EM Reading Series

Thursday, May 18th, 7:30

Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series at Modern Times Bookstore presents:

Poet and Novelist Kim Addonizio

with Ecstatic Monkey members
John Cleary and Jaime Robles

Kim Addonizio's debut novel, Little Beauties, was described by O
magazine as "a wonderfully optimistic, quirky testament to the power
of chance encounters" and was chosen as a Best Novel of the Month by
Book of the Month Club. Addonizio's several books of poetry include
Tell Me, a finalist for both the National Book Award and PEN USA West
Book Award; and most recently What Is This Thing Called Love. With
Dorianne Laux, she co-authored The Poet's Companion:  A Guide to the
Pleasures of Writing Poetry. She has also published a book of stories,
In the Box Called Pleasure, and co-edited an anthology about tattoos,
Dorothy Parker's Elbow. Her awards include two NEA Fellowships, a
Pushcart Prize, and  Guggenheim Fellowship.

John Cleary is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at San
Francisco State University.  He has recently been published in New
Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at 14 Hills, Sidebrow and The
Washington Square Review out of NYU.

Jaime Robles's recent books include the artist's book Loup d'Oulipo and
the poetry chapbook Appropriated Love (Woodland Editions). She also
wrote the libretto for the chamber opera Diary. She is currently the
editor and publisher of Five Fingers Review and teaches in the Writing
& Consciousness Program at New College of California, San Francisco.

Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, between 19th and 20th
Thursday, May 18th, 7:30



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