http://www.writerswithdrinks.com/This month's installment of San Francisco's spoken word variety show
includes poetry, Star Wars fandom, transgender memoir and comedy.
When: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
Who: Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Daphne Gottlieb, K.M. Ruiz, Nick Krieger
and Kevin Camia!
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia,
San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit
the CSC and Indy Arts & Media.
About the readers/performers:
Javier 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.
Daphne 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.
Final 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.
K.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.
Nick Krieger is the author of Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond
Gender. His writing has appeared in Original Plumbing and The Rumpus.
Kevin 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.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers 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.
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