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Sep.21.2012
Renewing the World: A Weekend of Mindfulness, Mediation, and Writing Practice in the Tradition of Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh
Friday, November 9 through Sunday, November 11, 2012
Ben Lomond Quaker Center, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Led by Maxine Hong Kingston with Wendy Johnson and...
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Apr.25.2012
Saturday, May 5, 11:00 am Presenting her book, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Authors Pavilion Saturday, May 5, 1:00 pm Presenting with Phyllis Hoge on her upcoming book of poetry, Hello, House, illustrations done by Maxine Hong Kingston
Alana Pavilion Sunday, May 6, 12:00 pm Presenting James D....
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Mar.15.2012
We found the old torn-in-half map in the basement of the house we were living in after the Big Fire of 1991.
The map starts with the Berkeley fire of 1923. The logo which wraps all the way around the map refers to The Oak-Covered Campus. It is oak-covered no more.
Karen Zukor is...
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Nov.07.2011
“Veterans’ stories and poems are immense inscope, and in heart, and—amazingly—full oflife and laughter. They … tell the truth, andso make peace.” –Maxine Hong Kingston
On Veterans Day (11/11/11), award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston will lead a reading of veterans’ writings at Friends Meeting...
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Feb.06.2011
I have a different name in China than I do in the West. I am known as the author Tong Ting Ting.
And I am part of World Chinese literature. One can be an American writing in English, and the Chinese will still proudly claim her as their own.
My new book, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, is...
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Jan.23.2011
Jan. 25 - 7:30 p.m. The Los Angeles Central Library. An interview with Andrew Lam.
Jan. 26 - 7:00 p.m. The Hammer Theater in Los Angeles.
Jan. 31 - 7:00 p.m. The 92nd St. Y, New York. With Leslie Marmon Silko and Toni Morrison.
Feb. 1 - A Lunar New Year Benefit for the 20th...
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Feb.01.2010
Here's the poster for TENDERNESS: A KPFA VALENTINE EVENING.
I hope to see you there!
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Feb.23.2009
I'd like to announce an evening at La Peña that will feature the Veterans of War Veterans of Peace I've been working with:
Reclaiming Norooz, Reflections of Rebirth and Survival from the Clutches of WarMarch 20th, 8:00 pm at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.
$10-12 tickets...
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Nov.03.2008
The week of summer that we were in Hawai'i visiting our son, Barack Obama brought his family to visit his tutu, his grandmother Toot. Crowds welcomed them with munificent aloha. Commentators back on the mainland worried, the presidential candidate had gone off to a foreign, barely American place....
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Dec.03.2007
My way of writing is that I always have to be exploring. I'm always going into new territory. To just look back and try to remember what the old words were, it just would not be right.
–Me, quoted on Powells.com, December 3rd, 2003
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About Maxine
Maxine Hong Kingston was born on October 27th, 1940, in Stockton, California. She was the first of six American-born children; her parents, Tom and Ying Lan Hong, had had two children in China before they came to America. Her mother trained as a midwife in To...
Causes Maxine Kingston Supports
Amnesty International