Kelly Corrigan, New York Times best-selling author of Lift and The Middle Place, reading at a Notes & Words event benefit for Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland. O Magazine calls Kelly "the voice of a generation." The Huffington Post says she is the "Poet Laureate of the ordinary." Kelly Corrigan is a grateful parent after Children's cured her three-month-old daughter of meningitis. The next Notes & Words will be held on April 28, 2012. See www.notesandwords.org for more details.