Darrah de Jour, whose Femme in the City column you read every month (right?), will be appearing for a poetry and shorts reading at San Gabriel Valley Pride this weekend!

From Darrah (I’ll be quoting an email from her throughout):

I’ve been personally invited to read poetry & shorts at San Gabriel Valley’s stupendous Pride! This event is keenly different from other Pride events.

They are educationally fortified, regionally specific and a very cool crowd. I hope you’ll be there, as I am sharing new poetry and powerful words.

Please visit here for more information!

See you at SGV Pride on Sunday, September 17th!

“Chili, Chariots, and Cha…Cha…Cha!”

Sunday, September 17, 2006

12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

at the Pasadena Senior Center

85 E. Holly St., Pasadena, 91103

adjacent to Memorial Park in Old Town Pasadena

And, just in case you didn’t click on the Femme in the City link above for a reason I’m sure isn’t a good enough one, Darrah’s new September column, “Femme in the City: Sexual tête-à-tête,” can be found here.

September’s column is entitled “Sexual tête-à-tête” and describes my newest, hottest flame, and what it took to move her from the doorway of the Normandie Room, to bar-hopping in Los Angeles, and eventually into my arms and in-between my…

Please let me know how you like it!

Looking for even more Femme in the City? Lucky you if you’re in Long Beach:

Darrah de jour will be reading a brand-new, unpublished “Femme in the City” column at Womynz Brunch Bunch’s Lesbian Fashion Show in Long Beach! It will be held on Saturday, September 30th with musicians, artists and films, filmmakers, models, dj’s, you name it! Artisans, booths, snacks/beverages will be present. No alcohol will be served.

For more info, please visit: http://www.womynzbrunchbunch.org/calendar.html

When: September 30th at 7 pm

Where to put your fine self?: Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride headquarters on the corner of 10th and Obispo in Long Beach

That’s the Darrah update!

You can find Maria on MySpace here. Pick up Queer Shorts, her new anthology, at MergePress.com.