NCBA: Kay Ryan, more

19 MAY 2013 — sunday

32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards, Northern California authors are honored in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, and Children's Literature with brief readings and remarks, reception and book signing follows; Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010; Poetry nominees are City of Rivers by Zubair Ahmed, A Penance by CJ Evans, The Book of a Thousand Eyes, Lyn Hejinian, Plunge by Alice Jones, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, D.A. Powell, Citizen by Aaron Shurin; Fiction nominees are A River Closely Watched by Jon Boilard, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson; NCBR Recognition Award goes to Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Poets and Writers Respond to the March 5, 2007, Bombing of Baghdad's "Street of the Booksellers"; presented by Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco Public Library/Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, Red Room (redroom.com), PEN West, and Mechanics' Institute, public reception with book signing follows, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin, enter at Grove, SF, next to Civic Center BART, free, 1:00 (510/525-5476, NCBR @poetryflash.org, poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2013)