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September 16th

Upcoming Readings

Tue, 09/16/2008 - 4:47pm

THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL WHO JOINED ME FOR THESE RECENT READINGS!

Check back here for future dates. 

UPDATE:

“DOUGLASS READS 3”

Kicked Some Serious Ask on

TUESDAY OCTOBER 21st

6:30-8:00 pm

Last Laugh Cafe

1551 Dolores St. between 29th St. and Valley

San Francisco, CA 94110

(415) 824-5524

 

Members of my Fall Session of "Douglass St. Lab" read an evening of discoveries to a full house while The Last Laugh's friendly owner/word lover dished up salads and sandwiches. .

"The Lab," which focuses on the prose experiment, is named after the street where the group meets. "Douglass Reads 3" featured short shots from the works-in-progress of:

 

Salem Admassu

Caroline Chadwick

Diane Glaub

Kelly Machleit

Ashley Nelson

Mark Rubnitz

Ricky Serbin

Kaitlyn Scarr

John Trout

Liz Tucker

 

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UPDATE:

Reading at "The Velvet Revolution"

Tuesday, October 28th

San Francisco State's long-running reading series is being curated this semester by poet/sometimes prose-r Hollie Hardy. What a thrill it was to read with two of my current students: Heather Papp and Johnny Stafford. 

 

5 to 6:30pm

San Francisco State University 

Casablanca Room

(Creative Arts Building, rm 158)

 

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UPDATE:

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12th

I attended a HUGELY successful book launch for Jenny Pritchett, author of At or Near the Surface, winner of the 2008 Michael Rubin Chapbook Contest published by Fourteen Hills Press soon to be available at SPD

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UPDATE:

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20th

6-7:30pm. 

What a joy! To read at the SFPL! With such great writers! Full house and a podium and everything. Thanks to Nona for inviting me at to SFPL for hosting and for all the folks who came out to hear Janis talk to Beverely from Letters to the Dead. 

The San Francisco Public Library

Locations: Main Library Latino/Hispanic B

Address: 100 Larkin St. (at Grove)

Library Sponsored Public Program 

San Francisco State University (Queer) Creative Writing Faculty Writers:

 

Toni Mirosevich

Nona Caspers

Truong Tran and

Mary DeNardo.

 

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UPDATE: The "Champagne and Other Movie Drinks" reading was a blast. I loved reading with Toni, Jeff, and Doug. 

An audio recording of the excerpt I read can be found here: at Dublit

Many thanks for all of you who came out to the event.  It was on Wednesday 9/17 at 7:30 pm at:

Million Fishes Gallery hosted by Evan Rehill

2501 Bryant Street with 

*d.a. powell

*toni mirosevich

*jeff o'keefe

Here's a picture from a wonderful reading earlier this year at The Million Fishes Gallery with writer Leigh Gallagher. The dude with the hat in the window is yours truly. My friend Rick found this on the web.