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DESCRIPTION:October's Writers With Drinks has a theme of STRANGE ROMANCE. Featuring 
 mind-opening speculative fiction, robot poetry, almost-human spoken word, 
 and tons more!\n\nWhen: Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, 
 doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: devorah major, Celeste Chan, Shawna Kenney, 
 Christopher Brown, Thomas Centolella and Margaret Rhee!\nHow much: $5 to 
 $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture\nWhere: The Make Out 
 Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\ndevorah major is the author of an upcoming science 
 fiction novel called Ice Journeys. San Francisco’s third former Poet 
 Laureate, major is a part-time senior adjunct professor at California 
 College of the Arts, and poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San 
 Francisco. Her first novel, An Open Weave, was awarded the First Novelist 
 Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Curbstone 
 Press released her second novel (which includes poetry), Brown Glass 
 Windows to critical acclaim. City Lights Publishing released another book 
 of major’s poetry, where river meets ocean, and Creative Arts Books, Inc. 
 released her third solo book of poetry, with more than tongue. She is the 
 recipient of a 2002 California Arts Council Spoken Word Literary Arts 
 Fellowship. For over twenty years she has been a part of Daughters of Yam 
 (a poetry performance group with Opal Palmer Adisa) which has released one 
 book, two chapbooks, one poetry and jazz cassette and one poetry and jazz 
 CD. major's poems and short stories, and essays have been published in a 
 number of anthologies including: So Long Been Dreaming: Post-Colonial 
 Science Fiction, Mojo: Conjurer Tales, Drum Voices Review, So Much Thing to 
 Say, Heartspeak, Saints of Hysteria, 100 Poets Against the War, So Luminous 
 the Wildflowers, Rites of Passage, Black Silk, Bum Rush the Page: Def 
 Poetry Jam, Girls Like Us, Father Songs, Streetlights: Urban Stories of the 
 Black Experience, Thoughts to Savor, I Hear A Symphony, Poetry Like Bread, 
 and many magazines and journals including ZYZZYVA, Callaloo, and River 
 Styx. She has received Pushcart recognition for her short story/poem, "A 
 Crowded Table". She has also written two “Start to Finish” history 
 books for young people: Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter and Frederick Douglas: 
 A Hero for All Times (1999).\n\nCeleste Chan is a Hedgebrook, Lambda, and 
 VONA fellow, and recent Sister Spit alum. Her writing can be found in Ada, 
 AWAY, Citron Review, cream city review’s genrequeer folio, Feminist Wire, 
 Hyphen, Mixed Race/Queer and Feminist, and The Rumpus. She also has work in 
 the anthologies Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBT Voices, and 
 Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from Heels on Wheels. She co-founded 
 Queer Rebels, a queer and trans people of color arts project, and is a 
 contributing editor for Foglifter, a new literary journal of queer form & 
 content.\n\nShawna Kenney is the author of the award-winning memoir I Was a 
 Teenage Dominatrix, editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from 
 Under the Covers, co-author of Imposters, and co-author of the new oral 
 history Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the 
 Nation’s Capital 1988-1998. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New 
 York Times, Playboy, Creative Nonfiction, Vice, The Rumpus, Bust, 
 Narratively, Salon and more. Kenney’s personal essays appear in numerous 
 anthologies and she has shared her words on college campuses and airwaves 
 around the world.\n\nChristopher Brown's first novel is Tropic of Kansas. 
 He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for the anthology Three Messages 
 and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic. His 
 short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, 
 including MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, The Baffler, and 
 Reckoning.\n\nThomas Centolella is the author of four books of poetry: 
 Terra Firma (1990), Lights & Mysteries (1995), Views from along the Middle 
 Way (2002), and Almost Human (2017). He has received the Lannan Literary 
 Award, the American Book Award, the California Book Award, the Northern 
 California Book Award, and was selected for publication in the National 
 Poetry Series (selected by Denise Levertov). He is a former Wallace Stegner 
 Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, and his work has appeared in many 
 periodicals and anthologies and on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's 
 Almanac.\n\nMargaret Rhee is a poet, artist, and scholar. She is the author 
 of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011) and Radio Heart; or, How Robots 
 Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2015), awarded a 2017 Elgin Award, 
 second place by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her project The 
 Kimchi Poetry Machine was selected for the Electronic Literature Collection 
 Volume 3. Literary fellowships include Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and the Kathy 
 Acker Fellowship. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in ethnic and new 
 media studies. She is at work completing her monograph, How We Became 
 Human: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body. Currently, she is a 
 Visiting Scholar at the NYU A/P/A Institute, and a Visiting Assistant 
 Professor at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study.​\n\nAbout 
 Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks has won numerous "Best ofs" 
 from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one 
 of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word "variety 
 show" mixes genres to raise money for local 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/2017/10/16/18803640.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Devorah Major, Celeste Chan & Margaret Rhee!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/16/18803640.php
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