THE RwIrGiHtTe READ at Stories

L.A. writer Peggy Dobreer hosts THE RwIrGiHtTe READ at STORIES BOOKS&CAFE with an open mic. The featured readers this week are Gloria Enedina Alvarez, Michelle Bitting, F. Douglas Brown, and Mary Fitzpatrick.

Books, Coffee, and Sign ups at 6:30pm. Reading will begin at 7:00. Stories closes at 9:00pm. Readers please bring one or two poems, 3-4 minutes.

*Gloria Enedina Alvarez, Chicana poet/intermedia artist, literary translator and curator, presently teaches creative writing and works as a consultant in public schools, universities, libraries, museums, and art centers. Her literary/artistic efforts have been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, Cultural Affairs Department, City of L.A., and Poets & Writers, Inc., among others.

*Michelle Bitting’s first collection, Good Friday Kiss (2008, C&R Press) was chosen by Thomas Lux as the winner of the DeNovo First Book Award. Her second collection, Notes to the Beloved (2012, SPC Press) won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award and received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. A third collection, The Couple Who Fell to Earth (2016, C&R Press) also received another glowing and starred reviewed from Kirkus!

*F. Douglas Brown of Los Angeles is the author of Zero to Three (University of Georgia 2014), recipient of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (November 2016), a forthcoming chapbook of poetry from Upper Rubber Boot Books as part of their Floodgate Poetry series.

*Mary Fitzpatrick’s poems have been finalists for the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and the Inkwell Poetry Contest; featured in Mississippi Review, Atlanta Review and North American Review as contest finalists; and also published in Agenda, Albatross, ASKEW, The Dos Passos Review, The Georgetown Review, Hunger Mountain, and in anthologies Wide Awake (Pacific Coast Poetry Series), A Bird Black as the Sun (Green Poet Press), and Cancer Poetry Project 2 (Tasora Books).

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