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SUMMARY:Dana Levin and Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Dana Levin and Dean Rader read from their latest poetry collections\, Banana Palace and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry. \n\nAbout Dana Levin \n\nDana Levin’s fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016). Previous collections include In the Surgical Theatre and Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Poem-a-day\, Boston Review\, and Poetry. Levin is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. \n\nAbout Dean Rader \n\nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-levin-and-dean-rader/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Others: A Dramatic Reading by Matthew Rohrer & Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a performance of Matthew Rohrer’s novel in verse\, The Others\, featuring guest readers including Daniel Handler and Arisa White. Please join us! \nA gripping\, eerie\, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes\, we follow an entry-level publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories\, science fiction adventures\, Victorian hashish eating\, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. \n— \nMatthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books\, 2015)\, Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books\, 2011)\, A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2009)\, Rise Up (Wave Books\, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press\, 2004)\, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press\, 2001)\, and co-author\, with Joshua Beckman\, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press\, 2002)\, and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book\, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and teaches at NYU. \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\, dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collectionYou’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-others-a-dramatic-reading-by-matthew-rohrer-special-guests/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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