CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Nominated For Northern California Book Award for Poetry! Lorna Dee Cervantes at Awards Ceremony TODAY!

I'll be at the Northern California Book Awards, 2012, ceremony TODAY at the San Francisco Main Library, Koret Hall, 1-4 pm! My book, CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems has been nominated for an award for Best Book of Poetry! Michael Pollan will be accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award. One of my favorite poets, Jane Hirshfield is also nominated for an award for poetry; I don't expect to win.

Will I see you there?

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31st Annual Northern California Book Awards

Sunday, June 10, 2012

1:00-2:30 pm: Awards Ceremony
readings & remarks by this year's award-winning authors

2:30-4:00 pm: Book Signing & Reception

San Francisco Main Library
Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin, Civic Center, San Francisco
Reception follows in the Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room
Nominated books on sale by Readers Bookstore at the Main
Fred Cody Award presented by Jonah Raskin
Event emcee Sedge Thomson, "West Coast Live"

The Northern California Book Awards are presented by Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, Red Room (redroom.com), PEN West, Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco Public Library, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, and Readers Bookstore at the Main.

For more information: Poetryflash.org, 510.525.5476, NCBR@poetryflash.org

FRED CODY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
in COMMUNITY & LITERATURE
Michael Pollan, author, journalist, food activist & cultural critic

NCBR RECOGNITION AWARD
Everything Is Its Own Reward, An All Over Coffee Collection,
Paul Madonna, City Lights

FICTION
Sequoia Gardens, Ernest J. Finney, Southern Methodist University Press
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion, Ron Hansen, Scribner
Turn of Mind, Alice LaPlante, Atlantic Monthly Press
Lola, California, Edie Meidav, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
We the Animals, Justin Torres, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

CREATIVE NONFICTION
A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet, Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife, Philip L. Fradkin, University of California Press
The Left Coast: California on the Edge, Philip L. Fradkin, photos by Alex L. Fradkin, University of California Press
Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions, Sandra M. Gilbert, W.W. Norton
Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest, Mary Jo McConahay, Chicago Review Press

GENERAL NONFICTION
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System, Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, Adam Hochschild, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Shah, Abbas Milani, Palgrave Macmillan
Natural History of San Francisco Bay, California Natural History Guides, Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and Kathleen M. Wong, University of California Press
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942, Ian W. Toll, W. W. Norton

POETRY
Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Wings Press
Come, Thief, Jane Hirshfield, Alfred A. Knopf
Sugar Zone, Mary Mackey, Marsh Hawk Press
When I Was a Poet, David Meltzer, City Lights
Thread, Michael Palmer, New Directions

TRANSLATION
Fiction
The Twelve Chairs, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, translated by Anne O. Fisher, Northwestern
Tyrant Memory, Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver, New Directions
Poetry
After Many Autumns: A Collection of Chinese Buddhist Literature, editors John Gill and Susan Tidwell, translated by John Balcom, Buddha's Light Publishing
The Changing Room, by Zhai Yongming, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter, Zephyr Press
My Naked Brain: Selected Poems of Leopoldo María Panero, translated by Arturo Mantecón, Swan Scythe Press

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Young Adult
Instructions for a Broken Heart, Kim Culbertson, Sourcebooks
Why We Broke Up, Daniel Handler, illustrations by Maira Kalman, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Clean, Amy Reed, Simon Pulse
Younger Readers
Seabird in the Forest, Joan Dunning, Boyd Mills Press
A Dazzling Display of Dogs, Betsy Franco, illustrations by Michael Wertz, Tricycle Press
Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage, Sophie Webb, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP W/ Lorna Dee Cervantes at MALCS Conference, UCSB, July 18-20!

CFP: MALCS Creative Writing Workshop – ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response

June 6th, 2012 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social calls for participation in the Creative Writing Workshop with Lorna Dee Cervantes at the 2012 MALCS Summer Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, July 18-21, 2012.
DEADLINE: Postmark June 15, 2012

WHAT: Creative Writing from inception to publication with former professor and Director of Creative Writing, Lorna Dee Cervantes!

ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response is a Xicana creative writing workshop designed to be open to all levels, from no experience to very experienced. Writers of all genres and persuasions are invited to attend as what we will cover may apply to all types of writing. Learn how to go from no poems to a full-length manuscript in two days. Bilingual (Spanish) writers welcome. Please bring copies of one poem or short prose piece for workshopping with the group along with whatever we generate in class. Besides workshopping we may even find time to do a bit of works hopping.

This intensive workshop will be divided into four distinct phases of the creative/critical process: GENERATION, SELECTION, Re-VISION, and CRITICAL EVALUATION. We will participate in exercises designed to match each phase of the process We should come away with at least 5 new poems and a sense of our own patterns and patterning, a new toolbox of techniques and methods, a new confidence and playfulness, a new sense of our own strengths and weaknesses as writers, and maybe even become acquainted with our own inner critic as well as become accustomed to the sound of our voice as well as our own individual "Voice" as "Scribe." We'll also cover the nuts and bolts of "Po'Biz" such as how to prepare and edit a manuscript for submission, how to find publishers, how to maintain the inspiration (breath) for sustaining a work or book over time. How to perform our work in "Real Time". How and when to detach ourselves from our work and voice. How to criticize another writer's work. How to discover and foster a community of feminist writers — maybe even how to support, start and develop our own publishing resources and performance venues.

This workshop respects all and expects such from participants. Expect diversity. Expect to learn how to pleasure yourself - so to speak. Expect work.

This Creative Writing Workshop follows the spirit and mission of MALCS; its expressed purpose is to identify and develop creative writers for publication in Chicana/Latina Studies. Participants bring their work-in-progress and read and comment on the material of the other writers before and during the workshop within the context of Chicana/Latina feminist values: humility, collaboration, community involvement and justice. Attending both two-hour sessions (the first on Weds. July 18, and the second on Friday July 20) is required.

(Lorna Dee Cervantes will also be available for private manuscript consultation. Send hardcopy of manuscript.)

One Creative Writing Workshop will be offered this summer:
1) ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response, A Creative Writing Workshop, facilitated by Lorna Dee Cervantes, former editor/publisher of MANGO & RED DIRT, former Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at CU Boulder.

WHEN: July 18 at 4:00-6:00 p.m. and July 20 at 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Participants may arrive on Tuesday, July 18, but must contact the Site Committee to arrange housing.

WHY: A rare opportunity to study with an award-winning and critically acclaimed Xicana poet, Lorna Dee Cervantes: publisher (Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alberto Rios, Victor Martinez, Sherman Alexie, Ray Gonzalez, Jose Antonio Burciaga, Luis Omar Salinas, ronnie burk, ...) and professor (Luis Alberto Urrea, Haas Mroue, Alan Gilbert, Simone Muench, Kristin Prevallet, Michael Robbins, Cody Todd, ....) with over 35 years of experience.

WHO: We encourage applications from writers at all levels, including tenured or mid-career professors.

HOW MANY: The workshop has space for 12 participants, who must register for the Summer Institute and be current MALCS members.

FINE PRINT: Acknowledge the labor of others.

HOW TO APPLY: ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response, A Creative Writing Workshop

DEADLINE: Postmark June 15, 2012.

WHERE: Postal mail documents to

Lorna Dee Cervantes
3181 Mission Street, PMB 16
San Francisco, CA 94110

WHAT TO SEND: Please submit a cover letter describing your experience as a writer, your contact information, and no more than 10 pages of creative writing, typed and double-spaced. Please identify all work-in-progress or published pieces. (Books welcome!)

Also send via email.

 EMAIL: Send the same materials in PDF to (LornaDeeCervantes) at (me) to the usual commercial suffix by June 15, 2012.

To register for the MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social) Summer Institute 2012 "Todos Somos Arizona: Confronting the Attack On Difference" at UC Santa Barbara, July 18-21, go to www.malcs.org; early registration by June 15, 2012.

Where In The World Is Lorna? San Jose Community College TONIGHT 6:30

Join me TONIGHT, 6:30-8:30 pm. I'll be returning to where it all began: San Jose "City College" where I studied with Rose Higashi, Richard Regua, Mr. Gutierrez & others; where I performed with Teatro Conciente in a drama workshop with Adrian Vargas in Mexico in the summer of '74, where I read my poetry on stage between our 2 actos & was approached by Juan Bruce-Novoa from Yale (RIP), Nicolas Kanellos of Revista Chicano-Riqueña, now Arte Publico Press, publisher of my 2nd book, and an editor from El Excelsior where I saw my first published poem. I'll be reading from new & old work. I'll have copies of new book, CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems. Find me on Facebook & join the event page. I hope to see you there! Poetry On!

Lorna Dee Cervantes, CSU-EB Distinguished Writer Reading TONIGHT, 4/16, Hayward & Pegasus Books, Berkeley, 4/18

I'm looking forward to seeing all you East & South Bay folk & friends TONIGHT, 7pm, at the library at Cal State East Bay, Hayward, where I'll be reading for their Distinguished Writers Series. FREE! Come and say "hello!"

I'll also be reading poetry in Berkeley on Wednesday, April 18, 7pm at Pegasus Books for their "Lyrics & Dirges" series . You know I write plenty of both.




I'll be reading from my new book, CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems, and from a brand new book forthcoming from Wings Press, SUEÑO: 30-Something Of The Cruelest; poems I wrote in the month of April for NaPoWriMo, which is right now. So, where's your poem a day?

You can now order books from me online via PayPal at my email at mac.com which is my full name run together. I'll post an ad soon.

Poetry On! It's National Poetry Month!

Lorna Dee Cervantes Hosts New Open Mic w/ Jim Powell 3/7

Lorna Dee Cervantes to Host New Poetry Open Mic Series, "ALLEY CAT POETS IN THE MISSION" with Jim Powell & Special Surprise Guest, 3/7, 6-8 pm


Internationally acclaimed Mission poet, Lorna Dee Cervantes hosts new open mic series, "Alley Cat Poets In The Mission" showcasing exceptional poets & their books along with some surprise special guests! This event is the 1st Wednesday of every month. Come and join us with a poem for the seasonal theme.

The Alley Cat Poets In The Mission Series begins Wednesday, March 7, 6-8PM, featuring Lorna Dee Cervantes, MacArthur Grant awardee Jim Powell, Special Surprise Guest and maybe YOU/TÚ speaking poems of LA HISTORIA at Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St. near Balmy Alley, San Francisco. FREE. Hat passed for poets.

Scheduled readers to be announced and could include (*confirmed):

W, 3/7 - LA HISTORIA: Lorna Dee Cervantes *, Jim Powell *

W, 4/4 - LA MUJER: Cherríe Moraga * & Sharon Doubiago *

W, 5/2 - EL FLORICANTO (For Alfred Arteaga): Norma Cole & Javier Huerta *

W, 6/6 - LA PRIMAVERA: Adrian Arías & Miguel Robles *

W, 7/ 4 - LA INDEPENDENCIA: Diana Di Prima & Jack Hirschman (date TBA)

W, 8/1 - EL SOL: Francisco Alárcon * & Lucha Corpi *

W, 9/5 - EL TRABAJO: Robert Hass & Al Young *

W, 10/3 - LA COSECHA: Devorah Major * & Mamacoatl *

W, 11/7 - LA MUERTE (Victor Martinez, John Ross & Luis Cervantes ¡presente!): Genny Lim & C. S. Giscombe

W, 12/5 - EL FÍN: JuanFelipe Herrera & Leticia Hernández *

W, 1/2 - El NUEVO COMIENZO: Naomi Quiñonez * & Alejandro Murguía



Open Mic every 1st Wednesday, 6-8 with Lorna Dee Cervantes and featured poets.

Alley Cat Books
3036 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110

Alley Cat Books offers rare, remaindered & used books along with one-of-a-kind recycled hardbound journals. They also carry unique gifts such as t-shirts, clothing and artwork by silkscreen artist Michael Roman whose work was recently featured on "Two Broke Girls" and various other TV shows. If you can't find it at Alley Cat, visit their other great bookstores—Dog-Eared Books (zines!!), Red Hill Books, and Phoenix Books. Make it a good walk day. Buy books and visit murals, then sit down, listen to great poetry, and be heard.

BUY BOOKS! BUY BOOKS! MAKE ART! BE SMART! DO HISTORY! BUY BOOKS! BUY BOOKS! ¡CÓMPRALOS LIBROS! BUY BOOKS!


CONTACT: (415) 824-1021 alleycatbookssf@gmail.com

BIO:

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a recipient of the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Writers Award, 2 NEA Fellowship Grants, 2 Pushcart Prizes (another nominated this year) & "Best Book" awards for EMPLUMADA, FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE: POEMS ON LOVE AND HUNGER, DRIVE: THE FIRST QUARTET, CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS, STUNNED INTO BEING: Essays On The Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, and the forthcoming SUEÑO: 30-SOMETHING OF THE CRUELEST.

A California native (Chicana-Chumash) born in The Mission, Lorna Dee Cervantes was the former Director of Creative Writing at CU-Boulder where she was a Professor of English for 19 years. This year's UC Regents Lecturer at Berkeley, she is home again writing fiction, essays, poetry & screenplays. Visit her on her blog: http://lornadice.blogspot.com.


Jim Powell is a MacArthur Fellow, the 2005 Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago, the author of IT WAS FEVER THAT MADE THE WORLD (University of Chicago Press, 1989) and SUBSTRATE (Pantheon, 2009), and the translator of THE POETRY OF SAPPHO (Oxford, 2006) and CATULLAN REVENANTS (Booklyn, 2001), a Berkeley native & lifelong inhabitant of the SF Bay region.

Lorna Dee Cervantes TONIGHT UC Berkeley Featured Poet, Holloway Poetry Series, 315 Wheeler Hall, 6:30 pm!

TONIGHT! THURS, Jan 26, 6:30 pm, UC Berkeley Campus, Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room 315. FREE! Lorna Dee Cervantes will be the first Featured Poet for the Holloway Series in Poetry, reading with PhD student poet, Javier O. Huerta. (Look us up on Facebook!)

I hope to see you all there! Tell your friends! I'll have copies of my new book, CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS and, if they arrive, copies of the collection of critical essays on my new work, STUNNED INTO BEING: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes which includes recent interviews. I'll be reading mostly new work tonight, including from a forthcoming new book of poems, "30-Something of the Cruelest."

My bio doesn't show up too well on this design, so here it is:

Lorna Dee Cervantes is an internationally acclaimed poet. Recipient of numerous awards, honors and fellowships including the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Writers Award, 2 NEA Fellowship Grants, 2 Pushcart Prizes (another nominated this year) & "Best Book" awards for EMPLUMADA ('81), FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE: POEMS ON LOVE AND HUNGER ('91), and the 5-volume DRIVE: THE FIRST QUARTET ('06) which was nominated for a Pulitzer, her new books are CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS ('11), STUNNED INTO BEING: Essays On The Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes ('11), and the forthcoming SOMETHING OF THE CRUELEST.

A California native (Chicana-Chumash), born in The Mission, Lorna Dee Cervantes was the former Director of Creative Writing at CU- Boulder where she was a Professor of English for 19 years. This year's UC Regents Lecturer at Berkeley, she is home again in the Bay Area writing fiction, essays, poetry & screenplays. Visit her on her blog: http://lornadice.blogspot.com.

"More Than 100 Facts For The 99%"

More Than 100 Facts For the 99%




Ninety nine percent of all life forms
that have ever existed are now extinct.
99% of The Universe is plasma.

Ninety nine percent of all schools
have computers. 99% of all Shakespeare's
plays have been tapped out by virtual monkeys.

Ninety nine percent of all Santas are jolly,
merry and kind-hearted. 99% of all
lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Ninety nine percent of all felonies are settled
by plea bargaining. 99% of all problems
in communication start with misunderstandings.

Ninety nine percent of all marijuana
eradicated in the US is feral. 99% of all new
online businesses will fail.

Ninety nine percent of all tomato products
consumed in the US come from California.
99% of all river blindness is in Africa.

Ninety nine percent of all bandwidth
on the internet is devoted to child and animal
porn. 99% of Believers would take the gold.

Ninety nine percent of all migrant farmworkers
are members of an ethnic minority. 99% of all
turkeys raised in the US are Broadbreasted White.

Ninety nine percent of all family foundations
have assets under $100 million. 99% of all
human DNA is exactly alike.

Ninety nine percent of all law under
Capitalism has to do with property. 99%
of all profit is made by 1% on Wall Street.

Ninety nine percent of all puppies sold come
from puppy mills. 99% of all public schools
serve lunch from the National Lunch Program.

Ninety nine percent of all calcium in the body
is found in the teeth and bones. 99% of all
freshwater pearls are grown in China.

Ninety nine percent of all Oregon state prosecutions
involving non-violent protesters exercising their rights were
against them. 99% of all hazelnuts are grown in Oregon.

Ninety nine percent of all ghost pictures
can be explained away. 99% of all maternal
deaths occur in developing countries.

Ninety nine percent of all cats deliver
their kittens without assistance or complications.
99% of all US households have a television.

Ninety nine percent of all TVs sold in the US
come with remote controls. 99% of all promotions
are created because somebody has stock to sell.

Ninety nine percent of all land animals eaten
in the US are factory farmed. 99% of all gas consumed
in the US comes from the North American Continent.

Ninety nine percent of all snail species
have shells with whorls that coil clockwise.
99% of all successful businesses require teamwork.

Ninety nine percent of all businesses lose
25%-40% of their profits from mistakes. 99%
of all masturbation involves lust and fantasy.

Ninety nine percent of all virtual forces
affecting our life is invisible. 99% of all
beer cans are made out of aluminum.

Ninety nine percent of all book queries
to agents and editors are rejected. 99% of all
first books are not good enough to publish.

Ninety nine percent of all mass in the galaxy
is taken up by the sun. 99% of all the world's
land ice is in Greenland and Antarctica.

Ninety nine percent of all banking organizations
have assets in excess of $10 million. 99% of all
new jobs since 1990 have been in the service sector.

Ninety nine percent of all the billions
of ants on Earth are female. 99% of all
US prisoners on Death Row are male.

Ninety nine percent of all water on Earth
is ocean water. 99% of all life is invertebrate
and 99% of all invertebrates are extinct.

"Ninety nine percent of all failures come from
people who have a habit of making excuses,"
declared the inventor of the peanut. 99% of all diets fail.

Ninety nine percent of all things that most
of us worry about never actually occur. 99%
of all species that have ever existed are extinct.

Ninety nine percent of all living structures
are built from just 6 elements. 99% of all living
things live within a few thousand feet from the surface.

Ninety nine percent of all newspapers take
their own photos. 99% of all reading
takes place in the brain and not the eyes.

Ninety nine percent of all interactions between
bacteria and host are beneficial. 99% of all
"germs" are killed by hand sanitizer.

Ninety nine percent of all electricity generated
in the world is lost to resistance as it flows
from source to use. 99% of all TVs are unsold.

Ninety nine percent of all personal care products
contain 9,350 chemical compounds untested for safety.
99% of all abortions are performed prior to 20 weeks.

Ninety nine percent of all great inventions
weren't perfect the first time. 99% of all
plastic bags in the US are not being reused.

Ninety nine percent of all Americans listen
to the radio. 99% of all bottled water sold
in the US has only been filtered.

Ninety nine percent of all ingredients in consumer
products are inert or inactive, thus protected
by trade secret. 99% of all wills are uncontested.

Ninety nine percent of all plants still use
3 instead of 4 atoms of carbon for photosynthesis.
99% of all farm animals killed are birds and fish.

Ninety nine percent of all people trying
out for a role in TV, theater or film will not
get the job. 99% of all new businesses fail.

Ninety nine percent of all professional speakers
earn less than $1 million their entire career.
99% of all capital exists only as processor entries.

Ninety nine percent of all tobacco-related
deaths are caused by inhaling tobacco smoke.
99% of all cervical cancer is caused by a virus.

Ninety nine percent of all television sets owned
are in color. 99% of the people who produce,
write and direct for television are white males.

Ninety nine percent of all goods produced in
the world are trashed within six months. 99% of all
US businesses are small and create 75% net new jobs.

Ninety nine percent of all electricity in the world
is produced by running a wire through a magnetic
field. 99% of all baking is applying heat to starch.

Ninety nine percent of all fires on the planet
are lit by humans. 99% of all mothers' milk
contains detectable levels of DDT.

Ninety nine percent of all pesticide poisoning
deaths are caused by developing countries. 99%
of all adverse drug reactions are unreported.

Ninety nine percent of all eligible American
Indians registered to fight in WWII. 99% of all
privately owned hand guns are never used.

Ninety nine percent of all footwear sold in the US
is made by foreigners overseas from foreign goods.
99% of all transactions take less than a minute.

Ninety nine percent of all Medicare dollars
spent are linked to chronic illness. 99% of all
healthcare dollars are spent on illness, not prevention.

Ninety nine percent of all genetics
have been mapped. 99% of all wireless
calls rely upon fixed fiber optic lines.

Ninety nine percent of all US households
purchase milk. 99% of all uranium in the human
body will exit through the evacuation of fecal waste.

Ninety nine percent of all pumpkins
are sold for decoration. 99% of all
people talk to their dog or cat.

Ninety nine percent of all stars will end up
as a white dwarf. 99% of all human
history is a hunter-gathering way of life.

Ninety nine percent of all connections
are now done digitally. 99% of all active
genes in the body are not human.

Ninety nine percent of all problems
can be identified. You are 99% of the
problem If you are not 99% of a solution.

If ninety nine percent of the whole
can be equal to its part, than 99%
of us can be equal to any and all.



Lorna Dee Cervantes
11/29/11

Lorna Dee Cervantes Book Launch for CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems in SF 10/27

Lorna Dee Cervantes's 1st Book Release Party in 30 Years THURS 10/27 at Kaleidoscope, 3109 24th St., 8 pm!

I'm having a BOOK PARTY & You're invited!





Lorna Dee Cervantes's San Francisco Book Release Party 10/27/2011

Thursday, October 27 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm

kaleidoscope
3109 24th Street
San Francisco, CA

Come hear Lorna read her latest poetry and celebrate the release of her new book on the last thursday night in October!

Lorna Dee Cervantes will be selling, signing and reading from her new book Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems in the intimate performance space at Kaleidoscope in The Mission District of San Francisco. This venue is a close walk east from the 24th Street BART station. Refreshments! Cool people! Music! (Come jam! Piano on site.)

Admission is FREE (but donations to support Kaleidoscope are encouraged!)


Lorna Dee Cervantes is an internationally acclaimed poet. Recipient of numerous awards, honors and fellowships including the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Writers Award, 2 NEA Fellowship Grants, 2 Pushcart Prizes & "Best Book" awards for EMPLUMADA ('81), FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE: POEMS ON LOVE AND HUNGER ('91), and the 5-volume DRIVE: THE FIRST QUARTET ('86) which was nominated for a Pulitzer.

Lorna Dee has presented hundreds of readings, lectures, performances and workshops in four different countries for over 30 years at most major poetry venues, universities and institutions. She was one 100 major American poets to attend the The Millennium Poetry Event at The White House at the invitation of Hillary and President Clinton. Her work was featured at the Dodge Poetry Festival which included two documentaries, an anthology, FOOLING WITH WORDS, and an interview with Bill Moyers.


Her new book, CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS was officially released September 16, 2011 by Wings Press which is also publishing a book of critical essays on her work. If you are unable to attend the reading, you can order a copy from them at http://www.wingspress.com/.

Or send $20 to Lorna Dee Cervantes, 3181 Mission Street, PMB 16; San Francisco, CA 94110 and receive a personalized signed copy! Includes shipping and handling.

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See you there! PARTY!

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http://www.redroom.com/author/lorna-dee-cervantes

http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm/54/Lorna-Dee-Cervantes/

http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm/15/DRIVE-The-First-Quartet-%28hardback-edition%29/Lorna-Dee-Cervantes/

CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Just Released From Wings Press!

Order your copy direct from the publisher, Wings Press now!