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DESCRIPTION:This is an online event on Zoom. After purchasing a ticket, you can access 
 the registration link. More ticketing info below.\n\nPurchase tickets on 
 Eventbrite: tiny.cc/pandemicpoetry\n\nJoin award-winning poets Nellie Wong, 
 Genny Lim, Kim Shuck, Maw Shein Win, and Alice Rogoff reading a selection 
 of their works. These five Bay Area poets will share their lifelong 
 experience of current events past and present through verse.\n\nNellie 
 Wong, Oakland Chinatown born, has published four books, featured in the 
 documentary film “Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian-American Poets" and has a 
 building at Oakland High School named after her.\n\nGenny Lim is a San 
 Francisco Jaz Poet Laureate emeritus. An author of 5 poetry collections and 
 her play Paper Angels was broadcast on PBS television in the US, Canada, 
 and China. She is the co-winner of the American Book Award.\n\nKim Shuck is 
 a bead artist, educator, and writer. She is the current 7th Poet Laureate 
 of San Francisco and the solo author of seven books. In 2019 she received a 
 National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.\n\nAlice 
 Rogoff is the author of four poetry books including the winner of a Blue 
 Light Book Award. She is one of the editors of the Haight Ashbury Literary 
 Journal, a member of the Labor Fest writers’ group, and is an activist 
 for many causes.\n\nMaw Shein Win’s poetry books include “Score and 
 Bone” and “Invisible Gifts: Poems”. Her second full-length poetry 
 collection “Storage Unit for the Spirit House” will be published in 
 Fall 2020.\n\nThis event is a benefit and fundraiser for the Freedom 
 Socialist Newspaper Fund Drive.\n\nYou can choose one of four levels of 
 donation for your ticket (fees not incl.):\n\nTier 1 - $6\nTier 2 - 
 $10\nTier 3 - $20\nTier 4 - $30\n\nAfter you purchase your ticket, you will 
 be provided a registration link in an email to complete the details for 
 joining the webinar on the day of the poetry reading.\n\nSponsored and 
 hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area\n\nFor info: 
 bayareafsp@socialism.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/17/18833103.php
SUMMARY:Poetry in the Time of the Pandemic & Other Earthly Ills
LOCATION:Zoom (access registration after ticket purchase)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/17/18833103.php
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