Presents
Kevin McIlvoy and Justin Torres
Read by Tim Kahl and Jeff Webster
Friday, September 30th, 2011, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street (Between Q & R)
Host: Valerie Fioravanti
donation: $5
Doors open 7PM
Kevin McIlvoy is the author of the novels A Waltz, The Fifth Station, Little Peg, Hyssop, and the story collection The Complete History of New Mexico. He has taught creative writing for over twenty-five years, and teaches in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. He has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Puerto del Sol. His story “The Last Things We Said” is available online from Kenyon Review [http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=mcilvoy.php].
Tim Kahl is a poet as well as a performer. He is the author of the poetry collection Possessing Yourself, and he has published work in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter, among others. Tim is VP and events coordinator of the Sacramento Poetry Center. He translates the work of German and Portuguese writers, and is an editor with Bald Trickster Press. Tim will read Kevin McIlvoy’s “The People Who Own Pianos.”
Justin Torres was raised in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was the recipient of a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Among many other things, he has worked as a farmhand, a dog walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller. You can read his story “Reverting to a Wild State” from The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/08/01/110801fi_fiction_torres].
Jeff Webster has appeared in many Sacramento area productions, most recently as Arthur in “Dinners with Augie.” Other memorable roles have included: Bill Livingston in Women of Lockerbie, Rolly in Escape from Happiness, Hank Trimble in Last Resort Trailer Park, Van in Breaking the Light and Liam in The Timekeeper. He also just completed a short film playing Spankoni, a mob boss. Jeff will read Justin Torres’ “Lessons” as his Stories on Stage debut.
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 28th
Melinda Moustakis, winner of the 2010 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for Bear Down, Bear North & Leah Griesmann, Steinbeck Fellow at SJSU
STORIES ON STAGE WILL TAKE A HOLIDAY HIATUS NOVEMBER & DECEMBER, AND RETURN IN JANUARY 2012 TO CELEBRATE OUR SECOND ANNIVERSARY!
