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SUMMARY:Then & Now: Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya
DESCRIPTION:We’re really excited to host two amazing\, accomplished\, dynamic writers and thinkers\, Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya! \nDiane Ward was born in Washington\, DC where she attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She received a doctorate degree in Geography from UCLA. Her poetry publications include a collaboration with Tina Darragh and Jane Sprague in the Belladonna Elders series\, No List (no list) from Seeing Eye Books in Los Angeles\, Flim-Yoked Scrim from Factory School\, and When You Awake from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Her poem\, “Fade on Family” was set to music by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster and performed as part of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound series at the Schindler House in West Hollywood. “InHouse\,” a constructed poem\, appeared in Kindergarde\, the First Avant Garde Anthology for Children\, edited by Lee Ann Brown. She curated an edition of the Poetic Research Bureau’s “live magazine\,” @SEA\, around the theme “Flows.” She has been a member of “The Reader’s Chorus\,” performing in Los Angeles at MOCA\, the Museum of Jurassic Technology\, and the Velaslavasay Panorama. Her collaboration with the artist Ursula Brookbank is documented in the chapter\, “Borne-away: Tracing a gendered dispossession by accumulation” in the edited book\, Geopoetics in Practice\, forthcoming from Routledge. \nRoberto Bedoya is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland where he most recently shepherded the City’s Cultural Plan. – “Belonging in Oakland: A Cultural Development Plan”. Through-out his career he has consistently supported artists-centered cultural practices and advocated for expanded definitions of inclusion and belonging throughout his career. His essays “Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-Belonging”; “Spatial Justice: Rasquachification\, Race and the City” have reframed the discussion on cultural policy to shed light on exclusionary practices in cultural policy decision making. In addition to his essays he is the author The Ballad of Cholo Dandy\, a poetry chapbook (Chax Press) and an excerpt of his play “Decoto” is anthologized in Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997; ( Nightboat Books). He is a Creative Placemaking Fellow at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/then-now-diane-ward-and-roberto-bedoya/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reema Zaman
DESCRIPTION:Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir\, I Am Yours. \n\nPraise for I Am Yours \n“Tender\, fierce\, compassionate\, and wise . . . a moving story about how one woman found her voice—and her power.”—Cheryl Strayed\, #1 NYT bestselling author of Wild \n“My heart just burst into a thousand songs after reading I Am Yours by Reema Zaman. From the first word to the last\, this story is phenomenal triumph of one woman’s body and voice rising up and through a culture that would quiet her. Moving through experience and language without flinching\, Zaman reminds us that to have a body is to bring a soul to life. A stunning debut.”–  Lidia Yuknavitch\, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Joan. \n“More than a memoir\, I Am Yours is a spiritual guide . . . poetic\, healing\, and so necessary.”—Gemma Hartley\, author of FED UP \n\nAbout I Am Yours \nI Am Yours is the story of Reema Zaman’s unwavering fight to protect and free her voice from those who have sought to silence her. From Bangladesh\, to Thailand\, to New York\, to Oregon\, through gorgeous prose as beautiful as it is biting\, poetic as it is political\, and healing as it is haunting\, Zaman explores the many difficulties\, dangers\, and ultimately\, the necessity for all women\, all people\, to own and use their voices. With astonishing courage and intimacy\, Zaman is a reader’s author\, offering up a memoir written to alleviate the loneliness that often arises from being human in this world. A voice of a new era\, a revolution in itself\, an iconic debut that promises to shake global literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reema-zaman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MAYOR MICHAEL TUBBS In Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nMichael Tubbs is the first African American Mayor of Stockton\, California\, and the youngest mayor in American history of a city of more than 100\,000 people. Born and raised in Stockton\, Tubbs was raised by his mother\, with an incarcerated father and without financial security. He earned a scholarship to attend Stanford University\, and\, following internships at Google and in the Obama White House\, Tubbs returned to Stockton to work as a City Council member in the district where he was raised. Since being elected Mayor in 2016\, Tubbs has worked to reinvent Stockton from a city that filed for bankruptcy in 2012 to a community of opportunity for everyone. Tubbs’ mayoralty focuses on violent crime\, economic development\, collective impact strategies\, and improved education. This fall\, Stockton will be the first city in America to implement a universal basic income pilot program. \nDan Pfeiffer is President Barack Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast\, Pod Save America. He is the author of Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama\, Twitter\, and Trump.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mayor-michael-tubbs-in-conversation-with-dan-pfeiffer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford @ Alamo Draft House
DESCRIPTION:Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present \nBarry Gifford \nin a talk and film screening \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nat Alamo Draft House\, 2550 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 Phone: (415) 549-5959 \nDoors at 8:30\, book signing \nTalk and film screening 9:30 p.m. \nTickets available from Alamo Draft House. Visit https://drafthouse.com/sf for more information. \nAlamo Draft House will be screening the short film American Falls and the directors cut of Wild at Heart. The films will be introduced by Barry Gifford and he will offer a short discussion about his work. \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nTickets available from Alamo Draft House. Visit https://drafthouse.com/sf for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-alamo-draft-house/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Conference
DESCRIPTION:Feb 14-18\, Thursday: 12 noon-9:30pm | Friday: 6:45am-9pm | Saturday: 7am-9pm | Sunday: 6:45am-4pm | Monday: 9am-5pm \n“San Francisco Writers Conference is a four-day event packed with 100+ sessions for writers-from the craft of writing to the business of publishing. There is copious networking with bestselling authors\, literary agents\, editors\, publishers from major publishing houses\, and other writers; two keynote luncheons and breakfasts; and evening open mic readings and pitch sessions. \nThursday: 12:00AM-9:30PM | Friday: 6:45AM-9:00PM | Saturday: 7:00AM-9:00PM | Sunday: 6:45AM-4:00PM | Monday: 9:00AM-5:0PM \nFor more information:\nepml@aol.com\n(415) 673-0939” \n850. \nPresented by San Francisco Writers Conference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-conference/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency San Francisco\, 5 Embarcadero Center\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and guests Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\, James Cagney\, and Christine No for a special Valentine’s Day poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Main Library. Join us! \n  \nMain Library\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room A/B
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-3/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-23/
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, February 14\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-19/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Barbash & Keith Scribner
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nreading from new work \nKeith Scribner reads from \nOld Newgate Road \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nTom Barbash reads from \nThe Dakota Winters \npublished by Ecco Press \nabout Old Newgate Road: \nFrom the author of The Oregon Experiment\, the story of a father’s return to his childhood home\, the site of unspeakable tragedy\, and of the complex and often warring obligations–not least forgiveness–we have to our family\, our friends\, and our past. \nOld Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It’s where Cole Callahan spent his youth\, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring–painstakingly\, relentlessly\, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can’t go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house\, to this street\, in thirty years–not since he was a teenager\, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now\, however\, he finally dares to risk it\, ostensibly to collect precious material for his construction business on the west coast\, and is shocked to discover his elderly father\, freed from prison\, living alone in their old home\, and succumbing to dementia. Compelled by a sense of responsibility to a man he hates\, and confronted in middle age by everything he’d left unfinished when he fled this place in his aborted childhood\, he finds that the time for a reckoning has at last come. \nMatters grow even more complicated when his estranged wife calls to say their ultra-progressive\, rabble-rousing son has run up against the law and been expelled from high school. And so Cole summons Daniel to East Granby to work in the tobacco fields–his own job growing up–and soon their lives are enmeshed with the family legacy\, and with Cole’s boyhood sweetheart as well as his nemesis. What unfolds over this summer surprises and challenges them all\, as they contend with the sinister history they share and desperately try to invent a future that isn’t doomed by it. \nAbout The Dakota Winters \nAn evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters\, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination \nIt’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter\, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria\, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father\, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter\, is there to greet him\, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long\, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career\, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York\, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics\, to the Hollywood Hills\, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle\, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson\, Ted and Joan Kennedy\, and a seagoing John Lennon. \nBut the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention\, the more he questions his own path\, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant\, The Dakota Winters is a family saga\, a page-turning social novel\, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large. \nTom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel\, The Last Good Chance\, which was was awarded the California Book Award\, and the short story collection Stay Up With Me\, which was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Folio Prize. His nonfiction book\, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal\, was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, VQR\, and other publications\, and have been performed on National Public Radio for their Selected Shorts Series. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts. \nKeith Scribner grew up in Troy\, New York\, and then East Granby\, Connecticut. His previous novels are The Oregon Experiment\, Miracle Girl\, and The GoodLife\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He currently teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis\, where he lives with his wife\, the poet Jennifer Richter\, and their children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-barbash-keith-scribner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Somewhere Else
DESCRIPTION:Ever feel like being somewhere else? There’s no better place to be than with Why There Are Words on February 14\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito. Six acclaimed authors will take us to places both familiar and distant\, as they read from their works on the theme of “Somewhere Else.” \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \nAnita Felicelli is the author of the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent (Stillhouse Press\, October 2018)\, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Her stories have appeared in The Normal School\, Joyland\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. Her essays\, reviews\, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in the New York Times (Modern Love)\, Slate\, and Salon\, among others. www.anitafelicelli.com \nKsenia Lakovic is a Serbian-born writer\, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. She recently completed her first novel\, based on her memories of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and their aftermath. www.klakovic.com \nJulayne Lee is an overseas-adopted Korean American poet\, essayist\, artivist\, art curator\, and producer. Her debut collection of poems Not My White Savior (Rare Bird\, March 2018) was included in the 2018 Poets House Showcase in New York for their 26th annual exhibition of the nation’s poetry books. Her writing has been published in Cultural Weekly\, Korean Quarterly\, The Nervous Breakdown\, and elsewhere. www.julaynelee.com \nMicah Perks is the author of the collection of linked stories True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape (Outpost19\, October 2018) and the novel What Becomes Us (Outpost19\, 2016)\, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award. Her memoir Pagan Time (Counterpoint\, 2012) tells the story of her childhood in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and others. micahperks.com \nRobert Rorke was born and raised and lives in Brooklyn. Car Trouble (Harper Perennial\, September 2018) is his uncommonly warm coming of age debut novel\, set in 1970s Brooklyn. He is a TV editor at the New York Post who has also previously written for Publishers Weekly\, TV Guide\, Los Angeles Times\, and Seventeen. \nChristy Stillwell’s debut novel The Wolf Tone (Elixir Press\, January 2019) won the Elixir Press Fiction Prize. She is also the author of the chapbook Amnesia (Finishing Line Press\, 2008). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Pearl\, River City\, The Massachusetts Review\, and elsewhere. www.christystillwell.com \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-somewhere-else/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: https://sforce.co/2CWB45Q\nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is Cash Only at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-18/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robin LaFevers with Sabaa Tahir
DESCRIPTION:Robin LaFevers’ wonderful His Fair Assassins series tells the story of assassin nuns in Medieval France and is a store favorite. We are thrilled to welcome Robin to Kepler’s to celebrate her fabulous new book Courting Darkness\, the greatly anticipated highly praised return to the world of the bestselling His Fair Assassin series \n\n\n\n\nTold in alternating perspectives\, when Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin deep undercover in the French court\, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister in arms before her time—and that of the newly crowned queen—runs out. When Sybella accompanies the Duchess to France\, she expects trouble\, but she isn’t expecting a deadly trap. Surrounded by enemies both known and unknown\, Sybella searches for the undercover assassins from St. Mortain’s convent who were placed in the French court years ago. Genevieve has been undercover for so many years\, she no longer knows who she is or what she’s supposed to be fighting for. When she discovers a hidden prisoner who may be of importance\, she takes matters into her own hands. As these two worlds collide\, the fate of the Duchess\, Brittany\, and everything Sybella and Genevieve have come to love hangs in the balance. \nRobin LaFevers is the author of the New York Times bestselling Grave Mercy\, Dark Triumph\, and Mortal Heart. She’ll be chatting with Sabaa Tahir\, author of An Ember in the Ashes\, A Torch Against the Night\, and A Reaper at the Gates. Come join the party
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robin-lafevers-with-sabaa-tahir/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Westwood Park: Building a Bungalow Neighborhood in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ms. Kathleen Beitiks to talk about her book entitled\, Westwood Park: Building a Bungalow Neighborhood in San Francisco. \nA SFMOMA program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/westwood-park-building-a-bungalow-neighborhood-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Ingleside Meeting Room\, 1298 Ocean Ave\, San Francisco\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Land / Maid: Hard Work\, Low Pay\, and a Mother's Will to Survive
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special Saturday afternoon event to welcome Stephanie Land for her remarkable memoir Maid: Hard Work\, Low Pay\, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. Please join us! \n  \n“My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.” \nWhile the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens\, grueling low-wage domestic and service work–primarily done by women–fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid\, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter’s head. In Maid\, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today’s inequitable society. \nWhile she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent\, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy\, navigating domestic labor jobs\, higher education\, assisted housing\, and a tangled web of government assistance\, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren’t being told. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. \nWritten in honest\, heart-rending prose and with great insight\, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it’s like to be in service to them. “I’d become a nameless ghost\,” Stephanie writes. With this book\, she gives voice to the “servant” worker\, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children. \n  \n\n  \n“If this book inspires you\, which it may\, remember how close it came to never being written. Stephanie might have given in to despair or exhaustion; she might have suffered a disabling injury at work. Think too of all the women who\, for reasons like that\, never manage to get their stories told. Stephanie reminds us that they are out there in the millions\, each heroic in her own way\, waiting for us to listen.” – From the Foreword to Maid by Barbara Ehrenreich\, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed \n  \n“What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single-motherhood\, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net\, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty\, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy\, and people’s lousy attitudes toward poor people… Land’s prose is vivid and engaging… [A] tightly-focused\, well-written memoir… an incredibly worthwhile read.” – Roxane Gay\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir \n  \n“Marry the evocative first person narrative of Educated with the kind of social criticism seen in Nickel and Dimed and you’ll get a sense of the remarkable book you hold in your hands. In Maid\, Stephanie Land\, a gifted storyteller with an eye for details you’ll never forget\, exposes what it’s like to exist in America as a single mother\, working herself sick cleaning our dirty toilets\, one missed paycheck away from destitution. It’s a perspective we seldom see represented firsthand-and one we so desperately need right now. Timely\, urgent\, and unforgettable\, this is memoir at its very best.” – Susannah Cahalan\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness \n\n  \nStephanie Land‘s work has been featured in The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Vox\, Salon\, and many other outlets. She lives in Missoula\, Montana. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \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 Maid\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephanie-land-maid-hard-work-low-pay-and-a-mothers-will-to-survive/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20190212T021016Z
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SUMMARY:Two Poets: One A Former ANC Militant; the Other a Theorist of Afro-Pessimism
DESCRIPTION:These two poets will read as part of The SF Poetry Center’s first annual Black Study Series. \nFrank B. Wilderson\, III is an award-winning writer\, poet\, scholar\, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid  (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Red\, White\, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press\, 2010). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro “an important contribution to the African and African American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures [Black American and Black South African].” Wilderson’s collection of poems\, Sideways Between Stories\, was published as a pamphlet by Commune Editions. \nD.S. Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His poetry is often associated with the Cambridge school of poetry. And as a scholar\, he has been a leading theorist of afro-pessimism. In addition to Duppies\, just out in the US from Commune Editions\, his recent books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman\, 2008) and In Neuter (Equipage\, 2012). Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being  (Stanford University Press\, 2018) joining his earlier critical works\, On Black Men (Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (Rutgers\, 2007).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-poets-one-a-former-anc-militant-the-other-a-theorist-of-afro-pessimism/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190216T210000
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SUMMARY:Frank B. Wilderson\, III and D.S. Marriott read from their poetry as part of The SF Poetry Center's first annual Black Study Series
DESCRIPTION:Frank B. Wilderson\, III is an award-winning writer\, poet\, scholar\, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid  (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Red\, White\, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press\, 2010). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro “an important contribution to the African and African American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures [Black American and Black South African].” Wilderson’s collection of poems\, Sideways Between Stories\, was published as a pamphlet by Commune Editions. \nD.S. Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His poetry is often associated with the Cambridge school of poetry. And as a scholar\, he has been a leading theorist of afro-pessimism. In addition to Duppies\, just out in the US from Commune Editions\, his recent books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman\, 2008) and In Neuter (Equipage\, 2012). Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being  (Stanford University Press\, 2018) joining his earlier critical works\, On Black Men(Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity(Rutgers\, 2007). \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-b-wilderson-iii-and-d-s-marriott-read-from-their-poetry-as-part-of-the-sf-poetry-centers-first-annual-black-study-series/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190216T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190216T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Green Apple Books on the Park\, featuring Heather June Gibbons\, Randall Mann\,Barbara Jane Reyes and Michelle Brittan Rosado
DESCRIPTION:Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and published by the University of Utah Press. She teaches at San Francisco State University. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is an adjunct professor in Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco and the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017)\, and four previous collections of poetry. \nMichelle Brittan Rosado is the author of Why Can’t It Be Tenderness\, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2018). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University\, Fresno\, and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at the University of Southern California. \nRandall Mann is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently Proprietary (Persea Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Northern California Book Award. A book of criticism\, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry\, is forthcoming from Diode Editions in March 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-green-apple-books-on-the-park-featuring-heather-june-gibbons-randall-mannbarbara-jane-reyes-and-michelle-brittan-rosado/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190218T183000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents a solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\na solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch\nat The Poetry Center\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan Francisco\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-a-solo-reading-and-conversation-with-annie-finch/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202908
CREATED:20170324T014132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061839Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-23/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190218T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190218T210000
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CREATED:20190129T002251Z
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Poetry Express
DESCRIPTION:Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Poetry Express\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell\, with open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-poetry-express/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bruce Bagnell":MAILTO:bagnell.bruce.a@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T193000
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SUMMARY:David Marriott
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 19\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nDavid Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His most recent book of poetry is Duppies\, a collection that mixes the tonality of lyric poetry with the aggression\, grit\, and speed of grime\, London’s street music. Marriott’s other books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo and In Neuter. His book Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being is forthcoming from Stanford University in June. A leading theorist of afro-pessimism\, he teaches black critical theory and culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-marriott/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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SUMMARY:Ayesha Harruna Attah
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel \npublished by Other Press \n\nBased on true events\, a story of courage\, forgiveness\, love\, and freedom in precolonial Ghana\, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates. \nAminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche\, the willful daughter of a chief\, is desperate to play an important role in her father’s court. These two women’s lives converge as infighting among Wurche’s people threatens the region\, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. \nThrough the experiences of Aminah and Wurche\, The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people. \nAyesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra\, Ghana and was educated at Mount Holyoke College\, Columbia University\, and New York University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Asymptote Magazine\, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers’ Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ayesha-harruna-attah/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T210000
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SUMMARY:Sandy Allen in conversation with Rahawa Haile - - A Kind of Miraculous Paradise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sandy Allen to discuss A Kind of Miraculous Paradise\, on Tuesday\, February 19th at 7pm. She will joined in conversation by friend of the store Rahawa Haile. \nSandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child\, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy\,” that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive\, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd\, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps\, a stream of error-riddled sentences more than sixty\, single-spaced pages\, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a “true story” about being “labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic\,” and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. \n“Searing” (O\, The Oprah Magazine)\, “enthralling” (Star-Tribune\, Minneapolis)\, and “a marvel” (Esquire)\, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradiseshows how Sandy translated Bob’s autobiography\, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Sandy also shares background information about their family\, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle’s formative years\, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind\, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that\, to most people\, remains unimaginable. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nSandy Allen is a writer\, speaker\, editor and teacher. Their essays and features stories have been published by BuzzFeed News\, CNN Opinion\, Bon Appétit’s Healthyish\, and Pop-Up Magazine. Sandy was previously BuzzFeed News’s deputy features editor. They also founded and ran the online-only literary quarterly Wag’s Revue. Sandy’s work focuses on constructs of normalcy\, including psychiatric disability and gender. Sandy is non-binary trans. Originally from Muir Beach\, CA\, they live in the Catskills. A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is their first book. For more\, visit HelloSandyAllen.com \nRahawa Haile is an Eritrean American writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Outside\, and Pacific Standard. In Open Country\, her forthcoming memoir about through-hiking the Appalachian Trail\, explores what it means to move through American and the world as a black woman. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandy-allen-in-conversation-with-rahawa-haile-a-kind-of-miraculous-paradise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T210000
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love. \n“Identity is frail business\, and in her searing story\, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything\, from her lineage\, to her father\, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman\, author of Call Me by Your Name \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience\, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?\nIn the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. \nTimely and unforgettable\, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping\, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy\, paternity\, and love. \nDani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist\, Shapiro’s short fiction\, essays\, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, One Story\, Elle\, Vogue\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times Book Review\, the op-ed pages of the New York Times\, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia\, NYU\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads\, and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Massachusetts Review\, The Offing\, and PANK\, has she been a writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore\, Art Farm Nebraska\, and The Vermont Studio Center\, among others. A born Vermonter\, she tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter. \n\nMiriam Bird Greenberg is the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth (University of Pittsburgh\, 2016)\, winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Poetry Foundation\, she’s written about the nomads\, hitchhikers\, and hobos living on America’s margins and crossed the continent as a hitchhiker and aboard freight trains herself. The author of two chapbooks—All night in the new country (Sixteen Rivers\, 2013) and Pact-Blood\, Fevergrass (Ricochet Editions\, 2013)\, Miriam grew up on an organic farm in rural Texas\, the daughter of a New York Jew and a goat-raising anthropologist involved in the back-to-the-land movement. These days she lives in  the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she teaches creative writing and ESL\, helping jewelry students use laser cutters and architecture grad students wrap their heads around building information systems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T213000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181231T232053Z
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SUMMARY:Marlon James
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nMarlon James is the author of the novels A Brief History of Seven Killings\, John Crow’s Devil\, and The Book of Night Women\, all of which explore and retell twentieth-century Jamaica through a litany of perspectives.  His forthcoming novel\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is the first in the Dark Star Trilogy\, a fantasy series rooted in African legend\, which James describes as an “African Game of Thrones” (Entertainment Weekly). Born in Kingston\, James was the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize in 2015. He has published short pieces in Black Noir\, Esquire\, Granta\, Harper’s\, The Caribbean Review of Books\, New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. In his 2016 viral video Are you Racist? ‘No’ isn’t a good enough answer\, he makes a case for more rigorous anti-racism\, as opposed to mere non-racist complacency. James lives and teaches in Minnesota\, and spends the rest of his time in New York
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marlon-james/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190220T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190220T133000
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CREATED:20181231T223631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181231T223631Z
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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UID:49600-1550665800-1550669400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190220T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190220T210000
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CREATED:20190103T083528Z
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SUMMARY:GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection\, The Lumberjack’s Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! \n  \n“Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be\, as it is here\, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack’s Dove is\, in its manner\, a folktale; it is also a meditation on attachment\, on loss\, on transformation. Like its less humble relatives\, myth and parable\, it is pithy\, magical\, its many insights\, its cautions and clarifications\, unfolding in a chain of brief scenes and koan-like revelations. This is a book of unexpected lightness and buoyancy\, as necessary in our tense period as the more urgent confrontations.” –Louise Gluck \nA boldly original and visceral debut collection from the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition\, selected by Louise Gluck \nIn the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove\, GennaRose Nethercott describes a lumberjack who cuts his hand off with an axe—however\, instead of merely being severed\, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body\, this incident spirals outward to explore countless facets of being human\, prompting profound reflections on sacrifice and longing\, time and memory\, and—finally—considering the act of storytelling itself. The lumberjack\, his hand\, and the axe that separated the two all become participants in the story\, with unique perspectives to share and lessons to impart. “I taught your fathers how to love\,” Axe says to the acorns and leaves around her. “I mean to be felled\, sliced to lumber\, & reassembled into a new body.” \nInflected with the uncanny enchantment of modern folklore and animated by the sly shifting of points-of-view\, The Lumberjack’s Dove is wise\, richly textured poetry from a boundlessly creative new voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190220T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190220T210000
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert
DESCRIPTION:reads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-brennert/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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