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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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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T193000
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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: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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T234137Z
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SUMMARY:Surviving the Pandemic: The Future of Local Media
DESCRIPTION:As advertisers pull back and publications lay off or furlough journalists\, how will the local news media survive the COVID-19 pandemic? \nIn Part II of an online series on news media during the public health crisis\, experts will discuss news media challenges facing community journalism before and during the crisis and how the future will require more diverse and sustainable business models that don’t rely exclusively on advertising. \nThe panel includes: \nMartin Reynolds\, co-executive director of the Maynard Institute and director of the Reveal Investigative Fellowships from the Center for Investigative Reporting \nMichael Stoll\, executive director\, San Francisco Public Press \nThe discussion will be moderated by Gina Baleria\, assistant professor of communications & media studies at Sonoma State University\, and host of the new podcast “News in Context\,” that explores media bias and how information is delivered and consumed. It airs on KSFP 102.5 FM Fridays at 8:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. \nYou must RSVP. Zoom details will be included in the “Additional Information” section in your confirmation email. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/surviving-the-pandemic-the-future-of-local-media/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200428T193813Z
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz in conversation with Rebecca Skloot with HOME BAKED on Instagram Live
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Instagram Live @SquareBooks for a virtual event with Alia Volz and Rebecca Skloot (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) on Thursday\, April 30th at 5:30 PM CST. \nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \nAbout the Author \nALIA VOLZ is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-rebecca-skloot-with-home-baked-on-instagram-live/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200424T011056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200424T011056Z
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SUMMARY:Shelter in Poems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Shelter in Poems: a virtual reading of uplifting poems to bring us together.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIn this unprecedented time\, as more and more of us are turning to poetry\, the Academy of American Poets launched Shelter in Poems\, an initiative that invites poets and poetry lovers to share poems on social media that give them comfort or courage. \nShelter in Poems: A Virtual Reading extends this idea with a special offering of poems read by poets laureate\, actors\, musicians\, artists\, and more. \nThe evening will include poems presented by: \nElizabeth Alexander \nSam Beam \nRichard Blanco \nJulia Bullock \nMarilyn Chin \nRita Dove \nPatrick Gaspard \nAmanda Gorman \nJoy Harjo \nJuan Felipe Herrera \nEdward Hirsch \nStephin Merritt \nMaulik Pancholy \nAlison Pill \nDan Rather \nAlberto Ríos \nMustafa Shakir \nNaomi Shihab Nye \nLorna Simpson \nAmber Tamblyn \nand other special guests. \n\n\n\nThe event will raise funds to support our free publications and programs\, including our K–12 education program. \nAs National Poetry Month comes to a close\, many of us will have weathered a month of solitude in an act of solidarity to protect each other. During these weeks\, poetry has brought us all closer together\, even as we remain physically apart. \nWe look forward to sharing an evening of poetry with you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shelter-in-poems/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200429T233906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T233906Z
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SUMMARY:We Are The Voices Presents:::::: Social Listening
DESCRIPTION:We Are The Voices Presents::::::\nSOCIAL LISTENING \nA series of virtual readings by local artists \nThis Thursday (4/30)\, we have our next reading in our series of virtual readings done by artists here in Oakland and surrounding Bay Area. Now is the time to maintain a connection with our community as we shelter in place. \nFor our second event\, THIS THURSDAY\, we have Juliana Spahr\, Cecily Nicholson\, and Wendy Trevino! \nOur virtual reading will be held on Zoom!\nNo tickets are necessary! Simply go to this link: https://bit.ly/2y5C9dd\, at the start of our event and be let through our virtual waiting room once we begin! \n*** “Tickets” section is the same link to use on the day of the event! \nEnjoy these readings from the comfort of your own home. \nWe hope you can join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-voices-presents-social-listening/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200423T223359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200423T231430Z
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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/take-place-sfsu-reading-series-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T200000
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CREATED:20200427T150615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200428T202029Z
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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-one-last-thing/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200430T210000
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SUMMARY:Robert Mailer Anderson at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Windows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-mailer-anderson-at-city-lights-bookstore/
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:20200501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200412T222838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200412T222838Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200422T203525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T203856Z
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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 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-cyrus-cassells-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200429T235131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T201112Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T170000
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CREATED:20200422T011731Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142107
CREATED:20200422T221445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T221445Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T180000
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CREATED:20200430T231351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T231351Z
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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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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:Adam Levin: Bubblegum
DESCRIPTION:Adam Levin discusses his new novel Bubblegum. \nPraise for Bubblegum \n“Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest\, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness – an irrepressible and insanely entertaining examination of our obsessive culture that doesn’t forget to be fond of that which it is satirizing. Levin’s keen and ornery mind\, reveling in the world with vast energy\, shows us new ways of loving it.”George Saunders\, author of the Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo  \n“Adam Levin’s brilliant\, inventive\, fully imagined alternative world gives us insight and clarity about the actual world we live in.  We are implicated\, warned\, but what a hilarious ride. Bubblegum is a wild\, ambitious\, and original novel.  Levin is a wonder.”Dana Spiotta\, author of Eat the Document \n“With Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has created a cubist painting about consumerism\, fetishization\, and the increasingly blurred line between life and advertisement in a hyper-materialist\, post-IRL society. Levin masterfully creates a world without the internet to examine the impact and insanity it has sewn into the American project\, and he does so while gleefully skewering our unraveling vernacular. A freaky marvel of a tome.”Catherine Lacey\, author of Certain American States\, The Answers and Nobody is Ever Missing \nAbout Bubblegum \nBubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist\, and has never existed. Rather\, a wholly different species of interactive technology–a “flesh-and-bone robot” called the Curio–has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet\, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio\, is now writing his memoir\, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to\, but must find a way to live in.\nAt age thirty-eight\, still living at home with his widowed father\, Belt insulates himself from the awful and terrifying world outside by spending most of his time with books\, his beloved Curio\, and the voices in his head\, which he isn’t entirely sure are in his head. After Belt’s father goes on a fishing excursion\, a simple trip to the bank escalates into an epic saga that eventually forces Belt to confront the world he fears\, as well as his estranged childhood friend Jonboat\, the celebrity astronaut and billionaire.\nIn Bubblegum\, Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious\, resonant\, and monumental narrative about heartbreak\, longing\, art\, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. Bubblegum is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-levin-bubblegum/
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: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:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-12/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T183000
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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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