Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is pleased to host a book launch party for Malibu resident and local author Susan Stiffelman as she discusses and signs her new book, Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm and Connected on Sunday, October 11 @ 3pm.   Come out and celebrate!          

    Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present another installment of Poetry Flash, this time with Alison Hawthorne Deming and Ann Fisher-Wirth. The Flash will take place on Sunday, October 11th, at 3 p.m. Alison Hawthorne Deming's new book of poems, her fourth, is Rope. Her first book of poems, Science and Other Poems, won the 1993 Walt Whitman Award, selected by Gerald Stern, who says of it, "I greatly admire Alison Deming's lucid and precise language, her stunning metaphors, her passion, her wild and generous spirit, her humor, her formal cunning; I am taken, as all readers will be, by the knowledge she displays and how she puts this knowledge to poetic use. . ." Ann Fisher-Wirth's new book of poems is Carta Marina; Carolyn Forche says it's "at once a lyric triptych of searing beauty and an absorbing novella that turns upon a disclosed secret from a woman's life. The poet becomes a cartographer of the heart as she moves through a year's sojourn in Sweden, lighting candles in her own darkness." Ann Fisher-Wirth's two previous books of poems are Blue Window and Terraces. Among her honors are a Rita Dove Poetry Award and two Poetry Fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission.