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Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series
Why There Are Words welcomes readers from the Chicago
literary journal RHINO and special guest
Marin County poet Roy Mash for an evening of innovation and imagination. Join
us July 10 at Studio 333 in Sausalito. Doors open at 7pm; readings
begin at 7:15. $10. For complete details including the authors’ full bios, see
the Why There Are Words website at http://whytherearewords.com
Roy Mash's book Buyer’s Remorse
(Cherry Grove Collections) came out in 2014. His work has appeared in numerous
journals, including Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Nimrod, Passages North,
Poetry East, and RHINO. http://www.roymash.com
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Julia B. Levine's fourth poetry collection, Small Disasters Seen in
Sunlight (2014), inaugurates a new poetry
series for Louisiana State University Press. Her work has won numerous awards
and been published widely.
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Karen Llagas' Archipelago Dust is
her first collection of poetry. A recipient of numerous awards, she is a
Tagalog interpreter & lecturer at UC Berkeley.
Cintia Santana is the author of Forth
and Back: Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1985-1995) and her poems have appeared in The Missouri Review,
The Spoon River Poetry Review, Iron Horse Review, Sycamore Review, and Pleiades.
Kevin Simmonds is the author of Bend to it, Mad for Meat, and
Collective Brightness. He wrote the
music and co-wrote the script for Emmett Till, a river, as well as the musical score for the Emmy Award-winning
documentary HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica. www.kevinsimmonds.com
Daniel Suarez’s poems have
appeared in The Columbia Poetry Review,
RHINO, Metonym, and The Quotable, among others. He is Editor in Chief for The Gorilla
Press.
Angela Narciso Torres’ first book of poetry, Blood Orange, won the 2013 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry.
She is senior poetry editor of RHINO. www.angelanarcisotorres.com
Why There Are Words, curated by founder Peg Alford Pursell
www.pegalfordpursell.com, draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second
Thursday of the month. Studio 333 is located at 333 Caledonia Street,
Sausalito, CA 94965. Phone Studio 333 at 415-331-8272.