Kitchen Sessions #2 is tonight at my house. If you get warm easily. So does my home. Wear light clothes and feel free to bring a fan. 8pm sharp. Snacks for 10 people would be gratefully appreciate and either beer, wine, or non-alkies are also splendid ideas. Mandatory: $3 to $5 for our featured poets to split. They both also have chapbooks for sale.

OUR FEATURES
Lara (Lahr-ah!) Bozabalian, one of the sweetest and loveliest women I know, is a phenomenal writer and performer. She hails from Toronto, Ontario and has been involved in her poetry slam scene for a few years now. She just represented T.O. @ the National Poetry Slam. In September, she will return to teaching 12th Grade English (Canadian style, i.e. flavour, honour, houurly, vacuuuum - but we get her live and direct tonight in the kitchen.

Sharing this headliner tonight is David Perez. A San Jose native and one of my best friends, Perez (what I call him to his face) is a magical writer and performer who knows how to take us to moments of his life, letting us join him on the journey through his past, present and future. In 2008 he represented San Jo at the IWPS and this year he was a member of the San Jose Slam Team. You can't not like Perez. He's also making tamale pie!

Perez and Lara are debuting a poem or two each in an hour of round-robin cycled performance.

OPENERS INCLUDE:
(Debuting never-before-read poems)
Bobby Gibbs
Sam Teitel
Lea Deschene
David Keali'i MacKenzie
Mark Palos
Steve Subrizi
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UPCOMING
Our next Kitchen Session #3 will feature Adam Stone of Boston. Woot!
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