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SUMMARY:Santa Clara University Osher: Exciting Adult Learning Zoom Classes
DESCRIPTION:Fall Quarter Open Now through December 4th\, 2020 \nOLLI@SCU: Enjoy learning from home with exciting Zoom (virtual) classes taught by instructors who design their varied courses for curious audiences like you. Join and take advantage of our classes\, events\, and programs (currently remote until safe to be in-person) designed for adult learners who love learning. We offer more than 15 thought-provoking courses each quarter\, on a variety of topics including history\, science\, art\, current events\, law\, literature and culture – all without homework\, tests or grades. There are member-only Special Interest Groups exploring such topics as food\, genealogy\, Italy\, mystery books\, memoir writing\, photography and contemporary issues. OLLI@SCU is here for you\, now. Join us! \nMembership is $55; course fees vary from $50 – $110 depending on length. \nPresented by Santa Clara University Osher Lifelong Learning.
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SUMMARY:WL #UNBOUND: Poised to Soar: Nature-Writing Sensation Helen Macdonald with Vesper Flights
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 24 at 7:00 PM | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \n\nEnvironment/Nature\nWomen/Gender\n\nCamille T. Dungy\, Helen Macdonald\nHelen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir H is For Hawk\, a transcendent meditation on grief\, relationships\, and falconry\, established her as one of the world’s foremost nature and culture writers. She’s setting our imaginations soaring again with Vesper Flights\, a collection of her best-loved essays\, illuminating everything from mushroom-hunting to the poignant particulars of birds’ nests. As Helen wrote\, “animals don’t exist in order to teach us things\,” but her live conversation with American Book Award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy will show us how much we can learn by letting nature keep its secrets. \nIn association with the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC) the Golden Gate Audubon Society\, and Bay Nature. \nRegister To Receive Free Event Reminders\nThis is a public rebroadcast of a live event for Women Lit members. To join Women Lit or to learn more\, click here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wl-unbound-poised-to-soar-nature-writing-sensation-helen-macdonald-with-vesper-flights/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, November 24\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett’s new novel\, THE VANISHING HALF. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81072907239. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpVanishing\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/VanishingAB. \nDescription\n\n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \nLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD \nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick  \n“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson\, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel\, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid\, Wall Street Journal  \n“A story of absolute\, universal timelessness …For any era\, it’s an accomplished\, affecting novel. For this moment\, it’s piercing\, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly\nFrom The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers\, a stunning new novel about twin sisters\, inseparable as children\, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds\, one black and one white. \nThe Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small\, southern black community and running away at age sixteen\, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults\, it’s everything: their families\, their communities\, their racial identities. Many years later\, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white\, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still\, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies\, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation\, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect? \nWeaving together multiple strands and generations of this family\, from the Deep South to California\, from the 1950s to the 1990s\, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting\, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race\, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions\, desires\, and expectations\, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. \nAs with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers\, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative\, compassionate and wise. \nAbout the Author\n\nBrit Bennett is the author of the New York Times–bestselling novel The Mothers; a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for the best first book\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award; and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Kathleen's 15 Year GGP Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Fifteen years ago\, Kathleen became the owner of A Great Good Place for Books. On this Saturday\, we’ll celebrate Kathleen throughout the day. Please come by\, congratulate Kathleen\, and pick up books at 15% off all day (special orders excluded\, cannot be combined with other discounts). \n  \n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\n6120 LaSalle Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-kathleens-15-year-ggp-anniversary/
LOCATION:A Great Good Place for Books\, 6120 La Salle Ave.\, Oakland\, California\, 94611
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Silver Linings
DESCRIPTION:Well friends\, 2020 has been a hell of a year. And here we are\, almost at the end of it. Join me this traditional season of gratitude in search of some silver linings\, at the last SNS of the year. (That’s right\, Dec. is my annual hiatus\, not returning until the end of January).\n\nNovember theme: SILVER LININGS\nNovember Features: SARA BIEL & SHAWNA SHERMAN\n(see bios below)\n\nOPEN MIC: Share your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum.\n\nSATURDAY\, November 28\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\nHosted by: Hollie Hardy\n\nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on Nov. 21. Requests added in the order received until the list is full.\nTo sign up\, please put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max.\n\nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, please RSVP to this FB event and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to me\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature and only letting in people we can verify.\n\nZOOM INFO:\nMeeting ID: 991 2777 8477\nPassword: 814144\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99127778477…\nPassword: 814144\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,99127778477# or +13462487799\,99127778477#\nOr Telephone:\nDial:\n+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)\n+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)\n+1 253 215 8782 (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: 991 2777 8477\nInternational numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/abrmczrVqu\nOr Skype for Business (Lync):\nSIP:99127778477.814144@lync.zoom.us\n\nAUTHOR BIOS:\nSara Biel is a poet and social worker. She is passionate about collaborative art and performance processes\, and focuses on art as a medium for building community. Sara’s work has been featured in Oakland’s Moondrop productions and sPARKLE & bLINK. Sara is the editor of Colossus: Bay Area Poets Challenge Immigration Injustice\, And CoEditor of Colossus:Home.\nShawna Sherman is a poet and librarian born and raised in Hawaii and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing focuses on race and place and borrows from history in order to make sense of the present. As a librarian\, she works to hold space for African American writers and culture by curating community programming at a public library. Her work has appeared in Colossus: Home and on the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day website.\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/482040956103544/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-silver-linings/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Daily Write Holiday Round Robin with Kathy Garlick
DESCRIPTION:This particular version of Round Robin with a run time of three weeks is built with the holidays in mind. It is designed to offer writers a separate space of reflection\, alongside of holiday immersion. Like the traditional eight-week version of the class\, the Holiday Round Robin is structured around a carefully facilitated exchange of daily emailed writings based on prompts provided by the facilitator and the participants. Partners offer brief written feedback on one another’s work. The writings are based on daily prompts provided by the facilitator. \nYou might cover some basic elements of craft in your daily exchanges\, but the central focus will be finding the inspiration\, motivation\, and self-discipline to keep writing and generating raw material that you may eventually choose to rewrite\, revise\, polish\, and publish. The class will involve learning to recognize and appreciate the strength of your natural voice before you have a chance to snuff it out by editing your work too hastily. \nEvery student must commit to full participation on a daily basis. Time required: 20-30 minutes each day\, on average. If you are unable to honor your daily commitment to your writing and to your writing partners\, you cannot continue in the class. (Substitutes are available on a limited basis in case of an emergency.) \nNovember 29 – December 20\n3 Weeks\, All Day\n\n\n$88.35 for members \n$95 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daily-write-holiday-round-robin-with-kathy-garlick/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Roots of the Tree: Family Dynamics\, Forgiveness & Reconciliation with Dr. Marlena Fiol and Dr. Joshua Coleman (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Marlena Fiol\, author of Nothing Bad Between Us\, will be in conversation with renowned author Joshua Coleman in a very special virtual event. Join them on Sunday\, November 29th at 5:00pm PT for The Roots of the Tree: Family Dynamics\, Forgiveness\, and Reconciliation. In this hour-long conversation\, Marlena and Joshua will explore how families shape us\, for better or worse\, and how we in turn shape our worldview based on their influence. Join them by registering at the link above. \nMarlena Fiol\, PhD\, is a globally recognized author\, scholar and speaker. She is a spiritual seeker whose work explores the depths of who we are and what’s possible in our lives. Her significant body of publications on the topic\, coupled with her own raw identity-changing experiences\, makes her uniquely qualified to write about personal transformational change. She is also a certified tai chi instructor and freelance writer whose most recent work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and newsletters. \nDr. Joshua Coleman is an internationally known expert in parenting\, families and relationships. He is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families\, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists\, historians\, psychologists and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He has lectured at Harvard University\, The University of California at Berkeley\, The University of London\, and Cornell Weill Medical School. He has weekly webinars for estranged parents and blogs on parent-adult child relationships for the U.C. Berkeley publication\, Greater Good Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-roots-of-the-tree-family-dynamics-forgiveness-reconciliation-with-dr-marlena-fiol-and-dr-joshua-coleman-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online Evening Literary Seminar: A Manual for Cleaning Women\, Lucia Berlin
DESCRIPTION:A Manual for Cleaning Women\, Lucia Berlin \nLucía Berlin’s short stories have caused more than one critic to call her “America’s best kept secret.” Born in Alaska in 1936\, but having grown up in Arizona\, Montana and Chile\, Berlin’s fiction is often autobiographical\, which will provide excellent grist for Kimberly’s literary mill. Having been an upper-crust ex-pat\, a cleaning woman\, an alcoholic\, a mother to four boys\, a wife and lover to many\, Berlin reads like Raymond Carver or Grace Paley or a very gritty Alice Munro. Her prose is unique and luminous\, hard-scrabble and surprising and SO GOOD. For an engaging\, original escape\, join us to read at least a few of these masterpieces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-evening-literary-seminar-a-manual-for-cleaning-women-lucia-berlin/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nKeep an eye out for our upcoming auction of an archival print of Stevie by Tracy Anne Hart. Posting November 20\, 2020! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958 \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tracy-anne-hart-on-stevie-ray-vaughan-3/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89343683958#  or +12532158782\,\,89343683958#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 893 4368 3958\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kwdCVhDnt \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tracy-anne-hart-on-stevie-ray-vaughan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161147
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nKeep an eye out for our upcoming auction of an archival print of Stevie by Tracy Anne Hart. Posting November 20\, 2020! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89343683958#  or +12532158782\,\,89343683958#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 893 4368 3958\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kwdCVhDnt \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tracy-anne-hart-on-stevie-ray-vaughan-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161147
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SUMMARY:Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Editor Alice Quinn is joined by contributors to the anthology\, Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf)\, for this special virtual poetry reading. \nConfirmed participants so far include: \nForrest Gander\nBrenda Hillman\nAlice Quinn\nDean Rader\nTess Taylor\nNoah Warren\nJenny Xie\nMatthew Zapruder \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nAbout Together in a Sudden Strangeness \nAs the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world\, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if\, and what\, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response\, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox\, assembling this various\, intimate\, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages\, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves\, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength\, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital\, and\, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe\, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful\, darkly humorous\, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times\, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange\, providing wisdom\, companionship\, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. \nAbout Alice Quinn and the participants \nAlice Quinn\, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years\, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings\, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems\, Drafts\, and Fragments\, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/together-in-a-sudden-strangeness-americas-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Writing the Virus with Caille Millner\, Jon Roemer\, David Dario Winner\, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Virus\, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic\, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism\, privilege\, and politics. The book tracks the virus’s progression from epidemiological threat to international crisis and sketches the evolution of Corona’s rapidly changing meaning over the past three-quarters of a year. Among the 31 works in the book\, Writing the Virus appeals to the power of love in the Black community as our strongest and most promising force for change (Millner); explores what it means to be a writer in precarious times (Roemer); and exposes the uncomfortable barriers of ethnicity\, civic cooperation\, and racism as experienced by someone going out for what is no longer an ordinary run (Winner). Writing the Virus\, edited by Andrea Scrima and David Winner\, was published November 1 by Outpost 19 Books. \nReaders of the evening: Caille Millner (“Something New”); Jon Roemer (“Uncertainty Ever After”); and David Dario Winner (“Daisy Assassin”). The event will be moderated by Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of Zyzzyva. \nCaille Millner\nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification (Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review\, Zyzzyva\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review and The Paris Review Daily. \nJon Roemer\nJon Roemer is the publisher and senior editor at Outpost19 Books and author of the novel Five Windows. His writing has appeared at The Millions\, KGB Lit\, The Writer\, OZY\, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review\, 3:AM\, and elsewhere. His public speaking includes the Editors’ Picks panel at Library Journal’s Day of Dialogue and Northwestern University’s guest lecture program. He is queer and based in San Francisco. \nDavid Dario Winner\nDavid Winner is the author of Tyler’s Last and The Cannibal of Guadalajara. His work has appeared in The Village Voice\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Millions\, and other publications in the US and the UK. He is the fiction editor of the Rome-based magazine\, The American\, senior editor for Statorec\, and a regular contributor to the The Brooklyn Rail. \nOscar Villalon\nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of Zyzzyva. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Literary Hub\, the Believer\, Alta\, Zócalo Public Square\, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-virus-with-caille-millner-jon-roemer-david-dario-winner-and-oscar-villalon-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T213000
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SUMMARY:Writing the Virus with Caille Millner\, Jon Roemer\, David Dario Winner\, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Virus\, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic\, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism\, privilege\, and politics. The book tracks the virus’s progression from epidemiological threat to international crisis and sketches the evolution of Corona’s rapidly changing meaning over the past three-quarters of a year. Among the 31 works in the book\, Writing the Virus appeals to the power of love in the Black community as our strongest and most promising force for change (Millner); explores what it means to be a writer in precarious times (Roemer); and exposes the uncomfortable barriers of ethnicity\, civic cooperation\, and racism as experienced by someone going out for what is no longer an ordinary run (Winner). Writing the Virus\, edited by Andrea Scrima and David Winner\, was published November 1 by Outpost 19 Books. \nReaders of the evening: Caille Millner (“Something New”); Jon Roemer (“Uncertainty Ever After”); and David Dario Winner (“Daisy Assassin”). The event will be moderated by Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of Zyzzyva. \nCaille Millner\nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification (Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review\, Zyzzyva\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review and The Paris Review Daily. \nJon Roemer\nJon Roemer is the publisher and senior editor at Outpost19 Books and author of the novel Five Windows. His writing has appeared at The Millions\, KGB Lit\, The Writer\, OZY\, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review\, 3:AM\, and elsewhere. His public speaking includes the Editors’ Picks panel at Library Journal’s Day of Dialogue and Northwestern University’s guest lecture program. He is queer and based in San Francisco. \nDavid Dario Winner\nDavid Winner is the author of Tyler’s Last and The Cannibal of Guadalajara. His work has appeared in The Village Voice\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Millions\, and other publications in the US and the UK. He is the fiction editor of the Rome-based magazine\, The American\, senior editor for Statorec\, and a regular contributor to the The Brooklyn Rail. \nOscar Villalon\nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of Zyzzyva. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s\, Literary Hub\, the Believer\, Alta\, Zócalo Public Square\, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-virus-with-caille-millner-jon-roemer-david-dario-winner-and-oscar-villalon-virtual-event-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201202
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SUMMARY:December Manuscript Intensive Program
DESCRIPTION:Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one intensive\, an experienced published author will closely read your entire book and mentor you\, giving focused editorial feedback on the first 25 pages and an editorial letter to guide revision of the rest. \n\nThere will be significant opportunity for extended correspondence with your mentor\, who will provide specific suggestions for revision and offer general advice on the current state of publishing\, and next steps for you to take in your publishing journey. Work with us before sending out your manuscript to help your book really shine! \nHow it works:\n\nThe San Francisco Creative Writing Institute Manuscript Intensive is a four-week\, one-on-one mentorship with a published writer to get help with your completed prose manuscript (novel\, memoir or other non-fiction\, essay or story collection) and receive valuable feedback for revision or submission to agents or publishers.\n\nIf you have a completed manuscript and want to know what the next steps to take are\, this is the course for you.\n\n\n\n\nNext Steps:\nAfter you register\, you’ll email the manuscript to us at mentor@sfwriting.institute along with tendering a retainer fee. \n\nWe will look at your manuscript and assign you one of our mentors based on your work and their specialties. Read up on our list of mentors here.\n\n\n\n\nWeekly Schedule: December 01\, 2020 – December 31\, 2020\, All Day\nWeek 1 – Your mentor will spend the first week of the month reading your entire book. \n\nWeek 2 – In the second week you will receive an editorial mark-up of the first chapter or first 25 pages (whichever is most appropriate) and an editorial letter oriented toward revision.\n\nWeek 3 – In the third week\, you can initiate an email conversation about the edits and feedback\, and even offer a revision of the first pages for a “second look.”\n\nWeek 4 – In the final week\, your mentor will respond to your commentary and any possible revisions to the opening pages and offer final guidance for revision or submission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-manuscript-intensive-program/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201125T220000Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Best Kids Books of the Year Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join Bookshop’s interim head Children’s buyer as she shares Bookshop’s picks for the Best Kids Books of the Year! From picture books to middle grade\, graphic novels to young adult\, there were so many fantastic books for young readers published in 2020. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nSee the books we are presenting here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-best-kids-books-of-the-year-presentation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T190000
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SUMMARY:Sabaa Tahir with J. Elle
DESCRIPTION:Fans of Sabaa Tahir’s beloved New York Times bestselling Ember Quartet rejoice – the wait is almost over. \nWe are launching Sabaa’s highly anticipated jaw dropping finale to the series\, A Sky Beyond the Storm and we couldn’t be more excited to discover: Who will survive the storm? \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMTV.com described this series as “A setting inspired by ancient Rome; a fierce battle for freedom in the face of tyranny; and a villain who makes Cersei Lannister and Dolores Umbridge look like a pair of pathetic amateurs.” We’ve been obsessed with this spectacular series since launching it in 2015. Will our favorite characters survive? \nSabaa will be chatting about all things Ember with debut author J. Elle (Wings of Ebony will be published in Feb 2021). There will be Ember trivia\, audience Q&A\, and an opportunity after the event for a virtual\, live\, 1-on-1 1-minute conversation with Sabaa Tahir for up to 48 lucky fans. \nDoesn’t get better than this!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sabaa-tahir-with-j-elle/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T180000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Headlands Center for the Arts / Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to partner with the Headlands Center for the Arts to present an evening of readings by Ari Banias\, Vincent Chu\, Tomas Moniz\, Shelley Wong & Hazel White\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to all who register. \nAri Banias is a poet\, and the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016) and the forthcoming A Symmetry (W. W. Norton\, 2021). His recent poems appear or are forthcoming in bæst\, Hyperallergic\, Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, and The New Republic. Ari lives in Oakland. \nTomas Moniz’s debut novel\, Big Familia\, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway\, the LAMBDA\, and the Foreward Indies Awards. He edited the popular Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies. He’s the recipient of the prestigious SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and the 2020 Artist Affiliate for Headlands Center for Arts. Among the residencies he’s attended\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency\, the 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm and others. He teaches creative writing at Berkeley City College\, Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen\, and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nShelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books\, 2022)\, winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize\, and the chapbook RARE BIRDS (Diode Editions). She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell\, Kundiman\, and Vermont Studio Center. \nHazel White Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard (Nightboat 2018)\, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, Fence Ottoline Prize\, and California Book Award. She was one of the winners of a 1-minute monologue competition\, in Tony Labat’s public art project at SFMOMA. Her monologue was titled I Want You to End Racism. She’s writing now about violence. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion (7.13 Books). His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine and elsewhere. He is a Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist\, Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. \nHeadlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary\, international arts center occupying a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands\, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Headlands provides an unparalleled environment in support of the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public\, we offer opportunities for reflection\, dialogue\, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. Photo of the Headlands by Andria Lo. \nBooksmith is an an off-center general interest independent bookstore and legacy business\, a flagship of San Francisco’s Haight Street since 1976. Booksmith is the force behind The Bindery\, a multi-purpose events parlor established in 2017 that features The Arcana Project: a deep\, highly inclusive array of books—fiction and nonfiction\, from all over the world—presented in chronological order by the date they were written. Booksmith also organizes Berkeley Arts & Letters\, an East Bay speaker series since 2009 that features exceptional authors with new books. Between the three programs\, Booksmith produces over 250 events per year. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-headlands-center-for-the-arts-ari-banias-vincent-chu-tomas-moniz-shelley-wong-hazel-white/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T210000
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SUMMARY:Digging Deep: A Generative Writing Workshop with Lee Romer Kaplan
DESCRIPTION:We’re beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom\, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said\, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem. \n–Lucille Clifton \nIn this time of social distancing and pandemic\, this three-session remote workshop is designed to bypass constriction and limitation by offering portals into imagery\, language\, and creative expression. Using a variety of prompts\, both individual and collaborative\, we will dig deep and unearth the material of memory\, the raw clay from which to generate new writing\, both poetry and prose\, in our workshop and beyond. \nYour instructor will draw upon Amherst Writers & Artists Method\, journaling\, dream work\, and other practices that center the writer and protect the writer’s voice and vision for the work. Whether you are new to writing or much published\, you will find sustenance here. You will leave this class with new poems or short prose pieces\, and a trove of inspiration for future work. At least two pieces will receive peer feedback in a small group workshop and\, if the student desires feedback from the instructor\, at least one piece will receive oral feedback from her. \nDecember 01 – December 15\n3 Tuesdays\, (PST) 6:30pm – 9:00pm\n\n$153.45 for members\n$165 for non-members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/digging-deep-a-generative-writing-workshop-with-lee-romer-kaplan/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201205
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SUMMARY:Poetry Inside Out Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Inside Out Virtual Workshop\n\nVirtual Event \n\n\n\nWe’ve put together a virtual teacher workshop to help you adapt Poetry Inside Out for distance learning this school year. \nThese three sessions—each 90 minutes—will give you tools and techniques that you can use right away. \nYou’ll get an introduction to Poetry Inside Out and the translation process and tips to guide students through the process—in the classroom or via distance learning. You’ll also learn the key practices of Poetry Inside Out\, get an overview of the lessons and materials available online\, and learn how to create lessons for your in-person or virtual classroom. Workshops will be led by Program Director Mark Hauber and Philadelphia teacher and Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP) Fellow Lisa Yao. \nWHEN\nDecember 2\, 3\, and 4\, 3:00-4:30 pm Pacific time / 4:00-5:30 pm Mountain time / 5:00-6:30 pm Central time / 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern time. \nCan’t attend in-person? Sign up anyway to receive a link to the workshop recording. \nThanks to the generous support of our donors the charge for all three workshops is just $45. \n\nRegister: https://www.catranslation.org/event/poetry-inside-out-virtual-workshop/ \n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-inside-out-virtual-workshop/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sherry Smith\, Bohemians West
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, DECEMBER 2\, 2020 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIRTUAL EVENT: Join us online as we welcome distinguished professor of history\, Sherry Smith in conversation with Geoffrey Dunn to talk about Smith’s new book\, Bohemians West: Free Love\, Family\, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century. \nThe opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America\, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood\, two aspiring poets whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. Self-declared pioneers in free love\, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship\, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara’s star rose in the suffrage movement\, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress\, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades\, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon \n“Sherry Smith is a scholar whose books read like the best fiction\, character-driven page-turners. In Bohemians West\, Smith takes the reader on a journey with two of the most interesting characters we have never heard of\, who were among the thousands of literary figures and activists who were ahead of their time.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \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! \nSherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. She now lives in Moose\, Wyoming and Pasadena\, California with her husband\, Robert W. Righter (also a historian) and their English Setter named Una. A historian of the American West and Native America\, Smith’s other books include Hippies\, Indians and the Fight for Red Power and Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes\, 1880-1940\, both published by Oxford University Press. She is Past President of the Western History Association and received the L.A. Times Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library\, which supported research for Bohemians West. Smith has also been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, The Fulbright Foundation\, and Yale University’s Beinecke Library. \nGeoffrey Dunn is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker with more than three decades experience as an investigative reporter. He is a senior correspondent for Metro Newspapers in California and a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post. He is the recipient of several national awards for investigative journalism. He is the author of numerous books\, including: The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power\, Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Volumes I and II; and Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee. He is the recipient of a Gail Rich Award; the Distinguished Historian Award from the History Forum; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chamber of Commerce. He was named Santa Cruz County’s Artist of the Year for 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sherry-smith-bohemians-west/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sherry Smith\, Bohemians West
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us online as we welcome Sherry Smith\, distinguished professor of history\, in conversation with Geoffrey Dunn to talk about Smith’s new book\, Bohemians West: Free Love\, Family\, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America\, a historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century. \nThe opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America\, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood\, whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time\, from the political and artistic circles of Portland\, Oregon to creative connections in Northern California and beyond. Self-declared pioneers in free love\, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship\, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara’s star rose in the suffrage movement\, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress\, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Wood and Field eventually moved from Portland to San Francisco to be together. In the 1920s they built a personal retreat near Los Gatos where they could pursue their own work and welcome creative friends over the years. Two large sculptures of native bobcats mark the entrance to the estate; a pullout by the statues on Highway 17 includes a historical plaque with additional information. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades\, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \n“Sherry Smith is a scholar whose books read like the best fiction\, character-driven page-turners. In Bohemians West\, Smith takes the reader on a journey with two of the most interesting characters we have never heard of\, who were among the thousands of literary figures and activists who were ahead of their time.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States \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! \nSherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. She now lives in Moose\, Wyoming and Pasadena\, California with her husband\, Robert W. Righter (also a historian) and their English Setter named Una. A historian of the American West and Native America\, Smith’s other books include Hippies\, Indians and the Fight for Red Power and Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes\, 1880-1940\, both published by Oxford University Press. She is Past President of the Western History Association and received the L.A. Times Distinguished Fellowship at the Huntington Library\, which supported research for Bohemians West. Smith has also been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, The Fulbright Foundation\, and Yale University’s Beinecke Library. \nGeoffrey Dunn is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker with more than three decades experience as an investigative reporter. He is a senior correspondent for Metro Newspapers in California and a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post. He is the recipient of several national awards for investigative journalism. He is the author of numerous books\, including: The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power\, Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Volumes I and II; and Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee. He is the recipient of a Gail Rich Award; the Distinguished Historian Award from the History Forum; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chamber of Commerce. He was named Santa Cruz County’s Artist of the Year for 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sherry-smith-bohemians-west-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Yusef Komunyakaa
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \nYusef Komunyakaa\nYusef Komunyakaa’s books of poetry include Dien Cai Dau\, Neon Vernacular\, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize\, Warhorses\, Emperor of Water Clocks\, and Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth (forthcoming from FSG). His honors include the William Faulkner Prize (Université Rennes\, France)\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. His plays\, performance art and libretti have been performed internationally and include Saturnalia\, Wakonda’s Dream\, Testimony\, and Gilgamesh. He teaches at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkley-lunch-poems-yusef-komunyakaa/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T173000
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad: with Sholeh Wolpé\, Jasmin Darznik\, and Shabnam Piryael
DESCRIPTION:Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad: with Sholeh Wolpé\, Jasmin Darznik\, and Shabnam Piryaei—poetry\, fiction\, film\, and conversation\nThursday\, December 3 – 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm \n\n\n\nRegister to Attend\n—or—\nWatch Live Stream at YouTube \nA late afternoon gathering of poetry\, fiction\, film\, and conversation\, inspired and emboldened by the work and legacy of one of Iran’s outstanding cultural figures of the 20th century\, poet\, filmmaker\, and feminist iconoclast Forugh Farrokhzad (December 29\, 1934–February 13\, 1967). Featuring Sholeh Wolpé\, Jasmin Darznik and Shabnam Piryaei. With emcee Persis Karim\, Neda Nobari Distinguished Chair and director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. \nThis remote access event will begin promptly at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning provided on request (Media Captioning provided after the event); for reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu. \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Co-presented by The Poetry Center and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. \n…With an alien voice\, utterly false\,\none can cry out: I love!\nIn the oppressive arms of a man\none can be a robust\, beautiful female–\nskin like leather tablecloth\,\nbreasts large and hard.\nOne can stain the sinlessness of love\nin the bed of a drunk\, a madman\, a tramp. \nOne can cunningly belittle\nevery perplexing puzzle.\nAlone\, occupy oneself with crosswords\,\ncontent with unimportant words\,\nyes\, unimportant letters\, no more than five or six. \nOne can spend a lifetime kneeling\,\nhead bowed\,\nbefore the cold altar of the Imams\,\nfind God inside an anonymous grave\,\nfaith in a few paltry coins.\nOne can rot inside a mosque’s chamber\,\nan old woman\, prayers dripping from lips. \nWhatever the equation\, one can always be a zero\,\nyielding nothing\, whether added\, subtracted\, or multiplied…. \n—Forugh Farrokhzad\, from “Wind-up Doll\,” tr. Sholeh Wolpé \n\n“Poetic modernism came to Iran as late as the 1960s\, when Farrokhzad streaked across the literary horizon…. Of course\, she became a scandal\, one that endures to this day…. [T]he poems’ long lines and musical repetitions sweep the reader away as effectively as any American projective verse.” —Booklist\, on Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad\, translated by Sholeh Wolpé\n\nSholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet\, writer and playwright. UCLA’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence in 2018\, Wolpé is the recipient of the 2014 PEN/Heim\, 2013 Midwest Book Award\, 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation prize as well as artist fellowships and residencies in the U.S.\, Mexico\, Spain\, Australia and Switzerland. Her literary work includes five collections of poetry\, several plays\, four books of translations\, and three anthologies. She travels internationally as a performing poet\, writer and public speaker and has performed her literary work with world-renowned musicians nationally and internationally. Translator of Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (University of Arkansas Press\, 2010)\, Wolpé is the Writer-in-Residence at UC Irvine and lives in Los Angeles. \n\n“These are times for stories that bring one culture nearer to another\, and that is exactly what Jasmin Darznik has done\, pulling close the hearts of girls and women and poets to tell Forugh Farrokhzad’s remarkable story.”\n—Laleh Khadivi\, on Jasmin Darznik’s novel Song of a Captive Bird \n\nJasmin Darznik’s debut novel Song of a Captive Bird was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Jasmin is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and her essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. Her next book\, a historical novel set in 1920s San Francisco\, is forthcoming in 2021. She is a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts\, in San Francisco. \n\n“Shabnam Piryaei’s work rings smart\, ‘Every inheritance is a compass.’; surreal\, ‘a benevolent crow / pecked daylight’s bullet / into the room’ …; and at the same time\, pinned fast with moments that are utterly tactile\, ‘somehow unbroken / in your sleeping hand\, a speckled egg’. A charming voice where NOTHING IS WASTED.” —Kimiko Hahn\n\nDescribed by the San Francisco Book Review as “a force to be reckoned with in literary circles\,” Shabnam Piryaei is an award-winning poet\, playwright\, media artist\, and filmmaker. In addition to authoring the books Nothing is Wasted (The Operating System\, 2017)\, FORWARD (Museum Books\, 2014) and ode to fragile (Plain View Press\, 2010)\, she has written and directed three poetry films that have screened at film festivals and art galleries around the world. She has been awarded first place in the Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Award\, Poets & Writers Amy Award\, the Transport of the Aim Poetry Prize\, the Brain Mill Press Editors’ Choice\, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant\, a Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Grant\, a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently directing a documentary film entitled there is no separate survival\, about asylum seekers across the U.S.-Mexico border. To learn more about her work\, visit shabnampiryaei.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-forugh-farrokhzad-with-sholeh-wolpe-jasmin-darznik-and-shabnam-piryael/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T170000
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SUMMARY:Danez Smith and Patricia Smith | Readings + Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Danez Smith and Patricia Smith for a joint reading and conversation. This reading is generously funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation\, and part of ARC’s ongoing Poetry and the Senses initiative. Danez and Patricia will be joined in conversation by 2020 ARC Poetry fellow Menat Allah El Attma and ARC Program Director Laurie Macfee\, and will be taking questions from the online audience. \nPoetry and the Senses creates meaningful opportunities for engagement\, research\, and collaboration. As a think tank for the arts at UC Berkeley\, ARC acts as a facilitator and connector between the campus and the many flourishing regional poetry communities. This two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) 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. \nThe theme for 2020 is emerge/ncy. What kinds of poetic modes of address might be recruited in times of global catastrophe? How does poetry help us think through and within crisis? “Emergency” implies urgency\, sudden harm\, life-threatening violence\, and extreme circumstances\, but embedded within it is the word “emergence;” suggesting rebirth and new beginnings. How can we understand moments of emergency as catalysts for renewal\, as ruptures that signal massive—if painful—change? \n\nDanez Smith is a Black\, Queer\, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul\, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award; they also wrote [insert] boy (YesYes Books\, 2014)\, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Montalvo Arts Center\, Cave Canem\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez’s work has been featured widely\, appearing on platforms such as Buzzfeed\, The New York Times\, PBS NewsHour\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Magazine\, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi\, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection\, “Homie”\, was published by Graywolf in January 2020. Find more at www.danezsmithpoet.com \n\nPatricia Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books\, 2017)\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the 2018 NAACP Image Award\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and was a  finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press\, 2008)\, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go\, Gotta Flow (CityFiles Press\, 2015)\, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press\, 2006)\, Close to Death (Zoland Books\, 1998)\, Big Towns Big Talk (Zoland Books\, 2002)\, Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha\, 1991);  the children’s book Janna and the Kings (Lee & Low\, 2013)\, and the history Africans in America (Mariner\, 1999)\, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The Baffler\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, Tin House and in Best American Poetry\, Best American Essays and Best American Mystery Stories. She co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (University of Arkansas Press\, 2017)\, and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir (Akashic Books\, 2012). Smith is a Guggenheim fellow\, a Civitellian\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient\, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize\, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College\, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Engaging the Senses Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danez-smith-and-patricia-smith-readings-conversation/
LOCATION:YouTube
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Travel Stories of Wonder and Change with Laura Deutsch\, April Orcutt\, and Anne Sigmon (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to the virtual launch of Travel Stories of Wonder and Change\, a new anthology put out by the Bay Area Travel Writers! Readers will include the three winners of the Georgia Hesse Prize for travel writing: Laura Deutsch\, reading “The Rhythms of Arezzo;” April Orcutt\, reading “Tibetan Bargain with a Twist;” and Anne Sigmon\, reading “Sierra Point.” The pieces read aloud during the virtual launch will take listeners abroad—to Turkey\, Italy and Tibet—and to other parts of the US—to Yosemite\, Oahu and the elephant-seal rookery near Hearst Castle. \n“Like travel itself\, these essays made me gasp\, laugh — and\, yes\, cry. Evocative and beautifuly crafted\, they transcend genre …”\n—James M. Tabor\, New York Times bestselling author of Blind Descent and The Deep Zone \n“[These writers] have brought us the world at a time when so many of us have been forced to stay home. These stories take us to places we might not be able to reach ourselves\, show us our shared humanity and evoke the unpredictable wonder of travel.”\n—Michael Shapiro\, author of The Creative Spark and A Sense of Place \n“The time to travel is now — in our armchairs\, at least\, with this heartfelt new collection of travel essays … Full of wit and charm\, these mini memoirs make us yearn to travel again\, to find deeper meaning in all our adventures to come.”\n—Novella Carpenter\, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/travel-stories-of-wonder-and-change-with-laura-deutsch-april-orcutt-and-anne-sigmon-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T200000
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SUMMARY:Derek McCormack and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
DESCRIPTION:A Semiotexte Books Double Bill with two razor-sharp writers of fiction \n       \ncelebrating the the release of two new novels \nCastle Faggot – by Derek McCormack – Afterword by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley \nA dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland. \nand \nThe Freezer Door – by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore \nA meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity. \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———– \nabout CASTLE FAGGOT \nCastle Faggot is Derek McCormack’s darkest and most delicious book yet\, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland\, a playland for gay men\, and Castle Faggot\, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log\, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—some were killed\, some killed themselves\, all ended up as décor. \nThe book includes a map of Faggotland\, a photobook of the castle\, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse\, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends—reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe\, Castle Faggot transmutes McCormack’s love of the lurid and the childlike\, of funhouses and sickhouses\, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says\, “the mystery of objects\, the lyricism of neglected lives\, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.” \nwhat has been said about CASTLE FAGGOT \n\n“In Derek McCormack’s home province\, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper—a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper\, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast—Castle Faggot is also a manual of redecoration\, a musical\, a puppet show\, a theory of cosmetics\, a work of poetics\, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence.” – Lisa Robertson\, author of The Baudelaire Fractal \n\nabout THE FREEZER DOOR \nWhen you turn the music off\, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness\, that means turn the music back on\, right? When you still feel the sadness\, even with the music\, that means there’s something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn’t sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.—The Freezer Door \nThe Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle\, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams\, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture\, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. \nFerocious and tender\, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity. \nWhat has been said about THE FREEZER DOOR \n\n“I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door. In a happy paradox common to great literature\, it’s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty\, to wield non sequitur with grace and power\, to ponder the past while sticking with the present\, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit\, candor\, inventiveness\, and majesty.” -Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nabout the authors: \nDerek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells\, Haunted Hillbilly\,  and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)). (www.derekmccormack.com) \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014\, and her previous book\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity\, Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle. (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com) \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/derek-mccormack-and-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Maria Dahvana Headley (Beowulf) and Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline). \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nTo order the books\, click on the titles: Beowulf\, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley\, and The Future of Another Timeline\, by Annalee Newitz. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \n– About Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley – \nNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley\, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English\, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine\, justice is rarely served\, and dragons live among us. \nA man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender\, genre\, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment\, powerful men seeking to become more powerful\, and one woman seeking justice for her child\, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf\, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. \nMaria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia\, Aerie\, and Queen of Kings\, and she has also written a memoir\, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard\, she is the author of The End of the Sentence\, and with Neil Gaiman\, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson\, Nebula\, and World Fantasy Awards\, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle\, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho\, and now lives in Brooklyn. \n– About The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz – \n1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert\, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat\, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. \n2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future\, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she’s found a way to make an edit that actually sticks\, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. \nTess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline–a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past\, present\, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity\, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? \nAnnalee Newitz is an American journalist\, editor\, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT\, and have written for Popular Science\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015\, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel\, Autonomous\, won a Lambda award. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-maria-dahvana-headley-beowulf-and-annalee-newitz-the-future-of-another-timeline/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T200000
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays | Adult Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #4: Adult Fiction | Thu. Dec. 3 at 7 PM on Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult fiction in this fourth episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031 \nThis is our fourth recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n1219: Adult nonfiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81030427031\n\nUnited States\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Great Good Place for Books \n6120 La Salle Ave\, Oakland\, CA 94611 \n(510) 339-8210 • books@ggpbooks.com3
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-adult-fiction/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T210000
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SUMMARY:Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Elena Passarello A conversation about animals\, wonders\, and the exuberance of the natural world
DESCRIPTION:Poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Elena Passarello in conversation about Aimee’s new book\, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions). \n“Sometimes we need teachers who remind us how to be flabbergasted and gobsmacked and flummoxed and enswooned by the wonders of this earth. How to be in stupefied and devotional love to the wonders of this earth. How to be in love with this\, our beloved earth. Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders is as good and generous a teacher as one could ever ask for. This book enraptures with its own astonishments and reveries while showing us how to be enraptured\, how to revere. Which\, again\, is showing us how to be in love. I can think of nothing more important. Or wonderful.” — Ross Gay\, author of The Book of Delights \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout World of Wonders\nAs a child\, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution\, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona\, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted–no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape–she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. \n“What the peacock can do\,” she tells us\, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile\, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely\, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. \nWarm\, lyrical\, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura\, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. \nAbout the authors\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems\, including\, most recently\, Oceanic\, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Mississippi Arts Council\, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry\, the New York Times Magazine\, ESPN\, and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. \nElena Passarello is an actor\, a writer\, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books\, Let Me Clear My Throat\, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance\, pop culture\, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American\, Slate\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications\, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis\, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
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