September 2, 2017
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Lyrics & Dirges Presents
​Taming the Beast: Curators Read

Leg One | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Casa Cubana

Event Description

On any given night bay area lit lovers have several events from which to choose. Taming the Beast shines a light on those who make the literary magic happen!

Curator: MK Chavez

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MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis, Dear Animal will be released from Nomadic Press fall 2016. She is co-curator of Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival.

Event Readers

Charlie Jane Anders

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Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky and the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series. She didn't do it, whatever it is.

Aya de Leon

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Aya de Leon’s debut novel UPTOWN THIEF will be published July 26th by Kensington Books, a heist story with a Latina Robin Hood who runs a NYC women’s health clinic.

Marguerite Munoz

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Marguerite Munoz writes on the border of Berkeley & Oakland, co-curates the multilingual reading series Voz sin Tinta, and organizes a women's group because let's be honest the future is female.

J. K. Fowler

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J. K. Fowler is the executive director and founding and managing editor of Nomadic Press, a literary and arts non-profit with bases in Oakland, CA, and Brooklyn, NY.

nick johnson

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nick johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. His first book of poems music for mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. Learn more at www.nickjohnsonpoerty.com

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