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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/
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SUMMARY:Donna Leon
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nGuests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording of this thrilling conversation. Please note the 12 pm PDT start time. Reserve your spot early! \n*** \nDonna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti is one of the most likable\, captivating characters in mystery: incisive\, principled\, and dogged yet cultured\, this hard-driving detective has a uniquely soft edge\, and his fierce protectiveness of Venice and its people have long made Brunetti a reader favorite. The protagonist of Leon’s iconic Venice-based mystery series has been almost as loved as Leon for decades. \nOn March 16th\, Kepler’s Literary Foundation is thrilled to present the 30th book in Brunetti’s saga\, Transient Desires. Leon herself will join us for an exciting in-conversation webinar to share the new novel\, talk shop about the mystery genre\, the Venice she loves\, and more. Whether you’re a new reader or have followed every installment of Brunetti’s mysteries\, it’s time to celebrate— because this novel has all of the hallmarks that make Leon’s mysteries unputdownable. \nWhen two young American women return with brutal injuries after joyriding in the Laguna with local young men\, hawk-eyed Brunetti questions why their escorts vanish so quickly after bringing the injured women to the hospital. Following that thread\, Brunetti uncovers what a gut-wrenching\, complex case that leads to technically brilliant and ruthlessly organized criminals operating underground in the beautiful\, storied city. As pursuit of justice takes Brunetti further afield\, he must rely on new colleagues whose truthfulness and motivations are not always clear. Absorbing and richly atmospheric\, with a keen insight into human failing plus all of Leon’s finesse for finely plotted twists\, the 30th Brunetti mystery will be an absolute delight for diehard fans and new readers alike. \nJoin us for an engrossing escape to Venice with Donna Leon online with Kepler’s this March. \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. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-leon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sky Nelson-Isaacs - Leap to Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:An investigation into the physics of light and our journey toward healing\, connection\, and wholeness. \nThe reductionism and materialism of our modern world make it easy to imagine everything can be cleanly broken down into smaller and smaller parts. Yet the straightforward example of light in a hologram\, which can’t be reduced to its parts\, points to an underlying interconnected reality—a wholeness. Physicist Sky Nelson-Isaacs uses numerous familiar examples—rainbows\, music\, photography—to illustrate a fundamental wholeness found in nature. \nJust as light is filtered as it passes through a filmstrip\, Nelson-Isaacs points out that our human experience is filtered through thoughts and feelings. This view provides an explanation as to why\, in our daily lived reality\, we can feel so broken and not-whole. Nelson-Isaacs weaves together cutting-edge ideas into the nature of space and time and original research\, with a compelling message of urgency. The filters we use to make choices everyday hide important information from us\, leading us away from experiences of flow. Through synchronicities\, we are led to life lessons tailored to our readiness for change. Nelson-Isaacs reconsiders the view of time itself\, suggesting that we live not just in this moment but on a timeline of history\, part of a wave moving from our past into our future. Every choice we make shifts what is available to us. Can we learn to rethink our lives and reality to remove our filters and realize the wholeness that we have inherent in ourselves and in our world? Yes\, says Nelson-Isaacs—and once we do that\, we can use the multiverse of possibilities to make choices that help us heal and grow into a greater sense of ourselves. \nSky Nelson-Isaacs is a theoretical physicist\, speaker\, author\, and musician. He has a masters degree in physics from San Francisco State University\, with a thesis in String Theory\, and a BS in physics from UC Berkeley. Nelson-Isaacs has dedicated his life to finding his own sense of purpose\, beginning as a student of the Yogic master Sri Swami Satchidananda when he was less than five years old. Discovering an early fascination with holograms and some of the most fundamental questions in physics\, he has sought for over two decades to establish a connection between synchronicity\, physics\, and real life using research and original ideas. An educator with nine years of classroom experience\, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sky-nelson-isaacs-leap-to-wholeness/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:One City One Book: Chanel Miller
DESCRIPTION:One City One Book: Chanel Miller\nTue Mar 16th 6:00pm – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with San Francisco Public Library \nLitquake is honored to partner with San Francisco Public Library to celebrate its 16th annual One City One Book selection\, Know My Name by Chanel Miller. A citywide literary event\, One City One Book encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in a variety of public programs. Chanel Miller joins Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art\, and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the California court system. \nClick here to register and buy books. \nUniversally acclaimed and rapturously reviewed\, Chanel Miller’s breathtaking New York Times bestselling memoir “gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe\, but as Chanel Miller the writer\, the artist\, the survivor\, the fighter” (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators\, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable\, and\, ultimately\, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book\, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, People\, and NPR\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian-American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. Her contribution to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ special issue #WeToo: A Reader details her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member\, and the healing process she went through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-city-one-book-chanel-miller/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Chanel Miller in conversation with journalist Robynn Takayama
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Public Library is honored to announce its 16th Annual One City One Book selection\, Chanel Miller’s\, Know My Name. \nChanel Miller will join Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book\, art and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the CA court system.  Zoom doors will open at 5:50. \nChanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller\, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time\, NPR and the Washington Post\, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym\, “Emily Doe.” \nRobynn Takayama is an Asian American media artist who presents complex stories about communities of color. Takayama contributes stories to public radio which reveal little-known intersectional histories of America’s diverse populations\, including the Peabody-award winning documentary series\, Crossing East\, on the history of Asian immigration to the United States. \nTakayama has contributed to the Journal of Asian American Studies’ #WeToo Reader. In it\, she shares her experience as an Asian American survivor\, the complications that arise when the perpetrator is a family member and the healing process she went through. \nFor Spanish or Cantonese\, please register. Closed captioning will be available in English. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/16/author-chanel-miller-conversation-journalist-robynn-takayama sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chanel-miller-in-conversation-with-journalist-robynn-takayama/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kim Addonizio & Friends
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of her new collection \nNow We’re Getting Somewhere: Poems \npublished by W.W. Norton \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. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world. \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. \nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. \nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-addonizio-friends/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Naima Coster / What's Mine and Yours
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host Naima Coster for her novel What’s Mine and Yours. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order What’s Mine and Yours here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students\, Gee and Noelle\, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the span of the next twenty years. \nOn one side of the integration debate is Jade\, Gee’s steely\, ambitious mother. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss\, she is determined to give her son the tools he’ll need to survive in America as a sensitive\, anxious\, young Black man. On the other side is Noelle’s headstrong mother\, Lacey May\, a white woman who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. She strives to protect them as she couldn’t protect herself from the influence of their charming but unreliable father\, Robbie. \nWhen Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divide between new and old students\, their paths collide\, and their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted\, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers—each determined to see her child inherit a better life—will make choices that will haunt them for decades to come. \nAs love is built and lost\, and the past never too far behind\, What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive\, vibrant tapestry that moves between the years\, from the foothills of North Carolina\, to Atlanta\, Los Angeles\, and Paris. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together. \n\nAbout the author\nNaima Coster is the author of Halsey Street\, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Kweli\, the Paris Review Daily\, Catapult\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University\, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing for over a decade\, in community settings\, youth programs\, and universities. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-naima-coster-whats-mine-and-yours/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: LaRayia Gaston and Jeneé Darden
DESCRIPTION:When LaRayia Gaston was a child\, her mother told her “I don’t care what you do; you just have to do your part.” It was a directive LaRayia took to heart\, touching thousands of lives in the process. With her debut book\, Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck\, this firebrand activist\, visionary\, and documentarian offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy\, beautiful\, complex humanity. \nLaRayia’s “giving a f*ck” credo began when she was working at a restaurant at 14\, and took it upon herself to offer an unhoused man “perfectly good food” that would otherwise have gone to waste. Today\, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit she founded in her twenties\, Lunch On Me\, redistributes organic food\, providing meals to 10\,000 people on Skid Row every month. And\, because nourishment doesn’t end with food\, Lunch on Me also feeds the minds and spirits of those who are struggling\, offering yoga classes\, community parties\, and healing gatherings. All in all\, LaRayia lives by “following the joy\,” and Love Without Reason is the latest stop on that can’t-lose path. Says bestselling author Dr. Will Cole\, “The radical love you will learn to tap into in this book is not the vapid ‘love’ so flippantly used today\, but a deep\, authentic love. This book is a beautiful manual of how to live from that love above all else.” \nAn infectiously warm and inspiring public speaker\, LaRayia is living proof that compassion and humility come from a place of formidable strength. Shape calls her a “badass\,” and we have to concur: this is radical love served with a side of bracing truth. Joining LaRayia is another powerhouse woman\, award-winning journalist and author\, Jeneé Darden. In addition to her essays and poetry\, Jeneé is the host of the weekly arts segment Sights and Sounds\, and covers East Oakland for KALW. If you’ve ever wondered whether the actions of a single person\, in a single moment\, can take root and empower countless lives\, this event is for you\, and for everyone you love and cherish. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed bookplate copies are limited and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 16. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States. \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a copy of Love Without Reason after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-larayia-gaston-and-jenee-darden/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist\, and novelist Kazim Ali discusses his new book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water (Milkweed Editions). \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Northern Light\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a queer\, Muslim man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational? \nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused. \nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to. \nAbout Kazim Ali and Natalie Diaz\nKazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light. \nNatalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem and When My Brother Was an Aztec\, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a USA fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kazim-ali/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Robbie Arnott\, The Rain Heron
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott will discuss The Rain Heron\, his gripping new novel of myth\, environment\, adventure\, and an unlikely friendship.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d’état. High on the forested slopes\, she survives by hunting\, farming\, trading\, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit\, led by a young female soldier\, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron—a mythical\, dangerous\, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story\, yet the soldier will not be deterred\, forcing them both into a gruelling quest. \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n“Superb descriptions of nature and weather\, of human emotion and animal instinct\, by Australian novelist Arnott evoke a landscape that is both startlingly immediate and mysteriously otherworldly: the perfect setting for a tense narrative of eco-disaster and fragile endurance. At once an urgent thriller and an elegiac fable\, this mesmerizing tale is as lyrical as it is suspenseful.” ―Kirkus Reviews
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robbie-arnott-the-rain-heron/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: LaRayia Gaston
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MARCH 16 AT 7PM PT WHEN LARAYIA GASTON DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, LOVE WITHOUT REASON: THE LOST ART OF GIVING A F*CK.\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL\nAS A PART OF THEIR WOMEN LIT #UNBOUND SERIES\nPLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT\nFor questions regarding tickets\, please contact ticketing@baybookfest.org \nAbout the Event \nWhen LaRayia Gaston was a child\, her mother told her “I don’t care what you do; you just have to do your part.” It was a directive LaRayia took to heart\, touching thousands of lives in the process. With her debut book\, Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck\, this firebrand activist\, visionary\, and documentarian offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy\, beautiful\, complex humanity. \nLaRayia’s “giving a f*ck” credo began when she was working at a restaurant at 14\, and took it upon herself to offer an unhoused man “perfectly good food” that would otherwise have gone to waste. Today\, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit she founded in her twenties\, Lunch On Me\, redistributes organic food\, providing meals to 10\,000 people on Skid Row every month. And\, because nourishment doesn’t end with food\, Lunch on Me also feeds the minds and spirits of those who are struggling\, offering yoga classes\, community parties\, and healing gatherings. All in all\, LaRayia lives by “following the joy\,” and Love Without Reason is the latest stop on that can’t-lose path. Says bestselling author Dr. Will Cole\, “The radical love you will learn to tap into in this book is not the vapid ‘love’ so flippantly used today\, but a deep\, authentic love. This book is a beautiful manual of how to live from that love above all else.” \nAn infectiously warm and inspiring public speaker\, LaRayia is living proof that compassion and humility come from a place of formidable strength. Shape calls her a “badass\,” and we have to concur: this is radical love served with a side of bracing truth.  If you’ve ever wondered whether the actions of a single person\, in a single moment\, can take root and empower countless lives\, this event is for you\, and for everyone you love and cherish. \nDetails \nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. All copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 16. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States. \nWomen Lit members may reserve a free ticket and will have the option to order a copy of Love Without Reason after signing in to their account. If you would like to join Women Lit\, please sign up here. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-larayia-gaston/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:DEACON KING KONG by James McBride | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 16\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of DEACON KING KONG by James McBride. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81138425681 \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpDeacon or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/DeaconAB \nOne of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” \nOprah’s Book Club Pick \nNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times\, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine \nA Washington Post Notable Novel \nFrom the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water\, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. \nIn September 1969\, a fumbling\, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn\, pulls a .38 from his pocket\, and\, in front of everybody\, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. \nThe reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong\, James McBride’s funny\, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong\, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim\, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it\, the white neighbors\, the local cops assigned to investigate\, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon\, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters\, and Sportcoat himself. \nAs the story deepens\, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge\, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden\, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear\, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. \nBringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity\, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit\, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deacon-king-kong-by-james-mcbride-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #70
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker.\n\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\n\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\n\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\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 https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\n\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-70/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alta Live: Denise Hamilton
DESCRIPTION:In Speculative Los Angeles\, bestselling author and Alta contributor Denise Hamilton reimagines her hometown in dramatically disparate ways by commissioning 13 stories from some of the city’s most prophetic and diverse voices (and adding her own). She joins Alta Live and Alta editor at large Mary Melton for a deep dive into speculative fiction in the City of Angels. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nEdgar Award finalist Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the anthology Los Angeles Noir (which includes the Edgar Award–winning short story “The Golden Gopher” by Susan Straight) and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. She is a former Los Angeles Times journalist\, a Fulbright Scholar\, a noir and sci-fi/fantasy geek\, and a proud L.A. native. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nAs an incubator of the future\, Los Angeles has mesmerized writers from Aldous Huxley to Octavia E. Butler. With its natural disasters\, Hollywood artifice\, staggering wealth and poverty\, and urban sprawl\, the city is\, arguably\, already so weird\, surreal\, irrational\, and mythic that any fiction emerging from it should be considered speculative. That’s the approach bestselling author Denise Hamilton took as she assembled 14 stories (including one of her own) and did exactly that in Speculative Los Angeles. \nIn these pages\, you’ll encounter 21st-century changelings\, dirigibles plying the suburban skies\, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia\, beachfront property in currently landlocked Century City\, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy\, psychic death cults\, robot nursemaids\, and an alternate L.A. where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization. Speculative Los Angeles features new stories from Charles Yu\, Aimee Bender\, Lisa Morton\, Alex Espinoza\, Ben H. Winters\, Denise Hamilton\, Lynell George\, Stephen Blackmoore\, Francesca Lia Block\, Duane Swierczynski\, Luis J. Rodriguez\, A.G. Lombardo\, Kathleen Kaufman\, and S. Qiouyi Lu. •
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-live-denise-hamilton/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Submission Roulette
DESCRIPTION:First impressions count—and they never count more than when you’re trying to impress an editor who has 1\,500 submissions to read. Editors often say that they can tell within the first page whether a story will be worth accepting\, so how do you make your first page really shine? Eavesdrop on our evaluation process—and vie to get your story noticed—with Recommended Reading editors Halimah Marcus and Brandon Taylor. They’ll be reading opening pages submitted just for the occasion\, sharing their reactions and thought processes as they go. Submit your own first page anonymously to see if your story has what it takes to catch our editors’ eyes\, or simply tune in to see how other writers fare.  \n  \nSubmission instructions: You can find the link to submit in the chat\, on the right hand side of the event page. (Please note\, you will only see the chat if you are registered for the event.) If you are unable to find the submission portal or have questions about submitting\, email preety@electricliterature.com. Please submit one page of fiction\, double spaced\, in 12 pt\, Times New Roman font. Your submission should be the first page of a story or novel chapter that you would like to submit (to a literary magazine\, agent\, MFA program\, etc.). Do not include any identifying information on the document. You may submit only one entry. \n  \nWe will select and anonymize a dozen or so submissions to read and respond to during the salon. Prescreens will be conducted by other RR editors so Brandon and Halimah will read the work for the first time live on Crowdcast.  \n  \nSubmissions are optional. You are welcome to attend the salon without submitting. Please be advised that salon submissions will not be considered for publication\, and that not all submissions will be read during the salon. For information on how to submit your stories for publication in Electric Literature\, please visit our submissions page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/submission-roulette/
LOCATION:Crowdcast
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mahogany L. Browne\, Safia Elhillo in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the San Francisco Public Library in welcoming the San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, along with celebrated authors Mahogany L. Browne and Safia Elhillo to discuss and give readings from their latest works. \nTongo Eisen-Martin is the San Francisco Poet Laureate appointed by Mayor London N. Breed in January 2021. He is the founder of Black Freighter Press. His book\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes”\, received a 2018 American Book Award\, the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Tune into his inaugural address on April 21. \nMahogany L. Browne is a writer\, organizer and educator. Executive Director of Bowery Poetry Club & Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC & Poetry Coordinator at St. Francis College\, Browne has received fellowships from Agnes Gund\, Air Serenbe\, Cave Canem\, Poets House\, Mellon Research & Rauschenberg. She is the author of most recent works: “Chlorine Sky”\, “Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice”\, “Woke Baby” & “Black Girl Magic”. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children which received the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award\, “Girls That Never Die” and the novel in verse “Home Is Not A Country” (Make Me A World/Random House\, 2021).?Sudanese by way of Washington\, DC\, she holds an MFA from The New School\, a Cave Canem Fellowship and a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Elhillo is a Pushcart Prize nominee and noted in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/03/17/author-tongo-eisen-marten-mahogany-l-browne-and-safia-elhillo-conversation sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-mahogany-l-browne-safia-elhillo-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading featuring Terrance Hayes and Simone White
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Arts Research Center in welcoming two of America’s most compelling poets\, Terrance Hayes and Simone White\, on Wednesday\, March 17\, 2021 at 4pm PST. This event is part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses program\, generously funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation. Following their individual readings\, they will be in conversation with UC Berkeley professor and Poetry & the Senses board member Chiyuma Elliott. This event will be live streamed on ARC’s YouTube channel\, and live captioned. All of ARC’s programs are free and open to the public. \nDuring spring 2021\, ARC will celebrate poetry and explore the theme of emerge/ncy: voices to carry with us in times of crisis\, with group readings every month\, and short flash readings released online. This semester-long festival of poetry is generously funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation\, and is part of ARC’s Poetry & the Senses initiative. \n\nTerrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead\, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music\, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic\, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series\, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection\, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award\, two Pushcart selections\, eight Best American Poetry selections\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Guggenheim Foundation. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Fence\, The Kenyon Review\, Jubilat\, and Harvard Review. He is a professor of English at New York University. \n\nSimone White is the author of or\, on being the other woman (forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2021)\, Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018)\, Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem\, 2016)\, and House Envy of All the World (Factory School\, 2010)\, the poetry chapbook\, Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2013)\, and the collaborative poem/painting chapbook\, Dolly (with Kim Thomas) (Q Ave\, 2008). Her poetry and prose have been featured in Artforum\, e-flux\, Harper’s Magazine\, BOMB Magazine\, Chicago Review\, The New York Times Book Review\, and Harriet: The Blog. Her honors include a 2021 Creative Capital Award\, a 2017 Whiting Award in Poetry\, Cave Canem Foundation fellowships\, and recognition as a New American Poet for the Poetry Society of America in 2013. A graduate of Wesleyan University\, she holds a JD from Harvard Law School\, an MFA from the New School\, and a PhD in English from CUNY Graduate Center. She is the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives in Brooklyn. \n\nChiyuma Elliott is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics\, visual culture\, and intellectual history from the 1920s to the present. Before joining the Berkeley faculty\, Elliott was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, and Assistant Professor of English\, Creative Writing\, and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. A Cave Canem Alumni Fellow\, she has also received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society\, the James Irvine Foundation\, and the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Elliott has published three books of poetry: At Most (2020)\, Vigil (2017)\, and California Winter League (2015) and her creative work has appeared in the African American Review\, Callaloo\, the Collagist\, the Notre Dame Review\, the PN Review\, and other journals. \n\nThis event is part of the Arts Research Center’s Poetry & the Senses program\, a two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) that explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. Funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation. \nImage credit: Simone White by Dana Scruggs.
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LOCATION:YouTube
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\nThe Color Purple by Alice Walker \nWow do you owe it to yourself to (re)read The Color Purple. The linguistic richness\, the twist on the epistolary structure\, the breadth of warm\, complex characters—all of this makes The Color Purple a must-(re)read. Dive in for Walker’s amazing use of dialect alone! \n Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, Walker’s 1982 novel has been one of the nation’s most “challenged” books\, often banned for violence and (excellent\, progressive) sexual content. While all the awards are exceedingly well deserved\, Kimberly mostly couldn’t believe just how smart\, absorbing and inspirational the book feels in 2020. \n Perhaps overshadowed by the works of Toni Morrison\, Maya Angelou and even the inimitable Zora Neale Hurston—whom Walker resurrected from literary oblivion—Walker’s masterpiece deserves more attention and our careful dissection. Join Kimberly for this delicious novel\, one that’s particularly important as we Americans examine longstanding thoughts about sex\, race and inequity. \n Book will be shipped directly to you so that you may read it prior to the seminar. You may also choose to pick the book up at Kepler’s in Menlo Park as another option.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-the-color-purple-by-alice-walker/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics and Dirges returns with a fabulous reading focusing on literary translation. We have three translators who are also poets and writers to present their recent translations as well as speaking about how translating and their own creative writing inform each other.\n\nWe are on Zoom (link below) and FB Live (Lyrics & Dirges page)\n\nAnna Christine Rodas\nKaveh Bassiri\nZackary Sholem Berger\n\nAnna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master’s Degree in Community Development and worked in this field both here in the Bay Area and internationally. Her academic research in Central American Literary Studies explores the social realities of war\, violence\, and trauma. Her poetry is an effort to bring the voices of these experiences to the page\, especially those of women. She views the female body as a colonized space and the written word as a practice to reclaim sovereignty.\n\nKaveh Bassiri is the author of two chapbooks: 99 Names of Exile (2019)\, winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize\, and Elementary English (2020)\, winner of Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. He is also the recipient of a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His translations have appeared in The Common\, Chicago Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, Two Lines\, The Los Angeles Review\, and The Massachusetts Review.\n\nZackary Sholem Berger (zackarysholemberger.com\, Twitter @DrZackaryBerger) is a poet and translator in English\, Yiddish\, and Hebrew. He writes frequently for the Yiddish Forward and other publications. His latest translation is Essential Prose of Avrom Sutzkever (White Goat Press\, 2020).\n\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94477442252\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,94477442252# or +12532158782\,94477442252#\nOr Telephone:\nDial:\n+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n+1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)\n+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)\n+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)\n+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)\nMeeting ID: 944 7744 2252\nInternational numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/ab18rLmNGx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-in-translation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Launch for Jeff Chang & Dave "Davey D" Cook / Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition): A Hip-Hop History
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook for the Young Adult Edition of their classic\, American Book Award-winning Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Young Adult Edition) here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nFrom award-winning author Jeff Chang\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is the story of hip-hop\, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever. \nHip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America\, giving new voice to the younger generation. It defines a generation’s worldview. Exploring hip hop’s beginnings up to the present day\, Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook provide a provocative look into the new world that the hip hop generation has created. \nBased on original interviews with DJs\, b-boys\, rappers\, activists\, and gang members\, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip hop’s forebears\, founders\, mavericks\, and present day icons\, this book chronicles the epic events\, ideas and the music that marked the hip hop generation’s rise. \nAbout the authors\nJeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Village Voice\, Vibe\, The Nation\, URB\, Rap Pages\, Spin\, and Mother Jones. He is the author of several books\, including the American Book Award-winning Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. He was a founding editor of Colorlines Magazine\, senior editor at Russell Simmons’s 360hiphop.com\, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides\, now Quannum Projects. He lives in California. Author photo by Jeremy Keith Villaluz. \nDave ‘Davey D’ Cook is a nationally recognized journalist\, adjunct professor at San Francisco State\, Hip Hop historian\, political commentator\, syndicated talk show host\, radio programmer\, media justice and community activist. Author photo by BFRESH Photography. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-jeff-chang-dave-davey-d-cook-cant-stop-wont-stop-young-adult-edition-a-hip-hop-history/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Reading "Queer Flannery O'Connor Award Winners"
DESCRIPTION:The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual publication prize named for author Flannery O’Connor. This month\, Perfectly Queer welcomes three Queer winners of this award to read from their winning short story collection. Lori Ostlund reads from THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD\, Anne Raeff from THE JUNGLE AROUND US\, and Patrick Earl Ryan from IF WE WERE ELECTRIC. A discussion will follow the readings\, including O’Connor’s racism.\n\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom Wednesday\, March 17\, from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time. Get the Zoom link by rsvping on this Facebook event page or by emailing perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com. The link will be sent by Messenger or return email.\nYou can buy these award-winning books from Dog Eared Books Castro at www.dogearedbookscastro.com/shop
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-reading-queer-flannery-oconnor-award-winners/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading: Crystal Williams & Yona Harvey
DESCRIPTION:This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers\, in this case pairing long-time friends who rarely have the opportunity to appear together. \nYona Harvey has published two collection of poetry: Hemming the Water\, for which she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (2020). Harvey’s work has appeared in Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING\, A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry and The Force of What’s Possible: Accessibility and the Avant-Garde. She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay. \n\n\n\n\n\nCrystal Williams’ fourth book of poetry\, Detroit as Barn was a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, Cleveland State Open Book Prize\, and the Maine Book Award. Troubled Tongues was awarded the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award\, the Idaho Poetry Prize\, and the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, PEN: America\, The Indiana Review\, The Sun\, Tin House\, Ms. Magazine\, Ploughshares\, and Callaloo. \n\nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-crystal-williams-yona-harvey/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jenny Offill in conversation with Brit Marling
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Jenny Offill in conversation with Brit Marling\nThursday\, March 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/28/2021\, 03/30/2021\, 03/31/2021\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n“Offill’s fragmentary structure evokes an unbearable emotional intensity: something at the core of the story that cannot be narrated directly\, by straight chronology\, because to do so would be like looking at the sun…” —The New York Times \nJenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things\, Dept. of Speculation\, and\, most recently\, Weather–an ambitious work that balances the concerns of daily life as a wife and mother with the looming apocalypse of climate change. Both hilarious and heartbreaking\, the novel asks readers to think about the mundane ways we live and grapple with our rapidly deteriorating environment. Offill lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-offill-in-conversation-with-brit-marling/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazim Ali and Layli Long Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, March 18th at 6pm PT when Kazim Ali discusses his book\, Northern Light: Power\, Land\, and the Memory of Water\, with Layli Long Soldier on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88443144613\n\nAbout Northern Lights\n\n“Places do not belong to us. We belong to them.”\n\nThe child of South Asian migrants\, Kazim Ali was born in London\, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba\, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes\, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet\, one day\, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg\, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River\, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist\, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?\n\nWhen Ali goes searching\, however\, he finds not news of Jenpeg\, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from the Canadian government\, they have evicted Manitoba’s electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. In a place where water is an integral part of social and cultural life\, the community demands accountability for the harm that the utility has caused.\n\nTroubled\, Ali returns north\, looking to understand his place in this story and eager to listen. Over the course of a week\, he participates in community life\, speaks with Elders and community members\, and learns about the politics of the dam from Chief Cathy Merrick. He drinks tea with activists\, eats corned beef hash with the Chief\, and learns about the history of the dam\, built on land that was never ceded\, and Jenpeg\, a town that now exists mostly in his memory. In building relationships with his former neighbors\, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place\, finally finds a home he might belong to.\n\nPraise for Northern Lights\n\n“Ali’s lyrical\, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of northern Canada. I was mesmerized by the voice of a poet who methodically and artistically recounts his once-i- a-lifetime journey to connect with a Cree tribe called the Pimicikamak\, the original owners and occupiers of the land and water that mesmerized him as a child. The human landscape Kazim Ali creates in his work\, interweaving his own familial and cultural disruption – with those of the Pimicikamak Cree is intriguing and profound.”—Darrel McLeod\, author of Mamaskatch\n\n“Ali’s lyrics are crafted with a controlled\, delicate quality that never stops questioning\, never stops teaching\, never stops astounding.”—American Poet\n\n“Lyrical\, political\, humorous\, light and deep—Ali strikes out in many directions. . . . The resulting harmonies—and even the discord—are beautiful.”—Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazim-ali-and-layli-long-soldier-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Patricia Engel joined by Roberto Lovato\, Jean Guerrero\, Juliana Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Engel is joined by Roberto Lovato\, Jean Guerrero\, Juliana Delgado Lopero \ncelebrating the launch of her new novel \nInfinite Country \npublished by Simon and Schuster \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———– \nFor readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat\, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian family fractured by deportation\, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have endured—and are enduring right now. \nTalia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá\, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight\, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. \nHow this family came to occupy two different countries\, two different worlds\, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia’s parents\, Mauro and Elena\, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn\, Karina\, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa\, and we see the births of two more children\, Nando and Talia\, on American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro’s deportation and the family’s splintering—the costs they’ve all been living with ever since. \nAward-winning\, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel\, herself a dual citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants\, gives voice to all five family members as they navigate the particulars of their respective circumstances. And all the while\, the metronome ticks: Will Talia make it to Bogotá in time? And if she does\, can she bring herself to trade the solid facts of her father and life in Colombia for the distant vision of her mother and siblings in America? \nRich with Bogotá urban life\, steeped in Andean myth\, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America\, Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family—for whom every triumph is stitched with regret\, and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred. \n  \nPatricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean\, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; It’s Not Love\, It’s Just Paris\, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida\, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards\, New York Times Notable Book\, and winner of Colombia’s national book award\, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories\, The Best American Mystery Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents\, Patricia teaches creative writing at the University of Miami. \nRoberto Lovato is a journalist and a member of The Writers Grotto. He is one of the country’s leading writers and thinkers on Central American gangs\, refugees\, violence and other issues. Lovato is also a co-founder of #DignidadLiteraria\, the national movement formed to combat the invisibility and silencing of Latinx stories and books in the U.S. publishing industry. He is also recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center and a former fellow at UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center. His essays and reporting have appeared in numerous publications including Guernica\, Boston Globe\, Foreign Policy\, Guardian\, Los Angeles Times\, Der Spiegel\, La Opinion\, and other national and international publications. His most recent book is Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs\, and Revolution in the Americas published by Harper Collins. He lives in San Francisco. \nJean Guerrero is an investigative journalist\, author and former foreign correspondent. She is the author of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir (2018\, One World\,) winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize. Ms. Guerrero is the recipient of an Emmy Award for the KPBS Sereis AMERICA’S WALL. She is a contributor to the New York Times as well as NPR\, PBS\, and other public media\, and her writing is featured in Best American Essays 2019\, edited by Rebecca Solnit. She is the author of the book HATE MONGER: Stephen Miller\, Donald Trump\, and the White Nationalist Agenda. Guerrero lives in La Mesa\, California. \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker and storyteller based in San Francisco. They’re the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical\, out March 2020 from The Feminist Press. Juli is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Juli’s received awarded fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook\, Headlands Center for The Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Teen Vogue\, The Kenyon Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Rumpus\, The White Review\, LALT\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions  a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. \n  \n  \nPraise for Infinite Country: \n\n“Patricia Engel is a wonder; her novels are marvels of exquisite control and profound and delicately evoked feeling. Infinite Country knocked me out with its elegant and lucid deconstruction of yearning\, family\, belonging\, and sacrifice. This is a book that speaks into the present moment with an oracle’s devastating coolness and clarity.” —Lauren Groff\, author of Florida and Fates and Furies  \n“Clear\, moving\, and perfectly calibrated\, Infinite Country follows the members of one mixed-immigration status family as they navigate dreams\, distance\, and the bonds of love and memory. Patricia Engel is a stunning writer with astonishing talents.” —Lisa Ko\, author of The Leavers \n“Infinite Country is a wonder\, and Patricia Engel is a magician. Epic yet exquisitely private\, a book to make you marvel.” —R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries \n“Engel’s vital story of a divided Colombian family is a book we need to read… The rare immigrant chronicle that is as long on hope as it is on heartbreak.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n\n\n\n“A memorable line—”It was her idea to tie up the nun.”— launches the narrative with the force of a cannon as it switches back and forth between the present and the past. The immigrant’s story might be well-traveled ground\, but Engel (The Veins of the Ocean\, 2016) constructs a layered narrative outlining how the weight of every seemingly minor choice systematically cements into a crushing predicament…Lively folktales of the Muisca peoples punctuate Engel’s remarkable novel as it illuminates the true costs of living in the shadows. Told by a chorus of voices and perspectives\, this is as much an all-American story as it is a global one.” —Booklist (starred review) \n“Powerful and poignant\, Infinite Country crystallizes the questions we are asking today about migration\, family\, and our vision of the future. Patricia Engel has written a memorable and brutally honest response to the simplistic notion of what constitutes the American Dream.” —Maaza Mengiste\, author of The Shadow King \n“Infinite Country is both a timely and timeless novel. In beautiful prose\, Patricia Engel brings to life the courage and complexity of the immigrant experience\, illuminating the hardship of life between two countries and two languages\, and the search for family and belonging.” —Jennifer Clement\, author of Gun Love  \n“Everything Patricia Engel writes is lit up from the inside with beauty and power. Her prose is gorgeous and her characters are always achingly alive. —Carolina de Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“What a breathtaking novel this is\, about family\, forgiveness\, and love while contending with the terrifying unknowns of being an immigrant in a merciless era. There is mercy\, however\, in every scene of Infinite Country—the kind of profound\, understated mercy that manifests in exceptional works of fiction. Patricia Engel is a tremendous writer\, and Infinite Country is her best novel yet.” —Idra Novey\, author of Those Who Knew  \n“A tender\, beautifully written\, and deeply transporting story springing with love and hope. The questions at the heart of Infinite Country are some of the most urgent of our time: Who is allowed in? How will I be known? What is home? Clever\, strong\, and born searching\, Talia hooked me the second she decided to tie up that nun.” —Dina Nayeri\, author of The Ungrateful Refugee \n\n\n\n“Patricia Engel has an elegant voice. But that finesse has a way of making the shocks and surprises in her fiction more stunning. Infinite Country is her most satisfying work. You won’t be sorry. Well\, you will be sorry when it ends.” —Luis Alberto Urrea\, author of House of Broken Angels and The Devil’s Highway \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker and storyteller based in San Francisco. They’re the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical\, out March 2020 from The Feminist Press. Juli is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Juli’s received awarded fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook\, Headlands Center for The Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Teen Vogue\, The Kenyon Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Rumpus\, The White Review\, LALT\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions  a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-engel-joined-by-roberto-lovato-jean-guerrero-juliana-delgado-lopero/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Gabriela Epstein\, The Baby-Sitters Club: Claudia and the New Girl
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Illustrator Gabriela Epstein will be in conversation with Katy Farina about Claudia and the New Girl\, a brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel\, adapted by Epstein. \n“Vibrant\, sweet\, and full of energy and heart. Gabriela is going to knock your socks off!” — Gale Galligan \nCLICK HERE FOR TICKETS! \nClaudia has always been the most creative kid in her class… until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley’s really different: She wears hippie clothes and has multiple earrings\, and she’s the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. \nAshley says Claudia is a great artist\, too\, but thinks she’s wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings\, it becomes clear that Claudia has to make a decision—one of them has to go! \nAnn M. Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club\, which has more than 180 million books in print\, making it one of the most popular series in the history of publishing. Her novels include A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor Book)\, Belle Teal\, Here Today\, A Dog’s Life\, On Christmas Eve\, and the Main Street and Family Tree series\, as well as the much-loved collaborations P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More\, with Paula Danziger. Ann lives in upstate New York. \nGabriela Epstein graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in illustration\, and has worked as a character designer for TV animation. When she isn’t making comics\, she enjoys yo-yoing\, listening to spooky podcasts\, and watching historical documentaries. She lives in Austin\, Texas. Visit her online at gre-art.com. \nKaty Farina is the creator of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaptations of Karen’s Witch\, Karen’s Roller Skates\, and Karen’s Worst Day by Ann M. Martin. She has painted backgrounds for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power at DreamWorks TV and has also done work for BOOM! Studios\, Oni Press\, and Z2 Comics. She lives in Los Angeles. Visit her online at katyfarina.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-gabriela-epstein-the-baby-sitters-club-claudia-and-the-new-girl/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Joshua Merchant
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, March 18 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nFOLLOW THE ZOOM LINK TO RECEIVE A LOGIN TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtdemurjwjHdOrRhd3OOzfRBjqx50s-EN5 \nOnce you register via Zoom\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Joshua Merchant  \n \nJoshua A. Merchant is a native of East Oakland exploring queerness\, blackness\, and the complexities of their intersection through literary arts. Merchant has had the honor to be published as a finalist for the June Jordan Poetry Prize anthology ‘Walk These Streets’ in 2007\, a collaboration with Alice Walker and OUSD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-featuring-joshua-merchant/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes... an Online Open Mic & Community Listening Space
DESCRIPTION:w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team… \nThursday\, March 18th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm PST\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: http://bit.ly/2ZXYbJp \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… is an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what you feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity. \nYou can donate via… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-an-online-open-mic-community-listening-space/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,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.\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.\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.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #33
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic entering into our 3rd consecutive year that happens every third Thursday of the month en el Zoom mundo. Curated y hosted by Josiahluis Alderete.\n\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\n\nThis month’s features: TBA\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Speaking Axolotl\nTime: Jan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Thu\, 12 occurrence(s)\nJan 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nFeb 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMar 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nApr 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nMay 20\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJun 17\, 2021 08:00 PM\nJul 15\, 2021 08:00 PM\nAug 19\, 2021 08:00 PM\nSep 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nOct 21\, 2021 08:00 PM\nNov 18\, 2021 08:00 PM\nDec 16\, 2021 08:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYtd…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006774895\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,82006774895# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,82006774895# 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+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\nMeeting ID: 820 0677 4895\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/koTOCjKqF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-33/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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