Reminder: Radar Reading: Diane Diprima and more at Main Library @ Wed Jul 7 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » Radar Reading: Diane Diprima and more at Main Library the RADAR reading series a showcase of underground + emerging artists + writers wednesday, july 7th 2010 RYKA AOKI DE LA CRUZ is a poet, performer, and composer who has been honored by the California State Senate for creating Trans/Giving, LA's only art/performance series dedicated to trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists. Ryka has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and is the founder of Cornell University's Asian American Playhouse. She is the recipient of a University Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of six chapbooks, and has literary journals, including Lodestar Quarterly, Grand Street, the Southern Poetry Review, the Jacaranda Review, and Tsunami. Her work appears in American Eyes: New Asian American Short Stores for Young Adults, which won an American Library Association Award as one of its "Best Books for Young Adults." Ryka has a third-degree black belt in Kodokan Judo and is a professor of English at Santa Monica College. She is the winner of RADAR Production's first Eli Coppola Memorial Chapbook Prize. Although DIANE DIPRIMA is in her dotage, she has many fond but fading memories of her many illegal and bizarre adventures, which she sometimes scribbles illegibly into notebooks, or repeats over and over without warning, to erstwhile friends or utter strangers. As befits her long and dubious career, she is now Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Go figure. The first volume of her autobiography, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, was published in 2001 by Viking/Penguin. She will read fragments from the unfinished second volume, The Grail Is a Green Stone. MICA SIGOURNEY makes drag and nightlife installation performance in the San Francisco clubscene and theaters. He's been an on again off again writer for years, and self publishes at http://www.facebook.com/l/785c0;dancinglikemymother.blogspot.com. You can find him any Friday at SOME THING at the Stud where he Mc's and performs as VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! TONY TULATHIMUTTE's stories have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Cimarron Review, and Wag's Revue. He received an O. Henry Award in 2008, and most recently won the Malahat Review Novella Contest. He'll be attending the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop this fall on a Truman Capote Fellowship. Hosted with cookies by Michelle Tea. Q + A to follow reading. Ask a Q, get a cookie. Wednesday, July 7th 2010 San Francisco Public Library / Main Branch Latino Reading Room / Basement Level 6:00pm / Free When Wed Jul 7 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • Larry Bob Roberts - creator

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