William O’Daly and Francisco X. Alarcon
with Maria Elena B. Mahler
Benefit fundraiser reading for C.O.R.E., $6 suggested donation.
Monday July 30 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street SPC
Hosts: Paco Marquez and Frank Graham
William O’Daly is a poet, translator, and fiction writer. His translations include eight books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day, The Separate Rose, Winter Garden, The Sea and the Bells, The Yellow Heart, The Book of Questions, The Hands of Day, and World’s End), all published with Copper Canyon Press. Also with Copper Canyon, he has published a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. Mr. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. O’Daly will be joined by the Chilean poet, Maria Elena B. Mahler, who will read two of her Spanish translations of O’Daly’s poems and several poems of Pablo Neruda’s in the original Spanish, which O’Daly will then read in his English translation.
Francisco X. Alarcón is the author of eleven volumes of poetry. His most recent book of bilingual poetry for children, Animal Poems of the Iguazú (Children’s Book Press 2008), was selected as a Notable Book for a Global Society by the International Reading Association, and as an Américas Awards Commended Title by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. Mr. Alarcon has been awarded the 2006 Jane Addams Honor Book Award for his previous bilingual book titled Poems to Dream Together (Lee & Low Books 2005). He has been awarded the 1997, 2000 and 2002 Pura Belpré Honor award by the American Library Association and the National Parenting Publications Gold Medal for his acclaimed: ”Magic Cycle of the Seasons” series published by Children’s Book Press of San Francisco.
Danny Romero
Book Release Reading for Traces
with Allison Joy and Kabir McKitrick
Monday July 23 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street SPC
Host: Tim Kahl
Danny Romero earned a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA from Temple University in Philadelphia. His poems and short stories have been published in a variety of journals, including Colorado Review, Drumvoices Revue, Paterson Literary Review, Ploughshares, and The Raven Chronicles; they can also be found in the anthologies Pieces of the Heart: New Chicano Fiction; Los Vasos Communicates: Antologia de Poesia Chicana (Spain); and Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature, among others. He is the author of the novel Calle 10 (Mercury House, 1996), the poetry chapbooks P/V (The Chicano Chapbook Series, 1997) and Land of a Thousand Barrios (Pudding House Publications, 2002), and a poetry pamphlet (Palanquin/TDM 8.4: 1995).
Allison Joy is a Wisconsin gypsy (not to be confused with the variety of moth), a veteran sushi slinger and server at Mikuni. She has worked in a law office and as a language instructor in Chiba, Japan. Currently she is enrolled at Sacramento City College, and she is interested in journalism and fiction that features working class protagonists.
Kabir McKitrick recently published his first story in The Susquehanna Review, and he is headed to UC Santa Cruz in the fall to pursue a BA in literature.
