
Judy Juanita
American Book Awards: Judy Juanita, Anthony Cody, Ben Ehrenreich, much more
19 SEPTEMBER 2021 — sunday
The Before Columbus Foundation presents the 2021 American Book Awards, celebrating outstanding literary achievement from America's diverse literary community, honoring the winners: Ayad Akhtar (Homeland Elegies: A Novel, Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), Anthony Cody (Borderland Apocrypha), Ben Ehrenreich (Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time), Johanna Fernández (The Young Lords: A Radical History), Carolyn Forché (In the Lateness of the World: Poems), John Giorno (Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment), Cathy Park Hong (Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning), Randall Horton ({#289-128}: Poems), Gerald Horne (The Drawing of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century), Robert P. Jones (White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity), Judy Juanita (Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland), William Melvin Kelley and Aiki Kelley, illustrator (Dunfords Travels Everywheres); the Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Dr. Maryemma Graham; the Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism winner: Shana Redmond (Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson); and the Anti-Censorship Award winner: Jacob Soboroff (Separated: Inside an American Tragedy); celebrate these writers and their work, free, online, 2:00-4:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com)


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8 FEBRUARY 2025 — saturday
- Fiction writer, essayist and journalist Lauren Markham will discuss and read from her new book, Immemorial, the latest volume in Transit Books' Undelivered Lectures series, on the design and function of memorials, with writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit, Call Them By Their True Names, presented in partnership with the Mesa Refuge, Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, 3:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-02-08/lauren-markham-and-rebecca-solnit)
- The El Cerrito Poet Laureate program presents "Place and Placemaking in Poetry and Photography," a conversation about writing and imagining El Cerrito/Richmond in art, with poet, playwright, and novelist Ishmael Reed, who has written extensively about place and Richmond, El Cerrito, and Oakland, with Lewis Watts, professor, and photographer who photographs the Bay Area and Black diaspora, and El Cerrito Poet Laureate Tess Taylor, El Cerrito Community Center, Garden Room, 7007 Moeser Lane, El Cerrito, 4:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.el-cerrito.org/1561/Current-Poet-Laureate)
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- Writer, playwright, organizer, and educator Dr. Mahogany L. Browne, former San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, recording/performing artist Destiny Muhammad, and Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Emeritus Tshaka Campbell read and perform for a special Black History Month event celebrating the power of poetry and music, SJZ Break Room, 310 South 1st Street, San Jose, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/tiny-room-poetry-series-tickets-1131267263839?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3KxvMAG7M-3jW_crIJM_FFFNqnjaqJLOdtQdAjFIT_9_hYcW6MYQJSHU8_aem_C2VWI8RhXYOAhYnr_Nyevw)
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- Author of two National Book Award-winning novels, Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward will discuss her latest novel, Let Us Descend, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/ward-2025)
27 FEBRUARY 2025 — thursday
- Poet and author of The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros will discuss her first poetry collection in twenty-eight years, Woman Without Shame, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/cisneros-2025)
28 FEBRUARY 2025 — friday
- Author of the best-selling memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom will discuss his latest novel, The Little Liar, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/albom-2025)
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