Well-RED: Mantecón, Duran, + Myers

Special time: doors open 8pm, reading starts 8:30pm SHARP!

Arturo Mantecón is a poet, short story writer, and translator. His work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies including Poetry Now, Left Curve, Americas Review, Café Bellas Artes, Bliss, The Dunes Review and Skidrow Penthouse. He has worked for the past seven years on translating the work of the great, mad Spanish poet Leopoldo María Panero. His two published books of selected poems by Panero are My Naked Brain (Swan Scythe Press, 2011) and Like and eye in the hand of a beggar (Editions Michel Eyquem, 2013). Mantecón’s latest book is Memories, Cuentos Verídicos, y Otras Outright Lies, a collection of short stories. He holds a MA in philosophy from University of California at Davis. He was born in Texas and grew up in Detroit. He currently lives in Sacramento, California.

Roberto Tinoco Duran currently resides in San José, California and is a graduate of San José State University. He has performed his poetry in major conferences and venues from San Francisco to New York. In addition, Duran has been reading/performing his works in San José and the bay area for decades, including performances for major festivals in San Diego, Los Angeles and Fresno. Duran’s book of poems Triple Crown (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, 1997) was used in the course curriculum at Cornell University, New York where he was part of a conference of leading Latino writers/poets from the US and abroad. Duran will be reading from his new poetry book MAXIMUM IN MINIMUM (CreateSpace, 2016).

Tim J. Myers is a writer, storyteller, and songwriter living in Santa Clara, CA, where he’s a senior lecturer at Santa Clara University. His Nectar of Story:Poems received superb endorsements from nationally-known writers Chase Twichell, Grace Cavalieri, Abenaki storyteller and writer Joseph Bruchac, and National Book Award finalist Ron Hansen. Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body is a full-length collection from BlazeVox, and his chapbook That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant was published by Pecan Grove. He has published over 130 poems, won a national poetry contest judged by John Updike, and won a prize in the international Writers of the Future Contest for science fiction. He writes for adults and children; his children’s book Basho and the Fox was read aloud on NPR, made the New York Times bestseller list for children’s book, and was a Smithsonian Notable children’s book for 2001, among other honors. He has published 15 children’s books (a number of them poetry-based) and one on the way. Find him at www.TimMyersStorySong.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TimJMyers1.

Admission: $2 Suggested Donation; No one turned away.

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