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Leslie Kirk Campbell

Isidra Mencos and Leslie Kirk Campbell

13 SEPTEMBER 2023 — wednesday

Mechanics' Institute presents "What the Body Holds: Its Shame and Its Pleasure," a reading and discussion with memoirist Isidra Mencos, Promenade of Desire: A Barcelona Memoir, and fiction writer Leslie Kirk Campbell, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs, winner of the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction; their conversation will focus on what drew them to write books on the female body and explore how societal expectations and repression affect women's attitudes toward their bodies, followed by audience Q&A, reception and book signing, Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $5-$10 public sliding scale, members free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.milibrary.org/events/events-activities)




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29 OCTOBER 2025 — wednesday

  • Poetry reading by Marcia Falk, The Sky Will Overtake You, and Lucille Lang Day, Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place; she is publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books, reading introduced by Richard Silberg, homemade goodies will be served, sponsored by Temple Sinai's Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community, Temple Sinai Chapel, 2808 Summit, at 28th Street between Webster and Summit, enter at gate in parking lot, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.oaklandsinai.org/event/poetry-reading1.html)
  • Sacramento Poetry Center presents "Dangerous Women," a poetry reading by Molly Fisk, Kim Shuck, Moira Magneson, and Tricia Caspers, open mic follows, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30

30 OCTOBER 2025 — thursday

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