Acclaimed war photographer and cultural anthropologist Teun Voeten gained unprecedented access to a Manhattan netherworld of tunnel people\, a group of homeless people in Manhattan who created a life literally underground. Voeten will discuss his book documenting the fascinating lives in this invisible society.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-new-monthly-reading-series URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-new-monthly-reading-series SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges\: A New Monthly Reading Series DESCRIPTION:Alena Hairston\, Susan Kelly-DeWitt\, Cyrus Armajani\, Linda King\, and Roger Porter reading as a part of Lyrics and Dirges\: a Monthly Reading Series.
Pegasus Downtown is pleased to introduce Lyrics and Dirges\, a new reading series that will happen on the Third Wednesday of every month. This series will feature a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers each month. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community that lives in the Bay Area.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100919T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100919T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poets-diane-k-martin-lisa-g-stonestreet-and-melissa-stein URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poets-diane-k-martin-lisa-g-stonestreet-and-melissa-stein SUMMARY:Poets Diane K. Martin\, Lisa G. Stonestreet\, and Melissa Stein DESCRIPTION: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.
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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
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/first-person-singular-voices-character URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/first-person-singular-voices-character SUMMARY:FIRST PERSON SINGULAR\: Voices in Character \\"There Will Be A Test\\" DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100924T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100924T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/cal-winslow-reads-and-discusses-labor%E2%80%99s-civil-war-california-nuhw-healthcare-workers%E2%80%99-rebellio URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/cal-winslow-reads-and-discusses-labor%E2%80%99s-civil-war-california-nuhw-healthcare-workers%E2%80%99-rebellio SUMMARY:Cal Winslow reads and discusses Labor’s Civil War in California\: The NUHW Healthcare Workers’ Rebellion DESCRIPTION:Historian Cal Winslow examines the recent labor conflict between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW) and the emergence of the National United Healthcare Workers Union (NUHW) and shows how this battle points to larger issues in the labor movement. Join us for a fascinating evening.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100926T230000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/pegasus-books-all-you-can-read-warehouse-book-sale URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/pegasus-books-all-you-can-read-warehouse-book-sale SUMMARY:The Pegasus Books All-You-Can-Read Warehouse Book Sale DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/translator-laura-ruberto-reads-such-life-memoir URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/translator-laura-ruberto-reads-such-life-memoir SUMMARY:Translator Laura Ruberto reads from Such is Life\: A Memoir DESCRIPTION:Laura Ruberto reads from her grandmother’s memoir. Such is Life is an immigrant woman's moving account of what one gains\, but also what one loses\, when emigrating to the U.S. from a village in rural Campania\, Italy.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poetics-resistance-revolutionary-public-relations-zapatista-insurgency URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poetics-resistance-revolutionary-public-relations-zapatista-insurgency SUMMARY:A Poetics of Resistance\: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency DESCRIPTION:In A Poetics of Resistance\, Jeff Conant combines narrative history\, literary criticism\, ethnography\, and media analysis to provide a refreshing take on Mexico's Zapatista movement by examining the means\, meanings\, and mythos behind the Zapatista image.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T002556Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101008T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-camille-dungy-robin-ekiss-and-gabrielle-calvocoressi URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-camille-dungy-robin-ekiss-and-gabrielle-calvocoressi SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Camille Dungy\, Robin Ekiss\, and Gabrielle Calvocoressi DESCRIPTION:Poets Camille Dungy\, Robin Ekiss\, and Gabrielle Calvocoressi read at Pegasus Downtown. Join us.
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