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Red Hen Press at City Lights Books

Join us in the city by the bay with our authors Dean Kostos, Ron Carlson, and Amy Uyematsu.

Join us for a free reading with our Red Hen Press authors: Ron Carlson (Blue Box), Dean Kostos (This Is Not A Skyscraper), and Amy Uyematsu (The Yellow Door)!

City Lights Bookstore

261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94113

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Wednesday, June 24, 7:00-8:00 pm

(415) 362-8193

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Ron Carlson is the author of five story collections and six novels, including Return to Oakpine and The Signal. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.

Dean Kostos’s collections include This Is Not a Skyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty, forthcoming from Red Hen Press in April of 2015), Rivering, Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and Celestial Rust.

Amy Uyematsu is a third-generation Japanese-American poet and teacher from Los Angeles. She has published three previous poetry collections: 30 Miles from J-Town (Story Line Press, 1992), Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain (Story Line Press, 1997), and Stone Bow Prayer (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).

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