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Join us at our Downtown store for an evening of poetry with acclaimed poets Diane K. Martin, Lisa G. Stonestreet, and Melissa Stein. All are welcome.

Diane K. Martin’s work has appeared in New England Review, Field, Poetry Daily, Zyzzyva, and Third Coast, among others. She was awarded second place in the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize competition in 2004. She was nominated for and included in Best New Poets 2005. In 2006, she was semifinalist in the “Discovery”/ The Nation competition. She has received a Pushcart Special Mention and won the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace. She lives in San Francisco and is an unemployed technical writer and editor. Her book, Conjugated Visits, was published May 2010 by Dream Horse Press.

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s Tulips, Water, Ash was selected for the Morse Poetry Prize and published by UPNE in 2009. After working as a technical editor, arts magazine publisher, gift wrapper, film studio gofer, and cocktail waitress, Lisa now makes her living as a freelance editor. Her poems have been awarded a Javits fellowship and a Phelan Award, and have appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, and Third Coast. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.

Melissa Stein's poetry collectiion Rough Honey won the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received artist residency fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Djerassi Foundation, and her work has won awards from Spoon River Poetry Review and Literal Latté among others. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis, and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco