SPD Bee: Paul Hoover, Kazim Ali, more

6 MAY 2013 — monday

Seventh Annual Small Press Distribution Spelling Bee benefits the only nonprofit distributor of small press books in the country, featuring poets and writers Lizzy Acker, Kazim Ali, Sam Barry, J.L. Bautisa, Paul Hoover, editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, Isaac Fitzgerald, editor of The Rumpus, Suzanne Kleid, co-editor of Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category, Daniel Levin Becker, Jacqueline E. Luckett, Passing Love, Kate Levinson, Kaya Oakes, Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church, and Laura Sydell, correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered, Cyrus Musiker, KQED News, Geoffrey Nunberg, NPR commentator, silent auction, Crown Point Gallery, Crown Point Press, 20 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, $75/$30/$125 couples, drinks/food/auction 6:30, spelling bee 7:30 (www.spdbooks.org)