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Carol Snow & Brian Teare - Thursday, July 9 at 7:00 PM
More Upcoming Events in July

SF POETS CAROL SNOW & BRIAN TEARE
Reading From Their Latest Works
Thursday, July 9 at 7 PM

Carol Snow, author of Artist and Model (selected by Robert Hass for the National Poetry Series and winner of the Poetry Center book award) will read from her new book, Placed: Karesansui Poems. Placed is a poetic sequence that juxtaposes words, phrases, quotes, and lyric excerpts in the manner of stones in a Japanese dry-landscape Zen garden—karesansui. Snow's poetry has been admired and celebrated as "work of difficult beauty" (Robert Hass). Snow has received several awards, including the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Brian Teare, author of the award-winning The Room Where I was Born, will read from his new book, Sight Map. Teare blends the speculative poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance with a postconfessional candor to embody the "open field" tradition of such poets as Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. A collection of remarkable range, Sight Map serves at once as a cross-country travelogue, a pilgrim's gnostic progress, an improvised field guide, and a postmodern "pillowbook," recording the erotic conflation of lover and beloved, deity and doubter.

Also Coming in July:

• RHYS BOWEN, ANN PARKER and JULIET BLACKWELL present
  A Night of Mystery
  Tuesday, July 21 at 7 PM
  
  
• ERICA JOHNSON DEBELJAK will read and discuss
  Forbidden Bread
  Thursday, July 23 at 7 PM
  
  
• WAYNE MONIZ will read from
  Under Maui Skies
  Tuesday, July 28 at 7 PM
  
  

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