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Northern
California Poet
ROY MASH
reading from “Buyer’s Remorse”
and
San Diego Poet Laureate
STEVE KOWIT
reading from “The Dumbbell Nebula”
Saturday,
April 19th, 7 P.M.
Roy Mash
is a long time board member of the
Marin Poetry Center. In a previous life he held degrees in English, Philosophy,
and Computer Science. His poems have
appeared widely in journals such as Agni,
Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Nimrod,
Passages North, Poetry East, Rhino,
and River Styx. Buyer’s Remorse is a
celebration of the small, the overlooked,
and the underrated. Doggedly anti-lofty, reveling in the This-Worldly,
the poems caper around the themes of the body, of mathematics and rationality,
adolescence and middle-age, love and fear and death. The tone ranges from the
irreverent to the wistful – the spritz of seltzer in the face of the Creature from the Black Lagoon to the
lover standing in one sock. Drawing on sources from The Three Stooges to
Archimedes, Lavoisier to Tweety Bird, Mash is a latter day Anti-Oracle, a nail
in the tire of post-modernity, an incorrigible wag who’s smuggled his pea
shooter into the Church of Poetry. Be ready to duck.
Steve Kowit
is the Poet Laureate of San Diego.
He studied poetry with Ned O’Gorman at Brooklyn College, Stanley Kunitz at the
92nd Street Y, and Robert Lowell at the New School for Social Research. Kowit
has taught at Southwestern College and San Diego State University for many
years. His books include Lurid Confessions;
Crossing Borders; The First Noble Truth; The Gods of Rapture; and In the Palm of Your Hand; and
he edited
the noted anthology The Maverick Poets.
___________ Washington, D.C.
poet
Jodie
Hollander
will read from her new collection
THE HUMANE SOCIETY
Saturday, April 26th, 7PM
Romantic, surreal and tender,
The
Humane Society paints a family portrait that is a mixture of memoir, ghost story
and artistic obsession, as well as being an elegy for an older, more mannered, world. Jodie Hollander
is originally from Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington, DC. An alumna of Pomona
College, Boston University and Bath Spa University, her poetry has
appeared in a number of poetry magazines and journals both in the UK and America.
____________________ Author and USD Professor Halina Duraj will read from her new short story collection THE FAMILY CANNON Saturday, May 10,7PM
Halina Duraj brings to her readers an American family,
strikingly individual but recognizable to us all—as strange and familiar as home. An escalating neighborhood feud takes
an unanticipated turn. A college student visiting Poland learns about drinking, dancing, and some of the more perplexing mysteries
of adulthood. A mother opens up about her youth and courtship. A daughter tries to understand her own relationship within
the context of what she has been taught about marriage. These tender and generous linked stories illuminate the hidden corners
of our family lives and, in doing so, cast beautiful light on the shadows. “With quiet astonishment, Halina Duraj explores
the mysteries of love and madness, offering her readers the secret salvation of story. Between a father’s reinvention
of himself, a mother’s perplexing fidelity, and a woman's navigation of the complexities of betrayal, we discover the
exquisite pleasures of a world restored and redeemed through Duraj’s luminous gaze, the loving attention and tender
playfulness of an extravagantly passionate imagination.” —Melanie
Rae Thon, author of The Voice of the River and In This Light Halina Duraj’s stories have appeared in The Sun, The Harvard Review,
Fiction, Witness, and other journals. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, and
a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Utah. In 2012, she was a writer-in- residence at Hedgebrook,
a women’s writing retreat on Whidbey Island, WA. She teaches at the University of San Diego, where she also directs
the Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing
Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books
Christopher Hitchens
Director Oliver Stone
Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert
Francoise Gilot
Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot
at the original store
Michael McClure
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences
Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle
Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen
Quincy Troupe
Iris Chang
Gerry Spence
Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia
Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.
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