \npublished by One World \n\nAbout We Cast a Shadow: \n“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout\, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white \nLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “Stunning and audacious . . . at once a pitch-black comedy\, a chilling horror story and an endlessly perceptive novel about the possible future of race in America.”—NPR \nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST \n“You can be beautiful\, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic\, where anyone can get their lips thinned\, their skin bleached\, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it. \nIn this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence\, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father\, our narrator just wants the best for his son\, Nigel\, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes\, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process? \nThis electrifying\, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison\, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka\, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov. We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit\, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love. \nPraise for We Cast a Shadow \n“We Cast a Shadow asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask\, and it does so with energetic and acrobatic prose\, hilarious wordplay and great heart. . . . Love is at the core of this funny\, beautiful novel . . . . At any moment\, Ruffin can summon the kind of magic that makes you want to slow down\, reread and experience the pleasure of him crystallizing an image again. . . . Read this book.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) \n“A full-throated novelistic debut of ferocious power and grace . . . a story that refracts the insanity of the world into a shape so unique you wonder how this book wasn’t there all along.”—Lit Hub \n“Propulsive . . . We Cast a Shadow proves that the eeriest works of speculative fiction are those that hit closest to home.”—Vulture \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and a winner of the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, The Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, \, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin-in-conversation-with-margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200424T174614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200424T174614Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20191120T051142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T051142Z
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SUMMARY:The Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nSunday\, April 26\, 2020 – 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nHacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr. in Moraga.\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThe Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder \nSunday\, April 26 from 4:00 – 6:00pm.\nCelebrate National Poetry Month with a reading\, conversation\, and q and a with poets and Saint Mary’s College MFA professors Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder. Cassells\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, an NEA fellowship\, a William Carlos Williams award\, and a Lamba Literary Award\, and Zapruder\, a Guggenheim fellow and former editor of the New York Times Magazine poetry page\, will read from their latest collections. After the reading they will be in conversation about their poetry and process\, and will gladly entertain questions from the audience. Free and open to all ages\, and a reception in the Hacienda garden to follow. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-irresistible-beauty-of-all-things-a-reading-and-conversation-with-poets-cyrus-cassells-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Hacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr.\, Moraga\, CA\, 94556\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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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:20200426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200422T213432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T213432Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200203T213337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T213337Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring 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/silent-book-club-sf-9/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200422T204529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T204529Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200418T203809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200418T203809Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200421T060908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200421T060908Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T183000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200413T054201Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200420T053735Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T160000
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CREATED:20200412T221912Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T210000
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SUMMARY:Zaina Alsous and Wendy Trevino\, Mazza Writer in Residence\, reading from their work
DESCRIPTION:Under the heading “A border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino‘s remarkable book\, Cruel Fiction—Trevino\, The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, will be joined as part of her week-long residency by Palestinian poet Zaina Alsous\, for two public events. Following their Thursday April 23 reading and conversation at The Poetry Center\, on Friday April 24\, they each read their work at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Arrive early\, to find some books in this incredible bookstore—and to make sure you get a seat! Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, these events are free and open to the public. \nZaina Alsous is a prison abolitionist\, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora\, and a movement worker in South Florida. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published in POETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her chapbook Lemon Effigies won the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize and was published by Anhinga Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry\, A Theory of Birds\, won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, selected by Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah\, and was published by the University of Arkansas Press\, Fall 2019. Born and raised in North Carolina\, she currently lives in Miami\, Florida\, while pursuing an MFA in poetry and teaching undergraduate writing at the University of Miami. More at zainaalsous.com \nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016\, followed by her first full-length book\, Cruel Fiction\, also from Commune Editions\, 2018. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was also published by Spoilsport Editions—an online press she started with writer Oki Sogumi—in 2017. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Selected as The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, Wendy is not an experimental writer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nRelated event: \nMazza Writer in Residence\nWendy Trevino with Zaina Alsous\nreading and in conversation\nThursday April 23\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFeatured: \n“Mexican Is Not a Race\,” Wendy Trevino in conversation with Chris Chen\, The New Inquiry\, April 6\, 2017 \nNick Estes on Wendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction\, “Verso authors pick their favorite books of the year\,” 17 December 2019 \nFree pdf download: Wendy Trevino\, Brazilian Is Not a Race\, Commune Editions\, 2016 \n“Zaina Alsous Named Winner of 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\,” University of Arkansas Press \nMore on Zaina Alsous \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Moe’s Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zaina-alsous-and-wendy-trevino-mazza-writer-in-residence-reading-from-their-work/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T203000
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SUMMARY:After Hours: 9th Annual Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 24th | 7:00pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nDaniel Handler emcees this fabulous mashup of poetry and baseball\nwhere poets are players\, scored on their literary cred with bonus points\nfor quick thinking\, repartee\, and out-of-the-park performances. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens April 6th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-9th-annual-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200421T060505Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200424T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
CREATED:20200406T024818Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200423T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200423T210000
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CREATED:20191231T203405Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass & Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass and Matthew Zapruder read from their new poetry collections\, Summer Snow and Father’s Day. \nAbout Summer Snow \nA major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nAbout Father’s Day \n“Zapruder’s new book\, Father’s Day\, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment\, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post \nThe poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask\, how can one be a good father\, partner\, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent\, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court\, watching a child grow off into a distance\, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike\, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200423T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112055
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T201421Z
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino\, with Zaina Alsous\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Under the heading “A border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino‘s remarkable book\, Cruel Fiction—Trevino\, The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, will be joined as part of her week-long residency by Palestinian poet Zaina Alsous\, for two public events. On Thursday April 23\, the two poets will each read and join in conversation with one another and with the audience\, at The Poetry Center. The following night\, Friday April 24\, they each read their work at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation—with the Poetry Center evening co-sponsored\, thanks to Rabab Abdulhadi\, by AMED: the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative\, at the College of Ethnic Studies\, San Francisco State University—these events are free and open to the public. \n\nWendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions) tells the truth about life as we know and endure it\, restlessly picking at the hangnails of both history and heartbreak. Trevino posits race as a “cruel fiction\,” nationality as its attendant mythology. Trevino asks: How do we resist these fictions without reproducing their murderous\, hierarchical logics? For Trevino\, “poetry is not enough” as long as we are not enough. Trevino’s insurgent colloquialism is a sleight of hand. Cruel Fiction speaks plainly but never simply. Trevino reflects on the lies with which we arm ourselves to refute the lies used against us. Against the near-orgasmic collective delusions of Obamamania\, Trevino recounts solidarities fostered during the Occupy movement. Exhilarating sonnet sequences titled “Popular Culture & Cruel Work\,” and “Brazilian Is Not a Race” interrogate the inter-sections of pop and protest. —Momtaza Mehri\, Somali-British poet\, Young People’s Laureate for London 2018-19\n\nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016\, followed by her first full-length book\, Cruel Fiction\, also from Commune Editions\, 2018. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was also published by Spoilsport Editions—an online press she started with writer Oki Sogumi—in 2017. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Selected as The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2020\, Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nZaina Alsous is a prison abolitionist\, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora\, and a movement worker in South Florida. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published inPOETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her chapbook Lemon Effigies won the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize and was published by Anhinga Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry\, A Theory of Birds\, won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, selected by Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah\, and was published by the University of Arkansas Press\, Fall 2019. Born and raised in North Carolina\, she currently lives in Miami\, Florida\, while pursuing an MFA in poetry and teaching undergraduate writing at the University of Miami. More at zainaalsous.com \n\nfrom “Brazilian Is Not A Race\,” Wendy Trevino\n\nA border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction\nMaintained by constant policing\, violence\nAlways threatening a new map. It takes\nTime\, lots of people’s time\, to organize\nThe world this way. & violence. It takes more\nViolence. Violence no one can confuse for\nAnything but violence. So much violence\nChanges relationships\, births a people\nThey can reason with. These people are not\nUs. They underestimate the violence.\nIt’s been awhile. We are who we are\nTo them\, even when we don’t know who we\nAre to each other & culture is a\nRecord of us figuring that out.\n \n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nZaina Alsous and Wendy Trevino\nreading from their work\nFriday April 24\n7:00 pm @ Moe’s Books\n2476 Telegraph Avenue (at Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nFeatured: \n“Mexican Is Not a Race\,” Wendy Trevino in conversation with Chris Chen\, The New Inquiry\, April 6\, 2017 \nNick Estes on Wendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction\, “Verso authors pick their favorite books of the year\,” 17 December 2019 \nFree pdf download: Wendy Trevino\, Brazilian Is Not a Race\, Commune Editions\, 2016 \n“Zaina Alsous Named Winner of 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\,” University of Arkansas Press \nMore on Zaina Alsous \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-wendy-trevino-with-zaina-alsous-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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