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May 9, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Bowery Women All-Stars Poetry Reading

Featuring Cheryl Boyce Taylor Cynthia Kraman

Janet Hamill Maggie Dubris Martha Rhodes

When: Wednesday May 9th

7 p.m.

Where: McNally Robinson Bookstore

52 Prince Street, NYC

Admission: Free

Bowery Women: Poems

Bob Holman and Marjorie Tesser, Editors (Bowery Books)

Both local and universal in scope, the dynamic anthology Bowery Women: Poems showcases one “signature poet” from scores of women who have delighted, inspired, and shocked audiences at New York City’s Bowery Poetry Club performance space. Embodying the collection’s diversity, the poets reading this evening include Martha Rhodes, founder of Four Way Books and the Readings on the Bowery series; “hypnotic surrealist” poet and performer Janet Hamill; award-winning poet and playwright Cynthia Kraman; Trinidadian artist and teacher Cheryl Boyce Taylor; and former paramedic and guitarist Maggie Dubris. Join us for a tribute to another great New York performance space and the women who rock it.

A reception and book signing will follow the reading.

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April 29, 2007 6:30 pm to May 29, 2007 7:45 pm

The Great Hall
Cooper Union
7 East 7th St

When: Sunday, April 29
Where: The Great Hall at Cooper Union: 7 East 7th St.
What time: 6:30–7:45 p.m.

With Nadine Gordimer

Tickets: $15/$10 PEN Members
Purchase tickets from Smarttix: www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444

May 3, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

192 Books, 192 10th Ave, New York, NY

Starting with the discovery of a neglected packet of WWII letters, Beatrix Ost  leads us back through her childhood, and explores the lasting influence of memory.  Her home in Bavaria sheltered forced laborers, gypsies, displaced generals and spies, and Dachau inmates on their way back East.  This is a direct, unsentimental yet poetic memoir,  and one you will not soon forget.

May 24, 2007 / 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

The Old Stone House
5th Avenue
btw 3rd and 4th Streets
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Price: $5

In honor of Mother’s Day, ALISON LOWENSTEIN, author of City Baby Brooklyn, will read from her novel-in-progress, MOMMY GROUP, about a group of Park Slope moms. TOM RAYFIL will read from his new book, PARALLEL PLAY, about a Park Slope mom, SMARTMOM (aka Louise Crawford) will read excerpts from her Brooklyn Papers column.

May 3, 2007 / 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

BAM Cafe, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

$45 (get tickets)
About Eat, Drink & Be Literary:

A unique series for sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters, Eat, Drink & Be Literary continues the momentum of the past two sell-out series, bringing major contemporary authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, readings, and discussions that are always entertaining and engaging.

Events begin with a sumptuous buffet created by BAMcafé’s acclaimed executive chef, Coleman Foster, with premium wine provided by Pine Ridge Winery; live acoustic music accompanies dinner. Following the performance and dinner, authors read from their work and are interviewed by a moderator, providing a forum for authors to talk candidly about the artistic and thematic issues that inform their work. An audience Q&A and a book signing complete the evening.

About the author:

“In this lovingly told and poetic novel, Cisneros uses the storytelling art to give these voiceless ones a voice, and to find the border to the past, imbuing the struggles of her family and her countries with the richness of myth.”—LOS ANGELES TIMES ON  CARAMELO

“I really wanted to expand and push myself and do something that I didn’t have a model for. I didn’t even know how to make what I wanted. I just knew that I could see it in my mind’s eye for a flash of a second and then I was in the dark. So I was mainly in the dark, experimenting.”—SANDRA CISNEROS

Sandra Cisneros lives and writes in San Antonio, Texas. Her work includes a collection of poetry; a collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek; a children’s book; and two novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo. She has worked as a teacher to high school dropouts, a poet-in-the-schools, and a visiting writer at a number of universities. Cisneros was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995.

Interviewed by Jessica Hagedorn.

Dinner music TBA

May 22, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

192 10th Ave at 21st Street, New York

Seating is limited, please call 212.255.4022 to check if all seats have been reserved.
MIRANDA JULY
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
From 192 Books:

Filmmaker, musician, actress, performing artist and writer Miranda July will be making her only New York City appearance in support of her debut collection of stories. Miranda wrote, directed and starred in the feature film Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the special jury prize at Sundance. Now she turns her marvelous talents to fiction. You won’t be disappointed.

This event will take place at the Paula Cooper Gallery.