WritersCorps and the Contemporary Jewish Museum present an evening of multi-generational readings. WritersCorps youth poets and teaching artists share the stage with Daniel Alarcón (”War by Candlelight,” “Lost City Radio”), who was recently named one of The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 writers.
Who: Daniel Alarcón, Rick D’Elia, Carrie Leilam Love, and WritersCorps youth poets.
When: Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Where: Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street
Cost: Free
About Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón is author of the story collection “War by Candlelight,” a finalist for the 2005 PEN-Hemingway Award, and “Lost City Radio,” named a Best Novel of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, among others, and winner of the 2009 International Literature Prize given by the House of World Culture in Berlin. He is associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning quarterly published in his native Lima, Peru, contributing editor to Granta, and was recently named one of The New Yorker’s 20 under 40. His fiction, journalism and translations have appeared in A Public Space, El País, McSweeney’s, n+1, and Harper’s. Alarcón lives in Oakland, California, where he is a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies.
