Dan Bellm

Please join us: Thursday, April 6th, 2010 7:00PM Sign-Up 7:30 PM Event Books Inc. 2275 Market St. @ Noe San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 864 – 6777 Author Dan Bellm will be featured for Guywriters, a Poetry Open Mic Night at Books, Inc. Castro! Come enjoy hearing poetry from “Guywriters” Books, Inc. ... (more)open mic night. Author Dan Bellm will be reading from a few of his selections. Sign up is at 7pm with the event starting at 7:30pm. Need NOT be a GUY to participate! About the Author: Dan Bellm lives in San Francisco. Two collections of his poetry appeared in 1999: One Hand on the Wheel, chosen to launch the new California Poetry Series from Roundhouse Press, Berkeley, and Buried Treasure, which won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award in 1995, and was published by Cleveland State University Press as the winner of its annual Poetry Center Prize. He also won the 1998 Caesura Prize, judged by Mark Doty, and a 1997-98 fellowship in poetry from the California Arts Council, and has been nominated for a 1999 Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in POETRY, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly and other magazines, and his translations of fiction and poetry from Spanish have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He will also appear in the forthcoming gay American poetry anthology Word Of Mouth, edited by Timothy Liu. * * * Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookstore with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.’s origins date back to the Gold Rush days of 1851, when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt and renamed, and became Books Inc. as we know it today in 1946. Today, with 10 stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants. This event is FREE at Books Inc. 2275 Market St., San Francisco 94114 For Questions: Amadeus Martin, Event Coordinator—415.864.6777 amartin@booksinc.net ; on the web at www.booksinc.net and www.myspace.com/booksinccastro www.facebook.com