NATIONAL LEAGUE OF  AMERICAN PEN WOMEN
HONOLULU BRANCH  MEETING

DATE: Wednesday, March 3rd from 11:30 a.m. to  1:30 p.m.  
LOCATION: Alan Wong’s Pineapple Room (Macy’s at Ala Moana)

FEATURED SPEAKER Mary Lou Sanelli:  “Falling Awake”

Mary Lou Sanelli is an author and speaker who has earned a solid reputation in the literary community through her steady commitment to writing and twenty years of engaging public readings and presentations.  Her readings win over audiences with poignant insights and self-effacing humor.  She has a dynamic stage presence and often stresses performance as strongly as literature.  Critics have called her “...highly readable and entertaining” and “... jaw-droppingly honest.”

Sanelli is the author of seven poetry collections.  Her recent collection of essays, “Falling Awake” (selected as “one of the most fabulous 2008 Northwest titles” by Seattle reviewer Lesley Thomas) and her latest book “Among Friends: A Memoir” (#1 in non-fiction, Barnes & Noble, December 2009) are in bookstores now. Her essays have appeared in the Seattle Times and Seattle Metropolitan Magazine.  

She is a regular columnist for City Living Magazine ( Seattle Pacific Publishing Newspapers), as well as for Art Access Magazine.  She is heard periodically on NPR, and weekly on Seattle stations KSER, FM and KONP, AM. She also performs her staged reading of her book, “The Immigrant’s Table,” throughout the country.  Sanelli divides her time between Honolulu and Seattle.  http://www.marylousanelli.com  Please join us for another lively luncheon!

$24.00: Pen Women, Friends, and Guests with reservations made  by the deadline of 10:00a.m. Friday, February 26th. In order to maintain our  reservations agreement with Alan Wong’s, we will have to impose a  LATE FEE of $5.00 for  reservations made after the deadline.  (A ‘Friend’ is someone who has  paid to join the Honolulu Branch of Pen Women as a Friend). No refunds will be  made for no-shows or cancellations after the deadline.

$26.00: Visitors with reservations made by the deadline of 10:00 a.m. Friday, February 26th.  In order to maintain our reservations  agreement with Alan Wong’s, we will have to impose a LATE FEE of  $5.00 for reservations made after the deadline.  No refunds will be made for no-shows or cancellations after the deadline.
 

PLEASE NOTE: Reserving sooner than later makes life much easier for Baerbel, our reservations volunteer!  If you are mailing  your reservation close to the deadline, please call or e-mail Baerbel Miller,  using the contact info below, with your name and the names of your guests, plus your food choices so she can place your order with Alan Wong’s.   

Mahalo!


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RESERVATION  FORM

Make checks payable to: NLAPW
Mail to:  Baerbel Miller, 933 Kapoho Place, Honolulu 96825
Tel: 396-9324. Email:   gigibarbel@yahoo.com.

Luncheon Choices:
 
Please put an X next to your food choice and mail:
 
#1  Old Fashioned Burger with Nalo Greens__________
#2  Furikake Crusted Tofu Salad  __________

Includes foccacia bread, aioli, iced tea and  coffee.
 
 Name:  ____________________________________________________
 
Phone:  __________________________________

Guest:________________________________________________  

Guest’s food choice: ____________________________________