Kim Addonizio has long been a darling of poetry and fiction fans alike. Her poetry has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and nominated for the National Book Award (Tell Me), and she's a winner of the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize (as well as two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim). Her writing is filled with desire and the difficulties we face to obtain it, or sustain it, and, in some cases, how we are able to continue without it. Yet the very real longing of her characters — to connect, to love, to understand themselves — while so clearly universal, is at turns touching, surprising, and even humorous, and always, on some level, revelatory. A popular private workshop instructor, Addonizio gives readings that are dynamic (she plays blues harmonica and likes to bring it out on occasion), and this launch for The Palace of Illusions, her new collection of stories, should be no exception.
Kim Addonizio starts at 7:30 p.m at The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St., S.F. Free; call 863-8688 or visit booksmith.com. Evan Karp
415-863-8688
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