Readings this week
I will be reading at those places this Saturday:
Please celebrate with us as we launch Issue Seven of
Parthenon West Review
Our first reading will be at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center
SFSU Humanities Building, Room 512
1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
featuring
MAXINE CHERNOFF
CAMILLE DUNGY
ANHVU BUCHANAN
HOLLIE HARDY
FRANÇOIS LUONG
Maxine Chernoff is the author of six books of fi ction and eight books of poetry, most recently The Turning (2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press. She recently translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (Omnidawn, 2009), with her husband Paul Hoover, with whom she also co-edits New American Writing. Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.
Camille T. Dungy is author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006) and Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, due January 2010). She is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009) and co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009). Dungy is associate professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Anhvu Buchanan’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 580 Split, William and Mary Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Transfer, and Cream City Review. He is the first place winner of the 2009 Barbie Cage Haiku Contest and inaugural winner of Virginia Tech’s Steger Poetry Prize. He co-curates the Living Room Reading series with poet Ric Delia and is finishing up his MFA at San Francisco State University.
Hollie Hardy’s poetry has appeared in Transfer, Milvia Street Journal, Goetry, and Boxcutter. She is an MFA candidate for poetry at San Francisco State University, where she also earned her BA in Creative Writing. She is a poetry editor for Fourteen Hillsand curator of The Velvet Revolution, a weekly open mic reading series. Her current project is a series of “Survival Poems” with titles ruthlessly appropriated from The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook.
François Luong, originally from Strasbourg, France, currently lives in San Francisco. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Action Yes, Cannibal, Bombay Gin, New American Writing and elsewhere. In addition to his translations of Rémi Froger he is also translating Esther Tellermann, a.rawlings and other French and Canadian poets. His translation of angela rawlings' The wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, Canada, 2005) is forthcoming in 2012 through Un clou dans le fer (France).
San Francisco State University Poetry Center is in Room 512 of SFSU's Humanities Building.
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132
For more information email: editors@parthenonwestreview.com
Bernal Yoga Literary Series
The Bernal Yoga Literary Series continues its 2009-2010 program by
presenting six writers who will read from their own creative work.
The reading will take place on Saturday, May 8, 2010. Fiction
writers KM Soehnlein and Maggie Shipstead and poet Dina Hardy will be featured. Three other other local authors, Karin Cotterman, François Luong, and Melissa Stein, will also share their work. A reception
will follow the reading.
The Bernal Yoga Studio is located on 461 Cortland Avenue, in Bernal
Heights in San Francisco. The reading begins promptly at 7pm. A
small donation at the door is welcomed.
When: Saturday, May 8, 2010 from 7-8:30pm (the event starts on time).
Who: Dina Hardy (Poet), KM Soehnlein and Maggie Shipstead (Fiction Writers)
Where: Bernal Yoga on 461 Cortland St., San Francisco (Cross street:
Andover) (directions at www.bernalyoga.com ).
There is a $5 suggested donation to help cover expenses. Any excess is
offered as a contribution to the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.
Contact info or questions for public and media: costello.elizabeth@gmail.com
Biographies of featured readers below:
K.M. Soehnlein is very happy to launch his third novel, Robin and Ruby, into the world. The book is a sequel to his debut, The World of Normal Boys, and updates that novel's teenage characters into their early 20s. Soehnlein has also published the novel You Can Say You Knew Me When as well as various essays and short fiction. He teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing Program and lives in San Francisco with his husband, theater artist Kevin Clarke
Dina Hardy earned degrees from Pratt Art Institute and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Agni, Black Warrior Review, Phoebe, Smartish Pace, Southeast Review and Meridian's Best New Poets anthology. She is a 2008-2010 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Maggie Shipstead is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her short fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Missouri Review, and Glimmer Train. Her story "The Cowboy Tango" received the VQR's Emily Clark Balch Prize for the best fiction published in its pages in 2009. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Please celebrate with us as we launch Issue Seven of
Parthenon West Review
Our first reading will be at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center
SFSU Humanities Building, Room 512
1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
featuring
MAXINE CHERNOFF
CAMILLE DUNGY
ANHVU BUCHANAN
HOLLIE HARDY
FRANÇOIS LUONG
Maxine Chernoff is the author of six books of fi ction and eight books of poetry, most recently The Turning (2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press. She recently translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (Omnidawn, 2009), with her husband Paul Hoover, with whom she also co-edits New American Writing. Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.
Camille T. Dungy is author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006) and Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, due January 2010). She is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009) and co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009). Dungy is associate professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Anhvu Buchanan’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 580 Split, William and Mary Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Transfer, and Cream City Review. He is the first place winner of the 2009 Barbie Cage Haiku Contest and inaugural winner of Virginia Tech’s Steger Poetry Prize. He co-curates the Living Room Reading series with poet Ric Delia and is finishing up his MFA at San Francisco State University.
Hollie Hardy’s poetry has appeared in Transfer, Milvia Street Journal, Goetry, and Boxcutter. She is an MFA candidate for poetry at San Francisco State University, where she also earned her BA in Creative Writing. She is a poetry editor for Fourteen Hillsand curator of The Velvet Revolution, a weekly open mic reading series. Her current project is a series of “Survival Poems” with titles ruthlessly appropriated from The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook.
François Luong, originally from Strasbourg, France, currently lives in San Francisco. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Action Yes, Cannibal, Bombay Gin, New American Writing and elsewhere. In addition to his translations of Rémi Froger he is also translating Esther Tellermann, a.rawlings and other French and Canadian poets. His translation of angela rawlings' The wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, Canada, 2005) is forthcoming in 2012 through Un clou dans le fer (France).
San Francisco State University Poetry Center is in Room 512 of SFSU's Humanities Building.
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132
For more information email: editors@parthenonwestreview.com
Bernal Yoga Literary Series
The Bernal Yoga Literary Series continues its 2009-2010 program by
presenting six writers who will read from their own creative work.
The reading will take place on Saturday, May 8, 2010. Fiction
writers KM Soehnlein and Maggie Shipstead and poet Dina Hardy will be featured. Three other other local authors, Karin Cotterman, François Luong, and Melissa Stein, will also share their work. A reception
will follow the reading.
The Bernal Yoga Studio is located on 461 Cortland Avenue, in Bernal
Heights in San Francisco. The reading begins promptly at 7pm. A
small donation at the door is welcomed.
When: Saturday, May 8, 2010 from 7-8:30pm (the event starts on time).
Who: Dina Hardy (Poet), KM Soehnlein and Maggie Shipstead (Fiction Writers)
Where: Bernal Yoga on 461 Cortland St., San Francisco (Cross street:
Andover) (directions at www.bernalyoga.com ).
There is a $5 suggested donation to help cover expenses. Any excess is
offered as a contribution to the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.
Contact info or questions for public and media: costello.elizabeth@gmail.com
Biographies of featured readers below:
K.M. Soehnlein is very happy to launch his third novel, Robin and Ruby, into the world. The book is a sequel to his debut, The World of Normal Boys, and updates that novel's teenage characters into their early 20s. Soehnlein has also published the novel You Can Say You Knew Me When as well as various essays and short fiction. He teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing Program and lives in San Francisco with his husband, theater artist Kevin Clarke
Dina Hardy earned degrees from Pratt Art Institute and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Agni, Black Warrior Review, Phoebe, Smartish Pace, Southeast Review and Meridian's Best New Poets anthology. She is a 2008-2010 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Maggie Shipstead is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her short fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Missouri Review, and Glimmer Train. Her story "The Cowboy Tango" received the VQR's Emily Clark Balch Prize for the best fiction published in its pages in 2009. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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