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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Puckett, Gevirtz, Fraser, Phillips, Going, Reid, Moriarty, Robinson, Frank, Saidenberg, Cole, & Others: January 28, 2010, San Francisco, CA

Kelsey Street Press 35th Anniversary Reading

Michelle Puckett, Susan Gevirtz, Kathleen Fraser, Francis Phillips, Dale Going, Laurie Reid, Laura Moriarty, Elizabeth Robinson, Thaisa Frank, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Norma Cole, Nellie Wong, Rena Rosenwasser, Hazel White, Pat Dienstfrey, Tiff Dressen, Ramsay Breslin, Amber DiPietra, Val Witte & Lauren Levin read.

Come celebrate 35 years of innovative writing by women with snacks and bargain KSP books!

7:30 @ Books and Bookshelves
99 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA
Free and open to the public

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Puckett, Gevirtz, Gomez & Jones: January 26, 2010, Oakland, CA

Works in Progress Reading Series

Michelle Puckett, Susan Gevirtz, Shelly Gomez, and Nathan Jones
5:15 in the Bender Room, Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA
Free and open to the public
Light refreshments provided
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Chapman, Doxsee, & Ramke: January 22, 2010, Denver, CO

Octopus Books Presents:
J'Lyn Chapman, Julie Doxsee & Bin Ramke
Poetry Reading at The Dikeou Collection
6:30 PM
1615 California Street (at 16th Street), Suite 515

Please join us for this reading to celebrate Bin Ramke's newest book & Julie Doxsee's return to Denver.

J'Lyn Chapman holds a PhD from the University of Denver, where she studied text and image in the work of W.G. Sebald. She is the Graduate Academic Advisor and a lecturer at Naropa. As a writer, J'Lyn is working on a series of lyrical essays about sorrow and memory as well as a critical essay on images and text. Her work can be found in Sleepingfish, Fence, Thuggery & Grace and Conjunctions. Her chapbook, Bear Stories, was published by Calamari Press.

Julie Doxsee holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Recent publications include Undersleep from Octopus Books 2008 and Objects for a Fog Death forthcoming in 2010 from Black Ocean. She currently lives in Istanbul on the European shores of the Bosphorus, in a village once known as a summer retreat for Ottomans on holiday. She teaches creative writing, academic writing, and literature courses at Koc University, a private university near the Black Sea.

Bin Ramke's most recent book is Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems from Omnidawn. He edits the Denver Quarterly and is on the English Department faculty at the University of Denver, and also at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

For more information contact Mathias Svalina: mathias[DOT]svalina[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Octopus Books: www.octopusbooks.net
Octopus Magazine: www.octopusmagazine.com

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Ruocco & Rossell: January 21, 2010, San Francisco, CA

Joanna Ruocco & Broc Rossell

7 pm@ Adobe Book and the Back Room Gallery
3166 16th St.
San Francisco, CA, 94175
(415) 864-3936

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Brown & Trivedi: January 20, 2010, Athens, GA

Lily Brown & Amish Trivedi
Reading at the University of Georgia
Hosted by Michael Tod Edgerton
7pm @ Park Library
261 Park Hall
Sanford Dr. at Baldwin
Free and open to the public.
Contact: mtedgerton@tarpaulinsky.com

Lily Brown's first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, and Denver Quarterly, among other journals. Her chapbook, Old with You, is available from Kitchen Press.

Amish Trivedi is available for children's parties and your dog's wedding. Poems of his have appeared in the Backwards City Review, La Petite Zine, and his chapbooks are available from Beard of Bees and Cannibal Press, which has just released his newest collection, Museum of Vandals. An MFA candidate at Brown University, he lives in Providence, RI.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Zornoza, Arsenault, & Gaylord: January 19, 2010, Wilton, CT

Andrew Zornoza, Emily Arsenault, & Joshua Gaylord
First Book Authors: Panel Discussion
Moderated by Megan Smith-Harris
7pm @ Wilton Library
137 Old Ridgefield Road

Wilton, CT 06897-3000
Free and open to the public.
Registration recommended.
Contact: (203) 762-3950


Three new authors with recently published first books talk and read from their works and discuss their writing process and publication experiences. The three authors are: Emily Arsenault, whose book The Broken Teaglass was accepted for publication while she was working at the Wilton Library; Andrew Zornoza, with Where I Stay and Joshua Gaylord, Hummingbirds . Talk moderated by local documentary filmmaker and writer Megan Smith-Harris.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Strand & St. John: January 15, 2010, Chicago, IL

Julie Strand & Cindy St. John
Reading at Quimby's
Presented by Dancing Girl Press
7pm
1854 W. North
Chicago, IL
773.342.0910

Chapbook publisher Dancing Girl Press presents readings by poets Cindy St. John (People Who Are in Love Will Read This Book Differently) and Julie Strand (The Mae West Defense).

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Peet: January 5, 2010, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT

Visiting Alum Series: Christian Peet
Reading followed by Q & A & signing
7pm @ the Haybarn
123 Pitkin Road

Christian Peet is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009) and two chapbook-installments of his ongoing project The Nines, "Pluto: Never Forget," forthcoming from Interbirth Books, and "The Nines (Book 1)," from Palm Press. His work is included in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years, and appears in journals such as Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Octopus Magazine, and SleepingFish, among others.