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DESCRIPTION:This month's installment of San Francisco's spoken word variety show 
 includes poetry, Star Wars fandom, transgender memoir and comedy.\n\nWhen: 
 Saturday, June 11, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: 
 Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Daphne Gottlieb, K.M. Ruiz, Nick Krieger and Kevin 
 Camia!\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and 
 Valencia, San Francisco \nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds 
 benefit the CSC and Indy Arts & Media.\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\nJavier Grillo-Marxuach created The Middleman, a 
 comic series that became a much-loved TV show on ABC Family. He also worked 
 as a producer on the first two seasons of Lost, and has also written for 
 Charmed, Seaquest: DSV, Medium, Jake 2.0, Boomtown and Dark Skies. He also 
 wrote the Marvel Comics series Annihilation: Super Skrull.\n\nDaphne 
 Gottlieb is the author and editor of 15 books, most recently the poetry 
 book 15 Ways to Stay Alive. She's also the co-editor (with Lisa Kester) of 
 Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words. She is the editor of Fucking 
 Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery 
 Reader, as well as the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final 
 Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt, and as the graphic novel Jokes and the 
 Unconscious with artist Diane DiMassa.\nFinal Girl was the winner of the 
 Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle. 
 Additionally, Final Girl was named one of the The Village Voice's Favorite 
 Books of 2003, and received rave reviews from Publisher's Weekly, The San 
 Francisco Chronicle and The Village Voice.\n\nK.M. Ruiz is the author of 
 Mind Storm, a post-apocalyptic book that takes place 250 years into the 
 future, when what's left of society fights over the scraps of the Earth as 
 the rich and powerful plan to ascend to another planet.\n\nNick Krieger is 
 the author of Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender. His writing 
 has appeared in Original Plumbing and The Rumpus.\n\nKevin Camia performs 
 regularly at all the Bay Area comedy clubs but considers the Punch Line as 
 his "home club." He's a "joke nerd" who loves to geek out about the various 
 formulas of joke-writing and performing.\n\n\nAbout Writers With 
 Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF 
 Bay Guardian readers' poll six years in a row and was named "Best Literary 
 Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to 
 raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes 
 poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, 
 literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling 
 format.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/06/18681199.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Daphne Gottlieb & Javier Grillo-Marxuach
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/06/18681199.php
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