Tate Tuber, Space Spuds Read-Aloud with Michael Slack

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
3:30pm-3:50pm
Audiences:
Themes:
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE

Tate Tuber is no couch potato; he’s going to be an astronaut! When a space station loses power and begins hurtling back towards Earth on his first mission, it’s up to Tate to save the day with his ability to conduct electricity! Celebrate sci-fi, comics, and potato power in this read-aloud of Tate Tuber, Space Spuds with Michael Slack!

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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