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SUMMARY:Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 6\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel\, HAMNET. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85002634130. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/GGPHamnet\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/HamnetAB. \nAugust 2020 Indie Next List\n\n \n“I loved Hamnet in very much the same way I loved Lincoln in the Bardo. This novel explores the way the dead haunt the living—especially how the death of a child haunts their parents—and does it in the context of a fascinating historical figure and time. But we know so much about the Lincolns\, and so little about the Shakespeares. Maggie O’Farrell’s ability to construct a palpably real emotional life for all the members of the Shakespeare family—but especially for Shakespeare’s wife—is just magical. This is a powerful and haunting novel.”— Nina Barrett\, Bookends & Beginnings\, Evanston\, IL \nDescription\n\nEngland\, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land\, an ever-present threat\, infecting the healthy\, the sick\, the old and the young\, alike. The end of days is near\, but life always goes on. \nA young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary\, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer\, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast\, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband\, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. \nA luminous portrait of a marriage\, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss\, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten\, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time\, Hamnet is mesmerizing\, seductive\, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists. \nAbout the Author\n\nBorn in Northern Ireland in 1972\, Maggie O’Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award); Instructions for a Heatwave; This Must Be the Place; and most recently\, I Am\, I Am\, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. \nPraise For…\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \n“Hamnet is an exploration of marriage and grief written into the silent opacities of a life that is at once extremely famous and profoundly obscure… In Hamnet\, Shakespeare’s marriage is complicated and troubled\, yet brimming with love and passion… This novel is at once about the transfiguration of life into art– it is O’Farrell’s extended speculation on how Hamnet’s death might have fueled the creation of one of his father’s greatest plays– and at the same time\, it is a master class in how she\, herself does it… O’Farrell has a melodic relationship to language.  There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world… We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glover’s workshop\, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed\, and we can see how the pale London sun “reaches down\, like ladders\, through the narrow gaps in buildings to illuminate the rain glazed street.”… As the book unfolds\, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief\, the most damaged marriage\, and most shattered heart might find some solace\, some healing.”\n–Geraldine Brooks\, the New York Times Book Review [COVER] \n“All too timely…inspired…[An] exceptional historical novel ”\n—The New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-ggp-online-book-club/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books\npresent the Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH\, a novel\, featuring reading\, discussion\, and music by author Robert Duncan\, former editor of Creem magazine\, plus special guest Gary Wilson\, experimental musician and performance artist.\nThe event will be held via livestream to YouTube and Facebook on Tuesday\, October 6\, 7 pm Pacific.\nThe event will be hosted by Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes.\nTune in at the link below\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XQ-hOXqR8 \nAbout Loudmouth \nIn 1970s New York City\, Thomas Ransom dreams that rock ’n’ roll will be his ticket out of the life his conservative family planned for him\, and he takes it to the extreme: burning bridges and houses on the way to discovering his true destiny.\nThomas Ransom\, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City\, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents\, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band\, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\, only to return to New York\, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal\, and crash. But it isn’t music that saves him. It’s a soft-spoken painter\, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids\, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks\, hippies\, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. \nAbout Robert Duncan \nRobert Duncan is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Era\, an exploration of pop and society in the Seventies\, Kiss\, a satirical biography of the band\, and Only the Good Die Young\, profiles of dead rock stars. He was a writer for Creem\, before becoming\, at 22\, managing editor of the magazine\, working alongside his friend Lester Bangs\, and he has contributed to Rolling Stone\, Circus\, Life\, and dozens of other publications. He is anthologized in the book Springsteen on Springsteen and archived in rocksbackpages.com. He was story consultant\, as well as interview subject and voiceover\, for the 2019 documentary\, Boy Howdy: The Creem Magazine Story and appears in public TV’s Ticket to Write\, a documentary about the “Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.” He has worked as a singer\, songwriter and producer\, and is founder of the 29-year-old ad agency Duncan Channon\, with offices in San Francisco\, LA and Brooklyn. He was born in Sheboygan\, Wisconsin\, but comes from a Southern family\, and grew up mostly in New York. His great-grandfather\, as editor of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal\, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials against the Klan. He currently lives with his wife\, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman\, in Fairfax\, California. Loudmouth is Duncan’s first novel. \nAbout Gary Wilson \nGary Wilson emerged from New York’s DIY movement with 1977’s proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me\, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again\, Gary’s small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck\, who shouts him out in “Where It’s At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)”\, The Roots’ ?uestlove\, Simpsons creator Matt Groening\, and of course\, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf. The re-release You Think You Really Know Me in 2002 won him accolades in The New York Times and culminated in sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles. Gary Wilson has continued making music in the years following his “disappearance.” His re-emergence in the world coincided with his 2004 release on Stones Throw titled Mary Had Brown Hair.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-duncan-and-gary-wilson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation \nWagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music \nOne of today’s most influential and well-respected writers on classical and contemporary music\, Alex Ross shares insights from his new book\, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music\, exploring the controversial composer’s influence on the artistic\, intellectual\, and political life of both his time and ours. Ross’ first book\, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award; and his second book\, the collection Listen to This\, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. \nIn this live-streamed talk\, Ross is joined (virtually) by eminent composer\, author\, and longtime Cal Performances partner and friend John Adams\, who—with operas including Nixon in China\, The Death of Klinghoffer\, and Doctor Atomic to his credit—is no stranger to musical drama and its intersection with politics and history. Ross’ new book is the product of more than 10 years of research and reflection\, and examines the resonance of Wagner’s mythic storytelling on\, among many other things\, fantasy fiction by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis\, and films and television shows such as Star Wars\, The Matrix\, and Game of Thrones. He has been the music critic at the New Yorker for nearly 25 years and has received both MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. \nRead more and purchase tickets \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nLive-streaming online
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-ross-and-john-adams-in-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Colossus:Home Reading
DESCRIPTION:Paul Corman Roberts\n CV\nDevorah major- special guest\nDeborah Fruchey\nHannah Ingebretsen\nHalim Madi\nPeggy Morrison\n Abe Becker\n Sheryl Bize-Boute\nLisa Lim
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colossushome-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katherine May On Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
DESCRIPTION:Katherine May joins us from the UK to discuss her new book\, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Riverhead Books). \n“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” — Elizabeth Gilbert \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Wintering\nSometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness\, the death of a loved one\, a break up\, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May\, her husband fell ill\, her son stopped attending school\, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time\, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. \nA moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature\, mythology\, and the natural world\, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation\, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath\, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. \nUltimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat\, joy in the hushed beauty of winter\, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical\, not linear. A secular mystic\, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. \nAbout Katherine May\nKatherine May is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The Times (London)\, Good Housekeeping\, and Cosmopolitan. She lives by the sea in Whitstable\, England and is an avid lover of the outdoors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-may-on-wintering-the-power-of-rest-and-retreat-in-difficult-times/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Classics - Call Me Zebra
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Holt\, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, continues her popular book group\, “Contemporary Classics.” \nA book should stand the test of time before becoming a classic\, but very often\, critics and literary judges leap to praise books as “instant classics” soon after publication. These are the titles Pat’s group will hold up to scrutiny—in fact\, the chewier\, more literary\, more dense\, and “hard to read” the better. One needn’t have read widely\, studied literature\, or learned about literary criticism to join. Just drop in or join us for the whole series\, and let the developing wisdom of the group be your only guide. \nEmail Pat to register and to receive a Zoom link for the meeting. You can write to her at p.holt12@comcast.net. \nFall dates: \nOctober 7: Call Me Zebra\, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi \nNovember 4: Weather\, Jenny Offill \nDecember 2: Nickel Boys\, Colson Whitehead \nJanuary 6: Disappearing Earth\, Julia Phillips \nFebruary 3: The Great Believers\, Rebecca Makkai \n\nAbout Patricia Holt\nPat was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has been writing reviews and book industry commentary at Holt Uncensored since 1998. She has facilitated book groups for the past 15 years and also joins the Marin West Review’s editors\,  Myn Adess and Doris Ober\, on Radio Bookmobile\, a lively discussion on West Marin Community Radio KWMR\, usually the first Thursday of every month at 10-11 a.m.\, about the most beautiful passages and stirring controversies they can find on the current book scene.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-classics-call-me-zebra/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kazim Ali\, Gillian Conoley\, and Brian Teare
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, October 7th at 7pm PST when Kazim Ali is joined by poets Gillian Conoley and Brian Teare to celebrate his new collection\, The Voice of Sheila Chandra!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84685235176Or iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84685235176# or +12532158782\,\,84685235176#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 846 8523 5176\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc6CqHx1gM\n\nAbout The Voice of Sheila Chandra\nTitled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome\, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival\, but of persistence\, as this part research-based\, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.\n\nAbout the Author\nKazim Aliwas born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States\, Canada\, India\, France\, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres\, includingthe volumes of poetry Inquisition\, Sky Ward\, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque\, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays\, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras\, Sohrab Sepehri\, Ananda Devi\, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing\, Ali taught at various colleges and universities\, including Oberlin College\, Davidson College\, St. Mary’s College of California\, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood\, Northern Light.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kazim-ali-gillian-conoley-and-brian-teare/
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Fowzia Karimi
DESCRIPTION:Fowzia Karimi is a writer\, illustrator\, and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing Program. As Publishers Weeklydescribes\, her illuminated debut novel Above Us the Milky Way “renders a family’s wartime emigration through a polyphonic mix of voices and genres along with evocative color illustrations and photographs.” Karimi also illustratedThe Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Vagrants & Uncommon Visitors by A. Kendra Greene. She is the recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and lives in Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fowzia-karimi/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bathsheba Demuth and Elizabeth Rush Discuss the award-winning environmental history\, Floating Coast
DESCRIPTION:Bathsheba Demuth and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elizabeth Rush join us for a conversation about Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \n“A brilliant hybrid.… Often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research\, intense looking and listening\, and its clear ethical vision.” — Robert Macfarlane\, author of Underland \nAbout Floating Coast\nA Nature Top-Ten Book of 2019 \nAn NPR\, Library Journal\, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019 \n“A monument to a people and their land… an allegory of the world we have created.” —Sven Beckert\, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of Cotton: A Global History \nFloating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia\, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska\, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before American and European colonization. Rapidly\, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How\, under conditions of extreme scarcity\, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? \nDrawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region\, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet. \nAbout the participants\nBathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University\, specializing in the United States and Russia\, and in the history of energy and past climates. She has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America. \nElizabeth Rush‘s journalism has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Harper’s\, Pacific Standard\, and the New Republic\, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Howard Foundation Fellowship\, awarded by Brown University; the Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Pedagogical Innovation in the Humanities; the Metcalf Institute Fellowship; and the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University and her BA from Reed College. She lives in Rhode Island\, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bathsheba-demuth-and-elizabeth-rush-discuss-the-award-winning-environmental-history-floating-coast/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Patti Smith
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers present \nExtraordinary Dreamer: Patti Smith on “Year of the Monkey” \nPatti Smith in an intimate evening of reading and music \ncelebrating the paperback release of \nYEAR OF THE MONKEY \npublished by Vintage Books \nTickets: $35.00 \n(Purchase Tickets Here) \nThis is a virtual event. \nEach ticket purchase includes a paperback copy of Year of the Monkey (note: we can only ship within the United States)\, event admission for the live event\, and a link to the recorded conversation for viewing after October 8th. Book orders will begin shipping after September 1st. \nWe regret we cannot accept international orders for this event. \nShe redefined rock and roll for a generation\, defied conventional expectations at every turn\, and created enough zeitgeist-shaping art for more than one lifetime. Now Patti Smith has something new and beautiful to share: a “beautiful\, elegant\, and poetic” (NPR) memoir chronicling a transformational year of personal loss\, cross-country travel\, and political upheaval. Year of the Monkey reprises the spellbinding storytelling we all fell in love with in her National Book Award-winning Just Kids and bestselling M Train\, conjuring the complexity and magic of an extraordinary dreamer’s inner life. In this unique live experience\, Patti will play a few songs with longtime band mate Tony Shanahan and share passages from Year of the Monkey. \nCritical Praise for YEAR OF THE MONKEY \n“Poignant\, gorgeous—a picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life\, blending fiction and reality\, conjured characters and actual ones. She writes of seeing her image reflected on the surface of the toaster: ‘I noticed I looked young and old simultaneously.’ That describes her spirit perfectly.” —Maureen Dowd\, The New York Times\n \n“Elegant\, poetic\, wildly entertaining\, touching—a beautifully realized and unique memoir that chronicles a transformative year in the life of one of our most multi-talented creative voices. Part travel journal\, part reflexive essay on our times\, and part meditation on existence at the edge of a new decade of life . . . Effortlessly weaving together fiction and nonfiction\, Smith takes readers on two unique journeys: one that can be traced on a map and one\, infinitely richer and more complex\, that takes place inside her head and heart. Smith’s musical career sometimes threatens to overshadow her accomplishments in other creative fields—but every page in this book is packed with enough outstanding prose to constantly remind readers that Smith is an accomplished novelist\, essayist\, and poet who won the National Book Award in 2010. In her capable hands\, a simple look at New York City in winter becomes a flash of beautiful poetry. Smith’s approach to nonfiction is unique and brave: It counts as true if it happened\, if she imagined it\, and if she felt it. This is a book about Smith and the world all around. And that is just one more reason why everyone should read it.” —Gabino Iglesias\, NPR\n \n“Moving—an account of physical and intellectual wanderings . . . Smith does not rage against her approaching 70th birthday\, nor does she turn away from it. She finds art everywhere\, and remains a pioneer\, the same rules-shattering poet and National Book Award-winning writer . . . She is\, as she writes in Year of the Monkey\, ‘still going about my business\, that of being alive\, the best I can.’” —Jack Cline\, The Washington Post \n“Miraculous . . . A dream-driven\, reality-reclaiming masterpiece laced with poetry and philosophy and surrealism and the hardest realism there is: that of hope . . . Smith is aglow; she moves through this world as a time-traveler\, an eavesdropper\, a vagrant\, a vagabond in the land of literature and life; she is a human mirror. She. invites us to relinquish the different names we give to the living of life and just live it\, with all its disorienting uncertainty. Reflecting on clarifying dreams\, worrying for our shared future\, Smith reminds us that the only remedy for a broken reality is more truth. She reaches\, with a lucid and luminous hand\, for the buoyancy that is our lifeline.” —Maria Popova\, Brain Pickings\n \n“A lucid dream of a memoir . . .Smith sees mystical connections everywhere—and\, floating along on the drifts of her words\, the reader does\, too.” —The New Yorker\n \n“Deft and enigmatic. . . Life  can’t help but confound us; love is enough to sustain us\, and loss\, if not revocable\, can\, for the moment\, be redeemed. [But] Smith is too smart for easy consolations; she has been through too much . . . She summons this scene\, this moment\, giving it the weight of a reckoning. Year of the Monkey reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source.” —David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times\n \n“Smith began writing Year of the Monkey on New Year’s Day 2016\, a transformative year for the artist that brought aging\, the loss of friends\, and overall disillusionment. Juxtaposed with this personal narrative are Smith’s descriptions of western landscapes she visited . . . Fact and fiction increasingly blur\, a combination made surreal by Smith’s obsession with details that keep popping up in various locations . . . A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence—expressed with Smith’s signature poetic flair.” —Christian Allaire\, Vogue \n“Since 1975\, Patti Smith has been blurring the lines between music\, poetry\, and prose\, howling with grief and roaring with delight\, whether onstage or via the written word. Year of the Monkey [is] her preternatural latest memoir . . . In this slim\, hallucinatory volume\, Smith roves the country in real time\, visiting favorite haunts\, hitching rides with strangers\, contemplating the fuzzy border between waking and dreaming\, and mourning the results of the 2016 presidential election. But just as a sense of gloom begins to settle\, the sun peeks through the clouds. For while ‘there is nothing in heaven like the suffering of real life…\,’ she writes\, ‘I still keep thinking something wonderful is about to happen.’” —Leigh Haber\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\n \n“Lyrical\, poignant . . . [the book] chronicles Smith’s travels and beautifully veers between dreamlike solitary reveries. Smith gives voice in the book to a national feeling of grief framed by her own personal losses; she sums up the nexus of aging\, steeped in reflection and loss. She notices every detail like a photographer\, with her words exquisitely framed by nuance.” —Solvej Schou\, Associated Press \n“Reading about [Smith’s life] makes the world shimmer with possibility. We follow her as she hitchhikes through the desert and gets left for dead\, meets weirdos and mystics in diners up and down the coast\, then takes off for Kentucky to help the playwright Sam Shepard finish his final project. A book full of riddles and fantasies [and] about one woman’s 2016. Grief on a colossal\, national scale has a way of making the most personal\, quotidian sufferings feel small and unimportant. At the same time\, it makes those typical human tragedies appear suddenly of a piece with the world around them. Patti Smith writes beautifully.” —Kaitlyn Tiffany\, Vox\n \n“A fascinating journey . . . powerful stuff. Smith [has a] peculiar brand of wandering—dead phone\, no car\, scant provisions\, vague itinerary . . . The book has little about music\, [but] what’s there is priceless. Year of the Monkey [also] includes charming\, quirky photos by the author\, and achingly sweet recollections.” —Claude Peck\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\n \n“In her third memoir\, Smith is both haunted and joyed by the passage of time. Losses surround her [in] the year she turns 70—a year of devastation\, with catastrophes both unique to her life and ones shared across America. As she crosses the country in a series of solitary adventures infused with the memories of her life on the road\, she meets the world with curiosity and openness. The many [who] revere Smith will take a thrill in her vivid recollections of long ago days on the stage and the streets of Greenwich Village\, while anyone consumed by the fears of today will find them expressed vividly by a beautiful voice.” —Adrienne Gaffney\, San Francisco Chronicle\n \n“Smith’s grace and erudite philosophy is a welcome balm in these times . . . Her latest memoir is an introspective look at her year of solo wandering—she documents that year’s massive political and social change her own lyrical way. The American canon is littered with ‘road trip memoirs\,’ but if there’s a voice we’d want to add to that genre\, it would be Smith.” —Town & Country\n \n“Lovely\, dreamlike . . . a slim volume [with a] minor-key melancholy. The punk poet’s latest memoir unfold like the stack of old Polaroids in her New York apartment: ‘One after another\, each a talisman on a necklace of continuous travels.’” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Compelling—ruminations\, adventures\, unexpected connections: [this] personal\, cross-country odyssey captured by her prose and Polaroid portraits finds Smith mining magical moments within even the most seemingly mundane of circumstances. She weaves threads of everyday experiences and warm recollections together in the manner of a waking dream. Funny moments make Smith relatable.  The narrative thread is transformation.  She is equally a participant and observer of life; as much as art provides sustenance and solace for her in troubled times\, by the end she is invoking a greater call to action. If there is anyone capable of living in the past\, present and future simultaneously\, and occupying space between reality and dreams\, it is Smith. It may not be easy to conveniently explain Smith’s style or approach\, but that is not the point. You simply need to surrender to it to be inspired.” —Bryan Reesman\, Newsday \n“One of America’s finest memoirists. Funny and weird\, sober and sad\, Year of the Monkey is simultaneously a travelogue of Smith’s journeys through California\, Arizona\, Portugal and Kentucky; a fantastical dream-journal full of imagined conversations; and a clear-eyed meditation on Smith’s relationships with two of her oldest\, dearest friends—playwright Sam Shepard and music producer Sandy Pearlman—who passed away as she was writing it. It’s perhaps the closest she’s come to synthesizing the penetrating maturity of her latter-day writings with the improvisational wildness of her early free-form poems and songs.” —Andrew Barker\, Variety\n \n“In her poetic prose and [with] snaps of her trusty Polaroid camera\, Smith captures truth and beauty\, challenges and victories. Year of the Monkey traces her year of wandering across California’s Santa Cruz coast and the West\, searching for answers for questions she never knew she had . . . Smith’s writing is impressionistic; fact and fiction intermix and she captures authentic moments that never fade away.” —Drew Tewksbury\, Los Angeles Times \n“Whether it’s guttural\, poetic lyricism or compassionate nonfiction\, Patti Smith’s writing style and ability are truly unrivaled. In Year of the Monkey\, her words are paired with Polaroids as she explores aging\, grief and the dire global embrace of right-wing nationalism.” —Lizzie Manno\, Paste \n“In the time since her exquisite memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award in 2010\, godmother of punk Patti Smith has been documenting her travels with her pen and trusty Polaroid. In Year of the Monkey\, her wanderlust drives her from San Francisco to Santa Cruz to Arizona to Kentucky to New York . . . Along the way\, she meets fellow nomads\, mourns for loved ones both in the process of dying and those long gone\, and she drinks a whole lot of coffee. A keen observer of the world around her\, Smith is equally adept at documenting her inner terrain. Wherever she wanders\, it’s always worth the trip.” —Emily Rems\, Bust \n“This is the modern-day Patti Smith: older\, wiser\, seeing the world\, and reporting it all back to us in only the way she can. You can’t read this and not feel inspired after you put it down.” —Inside Hook \n“From meditations on poetry\, politics\, art\, and dreams\, to her own lyrical way of interacting with the world\, Year of the Monkey confirms Patti Smith cannot be boxed in by either genre or medium. The book also includes Smith’s Polaroids from her travels—yes\, she is somehow a talented photographer on top of everything else.”\n—Jeva Lange\, The Week\n \n“Lyrical: a book [that] defies all familiar categories\, playfully exploring the seam between reality and fantasy. It’s full of mysterious characters who emerge from somewhere out of the American landscape. [After] a New Year’s Day opening—Smith lost and alone in a part of Santa Cruz usually clogged with tourists–we follow her to Venice Beach\, Arizona\, Kentucky\, Seattle\, and New York. The beating heart of the book comes with Smith’s visits to Sam Shepard at his Kentucky horse ranch….A rich\, kaleidoscopic narrative of surprises and insights.” —Wallace Baine\, Good Times\n\n“Smith is always willing to see where a new road might lead. Her career has been a study of language\, with interest in melodic refrains\, surreal images\, and reverent tones. Year of the Monkey is absolutely true in eternal truths\, ornamented by a sense of poetry . . . A stunning\, soothing work.” —Megan Volpert\, PopMatters  \n“Over the course of a year leading up to her 70th birthday\, rock legend Patti Smith stood witness to the fragility of life. There’s an explicit dreamlike quality and focus to The Year of the Monkey\, which offers a very specific glimpse into the life of an artist facing her mortality without coasting. Through her trips\, cups of coffee\, and dreams\, Smith radiates compassionate and concern as she meditates upon the practice of sitting with loss and change during ever-turbulent times.” —Lauren LeBlanc\, Observer \n“A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith’s third memoir\, set during the Chinese year of the monkey\, the year when she moves from age 69 to 70. She begins on New Year’s Day\, 2016\, the morning after finishing a three-night run at the Fillmore in San Francisco and sitting at the deathbed of a long-time friendwho introduced her to City Lights\, Caffe Trieste and the Grateful Dead. She chronicles cafés\, hitchhiking trips\, strange motels in Santa Cruz and vivid dreams. With great tenderness\, she describes visiting Sam Shepard in the final months of his life and helping him get his last book completed.”\n—Jane Ciabattari\, BBC \n“Magical\, rich—the unique artistry of Smith’s prose remains.” —Fiona Sturges\, The Guardian (UK)\n \n“Extraordinary.” —Bryan Appleyard\, The Times (UK) \n“It was a year of disruption\, wandering\, dreams and surreal visions: this year of the monkey on the Chinese zodiac was also the year Smith turned 70\, and a trickster election hurled the country into a dark looking-glass realm. Smith writes with fresh lucidity\, wit\, bittersweet wonder\, and stoic sorrow\, shifting in tone from lyrical to hallucinatory to hard-boiled as she describes her meditative and investigative meanderings along the Pacific coast and in the desert. Keenly sensitive to atmosphere\, she finds herself ‘in the middle of the unexplained’ as she travels with cosmic spontaneity and ‘an almost religious simplicity’ . . . She remembers her life-saving childhood library and a cherished\, then dying friend. Smith also chronicles with exquisite poignancy her last visits with her soul mate Sam Shepherd . . . Elegiac\, vital\, and magical.”\n—Donna Seaman\, Booklist  [starred review] \n“Luminous . . . Smith wanders between waking and dreaming in a year filled with the death of a close friend and the political turmoil of the 2016 election . . . In light of her 70th birthday\, she writes lyrically on various subjects: she describes Allen Ginsberg’s poetry\, which she carries along her travels­\, as an ‘expansive hydrogen bomb;’ caught up in Belinda Carlisle’s infectious beat\, she imagines a ‘nonviolent hubris spreading across the land.’ She discovers that her most meaningful insights come from her vivid dreams\, and she feels a palpable melancholia over having to wake up from them. Smith casts a mesmerizing spell with exquisite prose.”\n—Publishers Weekly [starred review]\n \n“Intriguing—a memoir that evolves around the transformations both in Smith’s life and the American political landscape. Disturbing yet humorous\, with the boundary between fiction and nonfiction blurred\, Smith’s work is unlikely to disappoint.”\n—Jianan Qian\, The Millions \n“Captivating . . . a chronicle of a year filled with deep losses and rich epiphanies. The titular year\, 2016\, set Smith\, [who] refers to herself as the ‘poet detective\,’ on a quixotic quest\, with a mysterious companion unexpectedly reappearing amid a backdrop of rock touring\, vagabond traveling\, and a poisonous political landscape. Throughout\, Smith ponders time and mortality—no surprise considering her milestone birthday\, and the experience of losing friends who have meant so much to her. She stresses the importance of memory\, and the timeless nature of a person’s spirit . . . Redemptive.”\n—Kirkus [starred review] \n 
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SUMMARY:Aarti Namdev Shahani - Here We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Come join us! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with journalist and activist Aarti Namdev Shahani for the paperback release of her heart-wrenching debut memoir\, Here We Are. We’ve partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to book club members across the country\, who can tune in to hear a discussion and participate in the live Q&A. Register through the link above. \nThe Shahanis came to Queens—from India\, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then\, with the arrival of their green cards\, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did\, and didn’t; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. \nHere We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti\, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools\, and her dad\, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together\, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country\, even within a single family\, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it’s complicated. \nUltimately\, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story\, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they’d become best friends. \nAarti Namdev Shahani is the author of memoir Here We Are: American Dreams\, American Nightmares. She is a correspondent for NPR based in Silicon Valley\, covering the largest companies on earth. Her reporting has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists\, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award\, and an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award. Before journalism\, Shahani was a community organizer in New York City\, helping prisoners and families facing deportation. Her activism was honored by the Union Square Awards and Legal Aid Society. She received a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, with generous support from the university and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She completed her bachelor’s degree in anthropology at the University of Chicago. She was among the youngest recipients of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship at Columbia University and is an alumna of A Better Chance\, Inc. Shahani grew up in Flushing\, Queens—in one of the most diverse zip codes in the country—and believes every American should visit her hometown to understand what makes America great.
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck's Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:featuring  special guests\, themes and writing groups. In October we honor Latinx Heritage month with poets Josiah Luis Alderete\, Lourdes Figuroa and more. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths and is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. Josiah Luis Alderete’s  book of poems is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nLourdes Figuroa is a proud 2009 and 2011 VONA alum. Her work has been published in the SF Poet’s 11 2008 & 2010\, Generations Literary Magazine\, Eleven Eleven\, Something Worth Revisin. Spooky Actions Books published her first chapbook\, yolotl\, and Backwords Press recently published her poem\, “War America War.” She received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Lourdes is a native of limbo nation and believes in your lung\, your throat. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shucks-poem-jam/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Paul Madonna / Come to Light
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Paul Madonna to launch his new illustrated novel Come to Light. \n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Come to Light\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \n  \n\nCome to Light is a fresh and original mystery with an unusual detective: Emit Hopper\, a former rock star turned author and artist. Six years ago\, Emit’s wife\, Julia\, went missing. Now the remains of her two hiking companions have been found buried in the California wilderness. But the discovery raises more questions than answers\, so with his love for classic detective books and rye whiskey\, Emit sets out across Europe chasing down clues\, sketchbook in hand. \nQuickly\, Emit finds himself embroiled in a plot far larger than he could have imagined: he becomes a target of a State Department investigation\, gets entangled in an international ring of art thefts\, and discovers his own artwork stolen. He meets an exuberant French nobleman\, a murderous five-year-old\, and a bohemian Roman heiress. From the Venice Biennale to the flooding of Piazza Navona\, you’ll find yourself laughing\, gasping\, and drawing right alongside Emit as he travels through some of the most beautiful regions of Europe\, unraveling a suspense-filled and surprisingly tangled mystery. \nReplete with strikingly rendered drawings that bring this exquisite and intriguing novel to life\, Come to Light is the thrilling follow-up to the adventures of Emit Hopper\, which debuted in Close Enough for the Angels. \n\n \nPaul Madonna is an award-winning artist and writer whose unique blend of drawing and storytelling has been heralded as an “all new art form.” He is the creator of the series All Over Coffee\, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle for twelve years\, and the author of five books\, including Everything is its own reward (winner of the 2011 NCBA for best book) and the Emit Hopper Mystery Series. Paul’s work ranges from novels to cartoons to large-scale public murals\, and can be found internationally in print as well as in galleries and museums\, including the Oakland Museum of California and the William Blake Association in France. Paul was a founding editor for therumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and was the first (ever!) art intern at MAD magazine. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n>  If you’d like a copy of Come to Light\, you can purchase one here\, below\, or when completing your registration. We are currently offering free shipping throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Neal Karlen on Prince
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, October 8 at 6pm PDT when Neal Karlen joins us to discuss his book\, This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On+Off the Record\non Zoom!\nSigned bookplates available while supplies last! Preorder now! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83006881839\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83006881839#  or +13462487799\,\,83006881839#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 830 0688 1839\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kernyVVTav \nAbout This Thing Called Life \nAn unusual\, remarkably detailed biography of one of the most iconic musicians of our times\, by a reporter who did the only two long authorized interviews with Prince and became a lifelong friend. \nThis Thing Called Life subtly changes what we know about a massive star\, one who relentlessly controlled his own image and career\, and who everyone wanted to know. \nNeal Karlen interviewed Prince for the artist’s two Rolling Stone covers and\, according to Prince’s former fiancée Susannah Melvoin\, was “the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like.” Indeed\, Prince and Karlen had known each other years before\, as two of the gang of Minneapolis boys who biked around the neighborhood and played basketball. Karlen says that not only can fans not understand Prince without understanding Minneapolis in the 70s\, but that anyone who knew Prince only knew 15% of him: that was all he was willing to give\, no matter how much he cared for them. \nGoing back to Prince Rogers Nelson’s roots\, including his contradictory and often tortured relationship with his father\, This Thing Called Life explains the star as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk\, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office\, frequented libraries\, jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward)\, who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible\, talk about movies and music and life\, and watch as he tries not to curse (instead dishing a healthy dose of “mamma jammas”). \nAbout Neal Karlen \nNeal Karlen writes regularly for The New York Times and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Minnesota journalism school. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Esquire\, GQ\, Elle\, The Forward\, Rolling Stone\, Newsweek\, and Olam\, among other publications. He lives in Minneapolis\, Minnesota.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-neal-karlen-on-prince/
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SUMMARY:Ticketed Virtual Event: Erin Brockovich\, Superman's Not Coming
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a ticketed online event with environmental activist\, crusader\, fighter\, and maverick Erin Brockovich\, who will discuss her new book\, Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It—a book that looks at our present situation with water and shows us how we can take action to make changes in our cities\, towns\, and villages\, before it’s too late. \nTickets for this special event will go on sale soon. \nBrockovich shows us what’s at stake\, and writes of the fraudulent science that disguises these issues\, along with cancer clusters not being reported. She writes of the saga of PG&E that continues to this day\, and of the communities and people she has worked with who have helped to make an impact. She writes of the water operator in Poughkeepsie\, New York\, who responded to his customers’ concerns and changed his system to create some of the safest water in the country; of the moms in Hannibal\, Missouri\, who became the first citizens in the nation to file an ordinance prohibiting the use of ammonia in their public drinking water; and about how we can protect our right to clean water by fighting for better enforcement of the laws\, new legislation\, and better regulations. She cannot fight all battles for all people and gives us the tools to take actions ourselves\, have our voices heard\, and know that steps are being taken to make sure our water is safe to drink and use. \n“Brockovich urges people to continue to fight for what they believe in…[Her] belief in individual activism—rather than relying on leaders\, corporations\, or the government to handle the water crisis—is the guiding theme in her new book…inspirational.”—Sam Gillette\, People \nERIN BROCKOVICH is the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting and the founder of the Erin Brockovich Foundation\, a nonprofit organization created to educate and empower communities in their fight for clean water. She is the coauthor of Take It from Me: Life’s a Struggle but You Can Win and has her own show on PodcastOne. She lives in Southern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-erin-brockovich-supermans-not-coming/
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SUMMARY:Zach Norris\,  We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities
DESCRIPTION:Zach Norris is the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities\, and co-founder of Restore Oakland\, a community advocacy and training center that will empower Bay Area community members to transform local economic and justice systems and make a safe and secure future possible for themselves and for their families. Zach is also a co-founder of Justice for Families\, a national alliance of family-driven organizations working to end our nation’s youth incarceration epidemic. \nZach helped build California’s first statewide network for families of incarcerated youth which led the effort to close five youth prisons in the state\, passed legislation to enable families to stay in contact with their loved ones and defeated Prop 6—a destructive and ineffective criminal justice ballot measure. \nWe Keep Us Safe\, released in 2020\, has been praised by Forbes\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Globe and Kirkus Reviews. To purchase Zach’s book we recommend Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore Literary & Garden Arts. #WeLoveBookstores \nIn addition to being a Harvard graduate and NYU-educated attorney\, Zach is also a graduate of the Labor Community Strategy Center’s National School for Strategic Organizing in Los Angeles\, California and was a 2011 Soros Justice Fellow. He is a former board member at Witness for Peace\, Just Cause Oakland and Justice for Families. Zach was a recipient of the American Constitution Society’s David Carliner Public Interest Award in 2015\, and is a member of the 2016 class of the Levi Strauss Foundation’s Pioneers of Justice. \nZach is a loving husband and dedicated father of two bright daughters\, whom he is raising in his hometown of Oakland\, California. \nThe Ella Baker Center works locally\, statewide and nationally to shift resources away from prisons and punishment and towards opportunities that make our communities safe\, healthy and strong. We believe that what you water grows. That’s why we mobilize everyday people to build power and prosperity in our communities. Our work includes the Decarcerate Alameda County campaign\, policy work abolishing abusive practices in prisons\, Night Out for Safety and Liberation and more. \nConnect with Zach Norris – Website | Twitter | Facebook \nConnect with The Ella Baker Center – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/ZachNorris10-9-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/DI–fPefE04 \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-norris-we-keep-us-safe-building-secure-just-and-inclusive-communities/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:13th Annual Life is Living Festival
DESCRIPTION:Life is Living is going virtual! \nMark your calendars to join in the largest celebration of Oakland taking place October 9th-11th\, online. \nLive Music\nTheater Stage\nKids Zone\nGrocery Giveaway\nDance Classes\nWorkshops\nAnd More! \nLife is Living will remain the beloved event you know and love so RSVP to get full access to all of your favorite zones and activations. \nStay tuned for more information about performers\, schedules\, and zones. \nABOUT THE FESTIVAL \nLife is Living is an eco-equity\, interdisciplinary festival that centers historically underserved neighborhoods and communities with programming in public spaces that have been otherwise neglected. For the last 13 years\, the Life is Living Festival has taken place at Little Bobby Hutton Park in West Oakland but due to the impacts of COVID and wildfires\, we must host the festival virtually this year. \nOur cohort consists of 100+ artists and organizations that power the festival as an intergenerational kaleidoscope of Oakland life. We’ve been Keeping Oakland\, Oakland Since 08\, holding sacred space in the vein of resistance\, art\, love\, honoring Black and Brown Lives\, and being a catalyst for larger discussions around environmental racism\, social ecology\, and social responsibility.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/13th-annual-life-is-living-festival/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201009T193000
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SUMMARY:Autumn Write-Ins with the Writers Grotto\, October Sessions (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Take some time for your writing this fall with a series of virtual write-ins hosted by the Grotto. Led by one the Grotto’s many talented and accomplished writers\, each of the sessions below provides 90 minutes of space and guidance in which to get your creative energy flowing\, generate new material\, bring old material up to snuff\, and just make contact with the community of writers that is the Grotto\, our teachers\, and our students. \nChoose one or more of the sessions below\, and show up for generative exercises designed to help instill confidence in your writing\, shift your focus and get you out of a rut\, document the emotions and experience of challenging times\, and more. Writing prompts\, craft tips\, timed exercises\, accountability—you’ll encounter any or all of these as you write in community with your fellow narrative artists and learn from our writers about what has worked for them. Finish a story you’ve started or free-write your way to something new. Find inspiration and energy writing in virtual community! \nWrite-ins are held every Wednesday from 12:00 noon to 1:30pm\, and every Friday from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. Click the “show details” button beside each session below for instructor bios and contact information. \nAll write-ins are held via Zoom. Registered students\, please contact the instructor directly for Zoom login information. \nQuestions and information: grottoclasses@gmail.com \nDates and times: Wednesdays\, 12:00pm – 1:30pm; Fridays 6:00pm – 7:30pm Pacific Time \nCourse fee: $25 \nInstructors: \n\nFriday\, October 2\, 6pm\, with Celeste Chan (diy.queer.arts@gmail.com)\nWednesday\, October 7\, 12pm\, with Mary Ladd (writereadeat@gmail.com)\nFriday\, October 9\, 6pm\, with Jesus Sierra (chiche415@gmail.com)\nWednesday\, October 14\, 12pm\, with Celeste Chan (diy.queer.arts@gmail.com)\nFriday\, October 16\, 6pm\, with Laurie Ann Doyle (doyle.l@berkeley.edu)\nWednesday\, October 21\, 12pm\, with Mary Ladd (writereadeat@gmail.com)\nFriday\, October 23\, 6pm\, with Laird Harrison (lairdharrison@gmail.com)\nWednesday\, October 28\, 12pm\, with Mary Ladd (writereadeat@gmail.com)\nFriday\, October 30\, 6pm\, with Celeste Chan (diy.queer.arts@gmail.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/autumn-write-ins-with-the-writers-grotto-october-sessions-via-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201009T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shannon Lee and Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 9 at 7pm PDT when Shannon Lee\, discusses her book\, Be Water\, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee\, with author Jeff Chang on Zoom!\nSigned bookplates available while supplies last! Preorder now! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82886901195\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82886901195#  or +13462487799\,\,82886901195#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 828 8690 1195\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbz9GiV2MP \nAbout Be Water\, My Friend \nBruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies—demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth\, and how we can practice those teachings every day. \n“Empty your mind; be formless\, shapeless like water.” \nBruce Lee is a cultural icon\, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker\, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline—they are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life. \nNow\, in Be Water\, My Friend\, Lee’s daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies\, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization. Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee’s teachings\, expanding on the foundation of his iconic “be water” philosophy. Over the course of the book\, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and naturalness in life\, bringing us closer to our essential flowing nature and our ability to be powerful\, self-expressed\, and free. \nThrough previously untold stories from her father’s life and from her own journey in embodying these lessons\, Shannon presents these philosophies in tangible\, accessible ways. With Bruce Lee’s words as a guide\, she encourages readers to pursue their essential selves and apply these ideas and practices to their everyday lives—whether in learning new things\, overcoming obstacles\, or ultimately finding their true path. \nBe Water\, My Friend is an inspirational invitation to us all\, a gentle call to action to consider our lives with new eyes. It is also a testament to how one man’s exploration and determination transcended time and place to ignite our imaginations—and to inspire many around the world to transform their lives. \nAbout the Shannon Lee \nShannon Lee is the CEO and Owner of the Bruce Lee Family Companies and President of the Bruce Lee Foundation\, as well as the daughter of the legendary martial artist and cultural icon\, Bruce Lee. Shannon’s mission is to provide access to her father’s philosophy and life through education and entertainment. She is the creator of Camp Bruce Lee through the Bruce Lee Foundation\, and has spoken at TED\, TEDx\, and Creative Mornings\, to name a few. Shannon lives in California with her daughter\, Wren\, where she co-hosts the Bruce Lee Podcast and executive produces Cinemax’s Warrior. \nAbout Jeff Chang \nJeff Chang is the Vice President for Narrative\, Arts and Culture at Race Forward. His books include Can’t Stop\, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop\, and Who We Be: A Cultural\nHistory of Race in Post Civil Rights America. His latest\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation\, was published in September 2016. It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of theyear.” In May 2019\, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. He is featured in the PBS documentary series\, Asian Americans. Recently he helped to write the Cultural New Deal alongside a number of artists and culture bearers. A national leader in narrative and cultural strategy\, Jeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”; and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200. His next project is a biography of Bruce Lee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shannon-lee-and-jeff-chang/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Keir Graff Discussing The Tiny Mansion | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, October 10\, 2020 at 11 AM PDT for an online discussion with author Keir Graff discussing his new novel\, THE TINY MANSION \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86182840632. \n(Order your copy of THE TINY MANSION at https://bit.ly/ggpTinyMansion\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/TinyMansionAB.) \nDescription\n\nIn this pitch-perfect middle grade adventure\, twelve-year-old Dagmar must endure a summer living off-the-grid with her family in a tiny home. \nThe last thing twelve-year-old Dagmar wants is to spend her summer vacation squished into a tiny house with her dad\, her stepmom\, and her annoying five-year-old half brother. But after a sudden financial setback\, her family is evicted from their Oakland apartment\, and that’s just where they end up\, parked among the towering redwoods of Northern California. \nAs Dagmar explores the forest around their new and (hopefully) temporary home\, she discovers they are living next door to an eccentric tech billionaire and his very unusual extended family. There’s his brother\, a woodsman who sets dangerous booby traps all over the place\, and his sister\, a New Age animal lover who meditates to whale songs in an isolation tank. And then there’s the billionaire’s son\, Blake\, who has everything he could ever wish for–except maybe a friend. \nBut when a wildfire engulfs the forest\, everyone–rich and poor\, kid and adult–will have to work together to escape. And with both families at risk of losing everything\, it turns out it’s not the size of the home but the people you share it with that matters. \nAbout the Author\n\nKeir Graff is the author of the middle grade novels The Phantom Tower\, The Matchstick Castle\, and The Other Felix\, and a handful of books for grown-ups. Keir lives in Chicago with his wife\, Marya\, his sons\, Felix and Cosmo\, and two cats\, Toothless and Totoro. Learn more at keirgraff.com and follow him on Twitter @keirgraff. \nPraise For…\n\n“I loved this book! It was a pleasure to follow Dagmar\, a girl who knows how hard life can be\, as she takes on all the challenges that come her way\, with grit\, intelligence and a not insignificant amount of rebelliousness. This hard-to-put-down adventure is fast-paced and will captivate young readers.” –Marianne Malone\, author of The Sixty-Eight Rooms
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keir-graff-discussing-the-tiny-mansion-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T143000
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SUMMARY:Building Bridges Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce the Building Bridges Book Club\, a new partnership with the Marin Poetry Center and Mill Valley Library. \nThe Marin Poetry Center Building Bridges Book Club is an opportunity to read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and would like to take a closer look at form\, structure\, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive\, and participants will have a chance to share thoughts and ask questions. Come prepared to read favorite poems\, lines\, and passages aloud. \nBook club meetings will take place on Zoom the second Saturday of each month from 1pm to 2:30pm PST. Information on how to RSVP coming soon! \nAt the first meeting\, on October 10\, participants will discuss John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books) with moderator Rebecca Foust. \nCopies of the book are available for purchase in-store or online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-bridges-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T170000
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SUMMARY:Keep Them Guessing: The Art of Mystery and Thriller Writing with Elaine Beale
DESCRIPTION:Mysteries and thrillers are some of the most popular and diverse genres in fiction today. They sell by the millions\, and hundreds of authors have established long and successful careers in mystery or thriller writing. These stories offer opportunities for the creation of quirky or intriguing protagonists\, unusual settings\, stories with social or political relevance\, and even for books that put new twists on the genres. Nevertheless\, writing a mystery or thriller demands certain key skills and a knowledge of what works in this area of fiction. \nIf you want to try your hand at a mystery or thriller\, or have already started but aren’t sure how to pull it all together\, this online workshop will get you going and give you tips for how to stay on track. \n“We’ll look at the key components that make the mystery or thriller successful\,” says instructor Elaine Beale\, “from developing a compelling protagonist and maintaining page-turning momentum\, to creating a plausible\, keep-them-guessing-to-the-end plot. \n“If you’re new to these genres\, you’ll learn the key tricks and craft of the thriller and mystery writing trade. If you have a story in progress\, this workshop will help you generate fresh ideas and strategies to make your story truly shine. And everyone will walk away with a deeper understanding of how to combine the necessary ingredients to create a standout work that will keep your readers hooked to the very last page.” \nOctober 10th & 17th\, 2-5pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-them-guessing-the-art-of-mystery-and-thriller-writing-with-elaine-beale/
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Barbara Jane Reyes and Friends
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Filipinx American History Month\, Eastwind Books is hosting a poetry reading featuring Barbara Jane Reyes\, Monica Ong\, Marianne Chan\, and Kimberly Quiogue Andrews. Join us for an afternoon of beautiful poetry! \nThe event will be held on Saturday\, October 10 at 3pm PST\, via Zoom. RSVP to receive the Zoom link. https://bjrpoetry.eventbrite.com \nFor more information and to purchase books by the authors\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\n~\nAbout the poets:\nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry\, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books\, 2003)\, Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005)\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2010)\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2015)\, and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband\, educator and poet Oscar Bermeo\, in Oakland. www.barbarajanereyes.com \nMonica Ong is the author of Silent Anatomies (2015)\, selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and MFA graduate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design\, Ong has been awarded residencies most recently at the Studios at MassMoCA\, Millay Colony\, and Yaddo. You can find her work featured in Petrichor: A Journal of Image+Text\, Redivider\, ctrl+v\, Waxwing Magazine\, and anthologized in Poesia Visual 5. Based in Connecticut\, she currently serves as the User Experience Designer at the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. www.monicaong.com \nMarianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart\, Germany\, and Lansing\, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens from Sarabande Books (2020). Her poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, West Branch\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. www.mariannechan.com \nKimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet and literary critic. She is also the author of A Brief History of Fruit\, winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry from the University of Akron Press\, and BETWEEN\, winner of the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Maryland and teaches at Washington College\, and you can find her on Twitter at @kqandrews.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-barbara-jane-reyes-and-friends/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Resistencia Feminista: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Red Poppy and Utah Humanities are excited to host a powerful afternoon featuring five female Mexican poets spanning several generations.\nRegister online now to get the link: https://zoom.us/…/tJIrdeihqTktG9K9LtYMbws5zmAUD_ZLbxhm\n“What does resistance mean to you in your experience of our current moment? What do you see as the role of poetry within Mexico’s current social movements?”\nIn what promises to be a stimulating dialogue\, the poets will respond to these questions while also reading their celebrated verse.\nThis event is part the launch of a groundbreaking new anthology\, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution\, from Tin House. As Julia Alvarez writes in her poignant introduction\, “To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.”\nThis extraordinary collection is rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today.\nOne of those icons\, Kyra Galvan\, will be with us this afternoon\, virtually from Mexico City. The poets will also be reading the great Rosario Castellanos\, another poet in the anthology\, talking about what her legacy has meant to their development and writing today.\nThe other featured poets include:\nChary Gumeta\,Chiapas\nXel-Ha López Méndez\, Guadalajara\nZel Cabrera\, Mexico City\nFacilitated by Violeta Orozco (Vio Letra) and Crescencio López González.\nBios and pics coming shortly.\nThe event will be in English\, with bilingual readings of the poetry.\nThe anthology will be released on September 15. For more information and to pre-order it now\, please visit www.redpoppy.net\nThe poets of Resistencia explore feminist\, queer\, Indigenous\, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism\, dictatorships\, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection\, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity\, place\, and belonging\, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion.\nIncluded in English translation alongside their original language\, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. Urgent\, timely\, and absolutely essential\, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.\n\nPraise for Resistencia:\n“Resistencia could not be more timely. It is a stunning collection of revelations and witness. . . . Indispensable.”\n-Luis Alberto Urrea\, author of The House of Broken Angels\n“A groundbreaking collection of works by over 50 poets\, Resistencia is alive with bravery\, feminism\, strength\, agency\, protest\, power and hope.”\n– Ms. Magazine\n“I read Resistencia n in one sitting\, rather breathlessly… The poems do not soothe but shake us awake\, and they call on us to do what they have done: to witness\, to listen\, to not only speak but sing.”\n– Maggie Smith\, author of Good Bones\n“Even surrounded in death and destruction\, there is a vibrancy in the lines. There is joy. There is living. Beauty’s put forward bravely.”\n– David Thomas Martinez\n“Reading these poems\, I felt as if this brilliant chorus of writers\, living and departed\, was delivering a call to action: ‘We have been here all along\, fighting. Won’t you join us?’”\n– Frances de Pontes Peebles\, author of The Air You Breathe\nPlease support this project\, support these poets\, support your soul by pre-ordering the book today: www.redpoppy.net\, or wherever books are sold. En México\, el libro está actualmente disponible en www.amazon.com.mx\nAnd please join us for this impactful afternoon\, Saturday\, October 10th.\nThis event is made possible with support from Red Poppy\, Artes de Mexico en Utah\, and Utah Humanities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistencia-feminista-contemporary-mexican-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Every Day We Get More Illegal
DESCRIPTION:Included in Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 & LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year! \nA State of the Union from the nation’s first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant\, compassionate\, and filled with hope. \n“Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art\, part oral\, part written\, part English\, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity\, fueled by collective pride\, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed.”— New York Times \n“Herrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be.”—NPR \n“From Basho to Mandela\, Every Day We Get More Illegal takes us on an international tour for a lesson in the history of resistance from a poet who declares\, ‘I had to learn . . . to take care of myself . . . the courage to listen to my self.’ In ways subtle and sometimes proudly loud\, this book makes it clear exactly why Juan Felipe Herrera continues to be recognized and sought after for his work. You hold in your hands evidence of who we really are.”—Jericho Brown\, author of The Tradition \n“Everyday we get more illegal\, the poet says in this book of incantations and days\, of laborers touching the earth and migrants waiting crossing the border. To cross where? To the country that is itself in danger of becoming merely The Wall. Nothing else but The Wall. But Juan Felipe Herrera knows that ‘underneath the crust of The Wall things are always / in motion\,’ he knows that what saves us is tenderness. His father once walked to the ocean with a jar in his hand. The poet comes to his country with a book of songs\, and asks: America\, are you listening? We better listen. There is wisdom in this book\, there is a choral voice that teaches us ‘to gain\, pebble by pebble\, seashell by seashell\, the courage.’ The courage to find more grace\, to find flames.”—Ilya Kaminsky\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Former Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera should also be Laureate of our Millennium—a messenger who nimbly traverses the transcendental liminalities of the United States to then speak from the body politic in confrontation with an enemy system that threatens the networks that make us ethical and humane. Every book he writes becomes his best book and this collection is no exception. He brings unity and vulnerability to this wide-ranging and prophetic volume.”—Carmen Giménez Smith\, author of Be Recorder \n“In Every Day We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera shows off all of his styles. These poems talk directly to America\, to migrant people\, and to working people. Herrera has created a chorus to remind us we are alive and beautiful and powerful.”—José Olivarez\, author of Citizen Illegal \n“Few poets have more laurels upon which they could rest than Juan Felipe Herrera. As the former Poet Laureate of the United States he’s done more for poetry\, on the page and off\, than most anyone living. But in his new Every Day We Get More Illegal\, Herrera not only stretches\, complicates\, broadens his own oeuvre\, he challenges and expands what might be possible in the space of a poem. Herrera reaches out beyond language—’the fervent bones’—beyond the lyric medium itself\, towards what is too urgently broken for mere words: our moment\, our nation\, our humanity. ‘We brought in a new time\,’ he writes\, ‘this is the new time.'”—Kaveh Akbar\, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf \n“Juan Felipe Herrera upholds and elevates the great ancestral lineage of our Mexicano/Chicano/World/Word Masters. The Border lives in this man. The Border(s) will never leave him. He is the son of soul anarchy\, the lost stories of my America. He is the trickster magician who lifts the mirror to our faces—and allows us to see truth. When he breaks stride in this great walkabout of his\, he tumbles the false world down while always showing us the Better Way. These are poems fierce and compassionate. His Journey has served him well.”—Denise Chávez\, owner\, Casa Camino Real Bookstore\, Las Cruces NM \n“Juan Felipe Herrera breaks open language to convey unspeakable pain alongside unfathomable strength.”—Emma Ramadan\, co-owner\, Riff Raff Bookstore\, Providence\, RI \nIn this collection of poems\, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate\, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness\, and later\, in quiet moments of reflection\, coalesce into an urgent\, trenchant\, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges\, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets\, the lethal border game that separates and divides\, and then: a shift of register\, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity. \nEvery Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the conscience—filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/every-day-we-get-more-illegal/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Libra Party Online
DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance for this party:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZAodOCprzIjHdbNOehEcyyXZKmLN…\ncome celebrate the Libra season with your favorite Libras who both had books published this year! we’ll have an open mic along with featured readers! please continue to check this space!\n\nIn June 2020\, Cassandra Dallett’s book A Pretty Little Wilderness was published by Be About It Press: https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Little…/dp/0998601241\n\nIn January 2020\, Alexandra Naughton’s book a place a feeling something he said to you was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press: https://spookygirlfriendpress.tumblr.com/…/alexandra…\n\nthe event will happen on Zoom and also Facebook Live (for people who don’t want to go on zoom)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/libra-party-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River\, Drop Leaf\, 2016)’s Requisite is newly out from Platypus Press. Joining Tanya is Aricka Foreman\, whose first full-length book Salt Body Shimmer just came out with YesYes Books and features cover art by Lorna Simpson\, the same artist who did Requisite’s cover. We’re also thrilled to host Tanya’s fellow Platypus author Richard Georges and Bay Area poet-friends Elizabeth Robinson and Monica Mody! \nPLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE AT THIS LINK: \nhttps://ciis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcemhpz4jGtFiosb6rbc3rS8pKLI1MrZ- \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. \n* \nARICKA FOREMAN is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit\, MI. Author of the chapbook Dream with a Glass Chamber and Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books)\, she has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She serves on the Board of Directors for The Offing and spends her time in Chicago\, IL engaging poetry with photography & video. \nRICHARD GEORGES is a writer of essays\, fiction\, and three collections of poetry. His most recent book\, Epiphaneia (2019)\, won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature\, and his first book\, Make Us All Islands (2017)\, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book\, Giant (2018)\, was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize. He is a recipient of a Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and has been listed or nominated for several other prizes\, including the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize\, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize\, and a Pushcart Prize. In addition to writing\, Richard works in higher education and lives in the British Virgin Islands. \nTANYA HOLTLAND is the author of Requisite\, a finalist for the Broken River Prize\, out now from Platypus Press\, and the chapbook Inner River from Drop Leaf Press. Her nonfiction and lyric essays appear in The Offing\, The Rupture\, OXALIS\, and elsewhere. A graduate of San Francisco State University’s English and Creative Writing MA program\, she was also an artist-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford where she authored the libretto Fated\, a collaboration with composer Daniela Candillari. A Los Angeles native of Dutch-Indonesian descent\, her work surrounds the intersections of memory\, ecology\, borders\, design\, and matriarchy. \nMONICA MODY is the author of Kala Pani (1913 Press) and two cross-genre chapbooks. Her poetry has also appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Poetry International\, Boston Review\, Indian Quarterly\, and Almost Island. Her awards include the Nicholas Sparks Postgraduate Writing Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame\, Naropa University’s Zora Neale Hurston Award\, and the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing. Mody has a PhD in East West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Notre Dame. She was born in Ranchi\, India and lives on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco). \nELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author\, most recently\, of Rumor\, from Free Verse Editions\, and Vivian Maier: 11 photographs in 20 poems\, a collaboration with Susanne Dyckman published by Dancing Girl Press. With Jennifer Phelps\, Robinson co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press. Robinson has new work recently published or forthcoming in Aurochs\, Caliban\, Denver Quarterly\, Fence\, Plume\,The Rumpus\, and Vestiges. Her creative nonfiction has recently been published in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time. \nDROP LEAF PRESS is run by six women in San Francisco and Oakland\, California. We seek joineries of the unexpected and the overlooked. We believe in flexibility and tactility. With each new voice\, each new book\, we create space: we add a leaf to the table\, room for more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foreman-georges-holtland-mody-robinson/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tania Romanov in conversation with Don George - One Hundred Years of Exile (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search of Her Father’s Russia San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. \nTania and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. The family’s immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future—but while Tania just wanted to be an American\, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation leave Tania with deep resentment. Decades later\, his unexpected death exposes Tania’s open wounds and a host of unanswered questions about her father’s story and her Russian heritage. \nA serendipitous meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal family\, followed by a baffling error that miraculously connects her with unknown relatives\, catapults Tania on a quest for answers in her father’s homeland. Tania’s story proves inseparable from Russia’s\, featuring Cossacks who fled revolution\, a family who survived Stalin\, and a family of royal exiles\, culminating in a meeting between princess and peasant. One Hundred Years of Exile is a moving story of how revisiting the past can bring not only forgiveness and redemption\, but something far more powerful as well. \nTania Romanov is an award-winning travel photographer and the author of three books: Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women; Never a Stranger\, a travel story collection; and One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia (2021). A Solas Award winner\, Tania’s work has also been featured in multiple travel anthologies and translated into Serbo-Croatian and Russian. Born in the former Yugoslavia\, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste\, Italy\, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools\, U.C. Berkeley\, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, eventually serving as CEO of three technology companies. When not on the road\, Tania splits her time between San Francisco and Sonoma County. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing and the editor of ten anthologies\, including A Moveable Feast\, The Kindness of Strangers\, Better Than Fiction\, and An Innocent Abroad. George is Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler\, where he writes feature articles and the monthly Trip Lit column. He is also Editor of BBC Travel‘s literary travel column\, Chance Encounters. \nAvailable in hardcover and paperback.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tania-romanov-in-conversation-with-don-george-one-hundred-years-of-exile-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Choose Your Own Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Tickets at https://bawdylivestream_cyoa.eventbrite.com \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Kinktacular Evening of Stories\, Songs & B*ttplugs features: \n❤  Hosted by Award-winning Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best sex\, erotica\, dating\, & relationship podcast” – Mashable \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyMashable2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis month\, Bawdy Storytelling – the water-based lube for the silicone toy that is your mind –  celebrates our annual High Holiday\, The Folsom Street Fair! Featuring true stories from Human Ponies\, Leather Daddys\, Sex-Positive Icons and more. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert: \nhttps://fetlife.com/events/791886 \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n • No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com� \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at  http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nOn Twitter: @Bawdy \nOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ \nOn Facebook at  www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \nSupport us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy \nSubscribe to our YouTube Channel at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-choose-your-own-adventure/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Catherine Grace Katz (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Grace Katz‘s first book\, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills\, Roosevelts\, and Harrimans — A Story of Love and War\, draws on newly accessible sources to bring to light both the untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin seventy-five years ago\, and the fateful reverberations during the waning days of World War II. \nCatherine is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College\, University of Cambridge in 2014\, where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of modern counterintelligence practices. After graduating\, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the bookstore in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing. She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. \nStacy Schiff is the author of Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin\, France\, and the Birth of America\, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; and The Witches: Suspicion\, Betrayal\, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem\, which has been hailed by the New York Times “an almost novelistic\, thriller-like narrative.” Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-catherine-grace-katz-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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