Why There Are Words: Rhyme or Reason, literary readings

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Media Contact: Peg Alford Pursell, whytherearewords@gmail.com

Why There Are Words: “Rhyme or Reason.” The third track from Eminem’s eighth studio album in which the rapper sings along with the chorus of “Time of the Season.” Also attributed to poet Edmund Spenser in a conversation with Queen Victoria. Definitely found in Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors, in As You Like It and, with variation, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and can be traced back to poet John Skelton, who in the 1520s wrote that "For reason can I none find/ Nor good rhyme in your matter." We’re about to receive the latest spin on this phrase and you’re invited.

Join us April 14, 2016, at Studio 333 in Sausalito to hear the following acclaimed authors give us an update. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10. For more details, including the authors’ full bios, see the Why There Are Words website, whytherearewords.com.

Amanda Conran is the author of the debut middle grade novel, The Lost Celt, just launched in March 2016 (Gosling Press). www.aeconran.com

Stefan Kiesbye is the author of four acclaimed novels and his latest work is the novella, The Staked Plains (Saddle Road Press, 2015). He teaches at Sonoma State College. stefankiesbye.com

Allie Marini published five collections in 2015, including Pictures From The Center Of The Universe, which won the Vella Prize (Paper Nautilus) kiddeternity.wordpress.com

Nayomi Munaweera is the author of the award-winning novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors, and of the brand new What Lies Between Us: A Novel (St. Martin’s Press, February 2016). www.nayomimunaweera.com

Barbara Roether’s debut novel, This Earth You’ll Come Back To (McPherson and Company, 2015), is a family epic set in the Midwest. www.barbararoether.com

Kathleen Winter is the author of Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press), winner of the Antivenom Poetry Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters 2013 Bob Bush Memorial Award, and teaches at Napa Valley College.

Katie M. Zeigler’s work has been published in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, and the Fish Anthology, and won the Stanford Magazine Fiction Contest. She is currently working on a young adult novel and teaches at Diablo Valley College.

Why There Are Words is an award winning literary reading series curated by founder Peg Alford Pursell, www.pegalfordpursell.com, which draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday. More information: whytherearewords.com. Studio 333 is located at 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, CA 94965. Phone Studio 333 at 415-331-8272.

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