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San Francisco Bay Area
Finishing Line Press Authors Event!
Poetry reading and celebration!
Ten Authors on July 10th! Don't Miss it!
Authors include; Susan Cohen, Donna Emerson, Iris Jamahl Dunkle,
Katherine Hastings, Kirsten Jones Neff, Connie Post,
Zara Raab, Dian Duchin Reed, Peter Weltner, & Toni L. Wilkes
Saturday July 10, 2010 4-6 p.m.
Rebound Bookstore
1611 4th Street
San Rafael, CA 94901 2714 415-482-0550
The poets will all be there for the event, emcee’d by Rebecca Foust.
There will be an Open Mic.
(Street parking available).
Champagne and cookies will be served.
The event is FREE and open to the public
For information call (415) 482-0550 or visit www.reboundbookstore.com
Or Hamilton Ink PR
(415) 381-8198
steph@hamiltoninkpr.com
http://www.reboundbookstore.com/
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Richard Levine author of the forthcoming That Country’s Soul
July 10th, 2010; 2pm,
Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock, NY w/Carl Rosenstock
Wednesday, Aug 4, Lena’s Caffe, Saratoga, NY
47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, (518) 583-0022
Thursday, Aug 26, Word Thursdays, Bright Hill Literary Center
94 Church Street, POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846-0193, (607)829-5055
w/Nicholas Johnson
Sept 4, Park Plaza Restaurant, 220 West Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn Hts
w/Carl Rosenstock
Friday, September 17, River Front Readings, PA, Phil Miller,
w/Nicholas Johnson
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Kathleen Kirk will read from her new book, Living on the Earth (New Women’s Voices #74),
on Sunday, July 11, at 2:00 p.m. at
Heartland Theatre,
in Normal, Illinois,
the weekend of the Sugar Creek Arts Festival. http://www.heartlandtheatre.org/season.html#living
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Sherry Chandler, author of Dance the Black-Eyed Girl,
will be reading at Carmichael’s Bookstore,
2727 Frankfort Avenue,
Louisville, Kentucky
July 11, 4 – 6 pm.
Other Finishing Line authors include Sheri L. Wright and Alan MacKellar.
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Donna Vorreyer, author of Womb/Seed/Fruit,
will be the featured reader at Molly Malone’s,
one of the longest running open mic/poetry events in the Chicago area,
on Monday, July 12 at 7 PM.
Molly Malone's
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
A trailer for Donna Vorreyer’s Womb/Seed/Fruit,
featuring photography by Tim Venchus, is posted on the author’s blog and website: visit http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/new-trailer-for-wombseedfruit/
or
http://www.donnavorreyer.com/news.php
to view the trailer.
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Marsha Mathews, author of NORTHBOUND SINGLE-LANE (click title to purchase)
• BOOK LAUNCH! Friday, July 16th, please join Marsha
as she celebrates the publication of her first book,
NORTHBOUND SINGLE-LANE.
The fun begins at 7 p.m.,
Antonio's Mexican Restaurant,
3590 S. Dixie Highway,
Dalton, GA.
Marsha will perform two mini-readings.
An open reading will be offered at 9 p.m.,
so bring your literary experiments, and sign in at the display table.
• Wednesday, August 4th, 2010,
will read "'Lone Goose' and Other Poems of Yearning" at the
Lady Bookworms Book Club
at Blue Waters Mountain Lodge in
Robbinsville, North Carolina
A book-signing will follow the event.
• Marsha will read a series of poems, Single Mom Northbound,
at a fund raiser for the
Eastgate Library in Chattanooga,
Saturday, September 18
Booksigning from 1-3 on Sunday, September 19th. Be there!
• Saturday, December 18th at 1 p.m.,
Marsha will present “Homebound and Other Poems of Hope and Renewal”
at the St. Pete Beach Public Library, in Florida.
All who attend will have a chance to begin a poem of their own, based on three simple steps. A book-signing will follow.
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Toni L. Wilkes author of Stepping Through Moons (click here to purchase)
Sunday, July 18th:
Reads with the Londonberry Poets at
Third Sunday Salon
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Affronti’s
235 Healdsburg Avenue
[behind LaCrema tasting room]
Healdsburg, CA
http://tonilwilkes.wordpress.com
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Scheduled Readings by Joyce Meyers
Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Fishtown Airways
200 East Girard Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Sponsored by: Plan B Press
Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Milkboy Café
824 W. Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19125
Sponsored by: Mad Poets Society
Bob Brooks, author most recently of Three-season Views,
will read at the Stockton Springs Community Library,
Stockton Springs, Maine,
on Thursday, July 22, at 7 PM,
along with Karin Spitfire, past Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine,
and George V. Van Deventer, past president of the Maine Live Poets Society.
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Linda Leedy Schneider editor of Mentor’s Bouquet (click here to purchase now)
Linda Leedy Schneider, Editor of Mentor's Bouquet,
will lead a daily Poetry Workshop
The Wonder of Words: Writing For Your Life
and also give Personal Writing Consultations at
Remember The Magic July 30- August 6
IWWG's 33 rd conference
Brown University
Providence, R. I.
www.iwwg.org
Hank Kalet, author of the forthcoming Certainties and Uncertainties
Tri-State Writers conference
Friday, Aug. 6, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Middlesex County College
Edison, NJ
Presentations on Poetry of engagement and op-ed writing, as well as a poetry
workshop.
Poetry reading
Wednesday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m.
PoetsWednesday series
Barron Arts Center
582 Rahway Avenue
Woodbridge, NJ 07095-3419
(732) 634-0413
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Libby Falk Jones, author of Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue
and
Sandy McCord, author of Dragon Well
Poetry Reading
Tuesday, August 17, at 6:30 p.m.
Madison County Library
507 W. Main St.
Richmond, KY 40475
(859) 623-6704
Libby Falk Jones, author of Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue
and
Sandy McCord, author of Dragon Well
Book signing
September 11, 5 - 8 p.m.
Hastings Bookstore
Richmond Centre
2193 Lantern Ridge Dr.
Richmond, KY 40475
(859) 624-0171
Libby Falk Jones, author of Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue
and
Sandy McCord, author of Dragon Well
will be among those who read at
Kentuckians Reading Kentuckians
September 18, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. CDT
Janice Holt Giles House
Knifley, KY
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Carol Hamilton, CONTRAPUNTAL (a finalist for the 2010 Oklahoma Book Award)
Thursday, September 2, 7 p.m.
Reading at Odd Fellows Music Hall,
228 S. 4th St.
Chickasha, OK.
September, 2010,
Featured Storyteller for Respect Diversity
at Downtown Library, Oklahoma City.
Sunday, November 7, 2 p.m.
Quartet Reading, Performing Arts Center,
Norman OK.
Thursday, November 18, 7 p.m.
Quartet Reading,
Benedict Street Market,
Shawnee, OK.
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Zara Raab
reads from her new chapbook
The Book of Gretel
Tuesday, September 7, 7 PM
3300 Club 9
3300 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
with other members of the Marin Poetry Center
Wednesday, September 15, 7 PM
Studio 333
333 Caledonia Street
Sausalito, CA
With Gillian Conoley, Mark Turpin, and Stefanie Marlis
www.zararaab.com
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Rosanne Sterne, author of Dancing in the Gaps
Poetry Reading
Thursday, September 16,2010 Time: 7 p.m.
Forza Coffee
3013 W 104th Ave., Suite 100
Westminster, Colorado 80031
Phone: 303.465.0605
Poetry Reading & Art Exhibition
Saturday, October 2, 2010 Time: 2 to 4 p.m.
Willow An Artisans Market
2400 W. Main Street
Littleton, Colorado 80120
Phone: 303.730.8521
St Louis Suite, Judith Pacht, Finishing Line Press
SCHEDULED BOOK LAUNCH, READINGS AND BOOKSIGNINGS
Saturday, October 9, 2 PM
Diesel Books, Brentwood
(to be arranged; emailed Grant Outerbridge 4.20.10; telephone contact with programmer in process)
Ocean Park Library
2601 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405 310. 458.8683
Judith reading with Richard Archila
jamie.watson@smgov.net
Saturday, November 13, 7:30 PM
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291 310. 822.3006
Reading with David St. John
(to be arranged)
Fred Whitlock’s Small Press Fair
at the Church in OceanPark
(to be arranged)
with Dorothy Baressi
at FrankGallery, Bergemot Station (Sarah McClay)
Jackson Wheeler’s series in Oxnard
(to be arranged – he has me in his lineup for 2011)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 7:00 PM
Barnes and Noble Poetry Series
Grossmont Center, CA
Seretta Martin, host
619. 255.5057
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Rachael Z. Ikins Transplanted reading at
Weds November 3 7 pm
Rachael Ikins reads from collected works at
historic Caffe Lena
Saratoga Springs, NY
www.rachaelikins.com
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Judith Bader Jones, author of Moon Flowers on the Fence
Events planned to date.
Friday, November 19, 7:00 p.m.
Three Women Celebrate Chapbooks
(Launch Event for two Finishing Line authors)
The Writers Place
3607 Pennsylvania
Kansas City, MO
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 10:00 a.m.
Moon Flowers on the Fence, featured book for Wed Book Group
Homer’s Coffee House
7126 W. 80th
Overland Park, KS
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Finishing Line Press: Hear the interview with Sr. Editor Leah Maines and Managing Editor Kevin Maines
on Accents radio show for literature, art and culture, WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington, Kentucky
hosted by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer: http://www.katerinaklemer.com/radio.html
or the direct link to the file is http://www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/acce nts_050809.mp3
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher.
Recent winners and notables: Congratulations to poet Cheryl Loetscher and Finishing Line Press for Winning the New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (for the best chapbook published in the preceding year) for the Finishing Line Chapbook, Unclaimed Baggage, Judged by Harris and Svetlana Sussman; Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air won the 2007 Belles Lettres Book of the Year award by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians. Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Congratulations to BG THURSTON author of Saving the Lamb for making the “Highly Recommended” list of the 8th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards; Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC. Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only)
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