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SUMMARY:Queer Russophone Poetry: Readings\, Translations\, and Contexts
DESCRIPTION:This exceptional three-part panel opens Globus Books Literary Translation Series at Globus Books YouTube Channel. \nWe present three sets of authors and translators: \nIlya Danishevsky – Alex Karsavin \nLida Yusupova – Hilah Kohen \nOksana Vasyakina – Ainsely Morse \nTranslators discuss a few of the challenges of translating their authors. \nPart II: Spotlight on Translation. \nTranslators discuss a few of the challenges of translating their author. Danishevsky will say a few words about his experience of the (im)(p)act of translation as the translatee. \nPart III: The Social Context \nPanelists will discuss some current trends and issues manifesting in queer Russophone poetry today. \nBios: \nIlya Danishevsky is one of the best-known (and youngest) literary editors in Russia. Formerly in charge of the alternative publishing project Anhedonia at the leading publishing house AST\, Danishevsky writes texts that blur the boundary between poetry and prose\, produces regular literary features for the online edition of the journal Snob\, and curates the literary program at Moscow’s Voznesensky Center. His latest book\, Mannelig in Chains (2018)\, has been translated into Ukrainian and German. \nAlex Karsavin is a translator and writer based in Chicago & New York. They are the translations & poetry editor at H​​omintern m​agazine​\, and occasionally the ​​Zahir Review​.​ Their writing and translations have appeared in ​​The New Inquiry\, Homintern​ and are forthcoming in the ​Columbia Journal. ​In their academic and literary work they explore the channelways in between queer poetics\, Marxism\, and environmental history. They are currently working on their debut collection of poems. \nHilah Kohen is the News Editor of Meduza in English (meduza.io/en)\, the Anglophone edition of a Russian-language news outlet. Kohen’s work on the intersections of Russophone literature and politics can also be found in Music & Literature\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere. Her translations of poetry by Lida Yusupova are forthcoming in Nashville Review and a volume published by Cicada Press. \nAinsley Morse teaches at Dartmouth College and translates Russian and former Yugoslav literatures. Recent publications include Permanent Evolution\, a collection of theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov (ASP; edited and translated with Philip Redko)\, Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s “Soviet pastoral” Beyond Tula (ASP)\, and\, with Bela Shayevich\, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin (UDP) and Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See (UDP 2013). \nIn 2019 Anne O. Fisher’s translations included “Monitor-1” by Shura Burtin (winner of the inaugural True Story Award for long-form journalism); “Nervous\,” a one-act play by Julia Lukshina (Asymptote); and poetry and prose by Ilya Danishevsky and Dmitry Kuzmin in the folio Fisher co-edited\, Life Stories\, Death Sentences: Contemporary Russian-Language LGBTQ+ Writing (In Translation). Fisher teaches remotely for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Translation and Interpreting Studies program and is the Vice-President of ALTA (the American Literary Translators Association). \nGlobus Books is an independent bookstore serving San Francisco since 1971. It offers a wide-ranging stock of books on all things Russia. Globus is actively working with the libraries across the states on completing their holdings for Russian publications\, both contemporary and out-of-print. The Globus Books team is well-known for its expertise in first editions of Russian literature\, books on the Russian avant-garde\, early imprints and travel and voyage books. Under the new management\, Globus strives to serve the Bay Area\, bridging gaps\, continuing cultural traditions and giving voice to unrepresented communities in Russia and the US. \nIn the future\, these events will be held at Globus Books store in San Francisco. For now\, we are honored to feature these authors and translators via a Zoom event. Please message us if you want to participate in the Zoom event. Dut to the format and setting\, we will have a limited amount of guests. The panel will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-russophone-poetry-readings-translations-and-contexts/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T143000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nChris Feliciano Arnold will explore how creative nonfiction can blend genres and forms in mysterious\, illuminating ways. To begin\, we will discuss brief samples from a few daring books\, focusing on intersections of memoir\, lyric essay\, journalism\, history\, poetry\, criticism and more. From there\, through generative writing exercises and small group discussions\, students will deconstruct one of their own nonfiction ideas\, examining their subjects from a multitude of angles to discover new potential shapes that defy quick categorization. Our goal is for all students to leave with a heightened sense of possibility—and an energizing idea for a new piece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-chris-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T120000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer and Miah Jeffra to Support Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nAndrew Sean Greer and Miah Jeffra will read via video conference from their work and talk about writing about real-life experiences through a creative lens. \nAll proceeds benefit Alley Cat Books. Support their GoFundMe now! \n\nApril 22 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer-and-miah-jeffra-to-support-alley-cat-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T170000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Madison\, An Onion in My Pocket
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz to share An Onion in My Pocket\, her warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nThanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, Deborah Madison\, though not a vegetarian herself\, has long been revered as this country’s leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables\, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name\, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest\, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir\, she tells her story—and with it the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse\, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere\, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking\, and a manifesto for how to eat well. \nDEBORAH MADISON\, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz\, is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks\, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. Her books have received four James Beard Foundation awards and five awards from the IACP; in 2016 she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She lives in New Mexico. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 9th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-madison-an-onion-in-my-pocket/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T170000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Rufi Thorpe and Chloe Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Rufi Thorpe joins us on Instagram Live to discuss her new novel The Knockout Queen with Chloe Benjamin. Wednesday April 29th at 5:00pm PDT. \nPraise for The Knockout Queen \n“Is it cheesy to say The Knockout Queen knocked me off my feet? I couldn’t put it down\, and when I had to\, I did so only reluctantly\, shakily. With unrelenting humor and terrifying intelligence\, Rufi Thorpe tells the story of an unlikely high school friendship—the kind of friendship from which you never recover—with intensity and attentiveness. This captivating\, generous book is a moving examination on human motivation\, darkness\, and love—calling attention to the ways we can be deeply different\, and yet so much the same.”—Rachel Khong\, author of Goodbye\, Vitamin \n“Fearless\, tender\, and savagely alive\, The Knockout Queen is unlike anything you’ll read this year. Rufi Thorpe’s third novel is about unruly thoughts and unruly bodies\, about violence and love\, about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the drag of human being. You won’t be able to look away. You might even recognize yourself.”—Chloe Benjamin\, best-selling author of The Immortalists \n“The Knockout Queen is an intense\, unflinching examination of friendship\, the threads that connect us in such strange ways. Rufi Thorpe navigates this difficult terrain thanks to a masterful use of detail and a wonderfully dark sense of humor that lands at just the right moment. Michael and Bunny are two of the most unique characters I’ve ever met\, drawn with such precision that it’s impossible to leave them behind. This is a hypnotic\, beautiful novel\, and Rufi Thorpe is an unbelievably unique talent.”—Kevin Wilson\, best-selling author of Nothing to See Here \nAbout The Knockout Queen \nA dazzling and darkly comic novel of love\, violence\, and friendship in the California suburbs \nBunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful\, tall\, blond\, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard\, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three\, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams of standing out and competing in the Olympics\, she is desperate to fit in\, to seem normal\, and to get a boyfriend\, all while hiding her father’s escalating alcoholism. Michael has secrets of his own. At home and at school Michael pretends to be straight\, but at night he tries to understand himself by meeting men online for anonymous encounters that both thrill and scare him. When Michael falls in love for the first time\, a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible\, brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunny’s futures⁠⁠—and of their friendship. With storytelling as intoxicating as it is intelligent\, Rufi Thorpe has created a tragic and unflinching portrait of identity\, a fascinating examination of our struggles to exist in our bodies\, and an excruciatingly beautiful story of two humans aching for connection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rufi-thorpe-and-chloe-benjamin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T200000
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Virtual Reading Series 04/20-04/24
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce that Red Light Lit is hosting our first ever virtual reading series! That’s right babes\, starting Monday (4/20) at 8 PM PST and every night through Friday we have an amazing line up of some of our favorite artists set to read on our LIVE Insta feed. So make sure you have those @redlightlit notifications turned on and tune in Monday- Friday nights for some heated words🔥🔥🔥 Monday: Loria Mendoza\, Tuesday: Kar Johnson\, Wednesday: Devin Copeland\, Thursday: Thea Matthews\, Friday: Allyson Darling. It’s about to get LIT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-virtual-reading-series-04-20-04-24/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Avenue: John Kaag at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:ohn Kaag discusses his new book\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. \nPraise for Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \n“Kaag’s reading of James is as elucidating as readers have come to expect from him. Once again\, he writes in a clear\, focused\, and winningly self-aware style that makes friends of James and himself for anyone who wonders if life is worth living. A book in which Kaag further carves out his niche in philosophy: personal\, practical\, and crucial.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Not since Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have I read such a mesmerizing confluence of personal experience and formal thought as John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story. That combination is on display again in his Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds—a brief and powerful book about one of America’s most profound minds\, William James\, and what he can teach us about what makes life worth living.”―Robert D. Richardson\, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism \n“In this beautifully written book\, which is filled with bracing insights\, John Kaag shows why William James has had a deep\, life-altering\, therapeutic effect on his readers over the past century—and can continue to have the same effect on new readers today.”—Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen\, author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas \nAbout Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \nIn 1895\, William James\, the father of American philosophy\, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James\, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed\, as John Kaag writes\, “James’s entire philosophy\, from beginning to end\, was geared to save a life\, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours\, too. Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology—and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous—can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. \nKaag tells how James’s experiences as one of what he called the “sick-souled\,” those who think that life might be meaningless\, drove him to articulate an ideal of “healthy-mindedness”—an attitude toward life that is open\, active\, and hopeful\, but also realistic about its risks. In fact\, all of James’s pragmatism\, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives\, is a response to\, and possible antidote for\, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way\, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-avenue-john-kaag-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Veronica Roth with Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Maybe you’re already familiar with Veronica Roth because you or someone you know reads her wildly popular YA\, including the #1 New York Times best-selling Divergent series. The talented and internationally known bestseller whose books have graced the silver screen visits in April with one of our favorite locals\, fantasy icon Charlie Jane Anders\, for something completely different. \nWhether you’re already a fan or a first-timer\, you’re going to love this. \nRoth visits to share a new fast-paced fantasy novel for adults that turns her razor-sharp wit on a strange trope in the genre: the fact that so many grown adults in fantasy stories rely on literal kids to save the world. Luke Skywalker\, Buffy Summers\, Greta Thunberg… no pressure\, kiddo! \nWhat happens to those kids? Chosen Ones follows the story of fated young heroes after they’re done saving the world\, and have to deal with the aftermath. Edgy\, riveting\, fun\, and a little dark… did you think the Harry Potter epilogue fell flat? This is the book you need. \nPart thriller\, fantasy and sci-fi\, Roth’s novel is the perfect read for people who know the fantasy genre “chosen ones” trope by heart\, and has already earned the glowing praise of readers like Blake Crouch and Diana Gabaldon. Meet the author and read it before everyone else on April 21st at Kepler’s. \n “This dark\, complex novel rocked my heart and left me with a renewed sense that saving the world is a job that never ends… You’ll never look at fantasy heroes the same way again.” —Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugo & Nebula Award winning author of The City in the Middle of the Night. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability or comfort accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nPhoto of Veronica Roth by Nelson Fitch. Photo of Charlie Jane Anders by Sarah Deragon\, Portraits to the People
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-roth-with-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #59 (Music by: Kiva Uhuru)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nThis month’s performers: Kara Vernor\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alan Chazaro\, Norman Antonio Zelaya\, Florencia Milito\, Keith Donnell Jr.\, Liz Cahill\, Nancy James\, Jonas Cabrera\, Dior J. Stephens\, CE Shue\, Lorenz Dumuk\, Ashia Ajani\, Judy Juanita\, Norma Smith\, Julius Rea \nMusic by: Kiva Uhuru \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Virtual Get Lit #59 (Music by: Kiva Uhuru)\nTime: Apr 21\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/95574318035 \nMeeting ID: 955 7431 8035\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,95574318035# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,95574318035# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 955 7431 8035\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5 \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-59-music-by-kiva-uhuru/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #59 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-59-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T203000
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SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism’s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n-Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n-Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
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SUMMARY:Nina Renata Aron: Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men's Souls
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Nina Renata Aronto read from her new book\, Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls on Tuesday\, April 21st at 7pm. \n“The disease he has is addiction\,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend\, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic\, urgent\, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long\, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together\, K starts using again\, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens\, she stays\, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction\, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K\, has she failed him? \nWriting in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic\, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction\, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral\, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions\, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency\, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing\, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity\, enabling\, and love. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nNina Renata Aron is a writer and editor living in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere..
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-renata-aron-good-morning-destroyer-of-mens-souls/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200203T230301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T230326Z
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SUMMARY:For Young Adults! Dallas Woodburn in Conversation with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Launch and discussion of her new novel\, The Best Week That Never Happened\, “a poignant and gripping heart-tug of a page-turner filled with heart and hope. –Jennifer Niven\, author of All the Bright Places \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Best Week That Never Happenedby speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below to order online. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 21\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter her parents’ bitter divorce\, family vacations to the Big Island in Hawaii ceased. But across the miles\, eighteen-year-old Tegan Rossi remains connected to local Kai Kapule\, her best friend from childhood. Now\, Tegan finds herself alone and confused about how she got to the Big Island. With no wallet\, no cell phone\, purse\, or plane ticket\, Tegan struggles to piece together what happened. She must have come to surprise-visit Kai. Right? As the teens grow even closer\, Tegan pushes aside her worries and gets swept away in the vacation of her dreams. But each morning\, Tegan startles awake from nightmares that become more difficult to ignore. Something is eerily amiss. Why is there a strange gap in her memory? Why can’t she reach her parents or friends from home? And what’s with the mysterious hourglass tattoo over her heart? Kai promises to help Tegan figure out what is going on. But the answers they find only lead to more questions. As the week unfolds\, Tegan will experience the magic of first love\, the hope of second chances\, and the bittersweet joy and grief of being human. \nDallas Woodburn is a recent John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She won first place in the international Glass Woman Prize and second place in the American Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and won the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award. She is also the founder of Write On! Books (www.writeonbooks.org)\, an organization empowering youth through reading and writing endeavors. \nStephanie Kuehn is the author of many books for young adults including Charm & Strange\, Complicit\, and Delicate Monsters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/55466/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200410T215914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200410T215914Z
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SUMMARY:Online with ZOOM: Ellen Bass\, Indigo
DESCRIPTION:THE POWER OF POETRY \nOnline with ZOOM\, Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a poetry event with Ellen Bass. In Indigo Ellen Bass deepens her mastery of the praise poem\, exploring the duality of loss and exquisite tenderness that lives at the heart of almost everything. Bass plumbs the miraculous from the stuff of life—the grit of oysters\, taking an old dog out to pee in the night\, shopping at Ross. In a series of aching love poems\, the mandanity of marriage gives way to vivid sensuality\, even as–under the weight of age and illness—Eros bends its neck to grieve what will be lost. A lifelong advocate for those who might otherwise go without a witness\, Bass shows her compassion in these pages. She offers the ragged\, beautiful world her steady attention\, her devastating precision. Graceful in their melding of the narrative and the lyric\, gorgeous in their complexity\, these are poems to be savored. To RSVP for Ellen’s Reading\, click here. \nThis event with Ellen Bass is part two of The Power of Poetry. To view the event description for Patrice Veccione and her book\, visit the page here.\n\n“‘You may have to break/ your heart\,’ writes Ellen Bass\, ‘but it isn’t nothing / to know even one moment alive.’ That complex tenant of faith underlies every poem in this superb book\, an inquiry into what it is to be present in the physical world\, in time\, a body in the world of bodies. Bass’s poems are surprising\, tender\, hungry\, and wide-awake\, fearless in their attention to every nuance of feeling. I love this book wholeheartedly.” —Mark Doty\n\n“Indigo plants in any reader the need to turn the page\, to know more even if it means more heartbreak. You hold in your hands the work of a sorceress at the height of her powers.” —Jericho Brown\n\n“These poems play like snippets of cinema from every woman’s life story. Indigo is our soundtrack\, finally\, with its addictive and merciless music. This book is merely brilliant.” —Patricia Smith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-with-zoom-ellen-bass-indigo/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200412T224735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200413T221626Z
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SUMMARY:Inside Weather 2: A Night of Poems\, Stories & Art
DESCRIPTION:Join us from your room on Tuesday April 21st at 5:30 pm\, where we will Zoom-share work that in some way contemplates the rooms and roomlessness of these times. \nThis is the second in a series of three opportunities to create community and correspondence during these weeks of isolation. The events also partially act as launch readings for Mattraw’s We fell into weather (March\, Cultural Society). Mattraw’s second book explores invisible disabilities and their catalysts– environmental toxins\, illness\, and epigenetics\, among others– while considering what’s outside those rooms. \n21 April\, Tuesday\, 5:30 pm PST\nHosted by Evan Karp \nGillian Conoley\nTiff Dressen\nAlexandra Mattraw\nJennifer Soong\nMaw Shein Win \nThe writers will present in a “round” formation instead of through the patterns we find in a traditional reading. Each feature will offer approximately three minutes of work and then “pass the mic” to the next feature in a repeated\, circular pattern. \nThe concluding “Inside Weather” event will be hosted by Norman Fischer on 19 May\, 5:30 pm PST\, and will include \nMary-Kim Arnold\nNorman Fischer\nHeather June Gibbons\nAlexandra Mattraw\nRusty Morrison
URL:https://litseen.com/event/inside-weather-2-a-night-of-poems-stories-art/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20191220T063124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T063124Z
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SUMMARY:Miranda July with Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nMiranda July is a filmmaker\, artist\, and writer. She is the author of the novel The First Bad Man\, and the short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You and writer\, director and star of the films The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Her forthcoming crime drama Kajillionaire stars Evan Rachel Wood and Gina Rodriguez. July’s participatory art works include the website Learning to Love You More\, Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale)\, New Society (a performance)\, and Somebody (a messaging app created with Miu Miu.) Her new book\, Miranda July\, is a chronological retrospective of her multidisciplinary work. \n  \nJenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer\, and the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF\, the San Francisco Planning Department\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Palo Alto Art Center\, ODC Dance Center\, Facebook\, and the Internet Archive and currently teaches internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Elizabeth Weinberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-july-with-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
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SUMMARY:MIRANDA JULY in conversation with Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Watch this free upcoming webcast at: https://www.cityarts.net/youtube\nYou can support the cost of this public webcast by making a tax-deductible donation. Thank you for your support! \nAttention ticket holders: we hope you might consider donating your ticket to support the costs of this program. We also understand if you would like a refund and will happily accommodate that. To request a refund\, email City Box Office. To receive acknowledgement of a tax-deductible contribution\, no action is required. \nMiranda July is a filmmaker\, artist\, and writer. She is the author of the novel The First Bad Man\, and the short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You and writer\, director and star of the films The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Her forthcoming crime drama Kajillionaire stars Evan Rachel Wood and Gina Rodriguez. July’s participatory art works include the website Learning to Love You More\, Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale)\, New Society (a performance)\, and Somebody (a messaging app created with Miu Miu.) Her new book\, Miranda July\, is a chronological retrospective of her multidisciplinary work. \nJenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer\, and the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF\, the San Francisco Planning Department\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Palo Alto Art Center\, ODC Dance Center\, Facebook\, and the Internet Archive and currently teaches internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University. \nPhotograph credit: Elizabeth Weinberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-july-in-conversation-with-jenny-odell/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200323T055351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200329T192553Z
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
URL:https://litseen.com/event/escape-from-quarantine-reading-a-weekly-online-thing-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T125900
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CREATED:20200411T203149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T205223Z
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SUMMARY:Brownie Bake-In for HOME BAKED
DESCRIPTION:On April 20\, join me and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in celebrating the release of HOME BAKED from the comfort of your kitchen! \nShare a pic of YOUR brownies on twitter and/or instagram with the hashtags #HomeBaked and #BakeIn. We’ll be giving away free books\, t-shirts\, stickers and other cool swag to participants. \nI’ll also share the original Sticky Fingers Brownies recipe along with a video demonstration of how we did it back in the day!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brownie-bake-in-for-home-baked/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alia Volz":MAILTO:aliavolz@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200415T143026Z
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SUMMARY:Our Communities\, Climate Change\, and COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Sunday\, April 19th from 1pm – 2:30pm for a live panel discussion\n“Our Communities\, Climate Change\, and COVID-19” featuring \nJulie Sze\, author Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger \nAPEN Shina Robinson\nEnvironmental Justice Activist Ratha Lai\nSFSU Asian American Studies Professor Russell Jeung \n\nWatch the session on YouTube Live HERE.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjz-kfBnus&feature=youtu.be \nA recording of the event will also be posted online after. \nOr register to receive access to the April 19th Event Zoom. \nREGISTER 4/19 event \nJulie Sze is Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project at the University of California\, Davis. She has authored and edited two other books and numerous articles on environmental justice and inequality\, culture and environment\, and urban and community health and activism. \nEnvironmental Justice in a Moment of Danger \n$18.95\, Paperback
URL:https://litseen.com/event/our-communities-climate-change-and-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
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SUMMARY:Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman: A celebration on his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell\, by City Lights Books\, we’re assembling a gathering of poets\, artists\, and musicians on what would be the late poet’s 95th birthday. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their wonderful 3rd floor loft space\, and co-sponsored by The Poetry Center\, City Lights Books\, and The Green Arcade\, this event is free and open to the public. Please join us. Photo of Bob Kaufman by A.D. Winans. \n“He was an original voice. No one else talked like him. No one else wrote poetry like him.”––Lawrence Ferlinghetti \nBob Kaufman (April 18\, 1925\, New Orleans\, LA – January 12\, 1986) was one of the most important—and most original—poets of the twentieth century. He is among the inaugurators of what today is characterized as the Afro-Surreal\, uniting the surrealist practice of automatic writing with the jazz concept of spontaneous composition. He seldom wrote his poems down and often discarded those he did\, leaving them to be rescued by others. He was also a legendary figure of the Beat Generation\, known as much for hopping on tables to declaim his poetry as for maintaining a monastic silence for months or even years at a time. \nKaufman produced just three broadsides and three books in his lifetime. In 1967\, Golden Sardine was published by City Lights in its famed Pocket Poets Series\, and became an instant cult classic. Collected Poems is a landmark poetic achievement\, bringing together all of Kaufman’s known surviving poems\, including an extensive section of previously uncollected work\, in a long overdue return to City Lights Books. \nMusicians: Bruce Ackley and Aurora Josephson (performing Steve Lacy’s songs to Bob Kaufman’s poems); Hafez Modirzadeh\, Francis Wong\, David Boyce \nPoets and other artists: Josiah Luis Adelberte\, Will Alexander\, Arlene Biala\, James Cagney\, MK Chavez\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Dewey Crumpler\, Justin Desmangles\, Duane Deterville\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Agneta Falk\, C.S. Giscombe\, Leticia Hernández-Linares\, Jack Hirschman\, Sarah Menefee\, Alejandro Murguía\, Jevohn Newsome\, Barbara Jane Reyes\, Kim Shuck; Tate Swindell with Jessica Loos\, Niko Van Dyke\, and Michael Young (reading “Second April”); Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, A.D. Winans \n  \n\n“With this magnetic new unveiling\, Bob Kaufman trenchantly sunders endemic retrocausal error and neglect that has casted his fate into a secondary enclave of lesser mastery. To set the story straight it was his spirit that helped sire the Ginsberg that we know and not vice versa. It was he who magically hoisted the invisible umbrella under which Kerouac and others such as Corso were enabled to protractedly flourish. Arrested 39 times for poetic brilliance via bravura he was the absolute contrary of the sterile academic scrounging for golden verbal eggs. Never concerned with immediate notoriety he passed across unerring emptiness as a poetic lahar sweeping in all directions at once. He volcanically en-veined the Beats as a mirage enveloped Surrealist; not as a formal poet\, but one\, like Rimbaud\, who embodied butane. Following the scent of his butane on one anonymous North Beach afternoon led Philip Lamantia to audibly utter to me that Bob Kaufman as per incandescent singularity is ‘our poet.'” —Will Alexander\n“Bob Kaufman is one of our most vulnerable\, mysterious\, and beautiful poets\, a nomadic maudit\, surrealist saint of the streets\, votary of silence\, the consummate Outrider with trickster imagination and visionary power. What does it take to be such a poet-man\, veils/layers of existence laced with hardship\, suffering? Not many like this anymore. The Black American Rimbaud\, as he was christened in France. His poems make me weep and bow with humility and wonder. I last saw him\, shape-shifting shaman on Ken Kesey’s stage in Oregon\, swirling in a torque of rage\, enlightenment\, and prescience. Pure product of America’s madness: fury and tenderness. The writing is complex and lays its soul-baring down on jazz-inflected syllables and riffs for all to read and tremble within. No serious canon is complete without this insistent rhythm\, poetic acuity\, and a body’s last resort to sing.” —Anne Waldman\n“Uplifting the voice of this under-sung literary master to future’s light is the mission of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman. This poet’s poet on the cliff edge of no ledge is still continuing to foster new surrealizations. Read this bebopian wordsmith\, his pen turned saxophone and ink notes that are black tears.” —Kamau Daáood\n“In collecting Bob Kaufman’s work\, the editors have sought to bind earthquakes with book paste. These pages vibrate\, a pulse not from way out\, but from way in this strange\, strange country. Wearing the poet’s trembling\, subterranean eyes\, I see the dirt of imperial graves\, grocery store corpses\, swank gas chambers\, and bomb shelters cut an inverted skyline against a too orange American sun. Blinking\, I look up and the real sun seems just as radioactive\, which is perhaps what leaves me the most shaken. To call these poems ‘surreal’ seems\, now\, to muffle Kaufman’s prophetic genius. He saw us\, our images in pools of blood\, milk\, and saxophone spittle. Maybe it was ever our shivering made the ripples that distorted the reflections.” —Douglas Kearney\n“Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman should finally liberate the kaleidoscopic surrealism of this San Franciscan\, and in many respects\, secular Franciscan\, poet from the shadows of Allen Ginsberg and the other Beats. While poems like ‘Night Sung Sailor’s Prayer’ and ‘Believe\, Believe’ presage both the linguistic flights of Will Alexander and the affirmative exuberance of Ross Gay\, the bulk of the book hearkens back to familiar figures like Blake\, Apollinaire\, and Artaud. In the end\, of course\, Bob Kaufman is Bob Kaufman\, and as this collection confirms\, the poems tend to extremes\, lurching between the sweeping force of a tornado (e.g.\, ‘The American Sun’ and ‘The Ancient Rain’) and the precision of a stiletto (e.g.\, “Demolition” and ‘I Am A Camera’). Kaufman’s libertarian tendencies (see\, for example\, ‘Abomunist Manifesto’) made him a largely apolitical\, if compassionate poet\, but what comes through above all else is a human being beset by the furies and desires he/she unleashed. Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is a memoriam of unmitigated joy and abysmal despair.” —Tyrone Williams\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nCollected Poems of Bob Kaufman\, edited by Neeli Cherkovski\, Raymond Foye\, and Tate Swindell (City Lights Booksellers and Publishers) \nThe world finally catches up to Bob Kaufman\, unsung hero of Beat Generation (by Denise Sullivan\, November 1\, 2019) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman-a-celebration-on-his-95th-birthday-poetry-and-jazz/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200418T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200412T221719Z
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini In Conversation With Book Passage’s Elaine Petrocelli
DESCRIPTION:Live: Saturday\, April 18th\, 7:00est/4:00pst\n\n\n\n\n\nIn March 2001\, while practicing medicine\, Khaled Hosseini began writing his first novel\, The Kite Runner\, which was published by Riverhead Books in 2003. That debut went on to launch one of the biggest literary careers of our time. Today\, Khaled is one of the most recognized and bestselling authors in the world. His books\, The Kite Runner\, A Thousand Splendid Suns\, and And the Mountains Echoed\, have been published in over seventy countries and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. \nIn 2006 Khaled was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR\, the UN Refugee Agency. Inspired by a trip he made to Afghanistan with the UNHCR\, he later established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation\, a nonprofit\, which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“It may be unfair\, but what happens in a few days\, sometimes even a single day\, can change the course of a whole lifetime…”\n– The Kite Runner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-in-conversation-with-book-passages-elaine-petrocelli/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200221T184124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T054941Z
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SUMMARY:Grace Notes: Poets at Grace Cathedral
DESCRIPTION:Join Litquake for our annual National Poetry Month celebration\, at Grace Cathedral atop the city’s Nob Hill\, for readings from some of America’s best poets: Kazim Ali\, Natalie Diaz\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and Jane Hirshfield. Curated and hosted by Rebecca Foust\, bookstore provided by Russian Hill Books. Sales and signings to follow. FREE \nModerators \n\n\n \nRebecca Foust\nRebecca Foust was the Poet Laureate of Marin County and is the author of Paradise Drive\, All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song\, and God\, Seed\, as well as three chapbooks including The Unexploded Ordnance Bin\, released November 2019.\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nJane Hirshfield\nJane Hirshfield’s ninth collection\, Ledger (Knopf)\, just released. Chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets and recently elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, she works frequently at the intersection of poetry and science. Her essays\, poems\, and translations… Read More →\n\n\n \nTongo Eisen-Martin\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)\, which won the 2018 California Book Award.\n\n\n \nNatalie Diaz\nNatalie Diaz is author of the new poetry collection Postcolonial Love Poem\, as well as the award-winning When My Brother Was an Aztec. She has received many honors\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, a US Artists Ford Fellowship\, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She teaches at Arizona… Read More →\n\n\n \nKazim Ali\nKazim Ali’s many books include The Far Mosque\, which won an Alice James Books award and Inquisition (2018)\, as well as the prose books The Disappearance of Seth\, Bright Felon\, and Resident Alien. Ali co-founded Nightboat Books and is a professor at U.C. San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-notes-poets-at-grace-cathedral/
LOCATION:Grace Cathedral\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200306T214456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T214456Z
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SUMMARY:The Black (W)hole
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, every member of the now award-winning Destiny Arts Center Youth Performance Company knew someone killed by violence. How they began to ask\, do we remember the “gone too soon”? It’s a question at the heart of The Black (W)hole\, a new\, multidisciplinary performance commissioned by Destiny Arts Center in collaboration with members of Oakland’s vibrant arts community that will premiere on April 17 at The Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center at Laney College. \nThe Black (W)hole combines hip hop and vertical dance\, poetic elegies\, video installations\, and mixed-media public artworks to honor six young people who died before age 32 in and around Oakland. “We commissioned Marc Bamuthi Joseph to come home to Oakland and help us create a new\, embodied language to memorialize youth in our city who have died too-soon. The Black (W)hole is a vehicle for resistance and spiritual renewal that will show how public rituals can affirm cultural memory and help us mourn and heal\,” explains Sarah Crowell\, the Center’s Artistic Director. \nThe Black (W)hole includes the Award-Winning Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC)\, together with Marc Bamuthi Joseph\, Brett Cook\, and Yoram Savion of YAKfilms\,The Elders Project\, and BANDALOOP\, DAYPC Co-Artistic Directors Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari\, and a team of powerful collaborators\, performance and art installations and a dance/theater piece for the six young “gone too soon” ancestors\, that have been guided by conversations with their family members.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-whole/
LOCATION:Laney College\, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center 900 Fallon St\, Oakland\, 94607
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Destiny Arts Center":MAILTO:info@destinyarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20191227T174415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T174415Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wetmore
DESCRIPTION:reads from her debut novel Valentine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWritten with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver\, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. \nMercy is hard in a place like this . . . \nIt’s February 1976\, and Odessa\, Texas\, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity\, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. \nIn the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day\, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house\, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive\, one of the town’s women decides to take matters into her own hands\, setting the stage for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. \nValentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race\, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear\, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart\, this fierce\, unflinching\, darkly funny\, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability\, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nElizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch\, Kenyon Review\, Colorado Review\, Baltimore Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Iowa Review\, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council\, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony\, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas\, she lives and works in Chicago. \n\n\nPraise For…\n\n“Fierce and complex\, VALENTINE is a novel of moral urgency and breathtaking prose. This is the very definition of a stunning debut.”\n— Ann Patchett \n“It is nearly impossible for me to believe that Elizabeth Wetmore is a first-time novelist. How can a writer burst out of the gate with this much firepower and skill? VALENTINE is brilliant\, sharp\, tightly wound\, and devastating. Wetmore has ripped the brutal\, epic landscape of West Texas out of the hands of men\, and has handed the stories over (finally!) to the girls and women who have always suffered\, survived\, and made their mark in such a hostile world. These are some of the most fully realized and unforgettable female characters I’ve ever met. They will stay with me.”\n— Elizabeth Gilbert\, New York Times bestselling author of City of Girls \n“My goodness\, what a novel. I clutched this book in both hands and by the end I could feel the dust of West Texas on my skin. Elizabeth Wetmore understands the nuances of the human heart better than almost any writer I’ve read in recent years\, and I rooted for these women with everything I have. There is violence here\, and despair\, but in the end the story is a testament to quiet courage\, to hope\, to love. Every person should read this extraordinary debut.”\n— Mary Beth Keane\, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again\, Yes \n“Valentine is a screaming flare shot into the night sky: a blazing debut that’s as tender and subversive as it is powerful. From the opening moment\, I could not look away; the characters are so complex\, so gritty and determined\, that I had the sense they were carrying me aloft\, that they wouldn’t release me until we were safe. Elizabeth Wetmore captures a place and story that’s both expansive and suffocating\, counterfeit and raw\, brutal and beautiful\, all the vivid contradictions. Wetmore is a new literary powerhouse\, and Valentine is quite simply one of the best books I’ve ever read.”\n— Jeanine Cummins\, author of American Dirt \n“Elizabeth Wetmore shows us the vivid and complex culture of Odessa\, Texas. The women in this book move through their difficult lives with strength and surprising grace. The landscape and characters are rendered with precise and lyric prose. Valentine is a beautiful book written with compassion\, understanding\, and deep honesty. A remarkable debut.”\n— Chris Offutt\, author of Country Dark \n“In Valentine\, Elizabeth Wetmore cracks open West Texas and lays bare what beats inside: a world at once ferocious\, fragile\, and furious\, where women and girls fight menace from every fanged quarter—land\, animal\, human. But fight they do\, for themselves\, for each other\, for what’s right. Wondrously\, amid the sorrow\, Valentine thrums with the most staggering beauty\, a compassion and tenderness as vast as the sky. You’ll read this book like a letter from a lost love\, clutched in your hands\, heart in your throat. You’ll carry it with you forever.”\n— Bryn Chancellor\, author of Sycamore \n“In outstanding prose\, Wetmore has created a handful of extraordinary women out of the dust of West Texas\, 1976. They are all so real\, with their hard lives lived with absolute humanity. Valentine is both heartbreaking and thrilling\, I loved it.”\n— Claire Fuller\, author of Our Endless Numbered Days \n“Stirring. . . . Wetmore poetically weaves the landscape of Odessa and the internal lives of her characters\, whose presence remains vivid after the last page is turned. This moving portrait of West Texas oil country evokes the work of Larry McMurtry and John Sayles with strong\, memorable female voices.”\n— Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“Drawing comparisons to Barbara Kingsolver and Wallace Stegner\, Wetmore writes with an evidently innate wisdom about the human spirit. With deep introspection\, she expertly unravels the complexities between men\, women\, and the land they inhabit. Achingly powerful\, this story will resonate with readers long after having finished it.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-wetmore/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200415T142743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T142743Z
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SUMMARY:City Lights LIVE!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first livestream as we honor our worldwide community of friends with this special online gathering.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nWith special guests Juan Felipe Herrera\, Beth Lisick\, Joshua Mohr\, sam sax\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Janaka Stucky\, Jack Hirschman\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, Karen Finley\, and others! \nHosted by Josiah Luis Alderete. \nThis is an online gathering to thank our generous supporters all over the world who contributed to our successful GoFundMe campaign\, and an opportunity for some of our very favorite authors to read\, chat\, perform and share their thoughts as we shelter-in-place together. \nWe ask that you consider further support for indie bookstores by browsing on Bookshop.org. Our virtual storefront is located here: https://bookshop.org/shop/citylightsbooks \nStay connected with us through our social media channels on Twitter\, Facebook\, Instagram\, and Youtube. \n*** \nAll registered attendees will receive a Zoom link on the day of the event. Tune in right at 7PM!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-live/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T190000
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CREATED:20200215T022552Z
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Launch for Jennifer Hasegawa / La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Jennifer Hasegawa to launch her debut book\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFrom the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus\, this is a field guide to flora\, fauna\, and mineralia encountered\, real and imagined. Packed tightly into exploratory rocket segments\, these poems ignite our gravest flaws to send our grandest potentials into orbit\, sprinkling us all with an antidotal salve to viewing any life as ordinary. \nBanzai has a literal translation of “10\,000 years” and was used by the Japanese as a rallying cry in imperialistic and militaristic contexts. Today\, the word has a comparatively neutral translation of “Hurrah!” in Japan and beyond. In La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, Hasegawa aims to reclaim banzai\, recasting the language of war and dogmatic loyalty into the language of a life and poetry created against racism and harmful norms\, and toward tolerance and self-acceptance. \nJennifer Hasegawa is a poet and photographer. She’s sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from a plastic surgery clinic in Paraguay. The manuscript for her first collection of poetry\, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. Hasegawa’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, has appeared in The Adroit Journal\, Bamboo Ridge\, and Tule Review; and is forthcoming in Bennington Review and Vallum. She was born and raised in Hilo\, Hawai‘i and lives in San Francisco. \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-launch-for-jennifer-hasegawa-la-chicas-field-guide-to-banzai-living/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200411T210947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200411T210947Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #5
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nDonate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the “ticket” link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #5\nTime: Apr 17\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/610388278 \nMeeting ID: 610 388 278\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,610388278# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,610388278# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\nMeeting ID: 610 388 278\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200410T214131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200410T214131Z
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SUMMARY:Homewreck: A Shipwreck Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Get ready\, matchmakers: we’re going back to Austenland for a night of charming romantic misunderstandings and youthful hubris. Join us to wreck EMMA from the comfort of your home. \nTo the best of technology’s ability\, this will be like a regular Shipwreck. Six great writers will submit erotic fanfiction about a character from Emma\, Baruch will read them anonymously\, Amy and Casey will host\, you’ll laugh and drink too much. The show will stream for free on Booksmith’s Facebook page and our Twitch stream. At the end\, anyone who’s donated by purchasing a ticket will vote for the winner. \nTicket proceeds—and do please feel free to buy in multiples—go toward keeping our skeleton crew running during the shutdown (and paying the writers and performer). \nThanks\, as ever\, for laughing with us. \nFeatured writers: Joe Wadlington\, Alan Leggitt\, Molly Sanchez\, Sarah Lynn Rogers\, Nate Waggoner\, and Viv Pustell. \nvv “TICKET” PRICES BELOW vv \n  \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n$5 Ticket\n\n$5.00\nSKU: SW5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$10 Ticket\n\n$10.00\nSKU: SW10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$25 Ticket\n\n$25.00\nSKU: SW25
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homewreck-a-shipwreck-fundraiser/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130022
CREATED:20200406T024606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200406T024606Z
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SUMMARY:Katherine Applegate to Support Book Passage
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising goal: $2000 \nNewberry Award winner Katherine Applegate will read via video conference from her work and talk about her extensive writing history and catalog. \nAll proceeds benefit Book Passage. Buy a gift card right now! \n\nApril 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\nNote: You will receive information for the video conference upon registering for the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-applegate-to-support-book-passage/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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