Incidents of Travel in Poetry: The Poems of Frank Lima
2016-09-30 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Folio Books, 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Join City Lights’ Poetry Editor Garrett Caples, and Berkeley-based poet, Julien Poirier, for a presentation from their co-edited, posthumous Frank Lima anthology, Incidents of Travel in Poetry. A classically trained chef, born in Spanish Harlem in 1939, Lima’s poems are steeped in the pain and playfulness of the urban milieu in which they were created. Caples and Poirier will also read from their own works, including Caples’ new collection Power Ballads, published this month by Wave Books.

Tanya Holtland, Jennifer S. Cheng, + Maxwell Shanley
2016-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Modern Times Bookstore Collective, 2919 24th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Join Seattle-based poet Tanya Holtland and featured poets Jennifer S. Cheng (HOUSE A, forthcoming from Omnidawn) and Maxwell Shanley (THERE ARE TREES I SEE MY DEATH IN, forthcoming from Drop Leaf Press) to celebrate the release of Holtland’s chapbook, INNER RIVER, available now from Drop Leaf Press.
Drop Leaf Press’ first chapbook series launches with Tanya Holtland’s INNER RIVER, whose unusual format carries us across the breadth of the page and into the depths of our darkest and saturated currents of being. In verse both formal and experimental, Holtland interposes the geographies and geometries of natural landscapes with the metaphysical processes of memory and the building (and re-building) of a self.
About Our Readers:
TANYA HOLTLAND is a poet with roots in California and many other places. Her poetry and nonfiction appear in The Collagist, Statement Magazine, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, OXALIS, and elsewhere. She holds English and Creative Writing degrees from San Francisco State University. Currently she makes a home in Seattle, where there is so much water.
JENNIFER S. CHENG is the author of HOUSE A, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize, forthcoming this October. A Fulbright scholar, Kundiman fellow, and Pushcart Prize nominee, she has an image-text chapbook, Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press), and her work appears in Tin House, AGNI, DIAGRAM, The Normal School, The Volta, and elsewhere. Having grown up in Texas, Hong Kong, and Connecticut, she currently lives in San Francisco, where she is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press. www.jenniferscheng.com
MAXWELL SHANLEY lives in San Francisco, where he works as a bookseller. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University.

Mark Thompson Memorial Reading
2016-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Dog Eared Books Castro, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Mark Thompson lived until August 9, 2016 as a gay man, author, activist, proud leatherman, and lover. He wrote or edited several landmark Queer books, including the trilogy Gay Spirit, Gay Soul, and Gay Body as well as the books The Fire in the Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries; Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice; and Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement.
Come together Friday, September 30 at 7pm to celebrate Mark’s words and life at Dog Eared Books Castro, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Free admission and free refreshments. Copies of a selection of Mark’s books will be available for purchase.
Readers include Joey Cain, Brendan Cook, Ganymede, Trebor Healey, Rick May, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Carol Queen, Andrew Ramer, Will Roscoe, Sister Merry Peter, Karen Sundheim, Justin Tanis, Jim Van Buskirk, and Ken White. Trebor Healey and Rick May will mc.

Terry McDonell w/ Will Hearst
2016-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Book Passage Marin, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, 94925, United States
You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside,Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Sports Illustrated. In his revealing memoir The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he’s known are both heartbreaking and bitingly funny—playing “acid golf” with Hunter S. Thompson, practicing brinksmanship with David Carr and Steve Jobs, working the European fashion scene with Liz Tilberis, pitching TV pilots with Richard Price.
Here, too, is an expert’s practical advice on how to recruit—and keep—high-profile talent; what makes a compelling lede; how to grow online traffic that translates into dollars; and how, in whatever format, on whatever platform, a good editor really works, and what it takes to write well.
Taking us from the raucous days of New Journalism to today’s digital landscape, McDonell argues that the need for clear storytelling from trustworthy news sources has never been stronger. Says Jeffrey Eugenides: “Every time I run into Terry, I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he’s known and edited over the years, what the magazine business was like back then, how it’s changed and where it’s going, inside info about Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, old New York, and the Swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book.”
Terry McDonell has won numerous awards for his editorial work at various magazines and websites. He is also a novelist and poet, and has written and produced for film and television. In 2012 he was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. He is the president of the board of the Paris Review Foundation and serves on the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review. He lives in New York City.
