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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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  • Nicholas Mirzoeff discusses his book, To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7, exploring how images, and especially video, viewed outside Palestine enabled a dramatic switch in public opinion, in conversation with poet and scholar-activist Omar Zahzah, Terms of Servitude Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, and individuals from the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: medicinefornightmares.com/events/nicholas-mirzoeff-to-see-in-the-dark-a-conversation-with-omar-zahzah-and-the-center-for-convivial-research-and-autonomy)
  • House concert poetry reading by Los Angeles poets Paul Vangelisti, Nemo, also a noted translator of experimental Italian poetry, and poet and novelist Dennis Phillips, Measures, known for many previous literary projects, such as former literary book review editor of Sulfur, poetry editor of the L.A. Weekly, former director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Art Center, and founding editor, along with Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, of Littoral Books, $10 donation to attend the reading, payable via PayPal (harry@fullplatemedia.com) or Venmo (@harry-bernstein) All funds go to the poets, private Berkeley home address, 5:00 pm PDT (For more information email: harry@fullplatemedia.com)

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