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DESCRIPTION:Literary Pop, the most exciting new spoken word extravaganza in which great 
 writers, poets and comedians write about pop culture, is taking over 
 Writers With Drinks for the month of March. Featuring superstar host Wonder 
 Dave!\n\nWhen: Saturday, March 10, 2018 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 
 6:30 PM\nWho: MK Chavez, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Kelly Anneken, Natalia Vigil, 
 Amanda Muniz, Sam DiSalvo and guest host Wonder Dave!\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\nOakland based Latinx writer, MK Chavez is the author 
 of several chapbooks including Mothermorphosis and Dear Animal, (Nomadic 
 Press) which received the 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award. 
 Chavez’s poem The New Whitehouse, Finding Myself in The Ruins, was 
 selected by Eileen Myles for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2017 Poetry Award. 
 Chavez is also co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and 
 co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, a fellow with CantoMundo and a 
 writer in residence at Alley Cat Books.\n\nMaggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in 
 writing from University of San Francisco, and a tendency to spill things. 
 She splits her time writing for kids and for adults and her debut 
 children’s book, Also an Octopus, has been called “wickedly absurd” 
 and “a perceptive how-to” that will “inspire kids to imagine a story 
 of their own.” Her debut Young Adult novel is due out in 2019. She also 
 hosts the Drunk Safari podcast, which features animal facts as brought to 
 you by drunk dilettantes of zoology.\n\nKelly Anneken is what happens when 
 Kim Kardashian looks like Bette Midler and tweets like Roseanne. This 
 Oakland-based funny person and all-around swell gal performs standup comedy 
 and is a regular at the Punch Line San Francisco, Cobb’s and Rooster T. 
 Feathers. Kelly has appeared at Iowa’s Green Gravel Comedy Festival and 
 Boston’s Women in Comedy Festival. She has shared a stage with Jim 
 Gaffigan and Anthony Jeselnik at Austin’s Moontower Comedy Festival and 
 has appeared “in conversation” with Tig Notaro, Amy Schumer, John 
 Waters, and Carey Elwes. Her debut comedy release “Twenty Minutes to 
 Sell” is available wherever digital recordings are sold. Kelly is 
 well-known as the co-host of the internationally popular Downton Abbey 
 podcast “Up Yours, Downstairs.” She has served as executive director 
 for feminist sketch troupe Femikaze and managing editor of online humor 
 journal Hobo Pancakes. Her writing has also been published by The Mary Sue, 
 KQED Pop, and The Tusk. You can learn more about Kelly and her limited HTML 
 skills at www.kellyanneken.com.\n\nNatalia Vigil is a queer Xicana writer, 
 multimedia curator, and big sister of six, born and raised in San 
 Francisco. She is the proud co-founder of Still Here San Francisco, a 
 performance and community dialogue centering the experiences of queer and 
 trans people raised in the city and a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow. Her work 
 has appeared in numerous publications and showsincluding Curbside Splendor 
 Press, Mic.com, Know the Names of Things Anthology and Emerge 2016: Fellows 
 Anthology Volume 2. She first heard her call to write about vulnerability 
 and identity in the first grade when she wrote her poem “You Make Me 
 Glitter Up.” Follow some of her staged readings like, "What Always Was" 
 at Still Here's vimeo page.\n\nAmanda Muñiz English Lit. certified, side 
 hustler, and amateur writer. Poblana turned immigrant at the age of eight. 
 Writer of anecdotes, chismes, and made-up stories. Inspired by her parents, 
 the migrant experience, and the land she has trekked over.\n\nSam DiSalvo 
 is a San Francisco-based comedian. She performs all over the country and 
 has been featured in SF Sketchfest. She’s the co-creator and producer of 
 the monthly showcase More Fun at Blondie’s, the only Monday comedy show 
 that features free cake. Sam;s style has been described as “brave” and 
 “maybe too honest” by her mother.\n\nWonder Dave is a comedian and 
 writer from Minneapolis, MN, now living in Northern California. He has 
 toured the country performing at schools, cabarets, sci-fi and comic 
 conventions, burlesque shows, strip clubs and bowling alleys. Dave is the 
 co-host of the long running Oakland variety show Tourettes Without Regrets. 
 He has been featured on the Risk Podcast and is a regular debater on the 
 comedy debate podcast Nerd Rage: The Great Debates, and co-hosts Ring 
 Awareness a podcast about Women’s Profressional Wrestling. Dave is also 
 the mastermind of the show/podcast Literary Pop! Which gathers writers, 
 comics and storytellers to share work about the pop culture that has 
 influenced their lives.\n\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/2018/02/28/18807029.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Maggie Tokuda Hall and MK Chavez
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/28/18807029.php
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