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SUMMARY:Linda Sarsour / We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus\, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \n\nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents an evening with Women’s March co-organizer Linda Sarsour​ for her memoir\, We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. Please join us! \n  \n\nOn a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn\, nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour stared at her reflection\, dressed in a hijab for the first time. She saw in the mirror the woman she was growing to be — a young Muslim American woman unapologetic in her faith and her activism\, who would discover her innate sense of justice in the aftermath of 9/11. Now heralded for her award-winning leadership of the Women’s March on Washington\, in We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders Linda Sarsour offers a poignant story of community and family. \nFrom the Brooklyn bodega her father owned\, where Linda learned the real meaning of intersectionality\, to protests in the streets of Washington\, DC\, Linda’s experience as a daughter of Palestinian immigrants is a moving portrayal of what it means to find one’s voice and use it for the good of others. We follow Linda as she learns the tenets of successful community organizing\, and through decades of fighting for racial\, economic\, gender\, and social justice as she becomes one of the most recognized activists in the nation. We also see her honoring her grandmother’s dying wish\, protecting her children\, building resilient friendships\, and mentoring others even as she loses her first mentor in a tragic accident. Throughout\, she inspires readers to take action as she reaffirms that we are not here to be bystanders. \nIn his foreword to the book\, Harry Belafonte writes of Linda\, “While we may not have made it to the Promised Land\, my peers and I\, my brothers and sisters in liberation can rest easy that the future is in the hands of leaders like Linda Sarsour. I have often said to Linda that she embodies the principle and purpose of another great Muslim leader\, brother Malcolm X.” \nThis is her story. \n\nLinda Sarsour is an award-winning civil rights activist\, community organizer\, and mother of three. A Palestinian Muslim American born and raised in Brooklyn\, New York\, she is the former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and the cofounder of the first Muslim online organizing platform\, MPower Change. She is also a founding member of Justice League NYC\, a leading force of activists\, artists\, youth\, and formerly incarcerated individuals committed to criminal justice reform through direct action and policy advocacy.\n​\nSarsour served as national cochair of the largest single day protest in US history\, the Women’s March on Washington. Named among 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world\, she was also cited as one of Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders\, and featured as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. She has won numerous awards for her activism\, including a Champion of Change award from the Obama Administration. She is a frequent media commentator on issues that affect Muslim communities\, Middle East affairs\, and criminal justice reform. She is most recognized for her transformative intersectional organizing work and movement building. \n  \nFacebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:ookshop welcomes acclaimed local poet\, editor\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) for a celebration of her newest book\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice—the ultimate writing guide for teens. \nEver had an emotion or experience you wanted to express\, but didn’t know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices\, step up and speak their truths\, and articulate what matters to them most–both personally and politically–whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. \nYoung adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before\, and yet it’s the most difficult form for schools to teach. Written in short\, easy-to-digest chapters\, My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice includes prompts and inspiration\, writing suggestions and instruction\, brief interviews with some current popular poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Safia Elhillo\, and others\, and poem excerpts scattered throughout the book. \nMy Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice offers ways to express rage\, frustration\, joy\, and sorrow\, and to substitute apathy with creativity\, usurp fear with daring\, counteract anxiety with the joy of writing one word down and then another to express vital\, but previously unarticulated\, thoughts. Most importantly\, here you can discover the value of your own voice and come to believe that what you have to say matters. \nPatrice Vecchione is a poet\, nonfiction writer and teacher who discovered poetry when she needed it most–as a teenager. She has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including most recently\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience\, which Newbery Award winning author\, Matt de la Peña\, called “the most important book we will read this year\,” Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \n“My Shouting\, Shattering\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking your Truth should be required reading for beginning writers as well as those who have been writing for decades. It gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape our experiences into poetry…This book reassured me that we all have the capacity to create something beautiful and that our words need not be ‘hollow almosts.'” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, author of Children of the Land \n“Patrice Vecchione’s My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is more than a guide to writing poetry. It is an act of generosity and empathy\, a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page. Vecchione offers inspiration\, wisdom and down-to-earth advice\, covering everything from writer’s block to adjectives and stanzas. My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice is an invaluable resource\, a book that honors and fosters what Adrienne Rich called “the necessity of poetry.” —Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-my-shouting-shattered-whispering-voice-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alka Joshi: The Henna Artist w/ Anita Amirrezvani
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an event with Alka Joshi\, your favorite new novelist\, in conversation with Anita Amirrezvani. We know you’ll love Alka’s debut\, The Henna Artist\, as much as we do. Beautiful and compellingly readable\, The Henna Artist evokes post-Raj 1950s Jaipur while completely enmeshing you in the conflicts that drive the protagonist Lakshmi Shastri. Against all odds\, and after fleeing an arranged marriage as a fifteen-year-old to an abusive older man\, Lakshmi carves out a living for herself as a henna artist\, friend\, and confidante to wealthy\, upper-caste women. But in an exciting twist\, all she’s built threatens to unravel. \nMore than just a romantic work of historical fiction\, The Henna Artist is based off Alka’s late mother’s life\, only this story serves as a reimagining of what life might have been like if Alka’s mother hadn’t been in an arranged marriage at 18\, with three children by 21. Instead\, the novel recreates her life as if she had been able to pursue the independence and education that she never enjoyed in real life. The independence and education that Alka’s mother advocated for her. \nAlka will be joined by Anita Amirrezvani\, author of the novels The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nTickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate \nPhoto of Alka Joshi by Garry Bailey. .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi-the-henna-artist-w-anita-amirrezvani/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Chang
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Chang discusses her debut novel\, Days of Distraction. \nPraise for Days of Distraction \n“A startlingly original and deeply moving debut—kaleidoscopic\, funny\, heart-rending\, beautifully observed\, and formally daring.  It struck me as a new variety of novel…. Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.”— George Saunders \n“A wholly engaging joy to read. Chang writes with wit and sharpness as she curates moments\, observations and histories that together make something of beautiful depth and significance. It takes great bravery to make art of so many of those things we fear and love. An important\, gratifying read.”— Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, author of Friday Black \n“Days of Distraction seized my attention like no other novel\, distracting me entirely from my own life. The magic of this book is that its scale seems small\, fixating on the minute details that make up our days: the anxieties\, the obsessions\, the observations made in the office\, the neighborhood\, the coffee shop. And yet inside Alexandra Chang’s brilliant narrator is a grand\, restless consciousness…. This is a book about America\, and also an American love story\, one that will leave you achingly awakened.” — Eleanor Henderson\, author of Ten Thousand Saints \nAbout Days of Distraction \nA wry\, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path\, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely—from a captivating new literary voice \nThe plan is to leave. As for how\, when\, to where\, and even why—she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication\, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. And when her longtime boyfriend\, J\, decides to move to a quiet upstate New York town for grad school\, she sees an excuse to cut and run. \nMoving is supposed to be a grand gesture of her commitment to J and a way to reshape her sense of self. But in the process\, she finds herself facing misgivings about her role in an interracial relationship. Captivated by the stories of her ancestors and other Asian Americans in history\, she must confront a question at the core of her identity: What does it mean to exist in a society that does not notice or understand you? \nEqual parts tender and humorous\, and told in spare but powerful prose\, Days of Distraction is an offbeat coming-of-adulthood tale\, a touching family story\, and a razor-sharp appraisal of our times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-chang/
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:Alexandra Chang at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Chang discusses her debut novel\, Days of Distraction. \nPraise for Days of Distraction \n“A startlingly original and deeply moving debut—kaleidoscopic\, funny\, heart-rending\, beautifully observed\, and formally daring.  It struck me as a new variety of novel…. Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.”— George Saunders \n“A wholly engaging joy to read. Chang writes with wit and sharpness as she curates moments\, observations and histories that together make something of beautiful depth and significance. It takes great bravery to make art of so many of those things we fear and love. An important\, gratifying read.”— Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\, author of Friday Black \n“Days of Distraction seized my attention like no other novel\, distracting me entirely from my own life. The magic of this book is that its scale seems small\, fixating on the minute details that make up our days: the anxieties\, the obsessions\, the observations made in the office\, the neighborhood\, the coffee shop. And yet inside Alexandra Chang’s brilliant narrator is a grand\, restless consciousness…. This is a book about America\, and also an American love story\, one that will leave you achingly awakened.” — Eleanor Henderson\, author of Ten Thousand Saints \nAbout Days of Distraction \nA wry\, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path\, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely—from a captivating new literary voice \nThe plan is to leave. As for how\, when\, to where\, and even why—she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication\, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. And when her longtime boyfriend\, J\, decides to move to a quiet upstate New York town for grad school\, she sees an excuse to cut and run. \nMoving is supposed to be a grand gesture of her commitment to J and a way to reshape her sense of self. But in the process\, she finds herself facing misgivings about her role in an interracial relationship. Captivated by the stories of her ancestors and other Asian Americans in history\, she must confront a question at the core of her identity: What does it mean to exist in a society that does not notice or understand you? \nEqual parts tender and humorous\, and told in spare but powerful prose\, Days of Distraction is an offbeat coming-of-adulthood tale\, a touching family story\, and a razor-sharp appraisal of our times. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-chang-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: A Memorial for Sean Bonney
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-a-memorial-for-sean-bonney/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyric & Dirges: Ether Edition #1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launching of Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition\nWe have a new format and the same literary wonderland.\nOur inaugural virtual reading is happening on April 1st with three amazing writers Norma Liliana Valdez\, Georgina Marie\, and Nick Johnson \nWe will be meeting on Zoom\, specific details below and if you’re new to Zoom you can download the app here:\nhttps://zoom.us/ and here’s a handy\nDescription:\n──────────\nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/404739063 \nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nPassword: 381415 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,404739063# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,404739063# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 404 739 063\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyric-dirges-ether-edition-1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Beth Lisick
DESCRIPTION:reads from \nEdie On The Green Screen: A Novel \npublished by 7.13 Books \nCity Lights welcomes back Beth Lisick to celebrate her debut novel from 7.13 Books. \nEdie Wunderlich was the It girl\, on the covers of the city’s alt-weeklies\, repping the freak party scene on the eve of the first dot-com boom. Fast-forward twenty years\, and Edie hasn’t changed\, but San Francisco has. Still a bartender in the Mission\, Edie now serves a seemingly never-ending stream of tech bros while the punk rock parties of the millennium’s end are long gone. When her mother dies\, leaving her Silicon Valley home to Edie\, she finds herself mourning her loss in the heart of the Bay Area’s tech monoculture\, and embarks on a last-ditch quest to hold on to her rebel heart. New York Times bestseller Beth Lisick’s first novel EDIE ON THE GREEN SCREEN chronicles Silicon Valley’s rapidly changing culture with biting observational humor\, an insider’s wisdom\, and disarming pathos\, while asking\, “What comes after It?” \nBeth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently living in Brooklyn. She is the author of five previous books\, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool\, and co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series. Beth has also worked as a baker\, a promotional banana mascot\, a background extra for TV and film\, and an aide to people with developmental disabilities and dementia. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-lisick/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield / Ledger
DESCRIPTION:reads from her new volume of poetry Ledger\, a book of personal\, ecological\, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named “among the modern masters” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 1\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows\, and has edited and co-translated four books of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ledger/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hilary Leichter\, Mary South\, Rita Bullwinkel\, & R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Leichter and Mary South discuss their new works\, Temporary and You Will Never Be Forgotten\, with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon. \nPraise for Temporary \n“A narrative so deliciously allusive and disarmingly literal that this reader kept thinking maximum glee had been attained\, only for the glee to somehow grow even more maximal just a few sentences later.” —Helen Oyeyemi \n“Temporary took me by storm. Each short chapter is a wallop of topsy-turvy wisdom and humor\, and together they build a strange and sparkling universe. The novel is about work and identity and the masks we wear\, but it’s also about our weird little human hearts and what they can bear. I am a Hilary Leichter superfan.”—Ramona Ausubel \n“In Temporary\, the quest for gainful employment is epic; operatic; deliciously\, sunnily\, terrifyingly entertaining. Hilary Leichter is a conjurer of rare talent.” —Kelly Link \nAbout Temporary \nIn Temporary\, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness\, connection\, and something\, at last\, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes\, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship\, assisting an assassin\, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board\, for the mythical Temporary\, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” \nThis riveting quest\, at once hilarious and profound\, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work\, even when the work is only temporary. \nPraise for You Will Never Be Forgotten \n“Mary South gets it. With dark humor\, she knocks down like so many lined-up ducks all the consoling pieties that nurture humanist fiction\, and sets up in their place a vision of subjects irremediably mediated\, strung out along networks that far exceed them. Her universe is glitchy\, full of weakly-encrypted memory\, open-source desire\, self-replicating fantasy: the human in hock to the algorithm.” —Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island \n“Mary South’s stories are a vital mix of wry humor\, cunning provocation\, disturbing prophecy and deep feeling. A brilliant and brilliantly strange and strangely funny and menacing debut!” —Sam Lipsyte\, author of Hark \n“Mary South’s wickedly\, exquisitely hilarious collection dwells in the intimate aches of modern life\, writ large in strange\, delightful stories that include\, but are not limited to\, clones\, brain surgery\, internet trolls\, and warehouses full of spare men. Dazzlingly imagined and full of wit\, You Will Never Be Forgotten is a gift to readers everywhere\, a ferocious transmission from one of the most audacious\, most original new voices in fiction.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of Intimations \nAbout You Will Never Be Forgotten \nIn this provocative\, bitingly funny debut collection\, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair\, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves \nAn architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter’s birth defect. A content moderator for “the world’s biggest search engine\,” who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides\, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls\, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child. \nIn You Will Never Be Forgotten\, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive\, darkly absurdist\, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit\, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance\, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover our deepest reaches of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive\, idiosyncratic\, instantly recognizable voice in fiction—one that could only belong to Mary South.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilary-leichter-mary-south-rita-bullwinkel-r-o-kwon/
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:Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-mary-jo-bang/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200402T190000
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CREATED:20200327T003946Z
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #1: Thea Matthews\, MK Chavez\, JP Howard
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque engaging readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers\nquestions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful Red Light Lit (founded and run by Jennifer Lewis). Our writers are Thea Matthews (author of Unearth [The Flowers]\, forthcoming with Red Light Lit)\, Mk Chavez (author of Dear Animal\, and Mothermorphosis published by Nomadic Press)\, and JP Howard (author of SAY/MIRROR published by The Operating System & Liminal Lab). Jennifer Lewis will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nZoom Joining Information \nTime: Apr 2\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/175010261 \nMeeting ID: 175 010 261 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,175010261# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,175010261# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 175 010 261\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-1-thea-matthews-mk-chavez-jp-howard/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Cowboy & Other Poems: Alejandro Albarrán Polanco and Rachel Galvin
DESCRIPTION:Mexican poet Alejandro Albarrán Polanco joins poet and translator Rachel Galvin to talk about his chapbook\, Cowboy & Other Poems\, from Ugly Duckling Presse. \nAbout Cowboy & Other Poems\, Maricela Guerrero writes “Prosthesis poems raising questions about the means by which the discourse of terror erodes our conversations. Piles of poems bursting into piles of words\, crashing against the univocal: Albarrán’s work is an ensemble of voices resonating from the most sincere tenderness to the most terrible and terrifying ways in which the contemporary world of crime and horror is narrated. In this book a cowboy gallops on a thousand prairies of senseless sense\, carrying us mounted on the rump\, expectant.” \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nAlejandro Albarrán Polanco\n\n\nAlejandro Albarrán Polanco (b. Mexico City) is the author of Algunas personas no son caballos\, which won the Premio Internacional Manuel Acuña in 2018. He is a founding editor of the press Canón Accidental and co-director of the radio program Radio Rara. He is also a musician and conceptual artist whose performances\, installations\, and artist’s books have been featured in numerous art exhibitions.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nRachel Galvin\n\n\nRachel Galvin is an award-winning poet\, translator\, and scholar. Her books include two collections of poetry\, Pulleys & Locomotion and Elevated Threat Level; a work of criticism\, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945; and Hitting the Streets\, a translation from the French of Raymond Queneau. She is a co-founder of the Outranspo\, an international creative translation collective\, and assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cowboy-other-poems-alejandro-albarran-polanco-and-rachel-galvin/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20200402T224232Z
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... ONLINE!
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die Team!\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nThursday\, April 2nd\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nSeating is first come\, first served… to the person who gets the seat in your house.\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/33US8Gz \nPLEASE NOTE:\nRegistration DOES NOT guarantee a spot on the call!!!\nThere are only 100 call spots – our commitment is to keep it intimate\, so whoever needs to share\, gets to share…\nDo not wait – don’t be late!! \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @Peter-Buskirk\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes ONLINE!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU IF HE HAS TO! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together… \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Poets for National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Join Litquake for our annual National Poetry Month celebration\, for readings from some of America’s best poets: Kazim Ali\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and Jane Hirshfield. Curated and hosted by Rebecca Foust. Originally scheduled to be held at Grace Cathedral atop the city’s Nob Hill\, now streaming live for you! \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nRebecca Foust\nRebecca Foust was the Poet Laureate of Marin County and is the author of Paradise Drive and The Unexploded Ordnance Bin\, released November 2019. A new book\, ONLY\, will come out with Four Way Books in 2022.\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nJane Hirshfield\nJane Hirshfield’s ninth collection\, Ledger (Knopf)\, just released. Chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets and recently elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, she works frequently at the intersection of poetry and science. Her essays\, poems\, and translations… Read More →\n\n \nTongo Eisen-Martin\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)\, which won the 2018 California Book Award.\n\n\n\n\n\nKazim Ali\nKazim Ali’s many books include The Far Mosque\, which won an Alice James Books award and Inquisition (2018)\, as well as the prose books The Disappearance of Seth\, Bright Felon\, and Resident Alien. Ali co-founded Nightboat Books and is a professor at U.C. San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-poets-for-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Mountains Sing \nfrom Workman Publishing Company \n“An epic account of Việt Nam’s painful 20th century history\, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN\, author of The Sympathizer\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize \nWith the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan\, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping\, multigenerational tale of the Trần family\, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan\, who was born in 1920\, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội\, her young granddaughter\, Hương\, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore not just her beloved country\, but her family apart. \nVivid\, gripping\, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam\, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves\, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. \nThe Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English. \nBorn into the Viet Nam War in 1973\, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai grew up witnessing the war’s devastation and its aftermath. She worked as a street seller and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. She is the author of eight books of poetry\, fiction and non-fiction published in Vietnamese\, and her writing has been translated and published in more than 10 countries\, most recently in Norton’s Inheriting the War anthology. She has been honored with many awards\, including the Poetry of the Year 2010 Award from the Ha Noi Writers Association\, as well as many grants and fellowships. Married to a European diplomat\, Quế Mai is currently living in Jakarta with her two teenage children. \nFor more information about Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai\, visit her at www.nguyenphanquemai.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nguyen-phan-que-mai/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche\, In the Lateness of the World at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome celebrated poet Carolyn Forché for a reading and signing of In the Lateness of the World—her new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force. \nOver four decades\, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies\, inquiries\, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. \nHer first new collection in seventeen years\, In the Lateness of the World\, is a tenebrous book of crossings\, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past\, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forché envisions a place where “you could see everything at once … every moment you have lived or place you have been.” The world here seems to be steadily vanishing\, but in the moments before the uncertain end\, an illumination arrives and “there is nothing that cannot be seen.” In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today. \nCarolyn Forché is an American poet\, translator\, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are Blue Hour\, The Angel of History\, The Country Between Us\, and Gathering the Tribes. Her memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True\, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. In 2013\, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017\, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her husband\, photographer Harry Mattison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche-in-the-lateness-of-the-world-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Monica Sok: A Nail the Evening Hangs On
DESCRIPTION:Monica Sok discusses her debut poetry collection\, A Nail the Evening Hangs On\, with Barbara Jane Reyes. \nPraise for A Nail the Evening Hangs On \n“Sok’s reflective debut teases out how the trauma of the Khmer Rouge is remembered and retained in the fabric of the country and within her own family… Weaving the threads of her family’s stories\, history\, place\, and identity\, these poems glimmer with strength and presence.” —Publishers Weekly  \n“An unsettling\, powerful\, important debut.” —Booklist \n“The poet is able to offer quiet wisdom without sentimentality. Ultimately this poet refuses to surrender to victimhood. The chapbook ends optimistically in the borough of Brooklyn\, where the young speaker lives happily\, sometimes seen in the neighborhood eating bagels with friends and writing new poems. She has found her way to ‘the healing fields.’” ―Marilyn Chin \nAbout A Nail the Evening Hangs On \nIn this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A Nail the Evening Hangs On travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monica-sok-a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on/
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:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #3
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nDonate (only if you can swing it) by clicking on the “ticket” link or dropping donations via the $Cash app to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress \n90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic (this time a little earlier for our east coast friends)! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSIGN-UP SHEET:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nJoining information \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #3\nTime: Apr 3\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/787778071 \nMeeting ID: 787 778 071 \nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,787778071# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,787778071# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 787 778 071\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Beth Lisick and "Edie on the Green Screen"
DESCRIPTION:Beth Lisick’s canceled book tour for her debut novel transmogrifies into an at-home spoken word and music performance with her husband\, musician and studio wizard Eli Crews (Tune-yards\, Deerhoof). Though rarely in the same place at the same time\, they’ve spent the last few weeks collaborating on making hand sanitizer\, falafel\, and music. Beth will read excerpts from her new book accompanied by organs\, synths\, and other assorted gadgetry. Presented live from their Spillway Sound recording studio in New York’s Hudson Valley.\nBook releases March 26\, 2020. \nOrder from your favorite indie bookstore at bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nEli Crews\nEli Crews is a sound engineer and record producer based in New York. He is a house engineer at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn\, where he has lived and worked since 2012. He also just built a getaway\, residential recording studio in the Catskills near the Ashokan Reservoir\, called Spillway… Read More →\n\n\nBeth Lisick\n Beth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently living in Brooklyn. She is the author of six books\, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool\, and co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series. Beth has also worked as a baker… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-beth-lisick-and-edie-on-the-green-screen/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bess Kalb / Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a live-stream with Bess Kalb for her new book Nobody Will Tell You This but Me. \nPlease join us … we’ll be streaming on our Facebook page! \n\n“When I stop crying\, I’m calling my mother immediately and making her read it.” – Jodi Picoult \n“Comic lines as good as in any movie\, and pathos as deep as in any novel” – Mike Birbiglia \nBess Kalb\, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor\, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force–irrepressible\, glamorous\, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then\, at ninety\, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir\, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more\, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. \nRecounting both family lore and family secrets\, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother\, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms\, and Bess’s mother\, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. Then there’s Bess\, who grew up in New York and entered the rough-and-tumble world of L.A. television. Her grandma Bobby was with her all the way–she was the light of Bess’s childhood and her fiercest supporter\, giving Bess unequivocal love\, even if sometimes of the toughest kind. \nIn Nobody Will Tell You This But Me\, Bobby reminds Bess of the experiences they shared\, and she delivers–in phone calls\, texts\, and unforgettable heart-to-hearts brought vividly to the page–her signature wisdom: \nIf the earth is cracking behind you\, you put one foot in front of the other. \nNever. Buy. Fake. Anything.\nI swear on your life every word of this is true. \nWith humor and poignancy\, Bess Kalb gives us proof of the special bond that can skip a generation and endure beyond death. This book is a feat of extraordinary ventriloquism and imagination by a remarkably talented writer. \n\nBess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Her writing for the show earned her a Writer’s Guild Award in 2016. She has also written for the Oscars and the Emmys. A regular contributor to The New Yorker‘s “Daily Shouts\,” her work has been published in The New Republic\, Grantland\, Salon.com\, Wired\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. Author photo by Lucas Foglia. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bess-kalb-nobody-will-tell-you-this-but-me/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Luiza\, Colleen\, and Audra Have a Book Party at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\, winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize\, and Colleen McKee and Audra Puchalski\, finalists for the Charlotte Mew Prize\, read from their chapbooks\, all published in January by Headmistress Press. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett’s chapbook Tender Age won the 2019 Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew contest. She is also the author of the forthcoming collection Look Alive\, winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press\, along with five other chapbooks\, most recently Shadow Box\, winner of the 2019 Madhouse Press Editor’s Prize. Her poetry can be found in Third Coast\, Pleiades\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of Foglifter and lives in sunny Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luiza-colleen-and-audra-have-a-book-party-at-wolfman-books/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200403T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200403T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Jeanne Heuving\, Eleni Stecopoulos and Susan Gevirtz
DESCRIPTION:Jeanne Heuving’s latest book is Mood Indigo\, selva oscura press (2019) and she is the co-editor\, along with Tyrone Williams\, of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry (Recencies Series\, University of New Mexico Press\, 2019. \nEleni Stecopoulos is the author of Visceral Poetics (ON Contemporary Practice\, 2016)\, Armies of Compassion (Palm Press\, 2010)\, and Daphnephoria (Compline\, 2012) \nSusan Gevirtz is the author of seven books of poetry\, including Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger\, Thrall\, and Hourglass Transcripts. Her critical works include Narrative Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson and Coming Events (Collected Writings)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-jeanne-heuving-eleni-stecopoulos-and-susan-gevirtz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200403T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200403T230000
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CREATED:20200309T201454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T201454Z
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SUMMARY:About Last Night: A One Night Stand Storytelling Series April
DESCRIPTION:About Last Night – Join us for an evening of laughter\, sex positivity and of course hilariously true one night stand stories. 7 brave souls will once again climb on our stage to share true tales of their most intimate and embarrassing one night stands. \nAbout Last Night is a monthly San Francisco one night stand / poor life choice storytelling series. This event features real people sharing hilarious (way too personal) stories about horrifying one night stands\, awkward hookups\, and embarrassing sexual adventures. Come join us for a night of complete and utter hysteria\, and unlike most of your one night stands\, we can promise you that you won’t regret it! \nHave a story you’d like to tell? Visit our website: www.aboutlastnightstorytelling.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-last-night-a-one-night-stand-storytelling-series-april/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T170000
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CREATED:20191219T071112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T071112Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-11/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T190000
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CREATED:20200215T022410Z
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kate Radford / Drought
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Kate Radford\, a sonic poetry performance and book release. Drought is fusing contemporary poetry\, cinematic landscapes and electronic harmonic compositions. This is the premiere performance in San Francisco – please join us! \n \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with tickets on a sliding scale from $0-15. Advance tickets are highly recommended\, as door tickets are not guaranteed. Unless otherwise noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nDrought is a compositional performance piece using cinematic landscapes\, contemporary poetry and sound to create and explore art space as part ritual and place of transformation\, using language\, mythology and folklore to transmute collective pain inflicted on women throughout fiction and non-fiction\, the real world and our cultural subconscious\, with a focus on the orchestra of language in a fine art performance context. \n“It is challenging. But above all\, it is redemptive. It is a love song. Through pain\, beyond heartache\, and into the sun itself. The bright can burn\, but it also – illuminates….” – Kate Radford \nExploring characters hidden deep within Ovid’s metamorphoses\, transformed into original poetry\, fusing mythological narratives\, part-autobiography\, part compositional ritual. \nWritten and Performed by Kate Radford\nOriginal Compositions by Kate Radford\nLandscape Imagery by Bryony Good \n\nKate Radford is a multi-award winning poet and artist working internationally to transform women’s stories and embed cultural narratives with a legacy of possibility and transformation. \n\nREVIEWS \n★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Hauntingly beautiful!’ (Ask The Ushers) ‘A visually impressive feminist cry’ – Broadway World \n‘Radford re-tells using lyrical writing\, her own extraordinary voice and digital projections’ – Lyne Gardner\, Stagedoor \n‘A mesmerising punch in the gut’ – Voila! Festival \n“Kate is a storyteller\, a songstress\, a performance artist and a poet. The amazing thing is I think she really had no idea how brilliant she is\, she simply is THIS. She is what the best of artists are—a person bringing art—her art—to the world with no artifice.” – Grace Jasmine\, Hollywood Fringe \n“Kate will take you on a spiritual journey\, using mythological narrative to examine violence women have suffered and will suffer at the hands of man. It is not an attack but a look at old truths rooted in ancient and modern-day storytelling. Kate’s use of her foot to control the electronic music became its own form of poetry as her voice soared and roared through the dark space\, as footage of old ruins swelled the tiny theatre\, Drought became a new religion.” – Constance Hall\, LA Female Playwrights Initiative. \n“Drought begins quite disarmingly with mythic riffs on the historic ocean of female oppression. Then Kate Radford opened her mouth to sing and became that ocean. Vast and deep\, powerful and personal\, her loops lured me in and pulled me under until I surrendered. Then she returned me to the surface and laid me breathless on the shore. I almost died. I wanna do it again.” – Jonathan Liptake\, Hollywood Fringe \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all-ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kate-radford-drought/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: "Home Baked" Booty Shake
DESCRIPTION:In the seventies\, when author Alia Volz was tucked into in her stroller\, her parents ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that delivered more than 10\,000 marijuana edibles each month in San Francisco. From the frothy 1970s through the depths of the AIDS crisis and the dawn of medical marijuana\, Volz’s new memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a city in the throes of change and the community that came together when things fell apart. \nPour yourself a tequila sunrise\, twist a doobie\, and join Volz and luminaries Rebecca Skloot and Marke Bieschke for a taste of home-baked San Francisco love. Followed by a funkalicious living-room dance party with special guest DJs. \nBook is released on April 20\, 2020\, pre-order it from your favorite indie bookstore\, at bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of the event!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nRebecca Skloot\nRebecca Skloot is author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, which was made into an Emmy-nominated HBO film. Lacks took more than a decade to research and write\, and instantly hit the New York Times bestseller list\, where it has remained for… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nMarke Bieschke\nMarke Bieschke is the publisher and arts editor of 48 Hills and the SF Bay Guardian\, and the author most recently of Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens (Zest Books\, 2019) and the forthcoming Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States (Lerner… Read More →\n\n \nAlia Volz\nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco\, due for release on 4/20 of this year. You’ll find her work in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Tin House\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-home-baked-booty-shake/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale / The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale for their new novel\, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home. Join us! \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, with each ticket including a book\, and will take place at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St. Tickets are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nIn the town of Night Vale\, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home\, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from…until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks\, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century\, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe\, a nautical adventure with a mysterious organization of smugglers\, her plot for revenge on the ones who betrayed her\, and ultimately her death and its aftermath\, as her spirit travels the world for decades until settling in modern-day Night Vale. \nInterspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale\, as The Faceless Old Woman guides\, haunts\, and sabotages a man named Craig. In the end\, her current day dealings with Craig and her swashbuckling history in nineteenth century Europe will come together in the most unexpected and horrifying way. \nPart The Haunting of Hill House\, part The Count of Monte Cristo\, and 100% about a faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home. \n\nJoseph Fink created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead podcasts. He lives with his wife in the Hudson River Valley and Los Angeles. He is the author of the novel Alice Isn’t Dead.  Jeffrey Cranor co-writes the Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires podcasts. He also co-creates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York. Together\, they are the authors of the New York Times best-selling novels Welcome to Night Vale\, It Devours!\, and four Welcome to Night Vale episode script books: Mostly Void\, Partially Stars\, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe\, The Buying of Lot 37\, and Who’s a Good Boy? In 2016\, Fink and Cranor announced their podcast network “Night Vale Presents” which has produced 14 original fiction and non-fiction podcasts. For more on Welcome to Night Vale\, upcoming events\, and the books\, visit: www.welcometonightvale.com. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-fink-and-jeffrey-cranor-of-welcome-to-night-vale-the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200405T190000
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SUMMARY:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic Online!
DESCRIPTION:We are giving ONLINE Smack Dab Queer & Trans Open Mic a try. Meet us on Zoom at our usual time 🙂 \nSmack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQ2SIA community event. Our slogan? “All ages\, all genders\, all the time.” We’re the longest running Q/T Open mic in the bay and we welcome YOU to join us to share: stories\, poems\, a song\, dance\, your visual art or your latest manifesto. Want to simply join us as friends\, family and supportive allies in Queer and Trans community? Our hosts Larry-bob Roberts {he/him} and Dana Hopkins {she/her} welcome you to come on in! \nIf you’d like to perform at the open mic\, please come sign up at 4:45 pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share {we do pay attention to time.} \nFor Zoom details and instructions about how to join in message us here at Smack Dab Queer Open Mic OR stay tuned to this space for those details. We will post them here on Sunday .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smack-dab-queer-open-mic-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200405T190000
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CREATED:20200331T182620Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Met Cute--The Happy Side of Gay Romance
DESCRIPTION:In these stressful times\, everyone could use a little fun. Because sometimes loving goes best with laughter\, four bestselling authors of gay romance read from their lighter works–J. Scott Coatsworth\, Kim Fielding\, Angel Martinez\, and Amy Lane. Discussion and Q&A about why love stories help soothe frayed nerves and anxious minds to follow. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKim Fielding\nKim Fielding is the bestselling author of numerous m/m romance novels\, novellas\, and short stories. Like Kim herself\, her work is eclectic\, spanning genres such as contemporary\, fantasy\, paranormal\, and historical. Her stories are set in alternate worlds\, in 15th century Bosnia\, in… Read More →\n\n \nJ. Scott Coatsworth\nScott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library\, but as he grew up\, he wondered where all the people like him were. He decided that if there weren’t… Read More →\n\nAM \nAngel Martinez\nAngel Martinez is the pen name of a writer of several genres who writes both kinds of queer fiction – Science Fiction and Fantasy. (What? There are others?) Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware\, (and full time inside the author’s head) Angel has… Read More →\n\n \nAmy Lane\nAmy Lane has two kids who are mostly grown\, two kids who aren’t\, two cats\, and two Chi-who-whats at large. She lives in a crumbling crapmansion with most of the children and a bemused spouse. She also has too damned much yarn\, a penchant for action adventure movies\, and a need to… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-met-cute-the-happy-side-of-gay-romance/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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