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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision
DESCRIPTION:Do you want your poems to sing more sweetly? Resonate more deeply? Read more beautifully? \nIn this 8-week craft workshop\, you will learn structured techniques for writing and revising poems in a small-group setting. Each week\, we will focus on one specific element in poetry\, and use that topic as a guiding principle for revising our poems. \nOften\, we’re given feedback on our work but might not know exactly what to do next. This class will combine theory with practice. The goal is to equip you with the tools to revise your own poems with grace and ease in order to take your work to the next level. \nWhat You’ll Get Out of This Workshop:\n\n8 lesson packets to help you revise poems\, each focused on a different poetic element\, with example poems and short essays\nMANY prompts for revising poems that you can use any time\nSmall-group witness of your revised poems to encourage positive learning\nA fun\, supportive environment with other awesome poets\nSensitivity and integrity toward your voice and process\nReal-time inspiration and feedback from the group\n\nWhat You’ll Need:\n\nA handful (4-8) of written drafts that you feel have some promise\, but aren’t quite “there” yet\, and you’re not sure what they’re missing or what to do next\nSome time each week to practice a revision technique outside of class (30 minutes minimum)\nAbility to detach from the work so you can revise (and create anew!) with pleasure\nDesire to make your poems the best they can be at this moment in time without judgment\nA beginner’s mindset (no matter how long you’ve been writing)\nA sense of adventure and openness to discovery\nNon-attachment to a specific outcome (this is the magic!)\nRespect\, integrity and playfulness with your peers (we are all learning\, writing and practicing together!)\n\n8-Week Schedule\nWorkshop A will be offered on Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm PST starting January 20 and ending March 10. Workshop B will be offered Thursday mornings from 10am-1pm PST starting January 21 and ending March 11. Please see the calendar for full dates. \n\nWeek 1: From First Draft to Finished – How to approach revision\, editing\, and the creative flow.\nWeek 2: Lines Lines Lines (& Stanzas) – Line breaks\, line lengths\, units of meaning on the page.\nWeek 3: Exploding the Image – Sinking deeper into metaphor & meaning.\nWeek 4: Word Choice & Diction – Words are pretty important to poems.\nWeek 5: Repetition & Patterns – Let’s investigate how refrains can change the game.\nWeek 6: Sound & Rhythm – Poems are music! Can you make them siiiing?\nWeek 7: Titles & Endings – Let’s not overlook these important bookends!\nWeek 8: Final Workshop – Recap and Review\n\nWorkshop Structure:\nWe’ll spend some time in the first meeting talking about what revision is\, how to do it\, and what our blocks/goals are. You’ll be invited to bring a working poem in to share with the group to introduce your work and receive productive feedback. Then\, at the end of the first class\, you’ll receive the prompt for the week to try out some revision techniques for that poem. When you return next week\, bring both the earlier draft and the revised version to share! \nBecause the focus is on revising our work\, each week you will be given the opportunity to revise a piece\, and then share both versions. The purpose of this is to get feedback from the group about how the poem has evolved to reinforce what you are learning. If the poem feels “done\,” great! If not\, we celebrate a step in its development. \nBONUS: For anyone writing toward a manuscript right now\, this class provides a great opportunity to revise your 8 poems toward a specific theme\, topic\, narrative or question\, if you choose to\, with a bonus prompt for guidance. \nCritique Style as Witness:\nIn this style of workshop\, we practice “witness” as our mode of giving comments on each other’s work rather than “criticism.” This means that we speak from our personal viewpoint (own your “I”)\, make observations rather than criticisms (what we notice rather than what’s “wrong”)\, ask productive questions\, and give all feedback with the intent of helping the writer learn more about their own process of writing that poem. \nWriting poetry is an act of discovery\, and it is a privilege to be able to take part in each other’s discovery process. In this way\, we cultivate an atmosphere of trust\, respect and integrity. We never tell another writer the “correct answer” to their poem; rather\, we act as believing mirrors for each other’s work and help each other recognize nuggets of beauty to be explored. \nMotivating Philosophy:\nStructure allows room for experimentation. Add elements of craft to your unique aesthetic\, stir\, and see what happens. Taking our work seriously doesn’t mean taking ourselves too seriously! Invite surprise onto the page. Have fun! Poetry is discovery. What else is there to do but create? \nLimit 6 per group
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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/using-invented-and-foreign-languages-as-tools-for-world-building-a-fiction-workshop-with-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Canton Discusses his new book\, The Oak Papers
DESCRIPTION:James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book\, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). \n“A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature\, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree.”—Peter Wohlleben\, author of The Hidden Life of Trees \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Oak Papers\nJoining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk\, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. \nThrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship\, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex\, England. While considering the direction of his own life\, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries\, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. \nIn this beautiful\, transportive book\, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological\, spiritual\, literary\, and historical contexts\, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation\, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. \nCanton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak\, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats\, to fuel our fires\, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose\, then\, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? \nTaking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau\, Leo Tolstoy\, Katherine Basford’s Green Man\, Thomas Hardy\, William Shakespeare\, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces\, from human development to climate change\, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious\, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us\, if only we slow down enough to listen. \nAbout James Canton\nDr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of Ancient Wonderings and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape\, which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS\, Caught by the River\, and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex\, England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-canton-discusses-his-new-book-the-oak-papers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:MFA Reading Series: Shapes of Native Nonfiction - Deborah Miranda\, Theresa Warburton\, Elissa Washuta
DESCRIPTION:Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013)\, recipient of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award; and four poetry collections: Altar for Broken Things (2020)\, Raised by Humans (2015)\, The Zen of La Llorona (2005)\, and Indian Cartography (1999). She is co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature\, and her work has appeared in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: An Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing. She is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. \nTheresa Warburton is the author of Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Literatures in Contemporary Anarchist Movements (forthcoming\, Northwestern University Press). With Elissa Washuta\, she is co-editor of Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University where she is also affiliate faculty in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and Canadian-American Studies. She lives on Lummi\, Nooksack\, and Coast Salish Territories in Bellingham\, WA. \nElissa Washuta is the author of the nonfiction collections My Body Is a Book of Rules (2014)\, Starvation Mode (2018)\, and White Magic (forthcoming\, Tin House Books). With Theresa Warburton\, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient\, a Creative Capital awardee\, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University. She is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-reading-series-shapes-of-native-nonfiction-deborah-miranda-theresa-warburton-elissa-washuta/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210308T190000
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SUMMARY:Irvin D. Yalom with Lori Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nHow can we understand life\, joy and love during the moment when they culminate in death and grief? \nInternationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from loss and anxiety. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife and lifelong partner\, the late esteemed historian and feminist author Marilyn D. Yalom\, was diagnosed with cancer. Together\, they chose to write about their shared experience during her final months\, creating an unparalleled gift that Kirkus calls “A profound love story with lessons for how to live and how to die.” \n\n\n\n\nTheir memoir A Matter of Death and Life provides insight into grief from a remarkable couple who spent a life of close devotion from their teenage years onward. It catalogues the most intimate and daunting challenges two loved ones can undergo while trying to care for one another: Marilyn\, to die a good death\, and Irv to live on without her. During a year wracked with complex grief\, their shared story is a beautiful work of writing that offers much needed guidance. \nThrough alternating stories of their last months together and Irv’s first months alone\, A Matter of Death and Life rings with a depth of support\, solace\, and meaning around the process of grief… and also offers a warm\, resonant tribute to life well-lived. \nIn an interview with Lori Gottlieb\, Dr. Irvin Yalom visits with Kepler’s Literary Foundation online on March 8th to share A Matter of Death and Life. These two warm\, witty writers will discuss what is a grippingly poignant account of not only grief\, but the experience of love that gives it meaning. \n  \nIRVIN D. YALOM\, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University\, is the author of internationally bestselling books including Love’s Executioner\, The Gift of Therapy\, Becoming Myself\, and When Nietzsche Wept. His impact in the field of psychiatry is profound\, with one training text alone over 700\,000 copies sold; but it is his lifelong passion for literature and fiction\, paired with the deep human understanding of his psychiatric work\, that makes Yalom’s writing distinctly beloved at Kepler’s. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLORI GOTTLIEB is psychotherapist and author of the bestselling Kepler’s Favorite Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, now being adapted for television. In addition to clinical practice\, she writes The Atlantic’s weekly “Dear Therapist” column and is the co-host of the eponymous iHeart Radio podcast produced by Katie Couric. A member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change and one of the most-watched TED presenters of 2020\, Lori’s expertise has made her a sought-after guest on media like The Today Show\, Good Morning America\, CBS This Morning\, CNN\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \nMARILYN YALOM (1932-2019) wrote many celebrated cultural histories and feminist works\, including Blood Sisters\, History of the Wife\, The Birth of the Chess Queen and (together with her son) The American Resting Place. This year marks the release of her posthumously published Innocent Witness: Childhood Memories of World War II. A professor of French at Stanford University and senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research\, she received her PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins and had a profound impact through both her academic contributions and teaching. Marilyn and Irv were married for sixty-five years. \n\n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irvin-d-yalom-with-lori-gottlieb/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer\nCo-presented with Impact Justice \nMonday\, March 8\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/21/2021\, 03/23/2021\, 03/24/2021\nTICKETS \n  \n\n\nThis event is a presented in partnership with Impact Justice \nReuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist\, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration where he studies and writes about race\, democracy\, and the social life of the city. His book\, Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\, shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate\, and how parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished\, unstable\, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society. Miller has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey\, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago\, he lives with his wife and children on the city’s Southside. \nTerah Lawyer has been an advocate for incarcerated people for more than a decade as a peer health educator\, a certified drug and alcohol counselor\, a youth diversion specialist\, and now as program manager for the Homecoming Project\, an innovative re-entry housing program at Impact Justice. Ms. Lawyer is herself a formerly incarcerated person\, and that experience informs her commitment to improving the justice system. \nImpact Justice is a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform. Impact Justice was founded in 2015 on an idea: to create an organization that would imagine\, innovate\, and accept absolutely nothing about the status quo of our current justice system. We know the problems: too many people locked up\, including far too many people of color; families broken up and broken by our justice system; and a culture that too often treats people based on fear\, oppression\, and bias. For us to build the future we need\, we must build the world we want today. Info at https://impactjustice.org/ \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reuben-jonathan-miller-in-conversation-with-terah-lawyer/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:CLA Presents: Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin\, race\, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.\n\nLalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.\n\nBrilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.\nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She the author of four novels\, including ‘The Moor’s Account’\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and ‘The Other Americans’\, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Washington Post\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cla-presents-laila-lalami/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Library Presents: Know Your Name with Tahtahme Xero\, Poet and Healer
DESCRIPTION:Tahtahme Xero will talk about her book Apricity (Nomadic Press\, 2020)\, and discuss her work as a healer\, poet and author. \nApricity follows the journey of a teenage transracial adoptee as she navigates addressing years of sexual abuse from her adoptive father\, her family’s recovery and falling in love for the first time. \nXero says this of Apricity\, “I hope the book I needed is a book found by people who need it as well. I hope you will pass it on to whoever else needs it. I hope it inspires you even just a little and in this way we can try to support each other\, heal\, teach the true tragedy of childhood sexual abuse and help stop it from continuing.” \nTahtahme Xero is a Sacred Woman\, Womb Worker and Rootworker. She and her husband have been together for over 13 years\, and have twin toddlers together. They all live in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-library-presents-know-your-name-with-tahtahme-xero-poet-and-healer/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Sister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event: Life After Death
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present: \n  \nSister Souljah and Sabrina Jacobs: A Zoom Event \nLife After Death \nby the bestselling author of “The Coldest Winter Ever” \n…………………………………………………………………………………………… \nTuesday\, March 9\, 2021\, 5:30 PM \n  \nTwenty years ago\, Sister Souljah’s debut novel\, “The Coldest Winter Ever\,” became a bestselling cultural phenomenon. Readers fell in love with the unforgettable Winter Santiago\, daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family\, who captivated her lovers\, friends\, and enemies with her sexy street smarts. For two decades\, readers have begged for answers about what happened to Winter. Now\, at last\, all is revealed in Sister Souljah’s brilliant sequel\, filled with her trademark passion\, danger\, temptation\, and raw adventure. \n  \n“The # 1 author of the Hip-Hop generation!” – Sean “P. Diddy” Combs \n  \n“Sister Souljah spreads messages that are clear\, concise\, and true to the game.” – THE SOURCE \n  \nSister Souljah is best known for her work as a political activist and educator of underclass urban youth. \n  \nSabrina Jacobs is the producer and host of KPFA’s popular show “A Rude Awakening.” In addition she is a frequent host and interviewer on KPFA’S Zoom webinar series with contemporary authors. \n  \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/sister-souljah-and-sabrina-jacobs-life-after-death-tickets-135779284495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sister-souljah-and-sabrina-jacobs-a-zoom-event-life-after-death/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler & Caroline Paul
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 9 at 6pm PT for the launch of Rebecca Handler’s debut novel\, Edie Richter is Not Alone\, with Caroline Paul on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84332843511\n\nPraise for Edie Richter is Not Alone\n\n“Oh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting\, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page\, Rebecca Handler’s novel is that rare thing: a perfect book.”\n—Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less\n\n“Rebecca Handler’s debut novel Edie Richter Is Not Alone features a witty protagonist in the midst of an emotional and physical journey to Western Australia. Handler’s writing is spare and sharp and brings to mind the work of Mary Robison and Lorrie Moore—it made me laugh with recognition and tear up with empathy. Reading this book will make you feel the way all good literature does: it will make you feel less alone.”\n—Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty\n\nAbout Edie Richter is Not Alone\n\nFunny\, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth\, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move\, Edie and her husband were content\, if socially awkward―given her disinclination for small talk.\nIn Perth\, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world\, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can barely admit to herself. In some ways\, the landscape mirrors her own complicated inner life\, and rather than escaping her past\, Edie is increasingly forced to confront what she’s done. Everybody\, from the wildlife to her new neighbors\, is keen to engage\, and Edie does her best to start fresh. But her relationship with her husband is fraying\, and the beautiful memories of her father are heartbreaking\, and impossible to stop. Something\, in the end\, has to give.\nWritten in clean spare prose that is nevertheless brimming with the richness and wry humor of the protagonist’s observations and idiosyncrasies\, Edie Richter is Not Alone is Rebecca Handler’s debut novel. It is both deeply shocking and entirely quotidian: a story about a woman’s visceral confrontation with the fundamental meaning of humanity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rebecca-handler-caroline-paul/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Kelly Loy Gilbert and Anna-Marie McLemore
DESCRIPTION:Two much loved critically acclaimed authors. Two fabulous eagerly awaited new books. Join us as we launch Kelly Loy Gilbert’s new book When We Were Infinite and celebrate a week early for Anna-Marie McLemore’s new book The Mirror Season.  \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelly Loy Gilbert is the author of the William C. Morris Debut Award finalist Conviction and Stonewall Honor Book Picture Us in the Light. When We Were Infinite is a powerful\, achingly romantic drama about the secrets we keep\, from each other and from ourselves. \nAll Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends—Grace Nakamura\, Brandon Lin\, Sunny Chen\, and Jason Tsou—to stay together. With her family splintered and her future a question mark\, these friends are all she has—even if she sometimes wonders if she truly fits in with them. Besides\, she’s certain she’ll never be able to tell Jason how she really feels about him\, so friendship will have to be enough. Then Beth witnesses a private act of violence in Jason’s home\, and the whole group is shaken. Beth and her friends make a pact to do whatever it takes to protect Jason\, no matter the sacrifice. But when even their fierce loyalty isn’t enough to stop Jason from making a life-altering choice\, Beth must decide how far she’s willing to go for him—and how much of herself she’s willing to give up. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist The Weight of Feathers\, Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, Wild Beauty \, Blanca & Roja\, and Dark and Deepest Red. The Mirror Season is “An unforgettable story of trauma and healing\, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care.” ―Karen M. McManus\, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying \nWhen two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party\, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly-magical pastelería\, his secret forest of otherworldly trees\, and the swallows returning to their hometown. \nThis is sure to be a fantastic and thought provoking conversation. \nA post-event temporary access recording of the webinar will be shared with all guests who register. Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelly-loy-gilbert-and-anna-marie-mclemore/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:“What it Means to Love America”: Dan Rather on What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel
DESCRIPTION:Limited copies of What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel with signed bookplate available with your ticket purchase!\nInformation and “the news” have become contested territories\, with more people than ever\, especially the young\, feeling that they just can’t trust what they read\, hear and watch. That’s a dangerous situation in the current moment of cultural and political reckoning when Americans need to work together. Times like these are when we’re especially grateful for broadcast journalist Dan Rather. \nDan Rather is the voice America trusts (as well as one of the most surprising Twitter stars of the Trump era). He has been our measured guide and witness to the most significant events of the past four decades\, from the assassination of JFK to the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War. Having covered every President since Eisenhower\, for the past four years he’s been a touchstone of decency and common sense during the most consequential time in recent political history. Now\, as our sorely tested democracy paves a new path forward\, Rather offers a stunning vision for true patriotism\, a “tonic for disaffected millennials and conservative grandpas alike” (People). With a brand-new graphic novel edition of the New York Times bestseller What Unites Us\, his “almost unbearably poignant” (BookPage) essay collection on what it means to be an American\, he reaches beyond generational and ideological divides\, giving us hope and courage. \nIn this live\, virtual conversation between Dan and Priya Clemens\, host of KQED Newsroom\, you’ll have the chance to ask one of our most revered living legends your questions about this extraordinary moment we find ourselves in\, and where we go from here. At the dawn of a new administration\, as hope begins to creep back in\, there’s no better time—and no better person—to guide us. \nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. \nThis event makes a great gift! You can download a lovely card to forward to your recipient—we’ll take care of the rest\, including shipping books!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-it-means-to-love-america-dan-rather-on-what-unites-us-the-graphic-novel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rebecca Handler
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 9 for the launch of Rebecca Handler’s debut novel\, Edie Richter is Not Alone on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84332843511\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84332843511#  or +13462487799\,\,84332843511#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 843 3284 3511\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdvjc80K3q \nPraise for Edie Richter is Not Alone \n“Oh how I love this book. I finished Edie Richter Is Not Alone in one sitting\, then reread it immediately. Hilariously heartbreakingly honest on every page\, Rebecca Handler’s novel is that rare thing: a perfect book.”\n—Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less  \n“Rebecca Handler’s debut novel Edie Richter Is Not Alone features a witty protagonist in the midst of an emotional and physical journey to Western Australia. Handler’s writing is spare and sharp and brings to mind the work of Mary Robison and Lorrie Moore—it made me laugh with recognition and tear up with empathy. Reading this book will make you feel the way all good literature does: it will make you feel less alone.”\n—Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty  \nAbout Edie Richter is Not Alone \nFunny\, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth\, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move\, Edie and her husband were content\, if socially awkward―given her disinclination for small talk.\nIn Perth\, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world\, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can barely admit to herself. In some ways\, the landscape mirrors her own complicated inner life\, and rather than escaping her past\, Edie is increasingly forced to confront what she’s done. Everybody\, from the wildlife to her new neighbors\, is keen to engage\, and Edie does her best to start fresh. But her relationship with her husband is fraying\, and the beautiful memories of her father are heartbreaking\, and impossible to stop. Something\, in the end\, has to give.\nWritten in clean spare prose that is nevertheless brimming with the richness and wry humor of the protagonist’s observations and idiosyncrasies\, Edie Richter is Not Alone is Rebecca Handler’s debut novel. It is both deeply shocking and entirely quotidian: a story about a woman’s visceral confrontation with the fundamental meaning of humanity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rebecca-handler/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of his new book \nModel Citizen: a memoir \npublished by MCD/FSG \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThe intimate\, gorgeous\, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr—writer\, father\, alcoholic\, addict. \nAfter years of hard-won sobriety\, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter\, Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke at the age of thirty-five—his third\, it turns out—which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. And fentanyl\, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart\, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work? \nTold in stunning\, surreal\, time-hopping vignettes\, Model Citizen is a raw\, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life\, throwing the wild joys\, tragedies\, embarrassments\, and adventures of his past into bold relief. His story is heartbreakingly real and yet unreal\, which he captures in vivid\, uncanny imagery\, waking hallucinations that imagine hearts as hot air balloons\, drug cravings as wry Nazi doctors\, secrets as emaciated second selves. \nAnd yet Mohr’s memoir pulses with humanity and humor\, capturing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the dark pit of his past\, learning to love and be loved\, while never letting go of those experiences that shaped him and broke him. A darkly beautiful\, funny\, incisive confession\, Model Citizen is brimming with hope and resilience\, drawing the universal and human out of every moment. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of the memoir “Sirens” (2017)\, as well as five novels including “Damascus”\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times.  His novel “All This Life” won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial. \nLidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and a critical book on war and narrative\, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. The Misfit’s Manifesto\, a book based on her recent TED Talk\, was publishe by TED Books. Her new collection of fiction\, Verge\, was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. Her writing has appeared widely in publications that include Guernica Magazine\, Ms.\, The Iowa Review\, Zyzzyva\, Another Chicago Magazine\, The Sun\, Exquisite Corpse\, TANK\, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights)\, Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil)\, Forms at War (FC2)\, Feminaissance (Les Figues Press)\, and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY)\, as well as online at The Rumpus. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-mohr-in-conversation-with-lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jeff Hawkins with Anil Ananthaswamy
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nIn a book that biologist Richard Dawkins calls “exhilarating\,” author\, neuroscientist and engineer Jeff Hawkins unveils a new theory of intelligence with awe-inspiring implications. Get ready for a dynamic and exciting conversation about the brain with Kepler’s. \nIn a century rife with neuroscientific and biological advances\, researchers have made little progress one very big question: how do the simple cells of the brain create complex consciousness and intelligence? \nHawkins\, cofounder of the neuroscience research company Numenta\, dares to answer with A Thousand Brains. In a compulsively readable book accessible even to the casual science reader\, he lays forth a simple and yet mold-breaking theory: that intelligence arises from the interaction of maplike reference structures in the brain\, which build hundreds of thousands of interconnected models of everything a person knows. These maplike reference frames can tell you how to achieve goals\, how to get from one place to another\, who you are and how you’re connected to the world. \nFor the past fifteen years\, Hawkins and his Silicon Valley based research team have studied the neocortex\, the part of the brain we associate with everything responsible for intelligence. Now with his “thousand brains” theory of the structure that runs the show\, Hawkins proposes answers to some of neurosciences most stubborn questions—questions about the very nature of consciousness. \nOn March 10th\, join us for an online conversation between Jeff Hawkins and award-winning science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy as they share with us A Thousand Brains. Starting with basic information on how the brain works for anyone to understand\, they’ll discuss a Jeff’s new theory and explore what it could mean not only for advancements in science like machine intelligence\, but also its broader implications for all of us as people. This will be a smart\, fun night celebrating a key moment in our understanding of the human brain: don’t miss it! \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. \nRegistration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-hawkins-with-anil-ananthaswamy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sam Cohen and Andrea Lawlor
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, March 10th at 6pm PT when Sam Cohen discusses her story collection\, Sarahland\, with Andrea Lawlor on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85188314830\n\nPraise for Sarahland\n“A bold collection that explores how we might break free from or reimagine ourselves and our places in the universe.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n“Reading SARAHLAND is pure pleasure – what a voice! What a constant flow of funny and vulnerable and distinct awarenesses! Sam Cohen’s writing is joyously itself and places its own keen\, insightful gaze on the ways we relate to ourselves and to others.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\n“I’m deeply struck by the emotional wisdom\, the cultural smarts\, the literary vulnerability and serious skills happening in SARAHLAND. Rarely do I feel so seen by a book. I gobbled this work up with feverish excitement and gratitude\, and weeks later feel like I am carrying these stories around in my head and in my heart.”—Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir\n\n“Cohen handles her sentences\, her Sarah’s\, both gently and confidently. The result: a debut of equal parts ugly and beauty\, a debut full of heartbreakingly real characters.” —Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of Pizza Girl\nAbout Sarahland\n\n“Queer\, dirty\, insightful\, and so funny” (Andrea Lawlor)\, this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.\n\nNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29\n\nIn Sarahland\, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us\, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories\, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it\, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story\, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure—and a new set of problems—by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the collection progresses\, Cohen explodes this search for self\, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving “Sarah” gets recast: as a bible-era trans woman\, an aging lesbian literally growing roots\, a being who transcends the earth as we know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday end\, “Sarah” will continue.\n\nIn each Sarah’s refusal to adhere to a single narrative\, she potentially builds a better home for us all\, a place to live that demands no fixity of self\, no plague of consumerism\, no bodily compromise\, a place called Sarahland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sam-cohen-and-andrea-lawlor-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Passage Presents: Elizabeth Wetmore - Valentine
DESCRIPTION:Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver\, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. \nMercy is hard in a place like this . . . \nIt’s February 1976\, and Odessa\, Texas\, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity\, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. \nIn the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day\, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house\, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive\, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. \nValentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race\, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear\, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart\, this fierce\, unflinching\, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability\, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. \nElizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch\, Kenyon Review\, Colorado Review\, Baltimore Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Iowa Review\, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas\, she lives and works in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-passage-presents-elizabeth-wetmore-valentine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poets and scholars\, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening” series. Their works are profound explorations of the collocations of Black music and experimental poetics and of the “freedom drive” of Black life and the “fugitive impulses” in Black performance
URL:https://litseen.com/event/social-listening-4-nathaniel-mackey-fred-moten/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio\nThu Mar 11th 5:00pm – 6:30pm\nBuy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nLitquake is thrilled to welcome Lysley Tenorio to our Seismic Salon series! Of his recent novel The Son of Good Fortune (paperback due April 13)\, Refinery 29 writes: “Tenorio’s brilliant\, witty novel about the love of a mother and son\, the immigrant experience in America\, and the surreality of our current reality\, is bold\, ambitious\, and unforgettable.” He is also author of the story collection Monstress\, which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, the Edmund White Award\, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares. Born in the Philippines\, he lives in San Francisco\, and is a professor at Saint Mary’s. Prep your favorite cocktail and ask the very entertaining Lysley about how he manages to move between short and long fiction. \nBuy Lysley Tenorio’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-lysley-tenorio/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Elemental: Earth Stories A celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press
DESCRIPTION:Center for the Art of Translation presents Jessica Cohen\, Allison Charette\, and Brian Bergstrom in conversation about the latest installment in the Calico Series\, Elemental: Earth Stories. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Elemental: Earth Stories\nA family’s heirloom stones unearth a story spanning war\, illness\, and radioactivity. A pipeline installed to protect a town from flooding results in a howling that disturbs the town’s inhabitants. A political prisoner embarks on an epic flight toward freedom\, literally blown like a kite in the wind. \nA whirlwind of fantastic new writing from Japan\, Iran\, Norway\, Germany\, Madagascar\, Iraq\, Poland\, and Israel\, this collection of fiction and reportage maps the intimate\, ongoing relationship between human civilization and the natural world. Do we set the limits on our existence? Or is it wind\, water\, fire\, and earth that define–even control–us? Borrowing from eco-literature and mythology\, Elemental unflinchingly takes up the earth. \n“Stone\, earth\, water\, ice\, wind\, and burning heat. The stories here dig deep and unexpectedly into life’s fundamentals—the elements and the passions—bringing into English\, many for the first time\, writers of stature from across the globe. A celebration of both storytelling and translation\, Elemental is essential\, a gift that opens up the pleasures of new worlds.” —Hugh Raffles\, author of The Book of Unconformities \nAbout the Calico Series\nThe Calico Series\, published biannually by Two Lines Press\, captures vanguard works of translated literature in stylish\, collectible editions. Each Calico is a vibrant snapshot that explores one aspect of our present moment\, offering the voices of previously inaccessible\, highly innovative writers from around the world today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elemental-earth-stories-a-celebration-of-the-latest-installment-of-the-calico-series-from-two-lines-press/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T193000
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SUMMARY:Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents:\nPoets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event\nFloaters \nMARTIN ESPADA\, a poet who stirs our social consciousness\,  has published twenty books as a poet\, editor\, essayist and translator\, including Vivas To Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Republic of Poetry. \nHis latest book\, Floaters\, offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies\, songs of protest and songs of love.  The title is a term used by some Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over the border.  Espada bears eloquent witness to  confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love. Whether celebrating the visionaries – the fallen dreamers\, rebels\, and poets – or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria\, Espada invokes ferocious\, incandescent spirits. \nDENNIS BERNSTEIN \, a poet and investigative journalist\, is the producer of Flashpoints (heard weekdays at 5pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. His political essays have appeared in numerous newspapers\, magazines and websites. His latest book of poems is Five Oceans in a Teaspoon\, with typographic visualizations by Warren Lehrer. The poems in it reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. It spans a single lifetime: from growing up confused by dyslexia to becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermath\, to prison\, street life\, poverty\, love and loss\, to open heart surgery. Five Oceans in a Teaspoon speaks to the madness\, vulnerability\, aspiration and language of our time. The raw emotion of the writing has a freshness rarely encountered.  The book was a winner for Poetry in the 2020 Best Book Awards/American Book Fest\, and a finalist in the International Book award for Poetry. \nSuggested Donation $1-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-espada-and-dennis-bernstein-floaters-tickets-130079233489 ken@kpfa.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-martin-espada-dennis-bernstein-a-zoom-event-floaters-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Arisa White / Who's Your Daddy\, with Dan Alter\, Michael 'MJ' Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Arisa White for her new book Who’s Your Daddy. She’ll be joined for a group reading by former students (bottom row\, from R-L) Dan Alter\, Michael ‘MJ’ Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of Who’s Your Daddy here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA lyrical\, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer\, Black\, Guyanese American woman who\, while seeking to define her own place in the world\, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father. \n“This beautifully\, honestly conceived genius of a book shook me to the core.” – Dara Wier \n“What she gives us are archives\, allegories\, and wholly new songs.” – Terrance Hayes \n“In these crisply narrative poems\, which unreel like heart-wrenching fragments of film\, Arisa White not only names that gaping chasm between father and daughter\, but graces it with its true and terrible face.” – Patricia Smith \n\nAbout the authors\nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, A Penny Saved\, and Hurrah’s Nest. Her poetry has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, NAACP Image Award\, California Book Award\, and Wheatley Book Award. The chapbook “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. She’s the co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up\, the second book in the Fighting for Justice series for young readers\, which received the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Middle-Grade Nonfiction and the Maine Literary Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Who’s Your Daddy is her poetic memoir debut from Augury Books. Arisa serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. Author photo by Nye’ Lyn Tho. \nDan Alter’s poems and reviews have been published in journals including Field\, Fourteen Hills\, Pank\, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles will be out in 2021 from Eyewear Press. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley and makes his living as an IBEW electrician. \nMichal ‘MJ’ Jones is a poet and parent in Oakland\, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly\, Kissing Dynamite\, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, and TriQuarterly Review. They are an assistant poetry editor at Foglifter Press\, and have received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, VONA/Voices\, and Kearny Street Workshop. They are currently an MFA graduate fellow at Mills College. \nHernan De La Cruz Ramos is a poet from northern NJ and he currently resides in Oakland\, CA. He has been published in The Night Heron Barks and can be found on social media @penpalsocks \nA.A. Vincent is a disabled poet and essayist\, and is a product of Chicago’s South Side and its suburbs. Her work has appeared in Santa Clara Review\, SF Weekly\, Quiet Lightning\, and Street Sheet SF. She received her MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-arisa-white-whos-your-daddy-with-dan-alter-michael-mj-jones-hernan-de-la-cruz-ramos-a-a-vincent-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers
DESCRIPTION:The Mill Valley Public Library & The Marin Poetry Center invite you to a virtual book launch for Heyday Books’ release of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers.  \nThe evening will celebrate fifty years of poetry written in and inspired by the High Sierra workshop. Pulitzer Prize winners Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Sharon Olds\, and Greg Pardlo will join Brenda Hillman & other notables to read a poem from this unique collection. The evening of poetry and celebration\, including a musical introduction by Cornelius Eady\, is sure to inspire! \nFor more information about the anthology and how to order a copy\, visit MPC’s Bookshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-to-these-rocks-50-years-of-poems-from-the-community-of-writers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Joe Ide\, Smoke
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with bestselling author and staff favorite Joe Ide\, who will discuss Smoke\, the newest installment in his IQ series. Isaiah Quintabe—an unlicensed detective for all seasons—and his best friend and masterful sidekick\, Juanell Dodson\, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the “aggressively entertaining” IQ series (New York Times). This time\, their lives may never be the same. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nIsaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ\, the genius of East Long Beach; instead\, he’s a man on the road and on the run\, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state’s most prolific serial killer. \nHis old partner\, Juanell Dodson\, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil’s bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency\, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual\, but where the aging company’s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson—”the hustler’s hustler”—just may be the right man for the job. \nIde is the crime writer’s crime writer\, and he’s filled his best novel yet with desperate souls\, courageous outcasts\, an ex-stripper who’ll do anything to protect her son\, and wild half-brothers who may be the very incarnation of evil. With deft plotting\, lacerating humor\, and a keen eye for the ways in which characters rise or fall based on their ties to one another\, Smoke is Joe Ide’s crowning achievement. \n“Ide has displayed a rare ability to mix dark comedy and gut-churning drama…mixmaster Ide’s compulsion to blend light and dark (Isaiah’s confrontation with the serial killers\, while gruesome\, takes the form of “a slapstick movie shot in a burning insane asylum”) affects the two plots in surprising ways\, again producing an emotion-rich form of character-driven tragicomedy\, but one in which peril forever loiters in the shallows.” —Booklist \nJoe Ide is of Japanese American descent. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles\, Joe’s favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him. Joe went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers before writing his debut novel\, IQ\, inspired by his early experiences and his love of Sherlock Holmes. Joe lives in Santa Monica\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-joe-ide-smoke/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Dena Grunt launches Table with a View: The History & Recipes of Nick's Cove
DESCRIPTION:Dena Grunt joins us to celebrate the release of Table with a View: The History & Recipes of Nick’s Cove (Cameron Books). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \n  \nAbout Table with a View\nNorthern California’s historic Nick’s Cove restaurant brings you the finest in seasonal farm-to-table and seafood cuisine \nNick’s Cove\, perched alongside beautiful Tomales Bay\, opened its doors in the 1930s and has been a Northern California destination ever since. Table with a View: The History and Recipes of Nick’s Cove celebrates the historic restaurant\, bar\, and inn’s award-winning cuisine\, which features fresh seafood\, locally sourced meats\, and seasonal produce from their on-site farm and garden\, the Croft. Inspired by the area’s serene natural beauty and abundant resources\, the restaurant’s dishes reflect the perfect combination of comfort and refinement\, embracing an elegant approach to hearty farm-to-table cuisine. From new takes on classics such as Oysters Nickerfeller and Crab Benedict to hearty fare like Dungeness Crab Mac and Cheese and Seared Duck with Blackberry Sauce\, Table with a View is much more than a cookbook—it’s a celebration of a cultural heritage in a region shaped largely by its culinary bounty. \nAbout Dena Grunt\nDena Grunt is president of Highway 1 Hospitality and oversees all aspects of operations at the company’s Northern California businesses. She lives in Petaluma\, California\, with her husband and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dena-grunt-launches-table-with-a-view-the-history-recipes-of-nicks-cove/
LOCATION:CA
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of EVERYTHING AFTER with Author Jill Santopolo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 11\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, EVERYTHING AFTER\, with author Jill Santopolo. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88322734719. \n(Order your copy of  EVERYTHING AFTER at https://bit.ly/ggpEverythingAfter\, or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/EverythingAfterAB. \nDescription\n\nThe Light We Lost mixes with a touch of Daisy Jones and the Six in this novel of first love\, passion\, and the power of choice–and how we cannot escape the people we are meant to be. \nTwo loves. Two choices. One chance to follow her dreams. \nEmily has come a long way since she lost her two passions fifteen years ago: music\, and Rob. She’s a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband\, Ezra\, she has a beautiful life. They’re happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily’s present too closely echoes her past\, and parts of her story that she’d hoped never to share come to light\, her perfect life is suddenly upturned. Then Emily hears a song on the radio about the woman who got away. The melody and voice are hauntingly familiar. Could it be? As Emily’s past passions come roaring back into her life\, she’ll find herself asking: Who is she meant to be? Who is she meant to love? \nAbout the Author\n\nJill Santopolo is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Light We Lost and More Than Words. Her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is also the author of three successful children’s and young-adult series and works as the associate publisher of Philomel Books. Santopolo travels the world to speak about writing and storytelling. A New Yorker at heart\, Jill is currently living in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-of-everything-after-with-author-jill-santopolo/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Alan Chazaro\, Raina J. León\, Tongo Eisen Martin\, and Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, MARCH 11 AT 7PM PT\, FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING BAY AREA POETRY AND ALAN CHAZARO’S LATEST COLLECTION PIÑATA THEORY\, ON ZOOM!\nFEATURED READERS INCLUDE:\nALAN CHAZARO\, RAINA J. LEÓN\, TONGO EISEN MARTIN\, AND BARBARA JANE REYES\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84144654181\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84144654181#  or +13462487799\,\,84144654181#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kfZgMQqEA\n \nPraise for Piñata Theory \nCante Jundo\, or “Deep Song\,” is what Garcia Lorca called poetry attached to the rhythms and waves of a continent\, its people\, its waters\, its history. In Alan Chazaro’s Piñata Theory\, those resonances echo across the field “between the countries of your body\,” the shared stories of cousin-cultures stretching across manmade boundaries. “I’ve become a borderland of tongues\,” writes Chazaro\, “a mezcla of eyes.” Here is the piñata\, unbroken\, containing\, holding together all the promise of youth and imagination. When it spills\, it spills lavishly and generously its treasures.—D.A. Powell \nThe great American philosopher Jay Z once said\, “You can’t heal/what you don’t reveal.” Such is the ethos of this debut collection. Pugilistic\, unflinchingly honest\, and damn right gorgeous\, Piñata Theory no se raja in decirnos how broken we are\, how broken we’ve been. Alan takes the hyphen in Mexican-American\, this unruly papier-mache we’ve inherited\, and clothes the hollow of us. So before leafing this book\, dear reader\, take a breath—for your sake\, for those who still can’t breathe. Stomach his hard-hitting truth\, because “We were made for beatdowns.” This some strong shit\, as blunt as a spliffed Swisher\, as the dusty 2×4’s we’d wield at dangling dulce. Whenever you ready\, step inside this circle of homies. We’re cheering on our Yay Area champ as he plants both feet in this poetry world. It’s his turn. And as he swings for our freedom\, sing like we did as kids\, “Dale dale dale\, no pierdas el tino.”—Antonio López \nWe don’t get to witness a root as it reaches out and absorbs from all around itself. But Piñata Theory by Alan Chazaro is evidence of this Mexican-American navigation—it is the bud and the strange blossom that doesn’t resist itself like Xicanos sometimes do. And in this way\, it is like the serious ache a family joke leaves. It’s the men watching other men cry\, lost gold teeth and the person that misses it\, the thoughts loose like dogs on the street and how in their wildness\, we must honor them. These poems reverb under the skin but not necessarily in the colonized body. The speaker in this collection knows better than to make their body fully responsible for the world. And yet\, they know where they participate. They don’t “live with dust in [their] eyes\,” or with unaccounted admiration for life. Piñata Theory is a record of layer\, and speaks of us in a humor that is pure pocho-dimensional. Its truth is a deep wound and the “fuck it” that follows. And still\, each poem seems to be written in a special wonder that gathers itself from many places inside the speaker’s one body\, one root.—Sara Borjas \nAbout Alan Chazaro \nAlan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019) and Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley\, a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco\, and co-founding editor of HeadFake\, an online NBA zine. He chirps about Mexican memes\, the Golden State Warriors\, and Bay Area rap on Twitter @alan_chazaro
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-alan-chazaro-raina-j-leon-tongo-eisen-martin-and-barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #50
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-50/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Babylon Salon presents Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Spring event\, featuring readings by Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról! \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here. \nAbout the authors \nRoberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins)\, a  New York Times “Editor’s Choice” that the paper’s Book Review hailed as a “powerful” nonfiction book and a “groundbreaking memoir.”  Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must read” 2020 book and the Los Angeles Times listed it as one of its 20 Best Books of 2020. Lovato is also an educator\, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco\, California. As a Co-Founder of #DignidadLiteraria\, he helped build a movement advocating for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves in the United States and out of the national dialogue. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center\, Lovato has reported on numerous issues—violence\, terrorism\, the drug war and the refugee crisis—from Mexico\, Venezuela\, El Salvador\, Dominican Republic\, Haiti\, France and the United States\, among other countries. Order Unforgetting by Roberto Lovato. \nMatt Bell’s next novel\, Appleseed\, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done\, a guide to novel writing\, rewriting\, and revision\, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall\, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II\, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Fairy Tale Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many other publications. A native of Michigan\, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. His novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Book of the Year Honor Recipient\, and was selected as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award\, among other honors. Both In the House and Scrapper were selected by the Library of Michigan as Michigan Notable Books. Order books by Matt Bell. \nElizabeth Geoghegan was born in New York\, grew up in the Midwest\, and lives in Rome. She is the author of two short story collections eightball and Natural Disasters\, and the bestselling memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Best Travel Writing\, TIME\, El Pais\, Words Without Borders\, BOMB\, and elsewhere. Order books by Elizabeth Geoghegan. \nPaulo K Tiról is a composer\, lyricist and bookwriter of musical theatre from Manila\, Philippines. He was in the 2019-’20 class of Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows\, and an artist-in-residence at Access Theater with director Noam Shapiro. His projects include music and lyrics for On This Side of the World (NAMT Festival 2020\, Prospect Theater Co.’s IGNITE series\, workshop production at Access Theater\, all dir. Noam Shapiro); book\, music and lyrics for Called (DGF Fellows showcase\, dir. May Adrales); and orchestrations for Ma-Yi Theater Co.’s Felix Starro. His work has been presented at Joe’s Pub\, Barrington Stage\, Prospect Theater Co.’s Musical Theater Lab\, and more. Alongside his work in musical theatre\, Paulo is also a composer of liturgical music\, with work published by Oregon Catholic Press (OCP)\, and church music director working in New York City and Jersey City. Training: Ateneo de Manila University\, Berklee College of Music\, NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (full tuition scholarship)\, BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. He lives in Jersey City\, NJ with his husband Jeremy. More at www.paulophonic.com. \n  \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here.
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