Bazaar Writers Salon

Please join us for a lovely night of writing and music at the Bazaar Writers Salon, coming up on Sunday, April 2nd in San Francisco at the Bazaar Café.

Bazaar Writers Salon
Readings by R. O. Kwon, Margaret Ross, and Essy Stone
Music by Armando Alcaraz
Hosted by Peter Kline

Sunday, April 2nd, 6:00 p.m.
Bazaar Café, 5927 California St., SF

Armando Alcaraz’s original songs are in English and his native Spanish and have influences from both Latin American, traditional Mexican and American folk. Armando uses his songs and music to facilitate transformation, integration, and healing in contemplative contexts and as a tool for his leadership consulting practice.

R. O. Kwon’s first novel, Heroics, is forthcoming from Riverhead. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in Noon, The Guardian, VICE, Electric Literature, Time, The Believer, and elsewhere. Named one of Narrative’s “30 Below 30” writers, she has received fellowships from Yaddo, Omi International, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, the Steinbeck Fellows Program, and the Elizabeth George Foundation, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Born in South Korea, she’s mostly lived in the United States.

Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare (Omnidawn, 2015). Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

Essy Stone has recently published her first collection of poetry, What It Done to Us, with Lost Horse Press. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Essy spent most of her life as a waitress in East Tennessee before receiving her MFA in Poetry from the University of Miami. Her poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, and the New Yorker. She will be pursuing a PhD in the fall.