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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Library Presents: Know Your Name with Tahtahme Xero\, Poet and Healer
DESCRIPTION:Tahtahme Xero will talk about her book Apricity (Nomadic Press\, 2020)\, and discuss her work as a healer\, poet and author. \nApricity follows the journey of a teenage transracial adoptee as she navigates addressing years of sexual abuse from her adoptive father\, her family’s recovery and falling in love for the first time. \nXero says this of Apricity\, “I hope the book I needed is a book found by people who need it as well. I hope you will pass it on to whoever else needs it. I hope it inspires you even just a little and in this way we can try to support each other\, heal\, teach the true tragedy of childhood sexual abuse and help stop it from continuing.” \nTahtahme Xero is a Sacred Woman\, Womb Worker and Rootworker. She and her husband have been together for over 13 years\, and have twin toddlers together. They all live in the Bay Area.
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SUMMARY:CLA Presents: Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin\, race\, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.\n\nLalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.\n\nBrilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.\nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She the author of four novels\, including ‘The Moor’s Account’\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and ‘The Other Americans’\, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Washington Post\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer\nCo-presented with Impact Justice \nMonday\, March 8\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/21/2021\, 03/23/2021\, 03/24/2021\nTICKETS \n  \n\n\nThis event is a presented in partnership with Impact Justice \nReuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist\, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration where he studies and writes about race\, democracy\, and the social life of the city. His book\, Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\, shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate\, and how parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished\, unstable\, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society. Miller has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey\, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago\, he lives with his wife and children on the city’s Southside. \nTerah Lawyer has been an advocate for incarcerated people for more than a decade as a peer health educator\, a certified drug and alcohol counselor\, a youth diversion specialist\, and now as program manager for the Homecoming Project\, an innovative re-entry housing program at Impact Justice. Ms. Lawyer is herself a formerly incarcerated person\, and that experience informs her commitment to improving the justice system. \nImpact Justice is a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform. Impact Justice was founded in 2015 on an idea: to create an organization that would imagine\, innovate\, and accept absolutely nothing about the status quo of our current justice system. We know the problems: too many people locked up\, including far too many people of color; families broken up and broken by our justice system; and a culture that too often treats people based on fear\, oppression\, and bias. For us to build the future we need\, we must build the world we want today. Info at https://impactjustice.org/ \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reuben-jonathan-miller-in-conversation-with-terah-lawyer/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Irvin D. Yalom with Lori Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nHow can we understand life\, joy and love during the moment when they culminate in death and grief? \nInternationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from loss and anxiety. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife and lifelong partner\, the late esteemed historian and feminist author Marilyn D. Yalom\, was diagnosed with cancer. Together\, they chose to write about their shared experience during her final months\, creating an unparalleled gift that Kirkus calls “A profound love story with lessons for how to live and how to die.” \n\n\n\n\nTheir memoir A Matter of Death and Life provides insight into grief from a remarkable couple who spent a life of close devotion from their teenage years onward. It catalogues the most intimate and daunting challenges two loved ones can undergo while trying to care for one another: Marilyn\, to die a good death\, and Irv to live on without her. During a year wracked with complex grief\, their shared story is a beautiful work of writing that offers much needed guidance. \nThrough alternating stories of their last months together and Irv’s first months alone\, A Matter of Death and Life rings with a depth of support\, solace\, and meaning around the process of grief… and also offers a warm\, resonant tribute to life well-lived. \nIn an interview with Lori Gottlieb\, Dr. Irvin Yalom visits with Kepler’s Literary Foundation online on March 8th to share A Matter of Death and Life. These two warm\, witty writers will discuss what is a grippingly poignant account of not only grief\, but the experience of love that gives it meaning. \n  \nIRVIN D. YALOM\, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University\, is the author of internationally bestselling books including Love’s Executioner\, The Gift of Therapy\, Becoming Myself\, and When Nietzsche Wept. His impact in the field of psychiatry is profound\, with one training text alone over 700\,000 copies sold; but it is his lifelong passion for literature and fiction\, paired with the deep human understanding of his psychiatric work\, that makes Yalom’s writing distinctly beloved at Kepler’s. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLORI GOTTLIEB is psychotherapist and author of the bestselling Kepler’s Favorite Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, now being adapted for television. In addition to clinical practice\, she writes The Atlantic’s weekly “Dear Therapist” column and is the co-host of the eponymous iHeart Radio podcast produced by Katie Couric. A member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change and one of the most-watched TED presenters of 2020\, Lori’s expertise has made her a sought-after guest on media like The Today Show\, Good Morning America\, CBS This Morning\, CNN\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \nMARILYN YALOM (1932-2019) wrote many celebrated cultural histories and feminist works\, including Blood Sisters\, History of the Wife\, The Birth of the Chess Queen and (together with her son) The American Resting Place. This year marks the release of her posthumously published Innocent Witness: Childhood Memories of World War II. A professor of French at Stanford University and senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research\, she received her PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins and had a profound impact through both her academic contributions and teaching. Marilyn and Irv were married for sixty-five years. \n\n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:MFA Reading Series: Shapes of Native Nonfiction - Deborah Miranda\, Theresa Warburton\, Elissa Washuta
DESCRIPTION:Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013)\, recipient of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award; and four poetry collections: Altar for Broken Things (2020)\, Raised by Humans (2015)\, The Zen of La Llorona (2005)\, and Indian Cartography (1999). She is co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature\, and her work has appeared in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: An Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing. She is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. \nTheresa Warburton is the author of Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Literatures in Contemporary Anarchist Movements (forthcoming\, Northwestern University Press). With Elissa Washuta\, she is co-editor of Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University where she is also affiliate faculty in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and Canadian-American Studies. She lives on Lummi\, Nooksack\, and Coast Salish Territories in Bellingham\, WA. \nElissa Washuta is the author of the nonfiction collections My Body Is a Book of Rules (2014)\, Starvation Mode (2018)\, and White Magic (forthcoming\, Tin House Books). With Theresa Warburton\, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient\, a Creative Capital awardee\, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University. She is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-reading-series-shapes-of-native-nonfiction-deborah-miranda-theresa-warburton-elissa-washuta/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Canton Discusses his new book\, The Oak Papers
DESCRIPTION:James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book\, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). \n“A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature\, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree.”—Peter Wohlleben\, author of The Hidden Life of Trees \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Oak Papers\nJoining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk\, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. \nThrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship\, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex\, England. While considering the direction of his own life\, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries\, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. \nIn this beautiful\, transportive book\, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological\, spiritual\, literary\, and historical contexts\, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation\, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. \nCanton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak\, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats\, to fuel our fires\, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose\, then\, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? \nTaking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau\, Leo Tolstoy\, Katherine Basford’s Green Man\, Thomas Hardy\, William Shakespeare\, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces\, from human development to climate change\, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious\, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us\, if only we slow down enough to listen. \nAbout James Canton\nDr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of Ancient Wonderings and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape\, which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS\, Caught by the River\, and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex\, England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-canton-discusses-his-new-book-the-oak-papers/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\n\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\n\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\n\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-zoom-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-16/
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book\, Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Simard\, a pioneering scientist who has changed the way we understand forest ecosystems\, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated first book\, Finding the Mother Tree (Knopf). \n“Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories\, connecting us to one another. Her vivid manuscript carries the stories of trees\, fungi\, soil and bears—and of a human being listening in on the conversation . . . I have great admiration for her science and her storytelling alike. These are stories that the world needs to hear.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer \nThis event is co-sponsored by Emergence Magazine and will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON. \nAbout Finding the Mother Tree\nSuzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson\, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. \nNow\, in her first book\, Simard brings us into her world\, the intimate world of the trees\, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths–that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp\, but are a complicated\, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social\, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. \nSimard writes–in inspiring\, illuminating\, and accessible ways–how trees\, living side by side for hundreds of years\, have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses\, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication\, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence\, traits that are the essence of civil societies–and at the center of it all\, the Mother Trees: the mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \nSimard writes of her own life\, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia\, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them–embarking on a journey of discovery\, and struggle. And as she writes of her scientific quest\, she writes of her own journey–of love and loss\, of observation and change\, of risk and reward\, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology\, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world\, and\, in writing of her own life\, we come to see the true connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do\, and how these inseparable bonds enable all our survival. \nAbout Suzanne Simard\nDR. SUZANNE SIMARD was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University. She is Professor of Forest Ecology in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-simard-pioneering-scientist-discusses-her-anticipated-book-finding-the-mother-tree/
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SUMMARY:Nomadic & Black Freighter Press
DESCRIPTION:Black Freighter is honored to team up with our comrades at Nomadic Press for a joint reading celebrating resistance art.\nJOIN US as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alie Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand\, Jr.\, James Cagney\, Ayodele Nzinga\, and Tureeda Mikell\, it’ll be a great evening of fam and joy.\nEvent is free and all are welcome. Donations will be called for throughout the evening to support both Nomadic Press and Black Freighter Press. \nCelebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press\, RSVP Here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-black-freighter-press/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T200000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the arrival of Black Freighter Press! With readings by Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alie Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin reading QR Hand\, Jr.\, James Cagney\, Ayodele Nzinga\, and Tureeda Mikell\, it’ll be a great evening of fam and joy.\n\nEvent is free and all are welcome. Donations will be called for throughout the evening to support both Nomadic Press and Black Freighter Press.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Celebrating the Arrival of Black Freighter Press\nTime: Mar 6\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85424533623\nMeeting ID: 854 2453 3623\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85424533623# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,85424533623# 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+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 854 2453 3623\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcaoRx37Sx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-arrival-of-black-freighter-press/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T183000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210301T005830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T005830Z
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SUMMARY:Page Poets reading online event at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:COVID wouldn’t stop Ovid! Or any other poets worth their salt\, so please join us for an exciting online reading from The Page Poets Series and The Divers Collection this Saturday\, March 6 from 5pm – 6:15. \nFeatured poets are Katharine Harer\, Charlie Pendergast\, Stan Stone\, Garrett Caples\, Mary Julia Klimenko\, Tamsin Smith and Jason Morris. \nHere’s how the press describes their work: \nThe Page Poets Series was conceived by friends on a bright day in a dark corner of The Page bar on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. We publish important Northern California poets whose work excites us. \nThe Divers Collection expands our horizons. It is dedicated to the discovery and exploration of eclectic creative treasures\, which we wish to share. \nTo sign up for this Saturday’s reading click on this link: https://meet.google.com/vne-woki-ytq \nFor more info on their publications check their website: fmsbwpress.com \nYou will be able to order copies of some books from the evening’s poets from The Green Arcade by contacting us at: TheGreenArcade.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/page-poets-reading-online-event-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210105T190102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T190102Z
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jean Shinoda Bolen (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book Like a Tree\, which grew out of her experience mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her neighborhood\, provides an insightful look into the fusion of ecological issues and global gender politics. \nThat moment of loss\, combined with Bolen’s practice of walking among tall trees\, led to her deep connection with trees and an understanding of their many complexities. From their anatomy and physiology\, to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols\, Bolen expertly explores the dynamics of ecological activism spiritual activism and sacred feminism. And\, she invites us to join the movement to save trees. While there is still much work to be done to address environmental problems\, there are many stories of individuals and organizations rising up to make a change and help save our planet. The words and stories that Bolen weaves throughout this book are both inspirational and down-to-earth\, calling us to realize what is happening to not only our trees\, but our people. By writing about both the work of organizations like Greenpeace and the UN Commission on the Status of Women\, Bolen highlights her passions and shares her unique vision for the world. \nJean Shinoda Bolen is a psychiatrist\, Jungian analyst\, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology\, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute\, University of California Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women\, the International Transpersonal Association\, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions and is in three acclaimed documentaries. \nTerry Tempest Williams is the author of 17 books of creative nonfiction including the classic in environmental literature Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; When Women Were Birds; The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; and most recently\, Erosion: Essays of Undoing\, just out in paperback. A member of the American Academy of Arts and letters\, she is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and lives in Castle Valley\, Utah with the writer Brooke Williams. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-jean-shinoda-bolen-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210114T010048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210114T010048Z
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SUMMARY:Poemscaping: Trim. Write. Repeat.
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you will learn a bold and effective strategy to revise your working poems! \nThis revision workshop helps poets create new horizons for their work by creating a no-pressure environment where trimming a poem leads to its rebirth. \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nIn this workshop\, participants will learn how to systematically revise a poem that they have been struggling with. They will do this by first pointing out and letting go of details they have become attached to so they can look at the piece with a fresh perspective. Then they will trim the poem to find what shines. Finally\, they will elaborate—turning that shiny poem even into something even more radiant. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• A comprehensive toolkit for revising poems \n • A fresh perspective on a poem you’ve been stuck on \n • Tangible suggestions on how you can revise your poem  \nWhat You’ll Need:\nA poem you have been working on that you are willing to play around with. \n*** \nAbout the Teacher:\nMatthew Feinstein is a poet\, educator and editor who holds a BA in English – Creative Writing from California State University\, Long Beach and is pursuing an MFA at Randolph College. He has served as a supplemental instructor in English at California State University\, Dominguez Hills. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys\, Rejection Letters\, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Plum Recruit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poemscaping-trim-write-repeat/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Surprise the Line":MAILTO:nancywoowriter@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T150000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210120T015059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T015059Z
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SUMMARY:Joyous Resilience: Book Talk & Meditation with author Anjuli Sherin
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for a book talk and guided meditation with author Anjuli Sherin\, hosted by Shivani Narang.\nWith so much information available on the most effective ways to build resilience—ranging from general tips for better mental health\, such as meditation\, exercise\, time in nature and online hygiene\, to the latest statistics and strategies that neuroscience can offer—what keeps people from implementing all this well-meaning advice? Or if you practice these techniques and still find yourself exhausted\, irritable\, unhappy\, anxious or dissatisfied\, do you ever wonder what is missing? \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT \nCopies of Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \nAbout the Book:\nIn this warm and accessible guide\, Pakistani American therapist Anjuli Sherin provides a healing path to make thriving possible for everyone. Through compelling client stories and reflective exercises\, she offers a culturally informed\, body -centered model that shows us how cultivating self-nurturance\, healthy boundaries\, pleasure\, and a soulful connection to the natural world can give us the generative energy needed to heal individual and collective trauma and shape our world from an inner magic called joyous resilience. \nWith meditations\, tools and guides throughout the book\, readers will have ample opportunity to reflect on their own unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors and develop their path to joyous resilience. \nAbout the Author:\nAnjuli Sherin\, LMFT\, is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma recovery\, resilience building and cultivating joy. She has more than 15 years of practice working with immigrant\, South Asian\, Middle Eastern\, Muslim and LGBTQ+ populations. Sherin received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Mary Washington University and her M.A. from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Sherin also trained and mentored with leading figures in trauma recovery and energy psychology\, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler\, Staci Haines and Vianna Stibal. In addition to awards for academic excellence and community service\, Sherin received the 2007 Emerging Leader Award from the E-women Network and has been featured in O Magazine as a finalist for the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyous-resilience-book-talk-meditation-with-author-anjuli-sherin/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T120000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210217T023940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T023940Z
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SUMMARY:Alexandria Giardino on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:A young girl and an old tree learn from each other how to find their purpose and foster healing in the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandria-giardino-on-instagram-igtv/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210217T010050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T010050Z
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Dane Cervine and Margo Taft Stever reading from their poetry. Also includes open mic and literary trivia quiz. \nDane Cervine’s forthcoming book\, The World Is God’s Language\, will be published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2021. Recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag) and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). Dane is an award-winning poet and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in numerous respected literary magazines. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. See https://danecervine.typepad.com/. \nMargo Taft Stever’s most recent collections are Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press\, 2019) and Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press\, 2019). She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. As Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Bioethics Department of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University\, she teaches a course on poetry and bioethics. She lives in Sleepy Hollow\, New York (www.margotaftstever.com).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-3/
LOCATION:virtual\, 9208 Chanute Drive\, Bethesda\, MD\, 20814\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:philipwexler@msn.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210212T045313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210212T045313Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Maud's Line
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nSpring dates: \nMarch 3: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu \nApril 7: This Mournable Body by Tsitsi  Dangarembga \nMay 5: Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble \nJune 2: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart \nJuly 7: Real Life by Brandon Taylor \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-mauds-line/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210301T053237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T053237Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #49
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-49/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210305T015738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T015738Z
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SUMMARY:Melissa Valentine Reading
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 5\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\n\nMelissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland\, California\, whose work explores themes of race\, trauma\, and healing. Her debut memoir\, The Names of All the Flowers\, was the 2019 winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She is a 2020 artist fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in Nonfiction Literature. Melissa has also been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine\, Guernica\, Jezebel\, and Apogee\, among others. She is a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-valentine-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210301T180037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T180037Z
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SUMMARY:Melissa Valentine
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 5\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\nMelissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland\, California\, whose work explores themes of race\, trauma\, and healing. Her debut memoir\, The Names of All the Flowers\, was the 2019 winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She is a 2020 artist fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in Nonfiction Literature. Melissa has also been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine\, Guernica\, Jezebel\, and Apogee\, among others. She is a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-valentine/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210301T181343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T181343Z
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Barbara Saunders!!!
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month 2019 a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. Come celebrate the two-year anniversary at this month’s Eves at the Beat curated by Barbara Saunders!!\n\nLineup of readers:\n\nCenta Theresa\nnialla rose\nElaine Brown\, Poet E Spoken\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nKerry O. Vineberg\n\nTopic: Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Barbara Saunders!\nTime: Mar 4\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87396584235\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,87396584235# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,87396584235# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdAPLwin6i
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T130537
CREATED:20210223T154719Z
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch of THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK with Author Patricia Bracewell
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 4\, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Patricia Bracewell to discuss her new novel\, THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK. \nThis book is the breathtaking conclusion to Bracewell’s Emma of Normandy Trilogy\, brimming with treachery\, heartache\, tenderness and passion as the English queen confronts ambitious and traitorous councilors\, invading armies and the Danish king’s power-hungry concubine. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85120377510. \nYou can pre-order your copy here: http://bit.ly/ggpSteelBeneath \nABOUT THE STORY \nThe first two books of the trilogy\, SHADOW ON THE CROWN and THE PRICE OF BLOOD\, introduce the 11th-century queen of England\, Emma of Normandy. In 1002\, fifteen­-year-old Emma crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Æthelred of England\, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. With a husband who mistrusts her\, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown\, Emma must defend herself against her enemies. \nIn the final book\, THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK\, Emma is determined to outmaneuver her adversaries and protect her children and countrymen. She forges alliances and wins the affection of the English people. But her growing love for a man who is not her husband and the imminent threat of a Viking invasion jeopardize both her crown and her life. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nPatricia Bracewell taught literature and composition before embarking upon her writing career. A lifelong fascination with British history and a chance\, on-line reference to an unfamiliar English queen led to years of research\, a summer history course at Downing College\, Cambridge\, and a stint as writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library in Wales. Patricia lives with her husband in Northern California. Visit www.patriciabracewell.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-book-launch-of-the-steel-beneath-the-silk-with-author-patricia-bracewell/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Mikki Kendall\, Hood Feminism
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Mikki Kendall who will discuss Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot.  \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nThere have been many incredible moments and efforts in feminist history\, and women all over the world continue to fight to be seen and heard in all the chaos of modern society. However\, mainstream feminism has continually failed to recognize some of the most pressing issues facing most women today. In Hood Feminism\, Mikki Kendall\, the creator of the viral hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen\, calls out the myopia of mainstream white feminism. She argues that women of color and other marginalized people have long been doing the work of fighting for women’s rights.Their personhood and concerns should be regarded with the same—and in some cases even more—urgency as the issues that now dominate feminist rhetoric. \nThe essays in Hood Feminism draw upon Kendall’s personal experiences while looking at the cultural and political landscape of today’s feminism to shine a light on the issues that marginalized women face\, and urges the would-be feminist to embrace a kind of feminism that moves beyond just being an ally to being an accomplice\, an advocate\, and collaborator. \n“This book is an act of fierce love and advocacy\, and it is urgently necessary.”—Samantha Irby\, author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life \n“My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist (as I do) will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect. Mikki Kendall is calling out white feminists here—and it’s long overdue that we drop our defenses\, listen to her arguments carefully\, and then change our entire way of thinking and behaving. As Kendall explains in eloquent and searing simplicity\, any feminism that focuses on inequality between men and women without addressing the inequalities BETWEEN women is not only useless\, but actually harmful. In the growing public conversation about race\, class\, status\, privilege\, and power\, this text is essential reading.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mikki-kendall-hood-feminism/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, Carolina de Robertis \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \n\n\n\nCelebrated novelist\, poet\, and essayist Cristina Rivera Garza returns to The Poetry Center. She’ll be joined by poet and translator Kit Schluter\, in Mexico City. They’ll each read from their own writings\, then join in conversation with one another and with novelist Carolina de Robertis as emcee\, and respond to questions from the audience. \n\nOne day\, on a cloudy March afternoon to be more exact\, I was in a classroom lined with long\, rectangular windows in an old colonial building in the heart of Mexico City. Through one of those windows\, in the most surprising manner\, someone entered. It was a young man. He said he’d come from Oaxaca and that he wanted to meet me. I believe he sat in on the session in which we discussed the methods of documentary poetry\, the writing practice that incorporates and subverts\, that embraces and tests the public language of the dispossessed and the suffering…. Later\, that same young man who came in through the window as if it was a door asked me something impossible\, which is the only thing worth asking for.\n—Cristina Rivera Garza\, “Taking Shelter\,” Introduction to Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\n\nCristina Rivera Garza. “Born in Mexico and a resident of the United States for over two decades\, Rivera Garza is a prolific and multifaceted author of fiction\, essays\, and scholarship\, including nearly twenty works in Spanish. Her novels…are deeply informed by her training as a historian and frequently feature characters who stumble upon images\, texts\, or people that disturb the supposed clarity of the historical record.” (from the MacArthur Fellows citation\, 2020). Three of Rivera Garza’s acclaimed six novels have appeared in the US—most recently\, The Taiga Syndrome (El mal de la taiga\, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana); The Iliac Crest (La cresta de Ilión\, trans. Sarah Booker); and No One Will See Me Cry (Nadie me verá llorar\, trans. Andrew Hurley). \nWithin this past year\, Rivera Garza’s complete poems\, La fractura exacta: Poesía completa\, were published in Spanish (from Ediciones Libros del cardo\, in Chile). And three remarkable books of nonfiction also appeared\, in the US in English translation: Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country (tr. Sarah Booker); The Restless Dead: Necrowriting & Disappropriation (tr. Robin Myers); and La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico (tr. Laura Kanost). On the faculty at the University of Houston since 2016\, Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing. Visit her blog (in Spanish and English)\, No hay tal lugar: U-tópicos contemporáneos. \n\nTrust\nWhen I first looked in the mirror\, I thought I looked dead\, but I had simply become a child. Beside my face was a blue cake so radiant\, even its light was edible.\n—Kit Schluter\, at The Brooklyn Rail\n\nKit Schluter is a poet-translator and bookmaker. His poetry and stories have appeared in Boston Review\, BOMB\, Brooklyn Rail\, Folder\, Hyperallergic\, and in the chapbooks Inclusivity Blueprint\, Journals\, Translations of Forgetting\, Without is a Part of Origin\, and the collections of stories and drawings\, 5 Cartoons/5 caricaturas (tr. Mariana Rodríguez\, Juan Malasuerte Editores)\, The Good in Having a Nuclear Family (Despite Editions)\, and his first full-length collection of poetry\, Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books\, 2020). Among his prolific translations—from the French\, Occitan\, and Spanish—are books by Olivia Tapiero (Phototaxis\, Nightboat)\, Anne Kawala (Screwball\, Canarium)\, Jaime Saenz (The Cold\, Poor Claudia)\, Michel Surya (Dead End\, Black Sun Lit)\, Julio Torri (Essays & Poems\, Archivo48)\, Marcel Schwob (The Book of Monelle; The Children’s Crusade\, foreword by J.L. Borges; and The King in the Golden Mask\, all Wakefield Press)\, Amandine André (Circle of Dogs\, with Jocelyn Spaar; Some Thing\, with Lindsay Turner\, Aphonic Space)\, and Clamenç Llansana (Goliard Songs\, Anomalous)\, with others on the way. Schluter co-edits O’clock Press\, designs for Nightboat Books and Juan Malasuerte Editories\, and with Tatiana Lipkes organizes the monthly reading series at Aeromoto\, a public arts library in Mexico City. More\, including links to publishers and selected writings\, here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nCristina Rivera Garza\, MacArthur Foundation Fellows Citation\, 2020 \nChristina Rivera Garza\, on The Taiga Syndrome\, at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival\, Washington\, D.C. \nKit Schluter interviewed\, National Poetry Month featured poet\, at Entropy\, April 2017 \nKit Schluter\, reading with Brandon Brown and Wendy Trevino\, at Woolsey Heights\, May 25\, 2019 \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kSpx1UTcQYy9W87DIjCshg
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LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jamie Figueroa and Marie-Helene Bertino
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, MARCH 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMIE FIGUEROA IS JOINED BY MARIE-HELENE BERTINO TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL\, BROTHER\, SISTER\, MOTHER\, EXPLORER\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81822157575\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81822157575#  or +13462487799\,\,81822157575#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keqMEp28ep \nPraise for Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer \n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is so full of voice. It is utterly bright and original.”—Tommy Orange\, author of There There \n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is a haunting of a novel centered around the hustle of an utterly unforgettable brother and sister. Jamie Figueroa’s faultless language surprises\, enchants\, and does nothing less than articulate that which is unseen and eaten by profound grief. Supervised by a wild\, booted angel (a character for the ages)\, this marvel of a first novel seems powered by a force that wrecks itself and is made glorious\, again and again\, until its stunning conclusion. Singular\, devastating\, and divine.”—Marie-Helene Bertino\, author of Parakeet \n“In language that is blade-sharp and sun-bright\, Jamie Figueroa weaves a story of generations of love and loss that is powerful and aching and utterly new. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer will never\, ever leave me.”—Ramona Ausubel\, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One Is Here Except All of Us \n“Jamie Figueroa’s writing is decadent. Sentences in this book require the reader to breathe and sigh with the revelation of their beauty; others slap you in the face with their sharp assumptiveness. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer begins in prayer and does what prayer does—gives us hope\, reveals our deepest griefs\, and sometimes even redeems.”—Tiphanie Yanique\, author of Land of Love and Drowning \nAbout Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer  \nA fableistic\, “curious and dazzling” debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (Booklist\, starred review).
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett / Look Alive\, with K-Ming Chang\, Alicia Mountain\, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s debut full-length collection of poems Look Alive. She’ll be joined for a group reading by K-Ming Chang\, Alicia Mountain\, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Look Alive here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nPlease note that this event will include ASL interpretation and auto-generated live captioning. If you have any questions or additional special needs\, do not hesitate to email events@booksmith.com and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you. \nAbout the book\nLook Alive documents the construction of a queer femme self in the hostile territory of American late capitalism. Its speaker encounters darkness—in the form of violence perpetrated by both individuals and by societal systems of power and oppression—and yet\, rejects the narratives articulated by that violence\, celebrating instead softness and gentleness\, and ultimately\, cleaving to the natural world in all its radiant\, mysterious queerness. \n“This is a book composed of poems shaped like doors\, trapdoors\, and gates\, and rightly so. They offer us entry to the sublime\, to the kind of aliveness only accessible by passing through death where blooms are “bruises / both faded and freshly made” and “though the heart thuds with lack. / lack\, lack\,” it flowers. These are lean\, meticulously curated poems that nonetheless let so much in; loss\, embodiment\, injury\, victimization\, witnessed and voiced. “What chafes\,” Flynn-Goodlett writes\, “life / to light.” This lifting into the light—one of the most crucial functions of the lyric poem—allows for a survival “half-forgotten as / tampons at the bottom of a purse. / saying you’ve bled\, still bleed\, live.” Look Alive finally does not simply look alive. It lives. It aims a flashlight at my own dark corners. It sisters me.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Four-Legged Girl and Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \nAbout the authors\nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett previously published six chapbooks\, most recently Shadow Box\, winner of the 2019 Madhouse Press Editor’s Prize\, and Tender Age\, winner of the 2019 Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize. Her poetry can be found in TriQuarterly\, Third Coast\, Pleiades\, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of Foglifter in sunny Oakland\, California. \nK-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com. \nAlicia Mountain is the 2020–2021 Artist in Residence in the Department of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is a lesbian poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and educator. Mountain won the Iowa Poetry Prize with her debut collection\, High Ground Coward (Iowa\, 2018). She is also the author of Thin Fire\, a digital chapbook published by BOAAT Press. Mountain earned an MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula and her PhD at the University of Denver. She is based in New York. \nArhm Choi Wild is a queer\, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and went on to perform across the country\, including at Brave New Voices\, the New York City Poetry Festival\, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems\, CUT TO BLOOM\, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures\, and their work appears in Barrow Street\, The Massachusetts Review\, Pleiades\, Split this Rock\, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City. For more information\, visit arhmchoiwild.com. \nDeaf\, genderqueer poet Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street\, 2014)\, winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award\, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the co-editor of Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades\, 2019). The 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, Day’s work can be found in\, or forthcoming from\, Best American Poetry 2020\, The New York Times\, AGNI\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, & elsewhere. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College. www.megday.com \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n  \n\n\n\nPolicies\n\nRefund Policy:\nNo refunds or returns. Contact events@booksmith.com with any questions. \nCancellation Policy:\nIf we have to cancel an event\, you will be refunded within 4 business days of the event date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-luiza-flynn-goodlett-look-alive-with-k-ming-chang-alicia-mountain-arhm-choi-wild-meg-day/
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SUMMARY:Isabel Allende - The Soul of a Woman (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. \n“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten\, I am not exaggerating\,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child\, she watched her mother\, abandoned by her husband\, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl\, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. \nAs a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s\, she rode the second wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists\, Allende for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin\, as they wrote “with a knife between our teeth” about women’s issues. She has seen what the movement has accomplished in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three passionate marriages\, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner\, when to step away\, and the rewards of embracing one’s sexuality. \nSo what feeds the soul of feminists—and all women—today? To be safe\, to be valued\, to live in peace\, to have their own resources\, to be connected\, to have control over our bodies and lives\, and above all\, to be loved. On all these fronts\, there is much work yet to be done\, and this book\, Allende hopes\, will “light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us\, as we lived for our mothers\, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.” \nIsabel Allende won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel\, The House of the Spirits. Since then\, she has authored twenty-five bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, which have been translated into more than forty-two languages. In addition to her work as a writer\, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes. In 1996\, following the death of her daughter\, Paula Frias\, she established a charitable foundation in her honor\, which has awarded grants to more than one hundred nonprofits worldwide on behalf of women and girls. In 2014\, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the nation’s highest civilian honor\, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She has also received PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Raised in Chile\, she now lives in California.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jamie Figueroa and Marie-Helene Bertino
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, March 4th at 6pm PT when Jamie Figueroa is joined by Marie-Helene Bertino to discuss her debut novel\, Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81822157575\n\nPraise for Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer\n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is so full of voice. It is utterly bright and original.”—Tommy Orange\, author of There There\n“Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer is a haunting of a novel centered around the hustle of an utterly unforgettable brother and sister. Jamie Figueroa’s faultless language surprises\, enchants\, and does nothing less than articulate that which is unseen and eaten by profound grief. Supervised by a wild\, booted angel (a character for the ages)\, this marvel of a first novel seems powered by a force that wrecks itself and is made glorious\, again and again\, until its stunning conclusion. Singular\, devastating\, and divine.”—Marie-Helene Bertino\, author of Parakeet\n\n“In language that is blade-sharp and sun-bright\, Jamie Figueroa weaves a story of generations of love and loss that is powerful and aching and utterly new. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer will never\, ever leave me.”—Ramona Ausubel\, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One Is Here Except All of Us\n\n“Jamie Figueroa’s writing is decadent. Sentences in this book require the reader to breathe and sigh with the revelation of their beauty; others slap you in the face with their sharp assumptiveness. Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer begins in prayer and does what prayer does—gives us hope\, reveals our deepest griefs\, and sometimes even redeems.”—Tiphanie Yanique\, author of Land of Love and Drowning\nAbout Brother\, Sister\, Mother\, Explorer\n\nA fableistic\, “curious and dazzling” debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (Booklist\, starred review).\n\nIn the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas\, in the aftermath of their mother’s passing\, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother\, Rafa\, careening toward a place of no return\, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out\, Rafa must commit to living. If not\, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa’s own plan for the future\, however terrifying it may be.\n\nAs the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma\, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice\, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother’s ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina’s vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this\, watching over the siblings\, a genderless\, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jamie-figueroa-and-marie-helene-bertino-2/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Alka Joshi
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Alka Joshi\nThu Mar 4th 5:00pm – 6:30pm\n\n\n  Buy Tickets \n\n\n\nLitquake’s second season of Seismic Salons begins with the always fascinating Alka Joshi\, whose debut novel The Henna Artist was chosen for Reese Witherspoon’s book club\, and appears in paperback this April 6. Born in Jodhpur\, Rajasthan\, India\, she has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine. Alka has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of the Arts\, and ran her own advertising and PR agency for 30 years. Currently\, she is working both on a screen adaption of The Henna Artist\, and a third novel. Join us as Alka entertains and informs about the rigors of writing a historical novel for many years (how much research did she have to do?) and finally seeing the labor pay off handsomely. \nBuy Alka Joshi’s book at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi/
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CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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