Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @7pm Release Party / Issue 14.2 Bollyhood Cafe 3372 19th Street bollyhoodcafe.com Join us in celebrating the release of our latest issue, No. 14 Vol. 2. There will be a raffle for many great, one-of-a-kind prizes. Featuring readings by the following contributors: Rebecca Foust's book Dark Card won the 2007 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Award and will be released by Texas Review Press in May 2008, and a full-length manuscript made finalist in three competitions in 2007, including Poetry's 2007 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. Her recent poetry won two Pushcart nominations and appears or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Margie, Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Nimrod, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others. Heather Kirn's poems and essays have appeared (or are forthcoming) in The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Florida Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Ohio State University, and she teaches writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Randall Mann is the author of two poetry collections, Breakfast With Thom Gunn, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2009, and Complaint in the Garden, winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize. He lives in San Francisco. Many of Mira Pasikov's short stories and poems originate from dreams and nightmares, with writing about them being a process of transformation and exorcism. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines, and she has read and performed her writing in many local venues. She is currently completing her first play. Laura Schadler recently completed her MFA in Writing at California College of the Arts. She lives and writes in San Francisco, and is at work on her first novel, Good. I'm Sorry. I Miss You. She enjoys iced coffee, fresh oregano, jewelry, her garden, mascara, the Pacific, and the alphabet. She has a story forthcoming in The Southern Review this fall.