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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Lisa Scottoline with Lisa See (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events\, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome under the creeping shadow of fascism. \nElisabetta\, Marco\, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy\, kind-hearted and thoughtful\, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love\, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta’s heart. But in the autumn of 1937\, all of that begins to change as Mussolini asserts his power\, aligning Italy’s Fascists with Hitler’s Nazis and altering the very laws that govern Rome. In time\, everything that the three hold dear—their families\, their homes\, and their connection to one another—is tested in ways they never could have imagined. \nAs anti-Semitism takes legal root and World War II erupts\, the threesome realizes that Mussolini was only the beginning. The Nazis invade Rome\, and with their occupation come new atrocities against the city’s Jews\, culminating in a final\, horrific betrayal. Against this backdrop\, the intertwined fates of Elisabetta\, Marco\, Sandro\, and their families will be decided\, in a heartbreaking story of both the best and the worst that the world has to offer. \nUnfolding over decades\, Eternal is a tale of loyalty and loss\, family and food\, love and war—all set in one of the world’s most beautiful cities at its darkest moment. This moving novel will be forever etched in the hearts and minds of readers. \nLisa Scottoline is the New York Times-bestselling author of thirty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed\, “Justice in Fiction” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School\, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area. \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the Historymaker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-lisa-scottoline-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:At The Door: Chapter Two
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly reading series\, featuring only Black & Brown voices. We’re already a chapter in – join us for the incredible lineup we have for “Chapter Two”!\n\nFeatured Readers:\nJosiah Alderete\nKathleen Naytia\nRosa De Anda\nYeva Johnson\nRebeca Flores\nBrian Kim Stefans\n\nWHEW – we just got chills thinking about what this night is gonna be like. Come through!
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Southeast Asian American Poetry Reading with Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri
DESCRIPTION:Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri will be joined by youth poets from Oakland’s Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants and UC Berkeley’s Southeast Asian Student Coalition (SASC) anthology group.\n\nAbout the poets:\n\nMonica Sok’s debut poetry collection A Nail in the Evening Hangs On uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime — memory that is both real and imagined — according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables\, the book seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.\n\nKrysada Phounsiri is a Lao American professional dancer\, award winning poet\, engineer\, and photographer from San Diego\, CA. He is a Physics & Astrophysics double major\, with a minor in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley. He published his debut poetry book\, “Dance Among Elephants”\, and 2nd poetry book\, “Every Passing Minute”\, under Sahtu Press. Krysada is currently a Senior Optical Engineer working in the BioTech industry. His dance resume includes various competition wins around the globe\, performing in Jabbawockeez MUS.I.C show in Las Vegas\, dancing on movie sets\, and other creative projects. Many of his creative endeavors are connected to exploring Lao / Southeast Asian American identity and how it can be integrated in various spaces.\n\nRSVP at https://seapoetry.eventbrite.com\n—\nTo purchase copies of the featured poets’ work\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\n—\nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets\, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support.\n\nLearn more about Eastwind here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaSXsyGkjz8
URL:https://litseen.com/event/southeast-asian-american-poetry-reading-with-monica-sok-and-krysada-phounsiri-2/
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SUMMARY:Barbara Hamby and Barbara Ras
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Barbara Hamby\, Holoholo\, and Barbara Ras\, The Blues of Heaven\, online via Zoom\, free\, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading) \nMORE ABOUT THE READERS\nPlease join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Sunday\, March 28 at 3:00 pm PDT! We are excited to bring you Barbara Ras and Barbara Hamby via Zoom. To register for this reading\, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times. \nThis reading is co-sponsored by Moe’s Books in Berkeley; the featured books are available at bookshop.org/lists/poetry-flash-readings. \nBarbara Ras’s new book of poems is The Blues of Heaven\, both personal\, dealing with grief over the death of a brother and memories of growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Polish immigrants\, and national\, reflecting on gun violence\, the climate crisis\, and the fecklessness of an ignorant\, corrupt government. Naomi Shihab Nye said\, “The Blues of Heaven radiates with immense tenderness—here are poems of vivid painterly wonderment\, perfect pacing and weight\, elegantly woven counterpoints of shimmering imagery.” Ras’s previous collections include Bite Every Sorrow\, winner of the Walt Whitman Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, One Hidden Stuff\, and The Lost Skin. Her poetry has been published in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, Granta\, Orion\, and elsewhere\, and she’s been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, among others. She lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, and is the founding director emerita of the Trinity University Press. \nBarbara Hamby’s new book of poems is Holoholo\, the Hawaiian word for strolling without a fixed destination. A collage of one woman’s consciousness\, spoken in an American lingo\, including Yiddish and street talk\, its three sections motor across wars\, racial tension\, street violence\, and other assorted national chaos. Billy Collins said\, “”Barbara Hamby’s poems are wild\, outspoken\, seriously funny\, motor-mouth rambles that take us through hoops of association to places both unexpected and unimpeachable. This collection offers a generous helping of poems so crackling with references and busy with verbal energy you might feel them buzzing in your hands.” She’s the author of seven previous collections\, most recently Bird Odyssey and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. Her book of linked stories\, Lester Higata’s 20th Century\, was the winner of the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award. A 2010 Guggenheim fellow\, she is also co-editor\, with her husband David Kirby\, of Seriously Funny\, an anthology of poetry.
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SUMMARY:Carribean Fragoza
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of her new book \nEat the Mouth that Feeds You \npublished by City Lights Books \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \nIn gritty\, sometimes fantastical stories about Latinx life\, women challenge feminine stereotypes and make sense of fractured family histories \n“In Carribean Fragoza’s weirdly sweet short story collection Eat the Mouth that Feeds You\, eyebrows are Sharpie-thin\, children say I love you with axes\, and dying is an adventure. Her Chicanx gothic tales root horror in the most terrifying of places\, the family. The creepiest pockets of the Brown imagination are her playground. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You renders the feminine grotesque at its finest.”—Myriam Gurba\, author of Mean \n“Every story in this luminous collection creates its own lush\, beautiful\, and utterly singular universe. Carribean Fragoza reaches deep into the bodies and souls of her subjects\, and writes about desire and fear like few other writers can. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You will establish Fragoza as an essential and important new voice in American fiction.”—Héctor Tobar\, author of The Barbarian Nurseries \nThis stunningly original collection of stories illuminates a spectrum of Latinx\, Chicanx\, and immigrant women’s voices. In confrontations with fraught matrilineal lines\, absent or abusive fathers\, and the effects of historical violence\, these women and girls navigate a male-dominated world where they rely on a resilient mujer network to get them through sometimes supernatural obstacles. \nIn visceral\, embodied prose\, Fragoza’s imperfect characters are drawn with an authentic\, sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college\, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter\, whose penchant for ingesting grandma’s letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture\, and then to the backyard fence\, until finally she attacks the family’s beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship\, and women’s wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border. \n\nThe daughter of Mexican immigrants\, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte\, California. After graduating from UCLA\, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts\, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. Today\, Fragoza co-edits UC Press’s acclaimed California cultural journal\, Boom California\, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse\, an interdisciplinary arts collective. \nHer fiction and nonfiction have appeared numerous publications\, including BOMB\, Huizache\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the co-editor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte\, published February 2020 by Rutgers University Press and Senior Writer at the Tropics of Meta. Carribean is the Coordinator of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award at Claremont Graduate University\, and she lives in the San Gabriel Valley in LA County. \nMore at Carribean’s web site: http://carribeanfragoza.com/ \nAdvance praise for Eat the Mouth That Feeds You \n“The magic realism of Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories themselves\, strung through the warp and weft of family\, community\, and what it means as a child\, as a mother\, as a woman\, to both belong and not belong. These are powerful stories about making one’s way\, and about the things that keep a grip on you no matter where you are\, even if you’re dead.”—Brian Evenson\, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World \n“Fragoza’s prose\, a switchblade of a magical glow\, cauterizes as it cuts. In a setting of barren citrus trees\, poison-filled balloons\, and stuccos haunted by the menace of the past\, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You reinvents the sunny noir.“—Salvador Plascencia\, author of The People of Paper \n“I felt this collection deep in my bones. Like the Chicanx women whose voices she centers\, Carribean Fragoza’s writing doesn’t flinch. It is sharp and dream-like\, tender-hearted and brutal\, carved from the violence and resilience of generations past and present.”—Natalia Sylvester\, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home \n“Carribean Fragoza goes deep. This book makes central the lives of women\, whether sourced locally or rooted in Mexico\, whether alive or dead to the world\, surrealistic or hyper realistic\, in the flesh or as spirits centuries old. This is storytelling that astonishes\, passing through industrialized lives of women like gamma rays or cosmic rays—and I was not only astonished\, I was moved. Kafka said\, ‘A book must be an axe for the frozen sea that is within us.’ Be careful how you heft this book—it’s sharp as obsidian\, this axe.”—Sesshu Foster\, author of Atomik Aztex \n“This collection establishes Carribean Fragoza as a new American voice to be reckoned with—her invigoratingly imaginative stories are nothing short of brilliant.”— J. Ryan Stradal\, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carribean-fragoza/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Ji Hyang Padma / Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Ji Hyang Padma and her new book Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Field of Blessings here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nJi Hyang Padma believes that we are hungry for a direct experience of the sacred in this culture. We try to fill the void with technology\, and its ‘quick fix’ of images and information. This leaves us hungry for true connectivity. We don’t need more information. We need more appreciation. Gratitude opens the heart\, and gives our life meaning; it becomes a form of spiritual experience that gives us strength. Field of Blessings explores how meaning-making can be approached by deep examination of the stories of our lives\, which bridge the gap between the inner world and the outer world\, giving shape to our experience. How can these narratives be spoken\, written\, or embodied? Ritual is the story brought-to-life\, and a powerful vehicle for spiritual transformation\, for reconnecting people with an embodied wholeness. Ji Hyang Padma shows that Chod\, Medicine Buddha practices\, and other Tibetan rituals are used by healers to evoke sacred energies\, radical empathy\, and to contact deep archetypal realms of the psyche. \nAbout the author\nJi Hyang Padma holds a doctorate in psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University. Her dissertation research focused on consciousness and healing\, through the lens of traditional Buddhist healing practices. She recently served as Director of the Comparative Religion & Philosophy Program at the California Institute for Human Science. In response to the pandemic\, she currently serves as a chaplain resident at UCSF Parnassus. She has also taught Zen at Wellesley College\, Harvard University and Omega Institute. She lives in Encinitas\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-ji-hyang-padma-field-of-blessings-ritual-consciousness-in-the-work-of-buddhist-healers/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Nick Greene
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US TUESDAY\, MARCH 30 AT 6PM PT WHEN NICK GREENE DISCUSSES HIS BOOK\,\nHOW TO WATCH BASKETBALL LIKE A GENIUS : WHAT GAME DESIGNERS\, ECONOMISTS\, BALLET CHOREOGRAPHERS\, AND THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICISTS REVEAL ABOUT THE GREATEST GAME ON EARTH\, WITH N. CUZZI ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89717306557\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89717306557#  or +13462487799\,\,89717306557#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbgovPwsVV \nPraise for How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius\n“A hilarious\, smart\, wildly unpredictable book that will forever change the way you look at basketball.”—Sarah Spain\, writer for ESPN\, TV personality\, and radio host \n“How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius pulls off a rare trick: It makes you feel smarter as you’re reading it\, but it does so without ever making you feel like you weren’t smart in the first place.”—Shea Serrano\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Basketball (and Other Things) \n  \nAbout How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius \nA brilliant\, entertaining deconstruction of basketball\, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators\, magicians\, therapists\, and more \nBasketball is the second-most popular sport in the world—an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism\, craftiness\, rules\, intangibles\, and superstardom. However\, while it’s enjoyable to watch\, the real reason it works is because it’s a game of culture\, art\, and all the things that make us human. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again\, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts\, however\, are a diverse group: wine critics weighing in on LeBron’s ability to delegate on the fly\, magicians analyzing Chris Paul’s mystifying dribbling techniques\, cartographers breaking down Steph Curry’s deadeye three-point shooting. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court\, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles. There’s a reason it has conquered the world\, and every game is a chance to learn about pop culture\, fashion\, history\, science\, art\, and anything else that bounces our way. \nAbout the Author \nNick Greene is a contributing writer for Slate\, prior to which he worked as editor at large at Mental Floss and as web editor at the Village Voice. His work has been published in Vice\, Men’s Health\, and Chicago Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-nick-greene/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Kim Addonizio with Danusha Laméris
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop welcomes Bay Area poet Kim Addonizio for a reading and discussion of her new collection\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere. Addonizio will be in conversation with Danusha Laméris\, Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE VIRTUAL EVENT! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit–drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. Sometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. A poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \n“Kim Addonizio’s poetry gives me physical energy.” — Phoebe Waller-Bridge\, creator of Fleabag \n“Addonizio relishes in bringing together moments of pleasure and pain\, the underside of love and disaster.” — American Poets \nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nDanusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House\, 2014)\, which was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, The American Poetry Review\, Prairie Schooner\, The SUN Magazine\, Tin House\, The Gettysburg Review\, and Ploughshares. Her second book is Bonfire Opera\, (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, and she was the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She teaches poetry independently\, and is a Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kim-addonizio-with-danusha-lameris/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:WE RUN THE TIDES by Vendela Veda
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 30\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of WE RUN THE TIDES by Vendela Veda. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82298900093. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpWeRunTheTides or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/WeRunTheTidesAB. \nFebruary 2021 Indie Next List\n\n“Wow\, this book was hard to put down! The story feels so familiar\, yet full of unexpected twists and turns. I was immersed in the beautiful and tumultuous world of these girls on the brink of adulthood. A fun\, mysterious\, compelling\, and ultimately profound novel about power\, truth\, and growing up.”\n— Sarah Fischer\, Downbound Books\, Cincinnati\, OH \nDescription\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER  \nAn achingly beautiful story of female friendship\, betrayal\, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco  \nTeenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend\, Maria Fabiola\, own the streets of Sea Cliff\, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches\, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the upscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day\, walking to school with friends\, they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened\, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. \nSuspenseful and poignant\, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost\, the pain of too much freedom\, and the struggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth\, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth\, in all its beauty and confusion. \nAbout the Author\n\nVendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books\, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. Her new novel\, We Run the Tides\, will be published by Ecco on February 9\, 2021. She is a founding editor of The Believer and coeditor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence\, or the Appearance of Confidence\, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia\, the San Francisco writing center for youth\, and lives in the Bay Area with her family. \nPraise For…\n\n“The year is probably too young to make this kind of pronouncement\, but the new novel I know I’m going to be rereading in the coming months and spending a lot of time thinking about is Vendela Vida’s We Run the Tides. It’s a tough and exquisite sliver of a short novel whose world I want to remain lost in.  . . . [A] spectacular narrator . . . [A] wonder of a novel.”\n— Maureen Corrigan\, NPR’s Fresh Air
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-run-the-tides-by-vendela-veda/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Claudio Saunt & Mickey Huff: Unworthy Republic: A Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nCLAUDIO SAUNT & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event \nUnworthy Republic: Dispossession of Native Americans\nand the Road to Indian Territory\nFinalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction\nPublishers Weekly “Top 10” Best Book of 2020 \n“One of the most important books published on U.S. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans.”-Sven Beckert\, author of Empire of Cotton \n“”Unworthy Republic” is a powerful and lucid account\, weaving together events with the people who experienced them up close….Saunt has written an unflinching book that reckons with this history and its legacy.”-Jennifer Szalai\, New York Times \n“There has been insufficient ‘reckoning with the conquest of the continent\,’ Claudio Saunt relays in this excellent new book. In many accounts of U.S. history\, the discussion of the mass deportation of native nations during the 1830s remains far too brief. Deportation’s legacies in law\, culture\, and community continue to this day and find powerful exploration in this important addition to the field.” \n-Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone)\, professor of history and American studies\, Yale University \n“Unworthy Republic offers a much-needed corrective to the American canon\, showing how a heavy-handed president\, a deadlocked Congress\, and a lust for profit combined to construct a shameful national legacy. This book is timely\, provocative\, heart-wrenching\, and original?a riveting story that invites us all to reflect on how we got where we are today.” \n-Elizabeth Fenn\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World \nClaudio Saunt is the author of award-winning books\, including West of the Revolution\, A New Order of Things\, and Black\, White\, and Indian. He lives in Athens\, Georgia. \nMickey Huff is the currently Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/claudio-saunt-mickey-huff-tickets-137141043553
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claudio-saunt-mickey-huff-unworthy-republic-a-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book Passage Presents: Martha Hall Kelly - Sunflower Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now\, in Sunflower Sisters\, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey\, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma\, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army\, and Anne-May Wilson\, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. \nGeorgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation\, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong\, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington\, D.C.\, to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. \nIn the South\, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland\, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister\, Patience\, is enslaved on the plantation next door\, and both live in fear of LeBaron\, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through\, she sees a chance to finally escape—but only by abandoning the family she loves. \nAnne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household\, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies\, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. \nInspired by true accounts\, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid\, detailed look at the Civil War experience\, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations\, to a war-torn New York City\, to the horrors of the battlefield. It’s a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse\, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty\, a story still so relevant today. \nMartha Hall Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls and Lost Roses. She lives in Connecticut\, where she spends her days filling legal pads with stories and reading World War II books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-passage-presents-martha-hall-kelly-sunflower-sisters/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Shane McCrae
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \n\nShane McCrae\nShane McCrae’s most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2019) and Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2020). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award\, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Lannan Literary Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-shane-mccrae/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T183000
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salons: Tom Perrotta
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Tom Perrotta\nThu Apr 1st 5:00pm – 6:30pm\nBuy Tickets \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to have your fiction translated to the screen not once but many times\, to be nominated for numerous awards including the Oscar and the Golden Globe\, and to walk a red carpet\, join us for a fascinating conversation with Tom Perrotta. This Seismic Salon features the bestselling author of nine works of fiction\, including Election and Little Children\, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films\, and The Leftovers\, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed\, Peabody Award-winning HBO series. His other books include Bad Haircut\, The Wishbones\, Joe College\, The Abstinence Teacher\, Nine Inches\, and his newest\, Mrs. Fletcher. His work has been translated into a multitude of languages. Perrotta grew up in New Jersey and lives outside of Boston. \nBuy Tom Perrotta’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salons-tom-perrotta/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Andrea Bajani and Jhumpa Lahiri Writers discuss Bajani's novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Bajani is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri to celebrate the publication of his novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins (translated by Elizabeth Harris for Archipelago Books). \n“One of Italy’s greatest writers . . . An elegy\, a requiem\, a reckoning\, a broken portrait of an absent mother\, If You Kept a Record of Sins is a jewel of a book. You will hold it to your heart when you are done.” — Andrew Sean Greer\, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Less \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout If You Kept a Record of Sins\nA prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she’s building in Romania. Lorenzo\, just a young boy when his mother leaves\, recalls the incisive fragments of their life – when they would playfully wrestle each other\, watch the sunrise\, or test out his mother’s newest scientific creation. Now a young man\, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother’s funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today’s Europe\, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical\, piercing prose\, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation\, of sentimental education and shattered illusions\, of unconditional love. \nAbout the participants\nANDREA BAJANI is an Italian novelist\, journalist\, and poet whose work has been translated into many languages. His novel\, Ogni promessa (Every Promise)\, won the oldest and most prestigious Italian literary award\, the Bagutta Prize. His collection of short stories\, La vita non è in ordine alfabetico\, won the Settembrini Prize in 2014. Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins) won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize\, and the Lo Straniero Prize. He teaches at Rice University in the Department of Classical and European studies. \nJHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies\, The Namesake\, Unaccustomed Earth\, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction\, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards\, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal\, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia\, for In altre parole. \nAbout the translator\nElizabeth Harris’s translations from Italian include Mario Rigoni Stern’s Giacomo’s Seasons\, Giulio Mozzi’s This Is the Garden\, and Antonio Tabucchi’s Tristano Dies\, For Isabel: A Mandala\, and Stories with Pictures. Her prizes include a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant\, an NEA Translation Fellowship\, The Italian Prose in Translation Award\, and the National Translation Award for Prose.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrea-bajani-and-jhumpa-lahiri-writers-discuss-bajanis-novel-if-you-kept-a-record-of-sins/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, Brent Awa Jensen \nSupported by the National Endowment for the Arts \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youmna-chlala-and-ken-chen-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aiden Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 2\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\nAiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA in creative writing from Mills College. Originally from Oakland\, California\, they now make their home in Portland\, Oregon. Aiden’s special talents include: quoting The Office\, finishing sentences with “is my FAVORITE\,” and killing spiders. Aiden is notorious for not being able to guess the endings of books and movies\, and organizes their bookshelves by color. In Aiden’s debut novel\, Cemetery Boys\, a trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aiden-thomas/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #53
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-53/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jillian C York in conversation with Ben Tarnoff
DESCRIPTION:discussing Jillian York’s new book \nSilicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism \npublished by Verso Books \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n\n\nHow Google\, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy \n\n\nWhat is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics\, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation\, Jillian C. York charts the war over our digital rights. She looks at both how the big corporations have become unaccountable censors\, and the devastating impact it has had on those who have been censored. \nIn Silicon Values\, leading campaigner Jillian C. York looks at how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations’ desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. She also looks at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. As a result our daily lives\, and private thoughts\, are being policed in an unprecedented manner. Who decides the difference between political debate and hate speech? How does this impact on our identity\, our ability to create communities and to protest? Who regulates the censors? In response to this threat to our democracy\, York proposes a user-powered movement against the platforms that demands change and a new form of ownership over our own data. \n\n\nJillian C. York is International Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, EFF. She is also a founding member of the feminist collective\, Deep Lab. She has been covering questions of  surveillance and freedom since the 2000s. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 intellectuals on social media. She has written for the Guardian\, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy. She is based in Berlin.\n\nBen Tarnoff is the author of the books A Counterfeiter’s Paradise and The Bohemians and is a cofounder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Jacobin\, and Lapham’s Quarterly\, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.\n\nLOGIC is a critical journal devoted to technology and society. Past issues have explored the effects of technology on culture. Each issues focusses on a specific theme. Past themes have included:  civic life in relation to technology\, explorations of the problems and possibilities big tech and big data create\, democracy in the face of ever accelerating technological advances\, gender and equality\, sex in relation to technology\, how bodies and technologies cross one another\, and much more. visit: https://logicmag.io
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jillian-c-york-in-conversation-with-ben-tarnoff/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Sue Monk Kidd (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny\, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings. \nIn her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction\, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee\, she is rebellious and ambitious\, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower\, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. \nTheir marriage evolves with love and conflict\, humor and pathos in Nazareth\, where Ana makes a home with Jesus\, his brothers\, and their mother\, Mary. Ana’s pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome’s occupation of Israel\, partially led by her brother\, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha\, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril\, she flees to Alexandria\, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold\, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history. \nGrounded in meticulous research and written with a reverential approach to Jesus’s life that focuses on his humanity\, The Book of Longings is an inspiring\, unforgettable account of one woman’s bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her\, while living in a time\, place and culture devised to silence her. It is a triumph of storytelling both timely and timeless\, from a masterful writer at the height of her powers. \nSue Monk Kidd‘s debut\, The Secret Life of Bees\, spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list\, has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States\, was turned into an award-winning major motion picture and a musical\, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Her second novel\, The Mermaid Chair\, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television movie. Her third novel\, The Invention of Wings\, an Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 pick\, was also a #1 New York Times bestseller. She is the author of the acclaimed memoirs The Dance of the Dissident Daughter\, a groundbreaking work on religion and feminism\, and the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates\, written with her daughter\, Ann Kidd Taylor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-sue-monk-kidd-online-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Better Ancestors: Kai Sugioka-Stone\, Amanda Muñiz\, Isabelle Khoo-Miller\, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents the second Better Ancestors\, featuring readings and performance by Kai Sugioka-Stone\, Amanda Muñiz\, Isabelle Khoo-Miller\, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin! This show curated by the artists who performed at the first Better Ancestors (pictured top left\, clockwise L-R): Josiah Luis Alderete\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Greer Nakadegawa-Lee\, Nia McAllister and Brontez Purnell—find out more about them and watch their performances here\, then join us on April 5! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS (pictured above\, clockwise from top right)\nKai Sugioka-Stone is a Japanese-American poet\,  mindfulness-based meditator\, musician\, actor\, photographer\, and upcoming filmmaker. His writing focuses on liminal identity\, and growing up in the era of California Wildfires\, the Trump presidency\, and COVID. He featured at San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck’s event Sudden Return of The Fire Thieves. His work was featured in the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day Project. He was published in The Berkeley Times’ Poetry Edition Vol. 10\, No. 16\, as well as Quiet Lightning’s zine sPARKLE & bLINK #104. He read at Tea Root’s Recovery A.C.T. and gave an online writing workshop reflecting on Japense-American identity with Nikkei Rising. He is part of Lauren Ito’s upcoming exhibit\, Political Inheritcance. Photo by Kristen Murakoshi. \nAmanda Muñiz is a Mexican writer born in Puebla and raised in Oakland\, California. She majored in English Literature from San Francisco State University. Her work has been published by Pochino press and more recently in the Translating Migration poetry anthology project. Amanda has been a featured reader in various shows in the Bay Area including the electrifying ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? the hilarious ¿Donde Esta mi Comedy?\, BEASTCrawl\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitQuake’s legendary LitCrawl\, as well as the Carnival of Poetry organized by Writers of Singapore. The immigrant experience has inspired most of her writing\, which she considers a reflection and a testament of her family’s resilience as well as a never-ending letter of love and gratitude to her parents. Photo courtesy of the author. \nIsabelle Khoo-Miller is a child of earth\, like all of us. They are alive and in abundant love. They create in many mediums\, including imagination. They are from the ocean and have roots and familia in Coastal Miwok and Ohlone land\, the Bay Area. Photo courtesy of the author. \nArlene Biala (she/her) is a Pinay poet born in San Francisco and raised in the South Bay. She has been participating in poetry performances and workshops for over 30 years and was the 2016-2017 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. She is the author of several collections of poetry: bone\, continental drift and her beckoning hands\, which won the 2015 American Book Award. Her latest book\, one inch punch\, was published in January 2019. Photo courtesy of the author. \nMelissa Merin has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She is established as a parent\, a lover & partner\, a queer\, an anti-authoritarian and\, a consistently retiring punker. Melissa believes in utilizing a diversity of tactics to build the world we need; one of her favorite tactics is writing. Melissa is also a long-time educator and agitator and has never been able to get it together to “publish” though\, many zines and blogs tell the story of trying. Melissa has the distinction of being one of a few Black cis-women of her generation to not love Beyonce or Oprah. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nOne of Quiet Lightning’s efforts to diversify and move toward racial equity\, Better Ancestors is a new quarterly showcase of writers of color. Developed in partnership with Michael Warr\, the series features 5 authors reading or performing whatever they choose. Each author selects one performer for the following show\, so the series – and community – is self-generating. All authors are paid and published in an end of the year anthology. \nWhy Better Ancestors? As one of our initiatives to diversify from a board that has historically been mostly white\, this showcase aims to provide a long-term\, forward-thinking goal. As a society\, we are suffering the consequences of pervasive systemic injustice against people of color\, queer and trans people\, the poor\, disabled\, and otherwise disadvantaged. But we are all ancestors of the future. If the planet is to remain inhabitable; if the function of humanity is not to sort and oppress our descendants based on their skin color\, accent\, or material property\, we must be better ancestors. This begins by listening to one another\, and by giving each other space to be heard. \n\nABOUT MICHAEL WARR (pictured above\, right)\nMichael Warr’s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, edited by Michael Warr (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, We Are All The Black Boy\, and Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other poetry honors include a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has extensive experience in community-based arts. He became a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2018. In 2020\, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nABOUT QUIET LIGHTNING\nNow in its 11th year\, Quiet Lightning is a literary movement to create and foster community around the written and spoken word. QL aims to democratize public space by offering performances\, curation opportunities\, and programming with no barriers to entry\, providing a launchpad for new and emerging artists\, a reliable platform for professional writers\, and an inclusive\, accessible gathering place for the public. QL is committed to care-taking and progressing the rich threads of literary culture that exist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recognized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as one of the 100 “people\, organizations\, and movements who are shaping the future of culture”\, Quiet Lightning’s flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a blind selection process and different curators for each show. The shows\, which are free to attend\, are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people\, and all participating artists are paid. QL has now produced 137 shows featuring 1\,673 readings by 879 local authors in 91 venues\, ranging from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks\, and has published 115 books and produced two films\, all selected by 74 different curators. In 2019\, Quiet Lightning pioneered an application process for limited-term board-membership\, called Disruptors\, to regularly bring new ideas and energy into the organization. QL maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nMAKE A ONE-TIME DONATION OR SUPPORT US ON PATREON\nEvery tax deductible donation helps Quiet Lightning invest in a sustainable\, ethical arts ecosystem\, with the goal of building that culture into the fabric of our lives. You can donate by Venmo or PayPal or pledge a recurring donation by becoming one of our supporters on Patreon\, which comes with a few additional perks and helps us expand on the work that we do.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/better-ancestors-kai-sugioka-stone-amanda-muniz-isabelle-khoo-miller-arlene-biala-and-melissa-merin/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lahey with Mary Laura Philpott - The Addiction Inoculation (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:In this supportive\, life-saving resource\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure helps parents and educators understand the roots of substance abuse and identify who is most at risk for addiction\, and offers practical steps for prevention. \nJessica Lahey was born into a family with a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse. Despite her desire to thwart her genetic legacy\, she became an alcoholic and didn’t find her way out until her early forties. Jessica has worked as a teacher in substance abuse programs for teens\, and was determined to inoculate her two adolescent sons against their most dangerous inheritance. All children\, regardless of their genetics\, are at some risk for substance abuse. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse\, teen drug addiction is the nation’s largest preventable and costly health problem. Despite the existence of proven preventive strategies\, nine out of ten adults with substance use disorder report they began drinking and taking drugs before age eighteen. \nThe Addiction Inoculation is a comprehensive resource parents and educators can use to prevent substance abuse in children. Based on research in child welfare\, psychology\, substance abuse\, and developmental neuroscience\, this essential guide provides evidence-based strategies and practical tools adults need to understand\, support\, and educate resilient\, addiction-resistant children. The guidelines are age-appropriate and actionable—from navigating a child’s risk for addiction\, to interpreting signs of early abuse\, to advice for broaching difficult conversations with children. \nThe Addiction Inoculation is an empathetic\, accessible resource for anyone who plays a vital role in children’s lives—parents\, teachers\, coaches\, or pediatricians—to help them raise kids who will grow up healthy\, happy\, and addiction-free. \nJessica Lahey writes about education\, parenting\, and child welfare for The Washington Post\, the New York Times\, and The Atlantic and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book\, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. She is a member of the Amazon Studios Thought Leader Board and wrote the curriculum for Amazon Kids’ The Stinky and Dirty Show. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two sons. \nMary Laura Philpott is the author of I Miss You When I Blink\, the nationally bestselling memoir-in-essays. Her writing has been featured frequently by The New York Times and also appears in such outlets as The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Paris Review Daily\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Real Simple
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-lahey-with-mary-laura-philpott-the-addiction-inoculation-online-event/
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SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nDo you remember the first real challenge you faced as an adult? When you looked around and realized\, “This problem is completely on me to solve\, and there’s no one around who will point the way. What will I do to handle it?” \nIn a memoir and guidebook for young adults who are starting out and working their way up\, bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims of How to Raise An Adult offers a roadmap to early adulthood called Your Turn: How to Be An Adult. This book is for the emerging early adult ages 18-35. From your earliest “Oh wow\, how am I going to handle this?” adulting moment and onward\, this smart\, funny and frank author offers solidarity to her younger self and to any person just beginning to build a future. Turns out\, crafting a confident adulthood is not an easy\, one-time task\, and it takes a long time to stick the landing. \n\n\n\n\nJulie offers guideposts for the new adulthood. No longer are a marriage and a lifelong job the “be all end all” of your adult years. Crafting a life for yourself today looks a lot more complex. Real estate prices and a pandemic may have you living with parents—but within that scope\, you can still craft a mature independence. Your career path may include several jobs\, instead of a single five-decade career with pension—and yet there is still a way to build continuity in your work. With respect for how the world has changed\, Lythcott-Haims offers something that any modern early adult will appreciate: good guidance\, respect\, and advice that doesn’t assume a one-size-fits-all approach to adulthood. This is the nitty gritty support we all wish we had. \n\n\n\n\nThe former Stanford dean shares all this and more in a webinar interview and hour-long conversation with Adam Smiley Poswolsky\, millennial workplace expert and author of The Quarter Life Breakthrough and the forthcoming Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Join two experts—one who has been there\, and one still in the thick of crafting modern adulthood—as they discuss what it takes to build a powerful life for yourself in 2021. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims-with-adam-smiley-poswolsky/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the webinar concludes.\nDo you remember the first real challenge you faced as an adult? When you looked around and realized\, “This problem is completely on me to solve\, and there’s no one around who will point the way. What will I do to handle it?” \nIn a memoir and guidebook for young adults who are starting out and working their way up\, bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims of How to Raise An Adult offers a roadmap to early adulthood called Your Turn: How to Be An Adult. This book is for the emerging early adult ages 18-35. From your earliest “Oh wow\, how am I going to handle this?” adulting moment and onward\, this smart\, funny and frank author offers solidarity to her younger self and to any person just beginning to build a future. Turns out\, crafting a confident adulthood is not an easy\, one-time task\, and it takes a long time to stick the landing. \n\n\n\n\nJulie offers guideposts for the new adulthood. No longer are a marriage and a lifelong job the “be all end all” of your adult years. Crafting a life for yourself today looks a lot more complex. Real estate prices and a pandemic may have you living with parents—but within that scope\, you can still craft a mature independence. Your career path may include several jobs\, instead of a single five-decade career with pension—and yet there is still a way to build continuity in your work. With respect for how the world has changed\, Lythcott-Haims offers something that any modern early adult will appreciate: good guidance\, respect\, and advice that doesn’t assume a one-size-fits-all approach to adulthood. This is the nitty gritty support we all wish we had. \n\n\n\n\nThe former Stanford dean shares all this and more in a webinar interview and hour-long conversation with Adam Smiley Poswolsky\, millennial workplace expert and author of The Quarter Life Breakthrough and the forthcoming Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Join two experts—one who has been there\, and one still in the thick of crafting modern adulthood—as they discuss what it takes to build a powerful life for yourself in 2021. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims-with-adam-smiley-poswolsky-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Hoa Nguyen with Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:Hoa Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection \nA Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure \npublished by Wave Books \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nA poetic meditation on historical\, personal\, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” with verse biography on the poet’s mother\, Diệp Anh Nguyễn\, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered\, plaintive\, and provocative\, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. By turns lyrical and unsettling\, Hoa Nguyen’s poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time\, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts. \nHoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry\, including A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave\, forthcoming 2021)\, As Long As Trees Last\, Red Juice\, and Violet Energy Ingots\, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry\, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry\, and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions\, including Princeton University\, Bard College\, Poet’s House\, and the Banff Centre’s Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination\, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour\, Granta\, The Walrus\, New York Times\, and Poetry\, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States\, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011. \nGarrett Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (2010)\, Retrievals (2014)\, and Power Ballads (2016). He is an editor at City Lights Books\, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. Caples was also a contributing writer to theSan Francisco Bay Guardian and has coedited the Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013)\, Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore\, and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima. He makes his home in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hoa-nguyen-with-garrett-caples/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bettye Kearse - The Other Madisons (Book Discussion & Film Screening)
DESCRIPTION:In The Other Madisons\, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and\, according to oral tradition\, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy\, race\, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.  \n \nFor thousands of years\, West African griots (men) and griottes (women) have recited the stories of their people. Without this tradition Bettye Kearse would not have known that she is a descendant of President James Madison and his slave\, and half-sister\, Coreen. In 1990\, Bettye became the eighth-generation griotte for her family. Their credo—“Always remember—you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president”—was intended to be a source of pride\, but for her\, it echoed with abuses of slavery\, including rape and incest. \nConfronting those abuses\, Bettye embarked on a journey of discovery—of her ancestors\, the nation\, and herself. She learned that wherever African slaves walked\, recorded history silenced their voices and buried their footsteps: beside a slave-holding fortress in Ghana; below a federal building in New York City; and under a brick walkway at James Madison’s Virginia plantation. When Bettye tried to confirm the information her ancestors had passed down\, she encountered obstacles at every turn. \nPart personal quest\, part testimony\, part historical correction\, The Other Madisons is the saga of an extraordinary American family told by a griotte in search of the whole story.\nAbout the Author \nBettye Kearse is a writer and retired pediatrician. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Herald\, TIME Magazine\, River Teeth\, Zora\, and the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered\, among other places. The Other Madisons received the International Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Book Award for Nonfiction\, Autobiography. Her research for The Other Madisons was covered in the Washington Post. She lives in New Mexico. \nEduardo Montes-Bradley creates films with a transcendent documentary style. He has been awarded multiple distinctions for his photography of the descendants of the enslaved community. His biographical portrayal of Civil Rights activist Julian Bond was presented at the Royal Academy in London. \n  \nBettye Kearse photo by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bettye-kearse-the-other-madisons-book-discussion-film-screening/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Launch for Natalie Baszile / We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy\, with Konda Mason
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Natalie Baszile for her book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy. She’ll be in conversation with Konda Mason. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order We Are Each Other’s Harvest here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn this impressive anthology\, Natalie Baszile brings together essays\, poems\, photographs\, quotes\, conversations\, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s\, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45\,000. Baszile explores this crisis\, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words\, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The “Returning Generation”—young farmers\, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors\, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice\, food sovereignty\, and reparations. \nThese farmers are joined by other influential voices\, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel\, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford\, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty\, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives\, adding richness and texture\, as well as stunning four-color photographs from photographers Alison Gootee and Malcom Williams\, and Baszile’s personal collection. \nAs Baszile reveals\, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family\, the way our national identity is bound up with the land\, the pull of memory\, the healing power of food\, and race relations. She reminds us that the land\, well-earned and fiercely protected\, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended\, tilled\, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color\, celebrating their perseverance and resilience\, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening\, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil. \nAbout the authors\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. \nKonda Mason is a social entrepreneur\, finance activist\, earth and social justice activist and mindfulness teacher. She is the Co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice\, Inc\, a nonprofit working to bring climate resilient farming and economic equity to Black farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land ownership and stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes transformational learning journeys across race and class exploring conversations at the intersection of Land\, Race\, Money & Spirit. She is also the Co-founder and VP of Potlikker Capital\, a next economy loan fund specially designed to deploy integrated capital to Black American farmers. \nKonda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Emerge Oakland)\, an award winning co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of RUNWAY\, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs\, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland\, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap\, restorative economics and the next economy just transition. \nAlong with her partner\, actor Woody Harrleson\, Konda opened the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and was responsible for negotiating the first organic food section in a major supermarket in the area. Ms. Mason holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Commonweal Institute and has an honorary MBA from Presidio Graduate School of Business. She teaches mindfulness at retreat centers throughout the U.S.A. \nKonda sits on the Board of Directors of The Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis\, TN\, On Being with Krista Tippett\, One Generation with Paul Hawken\, Lion’s Roar Magazine\, and is a Trustee at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-natalie-baszile-we-are-each-others-harvest-celebrating-african-american-farmers-land-and-legacy-with-konda-mason/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, APRIL 6 AT 6PM PT WHEN SANJENA SATHIAN JOINS US FOR THE LAUNCH OF HER NOVEL\, GOLD DIGGERS\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83436765824\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83436765824#  or +12532158782\,\,83436765824#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kch8N18RIF \nPraise for Gold Diggers \n“In a perfect alchemical blend of familiar and un-\, Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story\, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire\, and creates a world that’s both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive. Written with such assurance it’s hard to believe it’s Sanjena Sathian’s debut\, this is a dizzyingly original\, fiercely funny\, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers—and dangers—of borrowed ambition.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \n“A refreshing tweak of the assimilation novel…Sathian artfully and convincingly conjures [this] world…Sathian has a knack for page-turner prose\, but the story has plenty of heft. A winningly revamped King Midas tale.” —Kirkus \n“Dazzling…the sharp characterizations bring humor and contemplation in equal measure\, touching on the pressures Neil and Anita face to produce a legacy that honors their parents’ sacrifices. Sathian’s bildungsroman isn’t one to miss.” —Publishers Weekly \nAbout Gold Diggers \nA brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talent. \nSpanning two continents\, two coasts\, and four epochs\, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative\, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor sharp and deeply funny prose\, Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family\, of a diaspora\, and of the American meritocracy. This blockbuster novel both entertains and levels a critique of what Americans of color must do to make their way. \nA floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs\, Neil Narayan is authentic\, funny\, and smart. He just doesn’t share the same drive as everyone around him. His perfect older sister is headed to Duke. His parents’ expectations for him are just as high. He tries to want this version of success\, but mostly\, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac\, Anita Dayal. \nBut Anita has a secret: she and her mother Anjali have been brewing an ancient alchemical potion from stolen gold that harnesses the ambition of the jewelry’s original owner. Anjali’s own mother in Bombay didn’t waste the precious potion on her daughter\, favoring her sons instead. Anita\, on the other hand\, just needs a little boost to get into Harvard. But when Neil—who needs a whole lot more—joins in the plot\, events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. \nTen years later\, Neil is an oft-stoned Berkeley history grad student studying the California gold rush. His high school cohort has migrated to Silicon Valley\, where he reunites with Anita and resurrects their old habit of gold theft—only now\, the stakes are higher. Anita’s mother is in trouble\, and only gold can save her. Anita and Neil must pull off one last heist. \nGold Diggers is a fine-grained\, profoundly intelligent\, and bitingly funny investigation in to questions of identity and coming of age—that tears down American shibboleths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sanjena-sathian/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Natalie Baszile / We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy\, with Konda Mason
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Natalie Baszile for her book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy. She’ll be in conversation with Konda Mason. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order We Are Each Other’s Harvest here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nIn this impressive anthology\, Natalie Baszile brings together essays\, poems\, photographs\, quotes\, conversations\, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s\, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45\,000. Baszile explores this crisis\, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words\, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The “Returning Generation”—young farmers\, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors\, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice\, food sovereignty\, and reparations. \nThese farmers are joined by other influential voices\, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel\, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford\, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty\, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives\, adding richness and texture\, as well as stunning four-color photographs from photographers Alison Gootee and Malcom Williams\, and Baszile’s personal collection. \nAs Baszile reveals\, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family\, the way our national identity is bound up with the land\, the pull of memory\, the healing power of food\, and race relations. She reminds us that the land\, well-earned and fiercely protected\, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended\, tilled\, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color\, celebrating their perseverance and resilience\, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening\, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil. \nAbout the authors\nNatalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar\, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014\, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. \nKonda Mason is a social entrepreneur\, finance activist\, earth and social justice activist and mindfulness teacher. She is the Co-founder and President of Jubilee Justice\, Inc\, a nonprofit working to bring climate resilient farming and economic equity to Black farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land ownership and stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes transformational learning journeys across race and class exploring conversations at the intersection of Land\, Race\, Money & Spirit. She is also the Co-founder and VP of Potlikker Capital\, a next economy loan fund specially designed to deploy integrated capital to Black American farmers. \nKonda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Emerge Oakland)\, an award winning co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of RUNWAY\, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs\, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland\, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap\, restorative economics and the next economy just transition. \nAlong with her partner\, actor Woody Harrleson\, Konda opened the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and was responsible for negotiating the first organic food section in a major supermarket in the area. Ms. Mason holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Commonweal Institute and has an honorary MBA from Presidio Graduate School of Business. She teaches mindfulness at retreat centers throughout the U.S.A. \nKonda sits on the Board of Directors of The Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis\, TN\, On Being with Krista Tippett\, One Generation with Paul Hawken\, Lion’s Roar Magazine\, and is a Trustee at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-natalie-baszile-we-are-each-others-harvest-celebrating-african-american-farmers-land-and-legacy-with-konda-mason/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Launch of Girl Warriors With Author Rachel Sarah
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, April 6\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online book launch of GIRL WARRIORS: HOW 25 ACTIVISTS ARE SAVING THE EARTH with author Rachel Sarah. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83371714301. \n(Preorder your copy of  GIRL WARRIORS at http://bit.ly/ggpGirlWarriors.) \nDescription\n\n“It gives me true hope to read about the phenomenal young women of Girl Warriors. Their fierce commitment to the future of our precious planet is as inspiring as it is vital.” —Kate Schatz\, New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide  \nInterviews with 25 young eco-activists present a hopeful picture of the future of environmentalism  \nGirl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth tells the stories of 25 climate leaders under age 25. They’ve led hundreds of thousands of people in climate strikes\, founded non-profits\, given TED talks\, and sued their governments. \nThese fearless girls and young women from all over the world are standing up to demand change when no one else is.  \nAbout the Author\n\nRachel Sarah is a writer and journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has been published in places like the Washington Post\, New York Times\, Parents\, and Common Sense Media. She has appeared on The Today Show\, CNN\, ABC\, and CBS news. She has spoken to audiences at the JCC\, UC Berkeley\, and the Commonwealth Club. Rachel is one of the founding editors of Literary Mama and has worked to support other women writers. She shifted the focus of her writing to the climate during the devastating California wildfires of 2018. She’s also the mother of two incredible daughters who are twelve years apart. Visit her online at RachelSarah.com. \nPraise For…\n\n“A powerful collection of hopeful\, diverse\, and fearless voices that ignites readers to dream loud\, think big\, take action\, and make change.” —Mae Respicio\, award-winning author of The House That Lou Built  \n  \n“This collection spotlighting the fierce and fearless leadership of 25 junior climate activists will inspire humans of all ages to rise up for a better world.” —Rebecca Woolf\, author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ok-launch-of-girl-warriors-with-author-rachel-sarah/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-brontez-purnell-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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