“You are beaming as before, with a smile barely perceptible
and jealousy tucked into the pleats of your dress or into your dewlaps.
You do not toy with the trick of ‘-isms,’ and yet
you are still the born killer, leaving me terminally unrecoverable.”
From Sappho’s Lover

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Join the ladies of PAGE TO STAGE in a rhythmic revelation featuring heartsongs, cold truth, necessary tears, and lifesaving laughter. The first time we set the blaze…this time we’re fanning the flames into wildfire!

Featuring the incandescent talents of San Diego poets:
Jennifer Phelps
Julia Julima
Susan Mumma
Jessica Ruane
Carol Ann Van Natten
Tara Covington
Kamaria Kaddara Simone
Dharlene Marie Fahl
Thuy Do
April Ventura

Doors open at 6pm. $5 cover, $3 for students (w/ID). Free for museum members and seniors.

This is a FREE SPEECH JAM! 17 and up only, please.

“…we bend with the wind, we carry the shape of the world in between our laughter and the ache in our heartbeats…we are dangerous because we know…we are necessary because we understand…”
~Stacy Dyson

Michael Collier

First up is Michael Collier.  He will be reading next Thursday November 10th 2011 at 7 pm in the Love Library, Rm 430, at San Diego State University.  Collier is the author of five books of poetry, a translation of Euripedes’ Medea, and has edited three anthologies of poetry. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. He is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the oldest literary conference in the United States, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.  See you at the Michael Collier poetry reading next Thursday at 7pm.

Kate Bernheimer

The week after Michael Collier reads his poetry, Kate Bernheimer will be reading her.  She has published novels, stories, children’s books, and essays on fairy tales, and has edited three influential fairy-tale anthologies. In 2005, she founded, and currently remains editor of, Fairy Tale Review, the leading literary journal dedicated to fairy tales as a contemporary art form.  Bernheimer will have a fiction reading on Monday November 14th 2011 at 7pm in Love Library, room 430.  On Tuesday, Nov. 15, 3.30pm-4.30pm there will be a talk on Fairytales at the Love Library, room LL 430.  We’ll see you there!

• http://www.poetryflash.org/socal_opens.html#sd
• So Say We All is a San Diego based non-profit organization that organizes poetry readings among other things.  Check out what events are coming up in San Diego here: http://www.sosayweallonline.com/?category_name=upcoming-events
• Poetix has a listing of poetry readings in Southern California (including San Diego and LA area) here: http://poetix.net/calendar.htm
• San Diego Writers Inc. has a listing of San Diego events and readings here: http://www.sandiegowriters.org/?page_id=355

Did we miss any websites that list poetry readings and/or workshops for San Diego, CA, Summer 2011?  Put any links we left out in the comments.

April and May 2011 Events

Sunday, April 10th: Brian Evenson Workshop, “Craft of Fiction and the Novel” *

Monday, April 11th at 7 p.m.: Brian Evenson Reading at SDSU’s Scripps Cottage

Sunday, April 17th, Time/Location TBA: Nikola Madzirov Workshop **

Monday, April 18th at 7 pm: Nikola Madzirov Reading, Love Library Room 430

Sunday, May 1st: Gioia Timpanelli Workshop, “The Art of Storytelling” *

Monday, May 2nd at 7 p.m.: Gioia Timpanelli Reading at SDSU’s Scripps Cottage

Sunday, May 8th, Time/Location TBA: Rikki Ducornet Workshop **

Monday, May 9th at 7 pm: Katie Farris and Rikki Ducornet Reading, Love Library Room 430

Generous support from Poets & Writers, The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, and Associate Students makes this reading series possible.

Past Events

Monday, February 14th at 2 pm: Jerry Farber lecture, “Against Creative Writing,” Love Library Room 430

Sunday, Feb. 27th: Christian Wiman Workshop, “The Form and Pulse of Poetry”

Monday, Feb. 28th at 7 p.m.: Christian Wiman Reading at SDSU’s Scripps Cottage

Monday, March 14th at 7 pm: Michael McClure and Jerome Rothenberg Reading, Scripps Cottage

Thursday, March 17th: G.C. Waldrep Workshop, “Craft of Poetry”

Friday, March 18th at 7 p.m.: Piotr Florczyk, Boris Dralyuk, and G.C. Waldrep Reading at SDSU’s Scripps Cottage

Thursday, March 24th at 7 pm: David Kirby Reading, Love Library Room 430

Friday, March 25th, Time/Location TBA: David Kirby Workshop

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