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SUMMARY:Safety & The First Amendment – Holiday Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) will host its annual holiday fundraiser online this year and it is dedicated to the intriguing theme of Equal Protection Under the First Amendment. Funds raised from the event will be used for the organization’s Spring 2021 program and (if needs be) the continued cost of legal action against the City & County of San Francisco. \nThe Festival invites the public to join via Zoom for a packed and interactive program of poetry and spoken word presentations hosted by performance artist\, Nkechi Emeruwa-Neuberg. Featured artists (curated by Kimi Sugioka\, the Poet Laureate of the City of Alameda)\, will address different aspects of the First Amendment. Featured performers include: Kim Shuck\, Jack Hirschman\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, James Cagney\, Kimi Sugioka\, Devorah Major\, and Rosewater Vigilante. Total\, there will FOUR poet laureates (three from San Francisco\, one from Alameda) on the program. \nIn addition to outstanding performances\, the evening will include “surprise” cameo appearances by several Bay Area luminaries\, a sneak-preview of the Festival’s spring 2021 outdoor season and an in-person chat with the Festival’s legal team (Mark Rennie\, Matt Kumin\, and Bill Martinez) as they review the Festival’s First Amendment case against the city.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/safety-the-first-amendment-holiday-fundraiser/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:MandoMeet
DESCRIPTION:Join CHSA for a chance to learn Mandarin with specialist Kathy Yang! Kathy is an expert Mandarin teacher. For our MandoMeet sessions\, all levels of adult learners are welcomed. New learners are always welcomed\, check out our MandoMeet page for past lessons and learning materials. \nTo join\, make sure to RSVP. As there is limited space is available for the class\, only sign-up for MandoMeet if you are able to attend the session live. Recordings of the lesson are not available. Please contact CHSA if you have any questions about registration. \nChoose between a free ticket or provide a donation to support free programming by the Chinese Historical Society of America. There is a suggested donation of $5. \nFeel free to join the program at 12:50pm for a check-in with Kathy prior to the lesson beginning. Online access information will be sent out 2 hours and 10 minutes before the lesson begins. \nWhile no materials are required for the lesson\, colorful sticky notes and markers are highly encouraged. Similar writing material is also beneficial to participant learning. We also recommend learners check their microphones and cameras before coming to class.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mandomeet/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T160000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Claire Marie Stancek with Dan Beachy-Quick & Jennifer Firestone / wyrd] bird
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Claire Marie Stancek for her new book of poems\, wyrd] bird. She’s joined by Dan Beachy-Quick and Jennifer Firestone. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of wyrd] bird here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nIn times fraught with ecological and individual loss\, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen\, a dream journal\, a fragmentary notebook\, a collection of poems\, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary\, mythical\, and historical figures from Milton’s Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats’s hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading\, cross-questioning\, and upsetting some of that tradition’s central poetic texts. By refusing and confusing dualistic logic\, wyrd] bird searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body\, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning\, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips\, stubbornly\, onto love. \nIn addition to wyrd] bird (Omnidawn Publishing)\, Claire Marie Stancek is the author of two previous poetry books\, Oil Spell (Omnidawn Publishing) and MOUTHS (Noemi Press). She earned a Ph.D. in English Literature from University of California\, Berkeley\, where she currently works as a staff writer. With Jane Gregory and Lyn Hejinian\, she co-edits Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, she now lives in Oakland\, California. \nDan Beachy-Quick is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. His most recent books include Arrows (Tupelo Press) and Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions)\, a collection of translations from the ancient Greek. Recently long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry\, his work has been supported by the Monfort\, Lannan\, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Colorado State University\, where he is an University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. \nJennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry: Story (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, Ten\, (BlazeVOX [books])\, Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative)\, Flashes (Shearsman Books) and Holiday (Shearsman Books). She is currently collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-claire-marie-stancek-with-dan-beachy-quick-jennifer-firestone-wyrd-bird/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - David Harris (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:David Harris’s newest release\, My Country ‘Tis of Thee: Reporting\, Sallies\, and Other Confessions is a wide-ranging and incisive anthology conveying the spirit of the 1960s and ’70s. \nDavid Harris is a reporter\, a clear-eyed idealist\, an American dissident\, and\, as these selected pieces reveal\, a writer of great character and empathy. Harris gained national recognition as an undergraduate for his opposition to the Vietnam War and was imprisoned for two years when he refused to comply with the draft. His writings trace a bright throughline of care for and attention to outsiders\, the downtrodden\, and those who demand change\, and these eighteen pieces of long-form journalism\, essays\, and opinion writings remain startlingly relevant to the world we face today. This career-spanning collection of writings by an always-independent journalist follow Harris from his early days as a prominent leader of the resistance to the Vietnam War\, through regular contributions to many publications\, including Rolling Stone and the New York Times\, and on into the twenty-first century. \nPeter Coyote is the author of the 1960’s counter-culture memoir Sleeping Where I Fall\, which received universally excellent reviews and has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book\, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education\, about mentors and the search for wisdom\, was nominated as one of the top five nonfiction books published in California in 2015. His third book is forthcoming\, Unmasking Your True Self (the Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha)\, which combines 50 years of Buddhist practice and acting and uses masks and improv exercises to foster liberation experiences and teach people “how to get out of their own way.” Peter has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films. An ordained Zen Buddhist priest and transmitted teacher\, Peter is currently giving live weekly dharma talks on Facebook and preparing for a fourth book called Vernacular Buddhism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-david-harris-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:How to Pitch Electric Lit
DESCRIPTION:For freelancers\, writing an essay\, feature\, or opinion piece doesn’t start when you type the first line. It starts with the pitch. Having a topic and a talent isn’t enough; you also have to be able to package your idea in a way that catches an editor’s eye. But how do you get started writing a pitch? How long is too long—and how short is too short? What does a good pitch look like—and a bad one? And why does Electric Lit ask people to write a pitch\, anyway? Electric Literature editor-in-chief Jess Zimmerman and contributing editor Jennifer Baker fill you in on everything you need to know when proposing nonfiction work to Electric Lit and other publications. Q&A to follow. Presented by Reedsy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-pitch-electric-lit/
LOCATION:Crowdcast
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201214T210000
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SUMMARY:Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander: A celebration of Angels & Saints
DESCRIPTION:Eliot Weinberger\, called “one of the world’s greatest essayists” by the New York Times\, is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander to celebrate the publication of Angels and Saints (New Directions). \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to pay what you can or to order the book from us to support the bookstore during these challenging times. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Angels and Saints\nAngels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from\, what are they made of\, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed\, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. \nFrom a litany of angelic voices\, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts\, the saints\, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies\, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. \nAbout the participants\nELIOT WEINBERGER “one of the world’s greatest essayists” (The New York Times)\, has been publishing books with New Directions since 1975\, most recently The Ghosts of Birds. \nFORREST GANDER\, born in the Mojave Desert\, lives in California. A translator and writer with degrees in geology and literature\, he’s the recipient of numerous awards\, among them the Pulitzer Prize\, the Best Translated Book Award\, and fellowships from the Library of Congress\, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, and United States Artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eliot-weinberger-and-forrest-gander-a-celebration-of-angels-saints/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201216T130000
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Lynell George
DESCRIPTION:Alta Asks Live: Lynell George\n\n\nWednesday\, December 16 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time \n\n\n\nOctavia E. Butler’s work is as relevant as ever\, and her journey to success is a surprising and mostly private one—until now. Author and award-winning Alta contributor Lynell George’s extraordinary new book\, A Handful of Earth\, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler​\, examines Butler’s most intimate processes and inspirations. George sits down with Alta books editor David L. Ulin to explore the work\, legacy\, and world of Octavia E. Butler in this free digital discussion. \nREGISTER \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nLynell George​ is a journalist and essayist. ​After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame​ was her first book of essays and photography\, exploring the city where she grew up. As a staff writer for both the ​Los Angeles Times​ and ​L.A. Weekly​\, she focused on social issues\, human behavior\, visual arts\, music\, and literature. She’s taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles\, was named a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow in 2013\, and received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship in 2017 for her studies of Butler. She’s a contributing arts and culture columnist for KCET | Artbound\, and her commentary has also been featured in numerous news and feature outlets\, including ​Alta\, Boom: A Journal of California\, Smithsonian\, K​PCC’s​ the Frame\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Vibe\, the Chicago Tribune\, the Washington Post\, Essence\, Black Clock\, and ​Ms.​ Her liner notes for ​Otis Redding Live at the Whisky a Go Go​ earned a Grammy Award in 2017. \nABOUT THE BOOK\n​More than a biography\, ​A Handful of Earth\, A Handful of Sky​: The World of Octavia E. Butler is a collection of ideas about how a writer looks\, listens\, and breathes—how to ​be​ in the world. This book is about the creative process\, but not on the page; its canvas is much larger. Lynell George not only engages the world that shaped Octavia E. Butler\, but explores the very specific processes through which Butler\, a MacArthur “genius\,” shaped herself—her unique process of self-making. It’s about creating a life with what little you have—hand-me-down books\, repurposed diaries\, journals\, stealing time to write in the middle of the night\, making a small check stretch—bit by bit by bit. ​A Handful of Earth\, A Handful of Sky​ draws the reader into Butler’s world\, creating a sense of unmatched intimacy with the deeply private science-fiction writer. \nThere has been a great resurgence of interest in Butler’s work. Readers have been turning to her writing to make sense of contemporary chaos\, to find a plot point that might bring clarity or calm. Her books have become the centerpiece of book group discussions\, while universities and entire cities have chosen her titles to anchor Big Read\, Freshman Read\, and One Book/One City programs. ​A Handful of Earth\, A Handful of Sky​ brings Butler’s prescient wisdom and careful thinking out of the novel and into the world. \nA Handful of Earth\, A Handful of Sky​ will be beloved by both scholars and fans of Butler\, as well as aspiring writers and creatives who are looking for a model or a spark of inspiration. It offers an album of a creative life—a map that others can follow. Butler once wrote that science fiction was simply “a handful of earth\, a handful of sky\, and everything in between.” This book offers a slice of the ​in between.​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-asks-live-lynell-george/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Ruby Bridges (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:From civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges comes a powerful new book\, This Is Your Time—the first book from Bridges in over twenty years\, released to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her becoming the first Black student to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14\, 1960\, as a six-year-old. Inspired by the recent wave of activism for racial justice led by young people\, Ruby Bridges has penned a powerful letter of encouragement to readers\, recounting her\nexperience integrating the New Orleans public school system and culminating in a call to action for a new generation of young activists and adults to unite. Ruby’s honest and impassioned words\, imbued with love and grace\, serve as a moving reminder that “what can inspire tomorrow often lies in our past.” This Is Your Time will electrify people of all ages as the struggle for liberty and justice for all continues and the powerful legacy of Ruby Bridges endures. \nRuby Bridges is a civil rights activist who at the age of six was the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. She was born in Mississippi in 1954\, the same year the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision ordering the integration of public schools. Her family later moved to New Orleans\, where on November 14\, 1960\, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School\, single-handedly initiating the desegregation of public education in New Orleans. Her walk to the front door of the school was immortalized in Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With\, in Robert Coles’s book The Story of Ruby Bridges\, and in the Disney movie Ruby Bridges. This Is Your Time is her first book in over twenty years\, following the publication of her award-winning autobiography\, Through My Eyes. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders to embrace and value the richness of diversity. Bridges is the recipient of numerous awards\, including the NAACP Martin Luther King Award\, the Presidential Citizens Medal\, and honorary doctorate degrees from Connecticut College\, College of New Rochelle\, Columbia University Teachers College\, and Tulane University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-ruby-bridges-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:How to Get Published in The Commuter
DESCRIPTION:Unlike most literary magazines\, The Commuter chooses its weekly piece of poetry\, flash\, graphic\, or experimental narrative almost exclusively from unsolicited submissions—9 out of 10 issues are drawn from the so-called “slush.” (We don’t think it’s slush!) Work published in The Commuter has been recognized by Best American Poetry and Comics\, the Wigleaf Top 50\, and Best Small Fictions. But we get thousands of submissions every year\, and only publish 52 issues. So how can you help your work get recognized? Commuter editors Halimah Marcus\, Kelly Luce\, and Ed Skoog invite you behind the scenes for a frank editorial discussion that is a must-watch for anyone planning to submit. Q&A to follow. Presented by Reedsy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-get-published-in-the-commuter/
LOCATION:Crowdcast
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T190000
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SUMMARY:WALTER MOSLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:Devil in a Blue Dress \nBY WALTER MOSLEY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMosley’s celebrated 1990 novel introduces readers to Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins\, a World War II veteran who turns to detective work to make a living. Rooted in Watts\, a historically African American neighborhood of Los Angeles\, the story reinvigorated the hard-boiled mystery genre\, populating it with rarely seen nonwhite characters. The book’s success led to a bestselling series of Easy Rawlins mysteries that follow the character into the 1960s (and to a 1995 film adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress\, directed by Carl Franklin and starring Denzel Washington).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walter-mosley-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T193000
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SUMMARY:HIGH DAWN: Noah Ross\, S*an D. Henry-Smith\, Jamie Townsend\, Topazu\, Subset
DESCRIPTION:Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present HIGH DAWN 4 \nReadings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith \nIntroduced by Jamie Townsend \nMusic by Topazu & Visuals by Subset \nFriday\, December 10\, 6pm \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-dec.eventbrite.com \nNoah Ross is a bookseller\, editor\, and poet based in Berkeley\, CA. Noah is the author of Swell (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions\, 2019)\, Active Reception (Nightboat Books\, 2021)\, and an editor of Baest: a journal of queer forms & affects\, and\, with Lindsay Choi\, Mo0on/IO. \nS*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working primarily in poetry\, photography\, and performance\, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. S*an is also the author of two chapbooks\, Body Text and Flotsam Suite: A Strange & Precarious Life\, or How We Chronicled the Little Disasters & I Won’t Leave the Dance Floor Til It’s Out of My System. Wild Peach\, released fall 2020\, is their first full length collection. \nJamie Townsend is a genderqueer poet and editor living in Oakland. They are the author of 6 chapbooks as well as the full collections Shade (Elis Press\, 2015) and Sex Machines (speCt!\, 2020). They are also the editor of Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader (Nightboat\, 2019) and Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love: Poets on Punk (Jet Tone\, 2019). With Nick DeBoer they curate Elderly. \nTopazu is a San Francisco-based selector whom hosts the local Infinite Beat Ambient showcase and radio show Infinite Beat on SutroFM. Since 2015\, the show features producers\, artists and DJs that are shaping the Bay Area sound in experimental synthesis as well as celebrates romanticism\, nostalgia and cinematic themes with modern day electronics.Besides curating Infinite Beat\, she has been featured DJing many local shows including Sure Thing\, Surface Tension\, Honey Soundsystem and Recombinant Media Labs. With her interests in abstract textures\, carnal rhythms and her exuberance in darker\, chaotic noise\, Topazu has also supported many international artists such as Wolfgang Voigt\, Evigt Morker\, Silent Servant\, Takaaki Itoh and Marie Davidson. She was a featured performer for the first San Francisco edition of Mutek in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-noah-ross-san-d-henry-smith-jamie-townsend-topazu-subset/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T120000
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SUMMARY:Elif Shafak
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussing her new novel \n10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \n—- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \nShortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage\, NPR\, Washington Post\, and The Economist \nA moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times\, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. \nIn the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul\, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active-for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby\, she remembers her life-and the lives of others\, outcasts like her. \nTequila Leila’s memories bring us back to her childhood in the provinces\, a highly oppressive milieu with religion and traditions\, shaped by a polygamous family with two mothers and an increasingly authoritarian father. Escaping to Istanbul\, Leila makes her way into the sordid industry of sex trafficking\, finding a home in the city’s historic Street of Brothels. This is a dark\, violent world\, but Leila is tough and open to beauty\, light\, and the essential bonds of friendship. \nIn Tequila Leila’s death\, the secrets and wonders of modern Istanbul come to life\, painted vividly by the captivating tales of how Leila came to know and be loved by her friends. As her epic journey to the afterlife comes to an end\, it is her chosen family who brings her story to a buoyant and breathtaking conclusion. \nElif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She writes in both Turkish and English\, and has published 18 books\, 11 of which are novels. Her work has been translated into 54 languages. Her latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; and chosen Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Her previous novel\, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey\, the US and the UK\, including St Anne’s College\, Oxford University\, where she is an honorary fellow. \nShe is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women’s rights\, LGBT rights and freedom of speech\, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice TED Global speaker. Shafak contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people “who will give you a much needed lift of the heart”. Shafak has judged numerous literary prizes\, and chaired the Wellcome Prize and is presently judging the Orwell Prize.\nvisit: www.elifshafak.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elif-shafak/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Sullivan - Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Tom Barbash\nThursday\, December 19\, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET • Virtual Event \nIn the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly told account of the USS Plunkett—a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II\, that gave as good as it got\, and that was later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk. \nMore than the story of a single\, savage engagement\, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa\, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett’s defining moment at Anzio\, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage\, so prolonged\, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After a three-month overhaul and with a reputation rising as the “fightin’est ship” in the Navy\, Plunkett (DD-431) plunged back into the war at Omaha Beach on D-Day\, and once again into battle during the invasion of Southern France—perhaps the only Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre. \nFeaturing five incredibly brave men—the indomitable skipper\, who will receive the Navy Cross; the gunnery officer\, who bucks the captain every step of the way to Anzio; a first lieutenant\, who’s desperate to get off the ship and into the Pacific; a seventeen-year-old water tender\, who’s trying to hold onto his hometown girl against all odds\, and another water tender\, who mans a 20mm gun when under aerial assault—the dramatic story of each plays out on the decks of the Plunkett as the ship’s story escalates on the stage of the Mediterranean. Based on Navy logs\, war diaries\, action reports\, letters\, journals\, memoirs\, and dozens of interviews with the men who were on the ship and their families\, Unsinkable transcends historical appreciation of a single military ship to become a timeless evocation of young men stepping up to the defining experience of their lives. \nJames Sullivan was born and raised in Quincy\, Massachusetts\, and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has written for The New York Times and National Geographic Traveler\, the magazine. He lives with his family outside Portland\, Maine\, 3.4 miles from the birthplace of film director John Ford\, who steamed into Omaha Beach on Plunkett. \nTom Barbash is the author of the novels The Dakota Winters and The Last Good Chance and the non-fiction books On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11; A Story of Loss and Renewal\, which was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and other publications\, and have been performed on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts series. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sullivan-unsinkable-five-men-and-the-indomitable-run-of-the-uss-plunkett-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201220T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201220T170000
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SUMMARY:"A Christmas Memory" read by Thomas Lynch--virtually
DESCRIPTION:BYOF (Bring Your Own Fruitcake) and settle in for this traditional Mrs. Dalloway’s event. This year it will be a bit different\, like everything else: We will host our dear friend Thomas Lynch virtually on Crowdcast. \nBased on Capote’s own boyhood in rural Alabama in the 1930s\, A Christmas Memory was originally published in Mademoiselle in 1956 and later was included in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. \nThis is a free event\, though we encourage you to make a contribution to support Mrs. Dalloway’s or to purchase a copy of the book through our website. \nRegistration is required to attend. Be sure to add your contribution before you “Save your Spot” on Crowdcast. Click here to register. Thank you! \nOrder a copy of A Christmas Memory  from Mrs. Dalloway’s. A perfect gift for anyone on your list! \nThomas Lynch\, a longtime resident of the Elmwood\, is an actor and man-about-town. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, December 13\, 2020 – 3:00pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-christmas-memory-read-by-thomas-lynch-virtually/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210102T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210102T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162703
CREATED:20201215T021633Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to Flash Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This month\, you are invited to try your hand at flash fiction! \nFlash fiction and poetry share a few things in common: a short condensed form\, high intensity\, and a focus on brevity and language. Whether you are a poet\, fiction writer\, or anyone simply interested in giving it a go\, please join us for a fun and productive writing session. \nWhat You’ll Get From This Workshop:\n• An orientation and definition: What is flash fiction? \n• The four basic building blocks of all fiction (both short and long fiction) \n• How to think critically about flash fiction \n• 1-3 first drafts of your own flash pieces! \n• Tools to generate further writing ideas of your own \nWhat We’ll Do Together:\nBefore the start of the workshop\, you will receive 4 sample flash fiction pieces chosen by the instructor\, written in 4 different styles. The goal is to read them to find out what we like in our own writing and to discover our own voices. In addition\, thinking objectively about these stories will help us fine-tune our ability to think critically about our own stories and to revise and edit our own stories. \nIn the workshop\, you will receive options for 3 writing prompts to generate your own flash fiction pieces\, including time to write. At the end\, we will have time for students to share what they have written. What is read out loud will not get critiqued\, but students and instructor can give brief positive feedback\, and highlights to encourage each other. \nNOTE from the instructor: If we do not have time in the class to read all of the student’s first drafts\, and the students wish to have their work read\, I will make myself available via email to respond to work they created in the class. \n  \nAbout the Teacher:\nJosé Enrique Medina (aka Henry) writes poems\, flash fiction and short stories. He started writing in this genre 33 years ago even before it was called flash fiction. He loves flash pieces because they are mini-journeys that can take readers on a full gondola ride in the space of just a page or less. His flash fiction has appeared in Best Microfiction 2019 Anthology\, The Los Angeles Review\, Tahoma Literary Review\, The Burnside Review\, and many other publications. He earned his BA in English from Cornell University\, has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations\, is a Voices of Our Nation fellow\, and enjoys raising chickens.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/intro-to-flash-fiction/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Surprise the Line":MAILTO:nancywoowriter@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210104T200000
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SUMMARY:Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry\, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete\, poets and writers who loved Pete will read their favorite poems. We’ll start with Good Times editor Steve Palopoli reading “Shopper’s Corner\,” Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz David Sullivan will read “I Wish I Was Billy Collins\,” Wellstone Books Publisher Steve Kettmann will read “Middle Age\,” novelist and Soho Press publisher Bronwen Hruska will read “The Woman of My Dreams\,” and Wallace Baine\, local author and man of letters\, will read … whatever he wants. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nMcLaughlin’s posthumous book\, I Wish I Was Billy Collins\, is part standup comedy\, part painfully revealing self-exploration—a tender\, heartbreaking\, hilarious book of poems about the male condition in the 21st Century. \nThese are poems to read and reread and then to read aloud to friends. Even nonplussed strangers will smile knowingly after being ushered into Pete McLaughlin’s world\, laughing at his manic\, self-deprecating take on the grim horror of waking up to find yourself a divorced middle-aged dude living by yourself with a cat\, one given to fits of projectile vomiting. \nThe poems range from a riff on the yearning of an “Angry Prius” who just wants to get out in the fast lane\, one time\, and drive all-out “mercilessly tailgating all comers\, / even senior citizens\,” to the revelations of “Middle Age\,” about being picked up by a woman in her sixties who “plays teasing\, exploratory footsie beneath the tablecloth/her unblinking green-light eyes/locked mercilessly onto mine/she winks knowingly\, her big toe somehow in my pocket now. \nPete McLaughlin grew up in San Francisco and was a standout runner in high school and at Wesleyan University in Connecticut\, before earning his teaching credential. He was an elementary school teacher and a high school coach for years before moving to Santa Cruz\, California\, where he often played his trumpet alone on the bluffs looking out at the pounding Pacific.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poems-to-make-you-laugh-cry/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T173000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh - Continuing the Journey with Dante's Purgatorio (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio\, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. \nDante and Virgil begin their climb of the immense Mountain of Purgatory in the middle of the unpopulated waters of the Southern Hemisphere. Before reaching Purgatory proper\, they travel through Ante Purgatory and then up through the seven terraces\, each one reflecting one of the seven deadly sins. Their goal is the Earthly Paradise at the top of the mountain and along the way they will meet the many saved souls who are happily purifying themselves for their ascent to Paradise.  Purgatory is “where the soul of man is cleansed\,/ made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (dove l’umano spirito si purga/e di salire al ciel diventa degno” Canto I\, 5-6.) \nWendy Walsh has a PhD in Italian Literature from UC Berkeley. She has been teaching Italian language and literature since 1979.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-class-wendy-walsh-continuing-the-journey-with-dantes-purgatorio-via-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162703
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201203T022653Z
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SUMMARY:My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 5 @ 7 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Tuesday\, January 5\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in paperback at https://bit.ly/ggpMyYear or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/MyYearAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA darkly comic look at what happens when a young woman attempts to drug herself into a year-long hibernation. Extreme? Indeed. It also speaks to the myriad ways we can all choose to numb out and disconnect from life. \n— Samantha \n  \nWinter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List\n\n“Ottessa Moshfegh\, more than any other writer I can think of\, is great at capturing the feelings of despondency and malaise that come with living when and how we do. There are plenty of negative words to describe the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation—she’s detached and depressed\, she’s cruel and unfeeling—but Moshfegh writes her with such care and specificity I felt like I could live in her head forever.”\n— Theo Henderson\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \nDescription\n\nEntertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of 2018 \n“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy\, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”\n— Entertainment Weekly  \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nNamed a Best Book of the Year by:\nThe Washington Post\, Time\, NPR\, Amazon\,Vice\, Bustle\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Kirkus Reviews\, Entertainment Weekly\, The AV Club\, & Audible \nAbout the Author\n\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Times bestseller. \nPraise For…\n\nNamed a best book of the year by The Washington Post\, Time\, The New York Times\, Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, GQ\, The Huffington Post\, Vice\, NPR\, LitHub\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly \nA New York Times bestseller \n“I don’t think I’m ever going to get over Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” —Parul Sehgal\, The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation-by-ottessa-moshfegh-ggp-online-book-club-2/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, January 5\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. \nYou can order a copy in paperback at https://bit.ly/ggpMyYear or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/MyYearAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA darkly comic look at what happens when a young woman attempts to drug herself into a year-long hibernation. Extreme? Indeed. It also speaks to the myriad ways we can all choose to numb out and disconnect from life. \n— Samantha \n  \nWinter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List\n\n“Ottessa Moshfegh\, more than any other writer I can think of\, is great at capturing the feelings of despondency and malaise that come with living when and how we do. There are plenty of negative words to describe the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation—she’s detached and depressed\, she’s cruel and unfeeling—but Moshfegh writes her with such care and specificity I felt like I could live in her head forever.”\n— Theo Henderson\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \nDescription\n\nEntertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of 2018 \n“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy\, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”\n— Entertainment Weekly  \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nNamed a Best Book of the Year by:\nThe Washington Post\, Time\, NPR\, Amazon\,Vice\, Bustle\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Kirkus Reviews\, Entertainment Weekly\, The AV Club\, & Audible \nAbout the Author\n\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Times bestseller. \nPraise For…\n\nNamed a best book of the year by The Washington Post\, Time\, The New York Times\, Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, GQ\, The Huffington Post\, Vice\, NPR\, LitHub\, The Guardian\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly \nA New York Times bestseller \n“I don’t think I’m ever going to get over Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” —Parul Sehgal\, The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation-by-ottessa-moshfegh-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Alex Davies (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Alex Davies’ Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car tells the dramatic\, colorful story of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google\, Uber\, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. \nAlex is a senior editor at Business Insider where he oversees the transportation coverage. He was formerly an editor at WIRED\, where he launched the transportation section in 2016. Along with autonomous vehicles\, he has covered everything from designing bike lanes to electric aviation to the quest to rebuild American infrastructure. He has written features about how General Motors beat Tesla in the race to build the affordable\, long-range electric car\, the nascent flying car industry\, and X\, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory.” A New Yorker by birth\, Mr. Davies has lived in California’s Bay Area since 2014. \nAarian Marshall is a staff writer at WIRED covering the business of moving people and things. Before WIRED\, Marshall wrote for The Atlantic’s CityLab\, GOOD\, and Agri-Pulse\, an agriculture trade publication. She’s based in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-alex-davies-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER \nWhether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program\, join our booksellers for a lively online discussion about each of the awesome titles in the program. Read three of the eight recommended books by February 28th and earn rewards from Bookshop\, Birichino Winery\, and Pacific Cookie Company! Read more about the Winter Reading Program here. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-winter-reading-program-mixer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210106T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER \nWhether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program\, join our booksellers for a lively online discussion about each of the awesome titles in the program. Read three of the eight recommended books by February 28th and earn rewards from Bookshop\, Birichino Winery\, and Pacific Cookie Company! Read more about the Winter Reading Program here. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-winter-reading-program-mixer-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210108T193000
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SUMMARY:Words Out Loud Spoken Word Series
DESCRIPTION:Imogen Arate and John Blair read from their poetry. Plus open mic and literary trivia quiz. \nImogen Arate is an award-winning Asian-American poet and writer and the Executive Producer and Host of the weekly poetry podcast Poets and Muses (https://poetsandmuses.com/). She has written in four languages and published in two. Her work was most recently featured in ChArt Journal 2020\, The New Verse News and the literary journal\, Dyst. \nJohn Blair has published six books\, most recently Playful Song Called Beautiful (University of Iowa Press\, 2016) as well as poems & stories in The Colorado Review\, Poetry\, The Sewanee Review\, The Antioch Review\, New Letters\, and elsewhere. His seventh book\, The Art of Forgetting\, is forthcoming this December from Measure Press. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Texas State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series/
LOCATION:MD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:philipwexler@msn.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162703
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Danielle Hawa Tarigha
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON SATURDAY\, JANUARY 9 AT 12PM PT WHEN DANIELLE HAWA TARIGHA DISCUSSES HER BOOK\, UPLIFT AND EMPOWER: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89568964677\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,89568964677#  or +13462487799\,\,89568964677#\nWebinar ID: 895 6896 4677\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kex7DqWe5z \nAbout Uplift and Empower \nDid you know that over 700 million people live on less than $2 a day? \nNearly 10% of the global population struggles to survive 24 hours at a time.Eradicating extreme poverty may seem like a simple issue\, but in reality\, it’s very complex. \nIn Uplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation you’ll learn about: \n\nThe history and context of poverty and how the Industrial Revolution shaped modern social structures\nMajor challenges caused by poverty and what it means to live within the poverty mindset\nInnovative solutions to addressing poverty\, such as new methods for job creation and community engagement\nAnd so much more…\n\nThis book is an exploration into one of the most pressing issues of our time. It’s for anyone interested in becoming part of the solution\, and everyone that’s ready to Uplift and Empower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-danielle-hawa-tarigha/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry & Short Stories Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual poetry & short stories reading featuring Brian Dempster (Seize)\, Caroline Kim (The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories)\, and Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts and Storage Unit for the Spirit House). \nAbout the authors and their books: \nBrian Komei Dempster is a professor of rhetoric and language and a faculty member in Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of San Francisco (USF)\, where he also serves as Director of Administration for the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies. editor of both From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America’s Concentration Camps and Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. Topaz\, his debut book of poetry\, received the 15 Bytes 2014 Book Award in Poetry. \nHis book Seize spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and ailing child — a child whose many medical problems create an obstacle course of moral and emotional dilemmas. How does a father come to terms with the large and unknowable mysteries of a child who cannot communicate in a “normative” way? How does a parent — especially one who is dependent on language — guide a child without the use of speech? And how does one become the parent of another when their own uncertainties\, their own wounds — intergenerationally from war\, from strained race relations\, from constantly being denied a place to belong — are still healing? \nCaroline Kim was born in Busan\, Korea but moved to America at an early age. She has lived on the East Coast\, Midwest\, and Texas but now makes her home in Northern California with her family. Her collection of stories\, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories\, won the 2020 Pitt Drue Heinz Literature Prize. You can find her on Twitter at @carolinewriting. \nExploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora\, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980’s America\, to a boy growing up in the middle of the Korean War\, to an immigrant father struggling to be closer to his adult daughter\, or to a suburban housewife whose equilibrium depends upon a therapy robot\, each character must face their less-than-ideal circumstances and find a way to overcome them without losing themselves. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try\, fail\, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other. With humor\, insight\, and curiosity\, Kim’s wide-ranging stories explore themes of culture\, communication\, travel\, and family. Ultimately\, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place–or people–that will feel like home. \nMaw Shein Win is a writer\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018) and her forthcoming second full-length collection of poetry will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. You can find her on Twitter @mawsheinwin. \nWith sharp focus and startling language\, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book\, Storage Unit for the Spirit House\, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral\, the material\, and the immaterial. Vinyl records\, felt wolverines\, a belt used to punish children\, pain pills\, and “show dogs with bejeweled collars” crowd into Win’s real and imagined storage units. Nats\, Buddhist animist deities from her family’s homeland of Burma\, haunt the book’s six sections. The nats\, almost all of whom were once humans who died violently\, inhabit the storage units and hover around objects while forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father’s cigarette smoke. \nYou can purchase the speakers’ works here: \nSeize: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2708/Seize.html \nThe Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2703/The_Prince_of_Mournful_Thoughts_and_Other_Stories_%28_Pitt_Drue_Heinz_Lit_Prize_%29.html \nStorage Unit for the Spirit House: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2189/Storage_Unit_for_the_Spirit_House.html \nInvisible Gifts: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2019/Invisible_Gifts.html \n15% off all purchases with discount code HOLIDAY15! \nChoose to ship your orders (free shipping for orders $30+) to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-short-stories-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210110T160000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason in Conversation with Diane Del Signore--virtually
DESCRIPTION:Discussing Mason’s most recent book A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth\, winner of the Simpson Library Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California Book Award for fiction. This event is hosted by Ashby Village. To register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83908237472. For further information: info@ashbyvillage.org or call 510.204.9200. Donations to Ashby Village encouraged. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 10\, 2021 – 2:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThese stories–among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner–cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile’s depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere\, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro\, these are tales of ecstasy\, epiphany\, and what the New York Times Magazine called the “struggle for survival…hand to hand\, word to word.” \n“An enchanting cabinet of curiosities and wonders….Mason is one of our best historical novelists\, creating panoramas of rich detail\, propulsive plot\, and artful character development….In his first story collection\, he shows how quickly and completely he can immerse readers in a foreign place and time….Nine tales of human endurance\, accomplishment\, and epiphany told with style and brio.”– Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \nDaniel Mason is also the author of The Piano Tuner\, A Far Country\, and The Winter Soldier. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Zoetrope\, and Lapham’s Quarterly. A recipient of a fellowship from the NEA\, he is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford. \nDiane Del Signore is Executive Director of the Simpso Literary Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-mason-in-conversation-with-diane-del-signore-virtually/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T183000
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SUMMARY:Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series - Anna Karenina
DESCRIPTION:Anna Karenina\, by Leo Tolstoy\nWhat if the best way to end 2020 is to read “the greatest work of literature of all time”*??\nAnna Karenina may clock in at 817 pages but—Kimberly swears to you—these are 817 delightful\, engaging\, thought provoking\, historically rich pages. Tolstoy’s masterpiece is full of insanely great characters\, forbidden love\, military intrigue\, vodka\, agrarian reform and lovable wise dogs—all told with much humor and super-accessible intelligence. \nHonestly\, who among us does not want to escape for a couple of months to snowy\, romantic Imperial Russia of the 1870s? \nIf you’re worried you might get bogged down\, never fear! Tom Stoppard’s film adaptation is a thing of beauty. Read some then dig in to the movie and come to Kimberly’s two lectures knowing exactly what’s up. \nPlease join the gang in tackling this literary challenge—the longest novel in the seminars yet. You will be so glad you did. \n*Debatable. But according to a poll of eminent writers by The Guardian. \nJoin Kimberly Ford\, for this two-part seminar series on Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina. We will be hosting this two-part series on the following dates: \nMonday\, January 11 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nMonday\, February 1 – 5:00-6:30 pm \nA copy of Anna Karenina is included in the price of this seminar series and will be shipped to you or can be picked up at Kepler’s. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all shipping costs will be waived for this series. The book should be read prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-intensive-literary-seminar-series-anna-karenina/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. \nWhere Do We Go From Chaos? \nAs Jon Meacham writes in a back-cover blurb\, “many of America’s most thoughtful voices offer their views of the next chapter of our national life\,” in Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump\, published this month by Santa-Cruz-based Wellstone Books. Join Stephen Mack Jones\, Mark Ulriksen\, Angela Wright Shannon\, and Steve Kettmann to hear brief excerpts from the essays and wide-ranging discussion. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast! \nHammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist STEPHEN MACK JONES is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers August Snow and Lives Laid Away\, which was short-listed for the CWA-UK “Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.” \nArtist and illustrator MARK ULRIKSEN has been a regular New Yorker magazine cover artist for over 25 years. He’s covered The Masters and British Open for Golf Digest\, painted murals for the Chicago Bears and written and illustrated the book Dogs Rule Nonchalantly. His past work for Wellstone Books includes the covers of Kiss the Sky by Dusty Baker\, Shop Around by Bruce Jenkins and Holy Toledo by Ken Korach. \nANGELA WRIGHT SHANNON is a freelance writer\, editor and actor. She was formerly a reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer\, managing editor for The Winston-Salem Chronicle weekly newspaper\, and a regular panelist on “North Carolina This Week” on North Carolina Public Television. \nSTEVE KETTMANN is the co-founder\, with Sarah Ringler\, of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (www.wellstoneredwoods.org)\, a Soquel writers retreat center\, and publisher of Wellstone Books. A former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle\, he conceived and edited Game Time\, a collection of New Yorker baseball writing by Roger Angell; authored One Day at Fenway and Baseball Maverick; and has co-authored more than 12 books\, including six New York Times bestsellers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-now-what/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. \nWhere Do We Go From Chaos? \nAs Jon Meacham writes in a back-cover blurb\, “many of America’s most thoughtful voices offer their views of the next chapter of our national life\,” in Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump\, published this month by Santa-Cruz-based Wellstone Books. Join Stephen Mack Jones\, Mark Ulriksen\, Angela Wright Shannon\, and Steve Kettmann to hear brief excerpts from the essays and wide-ranging discussion. \nRegister here for this free event on Crowdcast! \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nHammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist STEPHEN MACK JONES is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers August Snow and Lives Laid Away\, which was short-listed for the CWA-UK “Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.” \nArtist and illustrator MARK ULRIKSEN has been a regular New Yorker magazine cover artist for over 25 years. He’s covered The Masters and British Open for Golf Digest\, painted murals for the Chicago Bears and written and illustrated the book Dogs Rule Nonchalantly. His past work for Wellstone Books includes the covers of Kiss the Sky by Dusty Baker\, Shop Around by Bruce Jenkins and Holy Toledo by Ken Korach. \nANGELA WRIGHT SHANNON is a freelance writer\, editor and actor. She was formerly a reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer\, managing editor for The Winston-Salem Chronicle weekly newspaper\, and a regular panelist on “North Carolina This Week” on North Carolina Public Television. \nSTEVE KETTMANN is the co-founder\, with Sarah Ringler\, of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (www.wellstoneredwoods.org)\, a Soquel writers retreat center\, and publisher of Wellstone Books. A former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle\, he conceived and edited Game Time\, a collection of New Yorker baseball writing by Roger Angell; authored One Day at Fenway and Baseball Maverick; and has co-authored more than 12 books\, including six New York Times bestsellers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-now-what-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T180000
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Gretchen Rubin (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Gretchen Rubin‘s most recent release\, Outer Order\, Inner Calm is a lovely\, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering that shows us how to take control of our stuff—and\, by extension\, our lives. \nGretchen Rubin knows firsthand that creating order can make our lives happier\, healthier\, more productive\, and more creative. But for most of us\, a rigid\, one-size-fits-all solution doesn’t work. When we tailor our approach to suit our own particular challenges and habits\, we can find inner calm. \nWith a sense of fun\, and a clear idea of what’s realistic for most people\, Rubin suggests dozens of manageable tips and tricks for creating a more serene\, orderly environment\, including: \n\nNever label anything “miscellaneous”\nAsk yourself\, “Do I need more than one?”\nDon’t aim for minimalism\nRemember: If you can’t retrieve it\, you won’t use it\nStay current with a child’s interests\nBeware the urge to “procrasticlear”\n\nBy getting rid of things we don’t use\, don’t need\, or don’t love\, we free our minds (and our shelves) for what we truly value. \nGretchen is also the author of the bestselling books The Happiness Project\, Happier at Home\, Better than Before\, and The Four Tendencies. She’s also written a bestselling biography of Winston Churchill\, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill\, and one of John Kennedy\, Forty Ways to Look at JFK. She also hosts a popular\, award-winning podcast\, “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” and a blog\, where she writes about her daily adventures in happiness and habit-formation. She is also a regular columnist for O\, The Oprah Magazine and makes regular appearances on CBS This Morning. Before turning to writing\, Gretchen had a career in law. A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School\, she clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-gretchen-rubin-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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