Lizzy Acker and Amira Pierce and others are organizing a cool little reading in the Mission District near Dolores Park. It's a "funny/sexy/sad" reading, which means ... I should let them explain:

because everything you hear will either be funny, sexy or sad. seriously. really funny, really sad or really dirty. i swear. you will be laughing or crying or covering your lap and trying not to make eye contact with anyone. it will be amazing.

Well! I for one will bring a dinner napkin.

The readers include Clare Marie Myers, Amira Pierce, Adam Moskowitz, Lizzy Acker, and myself. It happens at Maxfields House of Caffeine (on Dolores and 17th Street) at 7:30PM, Thursday, February 7th. A flier's included here.

(By the way ... I had nothing to do with the "genius" bit on the poster. I fully blame Lizzy for it.)

Ecstatic Monkey presents a reading with Christine Allen-Yazzie, author of The Arc and the Sediment, at Modern Times Bookstore on Thursday, July 12 at 7:30PM. Ana Maria Ventura and I will be reading as well. Light nourishment is usually provided. The entry price is, unlike freedom, free.

Thursday, July 12
7:30PM
Free

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco

(A follow-up to this event can be found at my field trip report.)

Watchword Press' Whole Story, a multimedia event of visual and performance art in reaction to my short story "A Concordance of One's Life". Watchword published my story in fall of 2005 and selected it in February for their second Whole Story event. The show is open to the public and I warmly invite you to attend. Some information:

Whole Story: A Concordance of One's Life
Friday May 4th and Saturday May 5th
7PM - 11PM

The LAB
2948 16th Street (at Capp), San Francisco
(Near the 16th Street BART station)

Admission: $5 (cheap!) which includes a chapbook.

More information can be found at Watchword's web site. They've also posted an electronic copy of "Concordance" there as well. (Although I'm not privy to the artwork yet, I suspect it will make a lot more sense if you've read the story prior to attending.)

Melissa Endo and I read at the release party for Dustin Heron's fantastic new book Paradise Stories published by the up-and-coming Small Desk Press. I had the honor of leading a fiction workshop at San Francisco State University where Dustin first began crafting this collection. He's a great writer with a sharp eye for human fallibility and tenacity -- go get a copy.