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Emmy Komada

Emmy Komada is a translator and assistant editor at Two Lines Press, part of the Center for the Art of Translation. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages.
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    Notable San Francisco 10/10-10/16

    This week in San Francisco-Litquake 2011 takes the town with 500 authors at over 100 events. Check the website for a full calendar, and read on for some highlights. Monday 10/10: San Francisco’s premier storytelling series Porchlight hosts Are We…

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    Notable San Francisco 10/3-10/9

    This week in San Francisco-free museum days, poetry days, and Lit Quake kicks off towards the end of the week.

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    Notable San Francisco: 9/26-10/2

    This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/26: Susan Gangel and Kit Kennedy headline 3300 Club’s FREE poetry reading at 7PM. Bottom of the Hill free concert night features blues band Prizehog and local punk act Deep Teens at 9PM (21+).

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    Notable San Francisco: 9/19-9/25

    This week in San Francisco Monday 9/19: Bay Area based John Sakkis and Lynn Xu headline the 1st and 3rd Mondays Poets! series at Bird and Beckett tonight. Readings will be followed by an open mic. 7PM, FREE. A lecture…

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    Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/12-9/18

    This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/12: Join us and our friends at the Believer Magazine for Let’s Talk About us, September’s Monthly Rumpus-tonight at the Make-Out Room, 7PM $10. Featuring brilliant authors Michelle Tea, Susan Straight, Jesus Angel Garcia, David…

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    Serious questions for Serious Literature

    I’m pretty sure that madwomen+ road trips + Armageddon + self vs.nature = me. In its archetypes and generational themes, literature has taught us a lot about ourselves, but often this is evidenced by the reactions that it elicits rather…

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    Characters, Too Inspired

    Five years ago Lynn Coady published a novel with a protagonist drawn partially from the life of a real, thirty-years-deceased poet, and a experienced firsthand earful from an audience full of the poet’s colleagues and friends. It wasn’t all ugly,…

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    Notable San Francisco: 9/6-9/11

    This week in San Francisco…!!! Tuesday 9/6: Comedians and collaborators Boots Riley and W. Kamau Bell discuss their careers, dreams, and years of incorporating the political and personal into the totally hilarious. All proceeds go towards the tour for Bell’s…

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    Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/29-9/4

    This week in San Francisco… Monday August 29: Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton are reading from their most recent volumes tonight at Bird and Beckett Books in Glen Park. Both poets hold deep academic roots in the Bay Area-McNaughton was…

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    Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/22-8/27

    This week in San Francisco: we are at the last week of the month, and so many of our roommates are gearing up for a festival in the desert, so lets make this week a good send off. Monday 8/22:…

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    Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/15-8/21

    This week in San Francisco- Monday, August 15: Bird & Beckett in Glen Park is hosting a free poetry and jazz pairing, featuring a lineup headed by Paula Hackett-the open mic starts up after scheduled reading wraps, so bring what…

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    The Poet as Pinup

    Wild Women Press just wrapped a photo shoot for a 2012 calendar featuring a new nude poet for every month of the year, with proceeds from sales going to type one diabetes research. To top it off, all of the…