READERS & WRITERS CALENDAR: FROM FEBRUARY 15, 2015

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February 15 (Sunday, 3:00 pm)Author Raquel Perez presents Legends of the Californios: Nana's Stories of our Family Roots. Perez takes you on a journey through time with three legends, set in a time when California was under Spanish rule and then under the Mexican Flag. Whether it is Carmen's story, the young beauty, daughter of gypsies and hated by the San Diego townspeople, then, under Mexican rule; or Floriana, a Spanish belle with a surprisingly spooky and unfortunate past; or Magdalena and Reyes, a Mestiza and a young Spanish Presidio Soldier with a secret. Come discover their stories.

Upstart Crow Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 835 W. Harbor Drive, Suite C, San Diego; (619) 232-4855; http://www.upstartcrowtrading.com.

February 15 (Sunday, 2:00 pm)SFWA Reading Featuring Robert Levy & Carrie Patel.

The SFWA Southern California Reading Series are free quarterly events that allow the Science Fiction and Fantasy community a chance to gather, network, and enjoy readings from local and visiting authors. Each event features three authors who read from their latest work, followed by a question and answer session and a signing. Presenters at the February 2015 event are playwright and author Robert Levy, whose debut novel is The Glittering World, a contemporary dark fairy tale; Carrie Patel, whose debut cross-genre SF mystery, The Buried Life, releases in March; and Mystery Reader Three. Cookies will be served at the readings 

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

February 15 (Sunday, 12:00 pm)As part of their ongoing Weekend with Locals Program they will be hosting Robert Rogers author of La Jolla Shores Murders.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

February 17 (Tuesday, 7:00 pm) — Jewish Poets - Jewish Voices will continue with The Poetry of Saul Tchernikowsky and Rachel in the Astor Judaica Library. Local community members and poetry lovers will read the poems of Saul Tchernikowsky and Rachel. The Havurat Zemer San Diego Choir, under the direction of Rivi Raz, will sing the poems of Tchernikowsky and Rachel, which have been put to music. This program is open to the public at no charge. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP to the JCC Library at (858) 362-1150.

Samuel and Rebecca Astor Judaica Library (upstairs) at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla; (858) 362-1150; http://www.sdcjc.org/

February 17 (Tuesday, 6:30 pm)Warwick's and the La Jolla Library are proud to host New York Times bestselling author Thanhhà Lại to present her thought-provoking coming-of-age new book, Listen, Slowly. This event will be at the La Jolla Riford Library, 7555 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037. Thanhhà Lại is the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again.

A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, though, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be a great opportunity for their out-of-touch daughter to learn more about her culture. But to Mai, those are their roots, not her own. Vietnam is hot, smelly, and the last place she wants to be. Besides barely speaking the language, she doesn't know the geography, the local customs, or even her distant relatives. To survive her trip, Mai must find a balance between her two completely different worlds.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

February 17 (Tuesday, 7:30 pm) Please join us for the San Diego stop of the Tunnel Tour, with Susan Adrian, author of Tunnel Vision; Stephanie Diaz, author of Rebellion; Shannon Messenger, author of Everblaze; Maggie Hall, author of The Conspiracy of Us; and Kiersten White, author of Illusions of Fate.

Publishers Weekly described Susan’s debut thriller as “a refreshing spin on the suspenseful spy novel with brisk scenes, adrenaline-fueled cliffhangers, and a sympathetic protagonist.” Debut author Maggie’s thriller is filled with forbidden love and code-breaking, masked balls and explosions, destiny, and dark secrets. Local author Stephanie’s second novel of science fiction, romance and adventure, was praised for its “...non-stop action, appealing heroine, stirring romance, and shifting alliances and loyalties.” The Keeper of the Lost Cities novels by Shannon are a middle grade fantasy adventure series; Shannon may offer a teaser about fall’s fourth volume, Neverseen. And Kiersten’s diverse body of work includes her Fall 2014 romantic fantasy, described as “Downton Abbey meets Cassandra Clare and Libba Bray.” 

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

February 18 (Wednesday, 6:30 pm)UT cartoonist and author, Steve Breen, will speak about his book, Unicorn Executions and Other Crap My Kids Make Me Draw at the SDA Church, 11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego. Contact Susan McBeth at (619) 300-2532 for additional information. This is a ticked event.

February 18 (Wednesday, 4:30 pm)Warwick's is hosting critically acclaimed author Amanda Eyre Ward to present her timely novel inspired by immigrant children, The Same Sky. She has spent the last year visiting shelters in Texas and California, meeting immigrant children and hearing their stories. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved Seating is available. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed. Please call the Warwick's Book Department at 858-454-0347 for more information.

From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost and Close Your Eyes comes a beautiful and heartrending novel about motherhood, resilience, and faith – a ripped-from-the-headlines story of two families on both sides of the American border. Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a loving marriage and thriving business, but Alice still feels that something is missing, lying just beyond reach.

Carla is a strong-willed young girl who's had to grow up fast, acting as caretaker to her six-year-old brother Junior. Years ago, her mother left the family behind in Honduras to make the arduous, illegal journey to Texas. But when Carla's grandmother dies and violence in the city escalates, Carla takes fate into her own hands--and with Junior, she joins the thousands of children making their way across Mexico to America, facing great peril for the chance at a better life.

In this elegant novel, the lives of Alice and Carla will intersect in a profound and surprising way. Poignant and arresting, The Same Sky is about finding courage through struggle, hope amid heartache, and summoning the strength--no matter what dangers await--to find the place where you belong.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

February 18 (Wednesday, 4:30 pm)Join Southern CA authors Neal Shustermanthe author of many critically acclaimed novels for young adults, including the Skinjacker trilogy, Unwind, and Downsiders; and Eric Elfmanthe author of several books for young readers, and co-authors of Tesla’s Attic at MG’s afternoon middle grade event.

Fourteen-year-old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla. They are pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Some components of the contraption are still missing, but the objects themselves seem to be leading Nick and his friends to their current owners. However, members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicists, are on the hunt too, and their brazen leader, Dr. Alan Jorgenson, will stop at nothing to foil Nick and steal the objects.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

February 18 (Wednesday, 7:00 pm) San Diego Book Discussion Group focuses on Simone St. James' Silence for the Dead. The Discussion Group is led by Fearless Leader Christine. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend – it’s the perfect opportunity for readers to branch out and find new favorites! Attendees receive 20% off of the current book club selection! 

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

February 19 (Thursday, 7:00 pm)Author Juliana Maio will speak about her new book City of the Sun: a novel in the Astor Judaica in La Jolla.

City of the Sun is set in Cairo, Egypt 1941. Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo. As the second world war rages, the city known as “Paris on the Nile” plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than the Germans’ unrelenting advance across North Africa. Deftly blending the romantic noir of the classic film Casablanca with a riveting, suspenseful narrative, City of the Sun offers a stunning portrayal of a time and place that was not only pivotal for the war, but also sowed much of the turbulence in today’s Middle East.

Attendees are encouraged to RSVP. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Susan Hagler at (858) 362-1150 or susanh@lfjcc.org.

Samuel and Rebecca Astor Judaica Library (upstairs) at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla; (858) 362-1150; http://www.sdcjc.org/

February 20 (Friday, 7:00 pm)John C. Hampsey will read from his new novelistic memoir Kaufman’s Hill at D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, 858-456-1800, http://dgwillsbooks.com.

Kaufman’s Hill opens with a prosaic neighborhood scene: The author and some other young boys are playing by the creek, one of their usual stomping grounds. But it soon becomes clear that much more is going on; the boy-narrator is struggling to find his way in a middle-class Catholic neighborhood dominated by a family of bullies, the Creelys, who often terrify him. It’s the Pittsburgh of the early and mid-1960s, a threshold time just before the counter-culture arrives, and a time when suburban society begins to encroach on Kaufman’s Hill, the boy’s sanctuary and the setting of many of his adventures. As the hill and the 1950s vanish into the twilight, so does the world of the narrator’s boyhood. Kaufman’s Hill is lyrical and profound. It captures the dynamics of the lost world of boyhood in a way no one has before. The late, great historian Howard Zinn called it “the best book written on American boyhood in decades.” Novelist Tim O’Brien claims that “Kaufman’s Hill is among the most touching, sensitive, and spellbinding memoirs I’ve encountered in many years. Beautifully and exactly written, this book will surely reach into the hearts of its readers. I was deeply moved.”

Prof. John C. Hampsey teaches Romantic and Classical Literature at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where he won the University Distinguished Teaching Award. Previously, he taught at Boston University and MIT. He received his BA from Holy Cross College and his PhD from Boston College. Hampsey’s book Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western Thought was the first book to view paranoia in a positive light; and won enthusiastic endorsements from fellow writers Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Tim O’Brien. More than thirty of Hampsey’s stories and essays have appeared in such places as The Gettysburg Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Antioch Review, The Alaska Quarterly, The Boston Globe, Arizona Quarterly, and the European Romantic Review.

February 21 (Saturday, 3:00 to 5:00 pm)Author Ken Woodward will sign and talk about his new book Rubaboo at Unicorn Books and Gifts.

What began as a short essay of memories to include in the author’s family files at the Guy B. Woodward Museum in Ramona, Calif., turned into a five-year research project highlighting a few of the many accomplishments of archaeologist, ethnologist, anthropologist, historian, explorer and moreArthur Woodward.

Readers will find themselves engaged in an exciting search through a presidential library, in addition to university, state, national and local archives, as the author’s historical research unfolds to reveal the true story about his Uncle Art. From a secret mission to the South Pacific with Admiral Byrd to being Head Curator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, and from historical findings of the Battle at San Pasqual to exploration of ancient native inhabitants on the Channel Islands – Art lived a most interesting life.

Ken Woodward was born and raised in Oceanside, Ca. Having served in the army as well as earning both a B.A and M.A from San Diego State. Ken now serves as the Director of the Guy B Woodward Museum in Ramona California where many of the Woodward family still reside.

Unicorn Books and Gifts, 738 Main Street, Ramona; http://unicornbooksandgifts.com; (760) 788-3700.

February 21 (Saturday, 7:00 pm)Renowned poet David Antin will read from and discuss his new book How Long Is the Present: Selected Talk Poems of David Antin, Edited by Stephen Fredman, at D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, 858-456-1800, http://dgwillsbooks.com.

Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the “talk poem.” He insists that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in clumps of words without justified margins or punctuation, peppered with white spaces that indicate pauses. In this book, editor Stephen Fredman provides a critical introduction to a selection of talk poems from three out-of-print collections, accompanied by a new interview with the author. As Fredman points out, Antin’s work is a form of conceptual writing that has influenced generations of experimental poets and prose writers.

David Antin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Stephen Fredman is a professor of English literature and American studies at the University of Notre Dame.

February 21 (Saturday, 1:00 pm)Author Joanne Fluke will talk about her book, Double Fudge Brownie Murder.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

February 22 (Sunday, 2:00 pm)Local children's book author Henry Herz's new picture book, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes (from Pelican Publishing), has garnered considerable praise, including: "For all of us who grew up loving Dungeons & Dragons and Tolkien, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes is an excellent way to introduce our little ones to the world of fantasy!"

For additional information, contact Henry Herz at 858-212-6111; http://birchtreepub.com/mgnr.htm.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Avenue, Suite #100, San Diego.

February 22 (Sunday, 12:00 pm)As part of our ongoing Weekend with Locals Program we will be hosting Tamara Johnson author of Not Far from Normal.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

February 23 (Monday, 7:30 pm)Warwick's is hosting author Jerry Griswold to present his trailblazing historical account of American children's literature, Audacious Kids: The Classic American Children's Story. Jerry Griswold is professor emeritus of literature at San Diego State University and former director of the National Center for the Study of Children's Literature. He is the author of seven books, including Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature.

Often called the Golden Age of Children's Books, the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic wrote some of their finest work primarily for children. In Audacious Kids, Jerry Griswold provides a groundbreaking and lucid study of twelve of these classic American children's tales, including such time-honored stories as Little Women, Tom Sawyer, The Secret Garden, and The Wizard of Oz.

In this revised edition, which is aimed at students, scholars, and general readers, Griswold has updated the text throughout and added a new preface, introduction, and select bibliography.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

February 23 (Monday, 7:00 pm)The Upstart Crow Book Club will meet to discuss the selected book of the month. The Smartest Kids In The World by Amanda Ripley. How do other countries create "smarter" kids? "TIME" magazine journalist Ripley follows three Americans teens embedded in foreign countries for one year. Through these young informants, Ripley meets battle-scarred reformers, sleep-deprived zombie students, and a teacher who earns $4 million a year.

Upstart Crow Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 835 W. Harbor Drive, Suite C, San Diego; (619) 232-4855; http://www.upstartcrowtrading.com.

February 24 (Tuesday, 7:30 pm)Warwick's is hosting local author T. Greenwood to present her eloquent new book The Forever Bridge. T. Greenwood is the author of nine novels, including Two Rivers and The Hungry Season. She has received numerous grants for her writing, including a National Endowment for the Art Literature.

T. Greenwood’s novels, deftly combining lyrical prose with heartrending subject matter, have earned her acclaim as “a writer of subtle strength…finding light in the darkest of stories” (Publishers Weekly). In The Forever Bridge, she continues to prove such assessments with a transporting story that explores what comes in the calm before – and after – a storm.

One year ago, a family is driving across a covered bridge at night when an oncoming car without headlights runs them over the edge into the river. With horrible swiftness, Sylvie’s young son was gone and her husband was permanently paralyzed. Left with shattering blame and grief, Sylvia becomes a recluse in the woods. Her daughter Ruby, amid all the uncertainty in her life, becomes obsessed with bridges, drawing inspiration from the strength and purpose that underlies their grace.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

February 25 (Wednesday, 6:00 pm)Local children's book author Henry Herz's new picture book, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes (from Pelican Publishing), has garnered considerable praise, including: "For all of us who grew up loving Dungeons & Dragons and Tolkien, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes is an excellent way to introduce our little ones to the world of fantasy!"

Barns & Noble, Santee, 9938 Mission Gorge Road, Santee. For additional information, contact Henry Herz at 858-212-6111; http://birchtreepub.com/mgnr.htm.

February 26 (Thursday, 7:30 pm)Warwick's is hosting former Marine infantry officer and war correspondent David Morris to present his important commentary on PTSD, The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Daily Beast and Best American Nonrequired Reading. In 2008, he was awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. This event is free and open to the public.

In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and '90s, posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States' "global war on terror," PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict's veterans. But the disorder's reach extends far beyond the armed forces. In total, some twenty-seven million Americans are believed to be PTSD survivors. Yet to many of us, the disorder remains shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and shame.

Now, David J. Morris – a war correspondent, former Marine, and PTSD sufferer himself – has written the essential account of this illness. Through interviews with individuals living with PTSD, forays into the scientific, literary, and cultural history of the illness, and memoir, Morris crafts a moving work that will speak not only to those with the condition and to their loved ones, but also to all of us struggling to make sense of an anxious and uncertain time.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

February 26 (Thursday, 6:30 pm)Authors Diana Loiewski and Dr. Tarane Sondoozi pesent and sign Healthy Relationships. Healthy Relationships is a workbook for teens and adults with Williams Syndrome, Asperger’s, Autism, ADHD, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disabilities and other human conditions that may present challenges in building relationships. Through activities, cartoons, and many scenarios the workbook teaches how to investigate and build friendships and relationships safely over periods of time. The workbook provides the reader with the skills for thoughtful and proactive steps necessary for healthy relationships.

Upstart Crow Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 835 W. Harbor Drive, Suite C, San Diego; (619) 232-4855; http://www.upstartcrowtrading.com.

February 26 (Thusday, 4:00 pm)Local children's book author Henry Herz's new picture book, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes (from Pelican Publishing), has garnered considerable praise, including: "For all of us who grew up loving Dungeons & Dragons and Tolkien, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes is an excellent way to introduce our little ones to the world of fantasy!"

Barns & Noble, Mira Mesan, 10775 Westview Parkway, San Diego. For additional information, contact Henry Herz at 858-212-6111; http://birchtreepub.com/mgnr.htm.

February 26 (Thursday, 7:00 pm)Local children's book author Henry Herz's new picture book, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes (from Pelican Publishing), has garnered considerable praise, including: "For all of us who grew up loving Dungeons & Dragons and Tolkien, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes is an excellent way to introduce our little ones to the world of fantasy!"

Yellow Book Road, 2750 Historic Decatur Road, San Diego. For additional information, contact Henry Herz at 858-212-6111; http://birchtreepub.com/mgnr.htm.

February 27 (Friday, 7:00 pm)Author Susan LeBron presents and signs No Fig Leaves Allowed: Getting Emotionally Naked. Like many new relationships and marriages, they began as an open, free frolicking couple, then bit into "society's apple" of world based knowledge, or in today's language, the unrealistic expectations of what we "should" be, do, think, and want.

The readings and discoveries in the book were designed to help people become aware of their own vulnerabilities and inhibitions so they can better understand their own reactions and feelings about relationship challenges and those of people closest to them. It is an easy to read guide providing readers with simple, thought provoking activities to help them begin to understand what the "Fig Leaves" or "issues" are and how they may be keeping them from experiencing the intimacy they desire and deserve.

Upstart Crow Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 835 W. Harbor Drive, Suite C, San Diego; (619) 232-4855; http://www.upstartcrowtrading.com.

February 28 (Saturday, 1:00 pm) — Local children's book author Henry Herz's new picture book, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes (from Pelican Publishing), has garnered considerable praise, including: "For all of us who grew up loving Dungeons & Dragons and Tolkien, Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes is an excellent way to introduce our little ones to the world of fantasy!"

Barns & Noble, Grossmont, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr., Suite 331, La Mesa. For additional information, contact Henry Herz at 858-212-6111; http://birchtreepub.com/mgnr.htm.

February 28 (Saturday, 2:30 pm) — Adventures by the Book, together with The Mom’s Guide to San Diego, are pleased to present a Surprise Fancy Nancy 10th Birthday Party Adventure featuring the New York Times bestselling creators of Fancy Nancy, Robin Preiss Glasser (the illustrator) and Jane O’Connor (the author), who will be launching their Special 10th Anniversary RV Book Tour at Tee Party Palace, 6615 Flanders Dr., San Diego 92121. This is a ticketed event open to the public ($39 per girl includes signed book, $49 per adult includes champagne).

About the Event: Pssst, can you keep a secret? We are planning a surprise 10th birthday party for Fancy Nancy. Can you believe it’s been ten years since the first Fancy Nancy book was published. We can’t either, but we want to invite you to a splendiferous celebration that includes a fancy tea party, tour of the Fancy Nancy RV, fancy hair styling, goodie bags, and a donated book to Traveling Stories, to help with their efforts to outsmart poverty, one book at a time.

About the Book and Author/Illustrator: Robin Preiss Glasser is a former ballerina and illustrator, including the internationally-bestselling Fancy Nancy series. Jane O’Connor is a children’s author and editor, and partnered with Robin in 2005 to create the first Fancy Nancy book, which will be reissued as a special commemorative 10th anniversary edition for this book tour.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Susan McBeth at (619) 300-2532 or at susan@adventuresbythebook.com.

February 28 (Saturday, 7:30 pm)Pulitzer Prize poet Rae Armantrout will read from her new book Itself at D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, 858-456-1800, http://dgwillsbooks.com.

What do “self” and “it” have in common? In Rae Armantrout’s new poems, there is no inert substance. Self and it (word and particle) are ritual and rigmarole, song-and-dance and long distance call into whatever dark matter might exist. How could a self not be selfish? Armantrout accesses the strangeness of everyday occurrence with wit, sensuality, and an eye alert to underlying trauma, as in the poem "Price Points" where a man conducts an imaginary orchestra but "gets no points for originality." In their investigations of the cosmically mundane, Armantrout’s poems use an extraordinary microscopic lens—even when she’s glancing backwards from the outer reaches of space.Rae Armantrout, 2008 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, is a native Californian whose poems are masterful contradictions; according to Robert Creeley, her poems have "a quiet and enabling signature." He adds, "I don’t think there’s another poet writing who is so consummate in authority and yet so generous to her readers and company alike." Her poems are telegenically "regional," filled with bungalows, newscasters and swimming pools, yet they ring with an immaterial clarity that quietly subsumes her readers and listeners in a radical and eerily funny vision. Armantrout studied with Denise Levertov, and was at the center of the first generation of Language Poets, the group in the US most often credited with introducing poetry to postmodernity. Since then she has forged a growing international reputation and whose works include Versed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2010; Next Life; Up to Speed; and Veil: New and Selected Poems; as well as countless poems anthologized in Best American Poetry 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2009; American Hybrid; Poems of the Women's Movement; The Oxford Book of American Poetry; and Postmodern American Poetry. She directed the New Writing Series at UCSD for nearly two decades, and co-organized the Page Mother’s Conference in 1999.

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February 13 to 16 (Friday - Monday)The 29th annual Southern California Writers' Conference *San Diego takes place Presidents’ Day Weekend. Discounted pre-registration and Advance Submission Readers remain open. For complete information go to: http://www.WritersConference.com; 619-303-8185 or email msg@randomcove.com

February 21 (Saturday)Know any high school students interested in writing? They should register for the only free writing conference for high school students in the country – The 4th Annual Canyon Crest Academy Writers' Conference.

Writing conferences usually cost hundreds of dollars but because of the generosity of conference sponsors and fundraising by the CCA Creative Writing Club, this conference is free to attendees. Started by a student, it is run by the CCA Creative Writing Club and has grown to include students from all over San Diego. 190 students from 24 schools attended the 2014 conference!

This conference has grown in its reputation among the writing community as well. This year, we have New York Times bestselling author, four time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer Jonathan Maberry giving the keynote. Several of his books are in development for movies and TV shows. Reporter Sandra Maas will present a workshop on writing for TV and radio news. Young adult authors Michelle Gagnon, Kasie West,Greg Van Eekhout, and Chris Marie Green will present as well. Christopher Hamilton will discuss writing college essays. Kendall Sherwood, TV writer for TNT's Major Crimes will discuss writing for TV. With 27 speakers, the students will have much to choose from!

Check out the website for the latest info on speakers and to register. Pre-registration is required! http://ccawritersconference2015.weebly.com/

February 23 (Monday, 6:30 pm)At the 4th Monday meeting of the San Diego Writers/Editors Guild, Judy Reeves will be discussing First Paragraphs and What They Must Do.

A $5 donation from non-members is recommended. For directions and additional information, go to: http://sdwritersguild.org/. Summer 2015: Will you be ready for the next Open Mic night?

February 24-26 (Tuesday thru Thursday, 7:00 pm)The 20th Symposium by the Sea 2015 with afternoon workshops on book publishing, screenwriting, Tolken evening interviews and book signings. Featured will be: Lysley Tenorio, author of, Monstress, One Book One San Diego Selection; Destin Daniel Cretton, filmmaker, director, screenwriter, Short Term 12; Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle; and Joyce Carol Oates, author of, We Were The Mulvaneys, a National Book Award winner.

Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego; (619) 849-2297

For additional classes, go to: http://www.sandiegowriters.org/programs/classes8/.

February 28 (Saturday, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm) — Publishers and Writers of San Diego (PWSD) will hold its monthly meeting at the Encinitas Community Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Dr., Encinitas. The topic for the meeting is The Four Paths to Publishing by industry thought leader Keith Ogarek.

Anyone interested or involved in writing, editing, publishing, designing, or anything related to books is welcome to attend. Members cost $10, non-members $20. Visit www.PublishersWriters.org for more information and to register for the meeting.

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