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East Bay Performances: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 7pm
With poets Tomas Riley, Leticia Hernandez, Raphael Cohen, dancer Frances Sedayao, singer Larena Burno, dj fflood. Emceed by Lisa Marie Rollins.
     
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. www.lapena.org.
$5 students and seniors; $8 adults.
SF Reading: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 7:30pm
"Sketches of Home" with Bay Area authors Kenji Liu, Lolan Sevilla (translating new brown), Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera (Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Seal Press 2007)).
   
Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco. www.mtbs.com.
"This exciting new voice examines the ever-changing states of the body, vision, generations of women and their relationships to home. [In this collection], Suzara reveals her gifts as poetic witness." - Lee Herrick, author of This many Miles from Desire
Maybe I am crazy but I will always catch a piece of you when we grace hands / maybe we should not be allowed to care about the things that are not inside of us / and maybe there are things we should never see because they will never leave us alone - excerpt from "some days I think I am crazy"
the space between, Finishing Line Press. www.finishinglinepress.com.
Also available: Pagbabalik (Return) soundtrack cd.
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