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April 29, 2018Creating Home: On Finding Yourself in Another Culture
Location: 4:30 p.m., The Brower Center, Tamalpais Room, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
Description: Bay Area Book Festival panel featuring authors Hernan Diaz (2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Rodrigo Hasbún, and Tommy Wieringa, moderated by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. For more information, https://baybookfest.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1N00000ohJDp
May 3, 2018ZYZZYVA Spring Issue Celebration, San Francisco
Location: 6:30 p.m., Mechanics's Institute Library, Fourth Floor, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: Featuring readings by contributors Natalie Serber, Christopher J. Adamson, Greg Sarris, Tom Barbash, and Mackenzie Evan Smith. Emceed by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. Free for ZYZZYVA readers.
May 12, 2018ZYZZYVA at the Petaluma Arts Center
Location: 7 p.m., Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville Street, Petaluma
Description: Featuring readings by current and past contributors Tom Barbash, Vanessa Hua, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Molly Giles, and Maddy Raskulinecz. For tickets, visit https://petalumaartscenter.org/events/?eid=11045
June 15, 2018Summer Dance Party 2018
Location: 6 p.m., Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco.
Description: ZYZZYVA's annual fundraiser, featuring Glen David Gold and Paul Beatty. Dancing, drinks, silent auction, and raffle. Tickets start at $25. For more info: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3379094
August 11, 2018ZYZZYVA Fiction Workshop with Anthony Marra
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA offices, 57 Post Street, San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Marra, award-winning author of "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" and "The Tsar of Love and Techno." Class size is very limited. Applications are due June 15. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/111999/fiction
August 18, 2018ZYZZYVA Poetry Workshop with Dean Rader
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA Offices, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Rader, author of the poetry collections "Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry," "Landscape Portrait Figure Form" and "Works & Days." Class size is very limited. Application are due by June 18. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/106864/poetry
September 22, 2018ZYZZYVA Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Caille Millner
Location: Mechanics's Institute Building and ZYZZYVA Offices, 57 Post St., San Francisco
Description: A one-day intensive workshop with Millner, author of the memoir "The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification" and a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Class size is very limited. Applications are due by July 23. For more information, visit https://zyzzyva.submittable.com/submit/106865/creative-non-fiction
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National Poetry Month: A Q&A with ‘I Know Your Kind’ author William Brewer
It’s rare that any book of poems, not to mention a first book, is as powerful as I Know Your Kind (96 pages; Milkweed) by William Brewer. This book, rooted in the physical and spiritual landscape of West Virginia, tackles the opioid epidemic in verse. Focusing on the small town of Oceana (nicknamed Oxyana for the record number of overdoses there), Oceana acts as a stand-in for West Virginia as a whole, which has the highest OD rate in the country. The book is at once dreamlike and visceral, and the images in it draw on the beauty and pain …Continue reading
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Tagged i know your kind, interview, meryl natchez, poem, poet, Poetry, q&a, Stegner Fellow, william brewer, zyzzyva no. 112
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