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SUMMARY:Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Zakiya Dalila Harris
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories \npublished by One World \nA collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival\, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture.In “Beg Borrow Steal\,” a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after coming home from prison; in “Ghetto University\,” a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in “Before I Let Go\,” a woman who’s been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in “Fast Hands\, Fast Feet\,” an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in “Mercury Forges\,” a flash fiction piece among several in the collection\, a group of men hurriedly make their way to an elderly gentleman’s home\, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story\, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter\, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. \nThese stories are intimate invitations to hear\, witness\, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal\, and undeniably New Orleanian\, written by a lifelong resident of New Orleans and one of our finest new writers. \n\nMaurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the PEN/Open Book Award\, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction\, he has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, AGNI\, the Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans\, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. \n\nPraise for the work of Maurice Carlos Ruffin \n“The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You is an ode to all that makes us human. With an acute eye for beauty in seemingly hidden places\, Maurice Carlos Ruffin shows us that having true empathy for others is not only transformative but necessary for our evolution as a people. Each story grabs your heart\, squeezes the hell out of it\, and then\, somehow\, makes it fuller. I couldn’t stop feeling. Ruffin is a writer whose work will make you a better person without your knowing it.”—Mateo Askaripour\, author of Black Buck \n“These short stories ring out like the bells of St. Louis Cathedral over Jackson Square. One of our great writers of place\, Ruffin dazzles with this sonorous collection of deeply moving New Orleanian tales. Told with humor\, insight\, and radical empathy\, these stories will linger in your heart and mind like the fading song of a brass band\, vibrant and beautiful.”—Kali Fajardo-Anstine\, author of Sabrina & Corina  \n“Some are funny\, some poetic\, others near heartbreaking\, but the true hallmark Ruffin’s stories is an interest in what language can do. This is the work of a playful and exuberant writer who is always a joy to read.”—Rumaan Alam\, author of National Book Award finalist Leave the World Behind  \n“Ruffin\, more than any of the greats I read\, searches for that idea\, that style\, that genre we think is impossible to do well\, and he makes it look easy. What he is doing in these short stories is breathtaking. They are so singular and so reliant on each other for wholeness. This is wonder writing.”—Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurice-carlos-ruffin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T190000
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SUMMARY:Jaime Lowe
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and writer Jaime Lowe joins us to discuss her new book\, Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires (MCD). \n“In recent years\, women inmates have joined the army of prison labor that California relies upon to fight its wildfires\, whether defending the Sequoias or celebrity homes on the Malibu Coast. It is dangerous\, relentless work that ultimately depends upon the arduous personal transformations that create unity and fighting spirit within each fire crew. Against the background of recent megafires\, Lowe chronicles the transcendent moments of triumph and tragedy that stir ambitions of a new life\, but then recounts the systemic cruelty that undermines every hope of translating their new skills and hard-won self-confidence into civilian careers. Lionesses betrayed.”—Mike Davis\, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Breathing Fire\nCalifornia’s fire season gets hotter\, longer\, and more extreme every year — fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year\, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. \nIn Breathing Fire\, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains\, family and friends\, correctional officers\, and camp commanders. The result is a rare\, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate — a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change\, economic disparity\, and historical injustice\, but also draws on deeply personal histories\, relationships\, desires\, frustrations\, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. \nLowe’s reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system\, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California’s Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line\, while imprisoned\, to save a state in peril. \nAbout Jaime Lowe\nJaime Lowe is the author of Mental\, a memoir about lithium and bipolar disorder\, and Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB\, a biography of Ol’ Dirty Bastard\, a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine and other national and international publications. Lowe has contributed to This American Life and Radiolab\, and has been featured on NPR and WNYC numerous times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-lowe/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic #38
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.\nSign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/aHgoJxdUFXZXHjgQA\nThis month’s features: TBA\nIf you enjoy spaces like these\, please support Nomadic Press by donating via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating or buying a “ticket” at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly… OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe will be posting the features’ Venmo handles during the event.\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-38/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210820T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210820T130000
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jones and Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Discuss Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 20\, 2021 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Jones discusses her new book\, Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul (Knopf) with the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks. \n“Beautifully written\, movingly told and meticulously researched. An elegy to the healing power of nature. A convincing plea for a wilder\, richer world.” —Isabella Tree\, author of Wilding \n“The connection between mental health and the natural world turns out to be strong and deep—which is good news in that it offers those feeling soul-sick the possibility that falling in love with the world around them might be remarkably helpful.” —Bill McKibben \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Losing Eden\nA fascinating look at why human beings have a powerful mental\, spiritual\, and physical need for the natural world—and the profound impact this has on our consciousness and ability to heal the soul and bring solace to the heart\, and the cutting-edge scientific evidence proving nature as nurturer. \nLucy Jones interweaves her deeply personal story of recovery from addiction and depression with that of discovering the natural world and how it aided and enlivened her progress\, giving her a renewed sense of belonging and purpose. \nJones writes of the intersection of science\, wellness\, and the environment\, and reveals that in the last decade\, scientists have begun to formulate theories of why people feel better after a walk in the woods and an experience with the natural world. She describes the recent data that supports evidence of biological and neurological responses: the lowering of cortisol (released in response to stress)\, the boost in cortical attention control that helps us to concentrate and subdues mental fatigue\, and the increase in activity in the parasympathetic nervous system\, slowing the heart and allowing the body to rest. \nAbout Lucy Jones\nLucy Jones was born in Cambridge\, England\, and educated at University College London. She has written extensively on culture\, science and na­ture. Her articles have been published on BBC Earth and in The Sunday Times\, The Guardian and the New Statesman. Her first book\, Foxes Un­earthed\, received the Society of Authors’ Roger Deakin Award. Jones lives in Hampshire\, England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jones-and-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210820T193000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #72
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-72/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T160000
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly event that celebrates writers & artists committed to social justice and determined to make a positive change in our communities.\n\n\n3rd Saturday of the Month\n2-4 pm\nCurators/Hosts: Adela Najarro & harold terezon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jingletown-reading-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Hurricanes\, Love Affairs\, & Other Disasters by Susan Praver-Pérez
DESCRIPTION:Join us in continuing the celebration of Hurricanes\, Love Affairs\, & Other Disasters\, Susana Praver-Pérez’ first full-length collection of poetry!\nReadings by Nina Serrano\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Naomi Quiñonez\, Rebeca Lois Lucret\, Elijah Pringle III\, and of course\, Susana Praver-Pérez.\nMusic by Maria Jose Montijo (“Majo”)!\nOrder your copy of Hurricanes\, Love Affairs\, & Other Disasters by Susana Praver-Pérez here: https://www.nomadicpress.org/…/hurricanesloveaffairsand…\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Book Celebration: Hurricanes\, Love Affairs\, & Other Disasters by Susan Praver-Pérez\nTime: Aug 21\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84011211647…\nMeeting ID: 840 1121 1647\nPasscode: 474388\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,84011211647#\,\,\,\,*474388# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,84011211647#\,\,\,\,*474388# 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 DC)\nMeeting ID: 840 1121 1647\nPasscode: 474388\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kepai2vF6p
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-celebration-hurricanes-love-affairs-other-disasters-by-susan-praver-perez/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T183000
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: A Month in the Country\, J.L. Carr
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\nA Month In The Country by J. L. Carr \nKimberly has been trying to get this slim novella into your hands for over a year! After supply issues\, Carr is now ours to discuss. The perfect short novel for the waning days of the summer\, A Month concerns an English man who spends a month post World War I restoring a painting in a small country church. This prose is just so gorgeous and the story is intriguing—not to say downright strange. It will be so good to pull apart the ingenious elements of this gem. Make the most of the dog days with this delicious escape. \n(For those of you who will have read Brideshead Revisited in the summer intensive\, the two will provide a super interesting study in contrasts and similarities.) \n There are several ticket options that include books with purchase\, books shipped to home\, books picked up at Kepler’s Books or seminar only.  Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for the literary seminars. The books should be read prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-a-month-in-the-country-j-l-carr/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210823T190000
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SUMMARY:Beth Morgan and Jean Kyoung Frazier
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, AUGUST 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN BETH MORGAN JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, A TOUCH OF JEN\, WITH JEAN KYOUNG FRAZIER ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tG9Brd46Qsm15Z_rda5AKQ \nPraise for A Touch of Jen\n“A Touch of Jen is bananas good. Funny and sharp and surprising and bittersweet. Just [three chef’s kiss emojis].”\n—Carmen Maria Machado \n“Morgan has created a fabulous monster here\, legitimately Frankensteined herself a wicked\, unflinching\, dynamite novel out of razor-sharp dialogue\, toxic social media culture\, and the nonsense notion that the self is just another brand to be endlessly plumbed for content. Wildly hilarious and absolutely terrifying\, A Touch of Jen is truly a touch of genius. I loved every minute of it.”\n—Kristen Arnett\, New York Times bestselling author of WITH TEETH and MOSTLY DEAD THINGS \n“Morgan’s got swagger. A Touch of Jen will draw you in with its electric rhythm and razor-sharp wit\, but it will make you stay with its wild\, beating heart. I came for the blood-thirsty monsters\, I left moved by Morgan’s deep understanding of the day-to-day absurdity and pain of 21st century existence. A banger of a debut and the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction.”\n—Jean Kyoung Frazier\, author of PIZZA GIRL \nAbout A Touch of Jen\nA young couple’s toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted\, viciously funny\, “bananas good” debut. (Carmen Maria Machado) \n“Um\, holy shit…This novel will be the most fun you’ll have this summer.” —Emily Temple\, Literary Hub \nRemy and Alicia\, a couple of insecure service workers\, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen\, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom\, Remy and Alicia’s entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen\, whose every Instagram caption\, outfit\, and new age mantra they know by heart. \nImagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen\, in the flesh\, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there\, Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jen’s exalted social circle\, but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beachside paradise\, threatening to erupt. As small disturbances escalate into outright horror\, we find ourselves tumbling with Remy and Alicia into an uncanny alternate reality\, one shaped by their most unspeakable\, deviant\, and intoxicating fantasies. Is this what “self-actualization” looks like? \nPart millennial social comedy\, part psychedelic horror\, and all wildly entertaining\, A Touch of Jen is a sly\, unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves. \nAbout Beth Morgan\nBeth Morgan grew up outside Sherman\, Texas and studied writing as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing an MFA at Brooklyn College. Her work has been published in The Iowa Review and The Kenyon Review Online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-morgan-and-jean-kyoung-frazier/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T143000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Literary Seminar: A Month In The Country by J. L. Carr
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\nA Month In The Country by J. L. Carr \nKimberly has been trying to get this slim novella into your hands for over a year! After supply issues\, Carr is now ours to discuss. The perfect short novel for the waning days of the summer\, A Month concerns an English man who spends a month post World War I restoring a painting in a small country church. This prose is just so gorgeous and the story is intriguing—not to say downright strange. It will be so good to pull apart the ingenious elements of this gem. Make the most of the dog days with this delicious escape. \n(For those of you who will have read Brideshead Revisited in the summer intensive\, the two will provide a super interesting study in contrasts and similarities.) \nThere are several ticket options that include books with purchase\, books shipped to home\, books picked up at Kepler’s Books or seminar only.  Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for the literary seminars. The books should be read prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-literary-seminar-a-month-in-the-country-by-j-l-carr/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T190000
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SUMMARY:Jaime Lowe and Kim Kelly
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, AUGUST 24 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAIME LOWE JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST BOOK\, BREATHING FIRE\, WITH KIM KELLY ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s8BbIIRxTX6p–3bdGWVmA \nAbout Breathing Fire\nA dramatic\, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. \nShawna was overcome by the claustrophobia\, the heat\, the smoke\, the fire\, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline\, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that’s not training for flames. That’s not live fire. \nCalifornia’s fire season gets hotter\, longer\, and more extreme every year — fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year\, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. \nIn Breathing Fire\, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains\, family and friends\, correctional officers\, and camp commanders. The result is a rare\, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate — a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change\, economic disparity\, and historical injustice\, but also draws on deeply personal histories\, relationships\, desires\, frustrations\, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. \nLowe’s reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system\, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California’s Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line\, while imprisoned\, to save a state in peril. \nAbout Jaime Lowe\nJaime Lowe is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other national publications\, and has appeared regularly on This American Life\, RadioLab\, and NPR. She is the author of Mental and Digging for Dirt and has taught writing at Wallkill Correctional Facility. Born and raised in California\, she lives in New York City. \nAbout Kim Kelly\nKim Kelly is a regular labor columnist for Teen VOGUE and the author of Fight Like Hell\, a book of intersectional labor history\, which will be published next year. She’s written about labor\, class\, politics\, and culture for the New Republic\, the Washington Post\, the Baffler\, and Esquire\, among other publications. She’s a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalist Union as well as an elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America\, East (WGAE). Kelly is based in Philadelphia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jaime-lowe-and-kim-kelly/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lucas Bessire and William DeBuys
DESCRIPTION:In conversation about drought\, extinction\, and ways forward\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, August 24\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire and novelist and conservationist William DeBuys join us for a virtual event about their new books\, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Princeton UP) and The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss (Seven Stories Press). The two will discuss the increasingly imperiled water supply in the western U.S. and ways to confront the difficult challenges of the climate emergency. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains\n“Bessire’s Running Out masterfully shifts among scales and genres and in doing so lets the personal\, the historic\, and the geologic reveal their intimacies and competing urgencies. A beautiful and unusual book\, and wholly original.” –Rivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch \nThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. \nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas\, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers\, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture\, eroding democratic norms\, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable\, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead\, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive\, sustainable future. \nAn urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change\, Running Out is a revelatory account of family\, complicity\, loss\, and what it means to find your way back home. \nAbout The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss\n“The Trail to Kanjiroba is a transformative path on the page by one of America’s most eloquent writers. Bill deBuys has written a walking prayer about beauty\, hope\, and longing in the service of human dignity and a living planet. Though set in Nepal in the high altitude grace of Dolpo\, this is a spiritual pilgrimage contemplating the journey from grief toward love. Hands pressed together\, I hold these words close and bow.”–Terry Tempest Williams \nIn 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo\, a remote\, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal\, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction\, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned in recent years about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth–a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of the earth’s most remote regions\, his writing celebrates the staggering natural beauty and biodiversity he finds there\, and gives his readers a history lesson of two scientific discoveries–evolution and plate tectonics–that forever changed sapiens’ understanding of our planet. Written in a lush and nuanced style evocative of Paul Theroux or Peter Matthiessen\, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare\, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that needs to be done. \nAbout the authors \nWilliam deBuys is the author of ten books\, including The Last Unicorn\, one of Christian Science Monitor’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015; River of Traps\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); and A Great Aridness. In 2008-2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New Mexico. \nLucas Bessire is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucas-bessire-and-william-debuys-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #77
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-77/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in conversation with Alejandro Murguía
DESCRIPTION:discussing Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s \nNot A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion \npublished by Beacon Press \nDebunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants\, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States. \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link coming soon!) \n———– \nWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table\, many Americans\, regardless of party affiliation\, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. \nShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization\, justice\, reparations\, and social equality. Moreover\, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress\, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state\, and imperialist since its inception. \nWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants\, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial\, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States. \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro. \nAlejandro Murguía is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award). His non-fiction book The Medicine of Memory highlights the Mission District in the 1970s during the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He was a founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade\, and co-editor of Volcán: Poetry From Central America. Currently he is a professor in Latina Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the short story “The Other Barrio” which first appeared in the anthology San Francisco Noir and recently filmed in the street of the Mission District. In poetry he has published Spare Poems\, and this year a new collection Native Tongue. He is the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino poet to hold the position. \nPraise for Not A Nation of Immigrants \n“In this book\, a precious gift drawn from an amazingly rich life and a prodigious life of learning\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz urges us to disavow the violence of the US settler nation-state\, its discursive erasures of native peoples and its material relations of dispossession. The struggle for workers’ rights and working-class solidarity\, she reminds us\, involves the fight against capitalism\, imperialism\, and colonialism for the liberation of all peoples.”\n—Gary Y. Okihiro\, author of Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation \n“Not ‘a Nation of Immigrants’ challenges to the core one of the most dominant narratives about the United States\, as a country founded by and welcoming for immigrants. Dunbar-Ortiz’s captivating and accessible historical account forces a reckoning with the various layers of the US imperialist project\, from territorial control to economic and political influence at the expense of Black populations\, migrants\, and Indigenous peoples. This myth-shattering book addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time by demonstrating the implications of White supremacy across time\, across groups and spaces\, and the connections between them. If there is hope for transformation\, it is through the careful\, systematic work that this book exemplifies by examining the roots of racism and structural inequality\, and bringing forward alternative narratives and movements. It is a must-read.”\n—Alexandra Délano\, chair and associate professor of global studies\, The New School \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has produced a remarkable\, engrossing\, and readable reexamination of US history. She unites an analysis of the construction of ‘race’ and racism\, with the construction of settler colonialism\, demonstrating both the historical inaccuracy as well as the strategic blind spot created by thinking of the USA as a ‘nation of immigrants.’ But she does more. Dunbar-Ortiz links the construction of the US as a racial settler state with the growth of US imperialism\, decisively demonstrating that global expansion was not accidental nor a matter of policy alone\, but the direct outcome of the DNA of the racial settler state.”\n—Bill Fletcher Jr.\, trade unionist and author of “They’re Bankrupting Us!” And Twenty Other Myths About Unions \n“What do the Iroquois or Navajo think of the Statue of Liberty? With characteristic grit and brio\, Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates how profoundly the settler colonial history of the United States and the ideology of ‘white nativism’ have shaped both immigration policy and immigrant identity.”\n—Mike Davis\, author of Prisoners of the American Dream \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”\n—Ishmael Reed \n“This book is meticulously researched and written with eloquence and passion. With it\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, one of our preeminent radical historians\, once again delivers a powerful and provocative indictment of settler colonialism and white nationalism\, which were foundational in building this country. It could not be more timely. A must-read history for our troubling present.”\n—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s incisive book Not ‘a Nation of Immigrants’ challenges the multicultural myth of US nationalist triumphalism and\, instead\, powerfully exposes settler colonialism\, wars of conquest\, and white nationalism as central pillars of immigration. This is a must-read to finally discard unquestioning settler American liberalism and patriotism.”\n—Harsha Walia\, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism \n“Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz rightly argues that the United States is not ‘a nation of immigrants’ but\, more accurately\, a nation of colonizers. A must-read.”\n—Nick Estes (Lakota)\, author of Our History Is the Future \n“We are here because you were there. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz methodically unravels the pernicious myth of ‘a nation of immigrants\,’ standing in the way of collective well-being on this continent and beyond.”\n—Manu Karuka\, author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations\, Chinese Workers\, and the Transcontinental Railroad \n“Once again\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates why she is one of the foremost historical scholars we have today\, and Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants’ is her most crucial offering yet\, opening new insights on this country’s sordid history of systemic oppression\, exclusion\, and erasure. If we look honestly at ourselves\, as human beings occupying this specific slice of space and time together\, we see that Dunbar-Ortiz is giving us a thoroughly researched and genuine road map for what we can become\, if we dare. Vital reading for anyone with two eyes\, a brain\, and a beating heart.”\n—Tim Z. Hernandez\, author of All They Will Call You \n“Simply put\, if you read this book and learn its lessons\, you will have to change everything you think about the history of the United States and the terms we use to fight for justice. It’s your call\, but I suggest you put the book in your basket and head for the check-out counter right now.”\n—Walter Johnson\, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States \n“From being deeply shaken and disturbed\, to ultimately feeling exhilarated and optimistic by Dunbar-Ortiz’s conclusion and ‘call to arms\,’ this is a paradigm-shifting work. Dunbar-Ortiz eviscerates ‘the benevolent version of US nationalism’ by showing how the United States has always sought to enlist its new arrivals as accomplices to colonial conquest and mass murder. There is a reckoning on every page of this liberating book.”\n—Patrick Higgins\, anti-imperialist historian and activist \n“Placing settler colonialism at the center\, Dunbar-Ortiz untangles the meaning of immigration in a settler state based on the elimination of the Native population. The book traces a ‘self-indigenizing narrative’ by which white immigrants laid claim to the country\, turning an aggressive white nationalism into the foundation of US identity. European immigrants became American\, and became white\, Dunbar-Ortiz shows\, by adopting the country’s settler identity. In a tour de force that takes readers from the American Revolution to nineteenth-century New Mexico to contemporary Appalachia to Hamilton and Donald Trump\, she shows how different groups of immigrants assimilated into a settler identity that perpetuates US racism and militarism. The book also makes clear that a superficial ‘multicultural’ approach to revising US history still fails to tackle the heart of the problem: colonialism. You will never look at US history the same way after reading Not ‘A Nation of Immigrants.’”\n—Aviva Chomsky\, author of Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-in-conversation-with-alejandro-murguia-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lucas Bessire and William DeBuys
DESCRIPTION:Anthropologist Lucas Bessire and novelist and conservationist William DeBuys join us for a virtual event about their new books\, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Princeton UP) and The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss (Seven Stories Press). The two will discuss the increasingly imperiled water supply in the western U.S. and ways to confront the difficult challenges of the climate emergency. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains\n“Bessire’s Running Out masterfully shifts among scales and genres and in doing so lets the personal\, the historic\, and the geologic reveal their intimacies and competing urgencies. A beautiful and unusual book\, and wholly original.” –Rivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch \nThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. \nAnthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas\, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers\, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture\, eroding democratic norms\, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable\, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead\, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive\, sustainable future. \nAn urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change\, Running Out is a revelatory account of family\, complicity\, loss\, and what it means to find your way back home. \nAbout The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss\n“The Trail to Kanjiroba is a transformative path on the page by one of America’s most eloquent writers. Bill deBuys has written a walking prayer about beauty\, hope\, and longing in the service of human dignity and a living planet. Though set in Nepal in the high altitude grace of Dolpo\, this is a spiritual pilgrimage contemplating the journey from grief toward love. Hands pressed together\, I hold these words close and bow.”–Terry Tempest Williams \nIn 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo\, a remote\, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal\, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction\, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned in recent years about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth–a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of the earth’s most remote regions\, his writing celebrates the staggering natural beauty and biodiversity he finds there\, and gives his readers a history lesson of two scientific discoveries–evolution and plate tectonics–that forever changed sapiens’ understanding of our planet. Written in a lush and nuanced style evocative of Paul Theroux or Peter Matthiessen\, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare\, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that needs to be done. \nAbout the authors \nWilliam deBuys is the author of ten books\, including The Last Unicorn\, one of Christian Science Monitor’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015; River of Traps\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); and A Great Aridness. In 2008-2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New Mexico. \nLucas Bessire is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucas-bessire-and-william-debuys/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Iván Argüelles and Solomon Rino
DESCRIPTION:Iván Argüelles and Solomon Rino celebrate their new book of poetry \nField Hollers \npublished by Luna Bisonte Prods \n————— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n————— \nFIELD HOLLERS is the collaboration of pre-dawn poets Solomon Rino and Iván Argüelles. It represents the call-and-response of two disembodied voices from opposite sides of the Bay\, voices that demand a scrupulous account of the raison d’etre of existence. Though supposedly separate the twin/voices become seamless and one. \nInnovative Mexican-American poet  Iván Argüelles is the author of numerous works\, notably “That” Goddess\, Hapax Legomenon\, Madonna Septet\, and Comedy \, Divine \, The . Among recently published works are Fragments from a Gone World\, Tamazunchale\, and Diario di un ottogenario. The long arc of his life has taken him from Mexico DF to Minnesota Chicago Italy Brooklyn and finally Berkeley. A retired librarian\, he worked at the  New York Public Library and the Library UC Berkeley. Usually associated with the surrealists\, his work has deep roots in the classics as well as modernists such as Pound and Joyce. A bilingual edition of the translation of some of his poems is in preparation. \nSolomon Rino is a playwright\, poet\, book artist and publisher. His first book was an ethnography of Tibetan ritual tradition\, Deity Men\, Reb gong Tibetan Trance Mediums in Transition. He translated from the Hungarian Miklos Radnoti’s Bor Notebook as A Wiser\, More Beautiful Death. He edited and designed the book\, Like an eye in the hand of a beggar by Leopoldo Maria Panero\, translated by Arturo Mantecón. He edits the annual journal Second Stutter representing significant voices in contemporary poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivan-arguelles-and-solomon-rino/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 25th at 6pm PT when Marc Anthony Richardson joins us to discuss his novel\, Messiahs\, with Carolina de Robertis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs \n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.” \n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.” \n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs \nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs’ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy. \nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson \nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Judith Ayn Bernhard and silvi alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Judith Ayn Bernhard will read selections from her new book of stories\, Marriages (Andover Street Archives Press\, 2021)\, followed by an interview with poet silvi alcivar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-judith-ayn-bernhard-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T145634
CREATED:20210804T184135Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Ruiz Keil / Summer in the City of Roses
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Michelle Ruiz Keil again for her second novel\, Summer in the City of Roses. More to be announced soon\, but save the date and join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Summer in the City of Roses here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nInspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister\,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early ’90s Portland. \n All her life\, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother\, Orr. But this summer\, with their mother gone at an artist residency\, their father decides it’s time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When their father brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news\, Orr has already been sent away against his will. Furious at her father’s betrayal\, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George\, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle\, bow and arrow at the ready\, offering Iph a place to hide out while she tracks down Orr. \nOrr\, in the meantime\, has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies\, an all-girl punk band\, and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house. In their first summer apart\, Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music\, romance\, and sex-work activism—and find each other before a fantastical transformation fractures their family forever. \nTold through a lens of magical realism and steeped in myth\, Summer in the City of Roses is a dazzling tale about the pain and beauty of growing up. \n\nAbout the author\nMichelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx writer and tarot reader with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. Her critically acclaimed debut novel\, All of Us With Wings\, was called “a transcendent journey” by The New York Times. A San Francisco Bay Area native\, Michelle has lived in Portland\, Oregon\, for many years. She curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-ruiz-keil-summer-in-the-city-of-roses/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T203000
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SUMMARY:On Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration
DESCRIPTION:With the second renaissance and re-emergence of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy\, the general public and therapists alike are confronted with new areas of exploration\, but with few systematic frameworks available. Questions surrounding legal access to care\, ongoing criminalization\, and medical restrictions to care limiting the therapies available\, the immediate future of psychedelic-assisted therapy remains shrouded in uncertainty\, even in the face of expanding interest. On the cusp of this new era-one of excitement but also uncertainty-one of many ways to explore this emerging landscape is through the lens of the psychospiritual and the therapeutic uses of psychedelics. \nJoin clinical psychologist\, founder of the Center for Existential Exploration\, and author Dr. Kile Ortigo and licensed clinical social worker\, psychotherapist\, and social justice advocate Mary Sanders for a conversation on the psychospiritual and therapeutic use of psychedelics\, which includes the process of psychedelic integration. Sharing insights from his latest book\, Beyond the Narrow Life\, Dr. Ortigo discusses the shared elements of intersecting complexities and possibilities surrounding questions regarding legal access to care\, ongoing criminalization\, and medical restrictions to care which limit the therapies available. Dr. Ortigo examines themes elicited by the psychospiritual and therapeutic use of psychedelics through several frameworks\, from third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapy to Jungian depth psychology\, existentialism to scientific understandings of the cosmos\, and mindfulness and compassion focused traditions to popular and secular culture. \nDr. Ortigo offers deepened wisdom into psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration through his unique approach of connecting to the greater mysteries and concerns of the human experience. \nFree\, suggested donation of $20. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/ortigo-kile-august-26-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-psychedelic-integration-and-existential-exploration/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210827T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210827T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T145634
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #73
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-73/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T145634
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, AUGUST 28 AT 3PM PT WHEN ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ IS JOINED BY KIM SHUCK TO DISCUSS HER LATEST BOOK\, NOT A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS: SETTLER COLONIALIS\, WHITE SUPREMACY\, AND A HISTORY OF ERASURE AND EXCLUSION\, ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cl7qzn9tT12C-s5NKUouog \nPraise for Not a Nation of Immigrants\n“In this book\, a precious gift drawn from an amazingly rich life and a prodigious life of learning\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz urges us to disavow the violence of the US settler nation-state\, its discursive erasures of native peoples and its material relations of dispossession. The struggle for workers’ rights and working-class solidarity\, she reminds us\, involves the fight against capitalism\, imperialism\, and colonialism for the liberation of all peoples.”\n—Gary Y. Okihiro\, author of Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation \n“What do the Iroquois or Navajo think of the Statue of Liberty? With characteristic grit and brio\, Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates how profoundly the settler colonial history of the United States and the ideology of ‘white nativism’ have shaped both immigration policy and immigrant identity.”\n—Mike Davis\, author of Prisoners of the American Dream \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”\n—Ishmael Reed \nAbout Not a Nation of Immigrants\nWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table\, many Americans\, regardless of party affiliation\, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. \nShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization\, justice\, reparations\, and social equality. Moreover\, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good‑-but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress\, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state\, and imperialist since its inception. \nWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants\, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial\, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States. \nAbout Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-and-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210828T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Release: The Move by Keith Donnell Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of The Move\, Keith Donnell Jr.’s first full-length collection of poetry!\nLineup of readers and musician to be announced soon.\nPreorder your copy of The Move here: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/themove\nAbout the book: Keith Donnell Jr. taps a cultural archive of voices\, forms\, and intergenerational absence. His poems\, so connected by difference\, speak across time\, place\, and persona\, always reaching toward song and the dream of a fluid\, indestructible beating Black heart. The Move puts the cold out and keeps it there.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Book Release: The Move by Keith Donnell Jr.\nTime: Aug 28\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87430457776…\nMeeting ID: 874 3045 7776\nPasscode: 547211\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,87430457776#\,\,\,\,*547211# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,87430457776#\,\,\,\,*547211# US (Tacoma)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 874 3045 7776\nPasscode: 547211\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvADb3xTO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-the-move-by-keith-donnell-jr/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T145634
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SUMMARY:Pussypedia: Zoe Mendelson and Maria Conejo with Carol Queen
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, AUGUST 30 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZOE MENDELSON AND MARIA CONEJO JOIN US TO DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, PUSSYPEDIA: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE\, ON ZOOM! \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4hyhD6DYRHiEfUP_YY3ogw \nPraise for Pussypedia\n“Not since the 1973 publication of Our Bodies\, Ourselves has there been a book about our sexual selves that is so incisive\, so inclusive\, so frank—and so funny. Pussypedia is more than just a book about pussies\, it is a brilliant manifesto about living with one. Zoe Mendelson and Maria Conejo have created a multi-faceted masterpiece that should be read—and memorized—by every body.”—Debbie Millman\, author of Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits \n“Pussypedia is a hilarious\, ridiculously informative and absolutely necessary atlas for people with pussies. From pussy anatomy to sex and masturbation and all things in between\, Mendelson takes an inclusive and intersectional approach to demystifying all things pussy. This book is a joyful\, frank\, and comprehensive corrective to the cultural ignorance surrounding people with pussies. If pussy is the promised land\,\nthis book is the compass that will guide you there.”—Roxane Gay\, bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger \n“A thorough and empowering guide to women’s health…. [Mendelson] kicks body shame to the curb and\, in delightfully sassy prose\, keeps things realistic….Conejo’s bright illustrations\, peppered throughout\, add flair. [Those] looking to ditch the shame will find this smart\, inclusive\, and practical guide the perfect resource.”—Publishers Weekly (starred) \nAbout Pussypedia\nWritten by the creators of the popular website\, this rigorously fact-checked\, accessible\, and fully illustrated guide is essential for anyone with a pussy. \nIf the clitoris and penis are the same size on average\, why is the word “small” in the definition of clitoris but strangely missing from the definition of penis? Sex probably doesn’t cause yeast infections? But racism probably does cause BV? Why is masturbating so awesome? How hairy are butt cracks . . . generally? Why is labiaplasty on a global astronomical rise? Does egg freezing really work? Should I stick an egg-shaped rock up there or nah? \nThere is still a shocking lack of accurate\, accessible information about pussies and many esteemed medical sources seem to contradict each other. Pussypedia solves that with extensive reviews of peer-reviewed science that address old myths\, confusing inconsistencies\, and the influence of gender narratives on scientific research––always in simple\, joyful language. \nThrough over 30 chapters\, Pussypedia not only gives the reader information\, but teaches them how to read science\, how to consider information in its context\, and how to accept what we don’t know rather than search for conclusions. It also weaves in personal anecdotes from the authors and their friends––sometimes funny\, sometimes sad\, often cringe-worthy\, and always extremely personal––to do away with shame and encourage curiosity\, exploration\, and agency. \nA gift for your shy niece\, your angsty teenager\, your confused boyfriend\, or yourself. Our generation’s Our Bodies\, Ourselves\, with a healthy dose of fun. \nAbout the Authors\nZoe Mendelson: Journalist\, information designer\, content strategist. Her writing has appeared in Fast Company\, WIRED\, Hyperallergic\, Slate\, Next City\, the LA Times. Her projects have been covered by The New York Times en Espanol\, New York Magazine\, CityLab\, PBS\, Univision\, and Buzzfeed. Previous projects include official emojis for Mexico City\, a data narrative about drones\, and a civic-engagement platform for nihilist millennials. Mendelson studied at Barnard College in New York City. \nMaria Conejo: Visual Artist from Fine Arts School in Mexico. Her main media is drawing\, her work revolves around female bodies representation. She has been awarded with the national grant FONCA twice in the program JOVENES CREADORES. She was finalist in the first Biennial of Illustration in Mexico\, organized by Pictoline and The New York Times. Her work has been shown at SWAB Art Fair Barcelona\, De Kooning Studio in NYC in 2019\, at Juxtapoz Club House in Art Basel Miami and Salon Acme 6 Art Fair in Mexico City in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pussypedia-zoe-mendelson-and-maria-conejo-with-carol-queen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual event: Angela Chen and Sherronda J. Brown on Asexuality Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom event https://bit.ly/Asexuality09-01-21 or watch on live on YouTube.\n \nPresented by the San Francisco Public Library and The Booksmith: Angela Chen\, author of Ace\, and Sherronda J. Brown discuss asexuality\, the little-known sexual orientation\, and what all of us can learn–about desire\, identity\, culture\, and relationships–when we use an asexual lens to see the world.  \nAngela Chen is the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire\, Society\, and the Meaning of Sex\, which was selected as one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR. Her reporting and essays have also appeared in publications like The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Paris Review\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, and more.   \nSherronda J. Brown (she/they) is a Southern-grown essayist\, editor\, and storyteller with a focus on media analysis and cultural critique\, currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Wear Your Voice Magazine. In addition to writing and thinking about asexuality\, their special interests include Blackness and queerness in horror narratives.  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-angela-chen-and-sherronda-j-brown-on-asexuality-possibilities/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T145634
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Ishmael Reed
DESCRIPTION:Discusses her latest book\, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 2\, 2021 – 5:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of the modern classic An Indigenous People’s History of the United States\, joins us to discuss her latest book of historical reckoning\, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Beacon Press). Roxanne will be joined in conversation by legendary writer Ishmael Reed\, \n“Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a one-woman wrecking ball against the tower of lies erected by generations of official and television historians—people who make a living glorifying slave traders and exterminators of Native Americans.”—Ishmael Reed \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Not “A Nation of Immigrants”\nWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table\, many Americans\, regardless of party affiliation\, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book\, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism\, genocide\, white supremacy\, slavery\, and structural inequality\, all of which we still grapple with today. \nShe explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization\, justice\, reparations\, and social equality. Moreover\, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good‑-but inaccurate–story promotes a benign narrative of progress\, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state\, and imperialist since its inception. \nWhile some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants\, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial\, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States. \nAbout Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize\, and is the author or editor of many books\, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro. \nIshmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down\, Conjugating Hindi\, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico and most recently Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues and The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to CounterPunch and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-and-ishmael-reed/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210903T180000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #74
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-74/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T190000
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Shruti Swamy with Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 7th at 6pm PT when Shruti Swamy joins us to discuss her debut novel\, The Archer\, with Meng Jin at 9th Ave!\n\n\nMasks Required for In-Person Attendance\nRegister at the link below to join us online\nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_yBzAFdhjR2aJms0xtt-VkQ\n\n\nCan’t join us in person but want a personalized copy?\nOrder your copy of The Archer here by September 7\, write who you would like the book made out to in your order comment\, and we will handle the rest!\nYour order will ship after the event date.\n\n\nPraise for The Archer\n“This novel swallowed me whole. The Archer is the kind of book you always hope for: lush and sensual\, tasted and felt\, with striking images that play out like film behind the eyes. Swamy evokes an India that resists flat stereotype and teems with exuberance\, beauty\, and life. The Archer is timeless yet utterly modern as it asks what it means for a woman to make a life of art.” \n—C Pam Zhang\, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold \n“Shruti Swamy is a writer to celebrate. Her fiction is provocative\, precise\, and gorgeously inventive.” \n—Megha Majumdar\, author of A Burning \n“This is a singular work\, a story of a dancer\, and of a hungry self seated at the table of womanness and desire and art\, told with unparalleled originality and elegance. Swamy writes with a thrilling clarity of vision that wakes the sleepwalker right into joyful consciousness. Every word is intimate\, honest\, ecstatic—utterly alive.” \n—Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods \nAbout The Archer\nKiese Laymon called Shruti Swamy’s debut book of stories\, A House Is a Body\, “one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s.” Now\, Swamy brings us an accomplished and immersive coming-of-age novel set in the Bombay of the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nAs a child\, Vidya exists to serve her family\, watch over her younger brother\, and make sense of a motherless world. One day she catches sight of a class where the students are learning Kathak\, a precise\, dazzling form of dance that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Kathak quickly becomes the organizing principle of Vidya’s life\, even as she leaves home for college\, falls in love with her best friend\, and battles demands on her time\, her future\, and her body. Can Vidya give herself over to her art and also be a wife in Bombay’s carefully delineated society? Can she shed the legacy of her own imperfect\, unknowable mother? Must she\, herself\, also become a mother?\n\nIntensely lyrical and deeply sensual\, with writing as rhythmically mesmerizing as Kathak itself\, The Archer is about the transformative power of art and the possibilities that love can open when we’re ready.\n\nAbout Shruti Swamy\nShruti Swamy is the author of the story collection\, A House Is a Body\, which was a finalist for the Pen/Robert Bingham Prize\, the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction\, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has been published by the Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, and anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her debut novel\, The Archer\, will be published by Algonquin Books in September 2021. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-shruti-swamy-with-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210908T190000
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SUMMARY:Sandra Cisneros\, Martita\, I Remember You
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed and bestselling author Sandra Cisneros for a ticketed online event celebrating her new book\, Martita\, I Remember You / Martita\, te recuerdo. \nTickets for this special event will go on sale soon. \nA long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully told by Sandra Cisneros\, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street\, in a beautiful dual-language edition. \nAs a young woman\, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafes of Paris. Instead\, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone. But her months of befriending panhandling artists in the subway\, sleeping on crowded attic floors\, and dancing the tango at underground parties are given a lasting glow by her intense friendships with Martita and Paola. Over the years the three women disperse to three continents\, falling out of touch and out of mind—until a letter unearthed in a closet brings Corina’s days in Paris back with breathtaking immediacy. \nTold with intimacy and searing tenderness\, this tribute to the life-changing power of youthful friendship is Cisneros at her vintage best\, in a beautiful dual-language edition. \nSandra Cisneros is a poet\, short story writer\, novelist\, essayist\, performer\, and artist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, several honorary doctorates\, and national and international book awards\, including Chicago’s Fifth Star Award\, the PEN America Literary Award\, and the National Medal of Arts. Most recently\, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship\, was recognized among the Frederick Douglass 200\, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing\, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos\, Latino MacArthur fellows who are community activists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandra-cisneros-martita-i-remember-you/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T170000
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Poet Victoria Chang
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 9 \n8:00pm–9:30pm EDT \n\n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is award-winning poet Victoria Chang. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\n\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, poet and writer Victoria Chang will read her work\, revisit themes explored in Reimagine’s Asian American Table Talk series\, and discuss the power of writing to discover meaning amidst grief and trauma. \nVictoria Chang \nVictoria Chang is the author of the forthcoming Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions\, 2021)\, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. Her poetry books include OBIT\, Barbie Chang\, The Boss\, Salvinia Molesta\, and Circle. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, and the PEN Voeckler Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of a children’s picture book\, Is Mommy?\, illustrated by Marla Frazee and named a New York Times Notable Book\, and a middle grade novel\, Love\, Love. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship\, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Lannan Residency Fellowship\, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch University’s low-residency MFA program. \n\n\n\nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\n\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19GRIEF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagine-candlelight-vigil-with-poet-victoria-chang/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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