17.02.2010
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THIS Thurs – Cheryl’s Gone at Big Bear

I just found out I’ll be eating at Thai-Xing beforehand.  What a day.

This is the first image of Thai-Xing a Google search yields. I used to work with the guy on the left at Garden District selling plants. He was a good guy. And the reading will be as good as the food the high level of camaraderie and general good feelings this picture implies is.

Here’s the announcement for Thurs:

Announcing the February installment of Cheryl’s Gone!


Maureen Thorson

Laura Ellen Scott

James Belflower


Thursday Feb 18 – 8pm

Big Bear Café

1st & R NW


Maureen Thorson is the author of three chapbooks: Novelty Act (Ugly Duckling Presse 2004), Mayport (Poetry Society of America 2006) and Twenty Questions for the Drunken Sailor (dusie/flynpyntar presse
2009). She lives in Washington, DC where she co-curates the In Your Ear Reading Series and publishes Big Game Books, an itty-bitty poetry press.

Laura Ellen Scott’s recent fiction appears in Wigleaf, Barrelhouse, and Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women. She teaches fiction writing at George Mason University, and on March 20th she’ll be conducting a flash fiction workshop in DC as part of Dzanc Day, a nationwide fund raising effort to support Dzanc Book’s charitable programs.

James Belflower is the author of Commuter (Instance Press) and And Also a Fountain, (NeOpepper Press) a collaborative echap with Anne Heide and J. Michael Martinez. He won the 2007 Juked Magazine poetry prize and his work appears, or is forthcoming in: EOAGH, Denver Quarterly, Apostrophe Cast, First Intensity, Reconfigurations, Konundrum Engine, O&S, and Packingtown Review among others. He curates PotLatchpoetry.org, a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of poetry resources.


upcoming:

March 18 – Susan Tichy, Will Schutt
April 15 – Elizabeth Arnold, Christy Zink, Dan Gutstein
05.02.2010
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Call + Response Chapbook Exists

Super-scientist Mike Scalise helped put this together. The resolution of the art pictures is premium. One of my poems is in there. It’s about animal heads maybe. Wade Fletcher is in there too. The Washington Post described his piece as “opaque,” which is probably as complimentary as main-stream journalism knows how to be to  fragmented, minimalist poetry. It’s a great piece.  And judging from the critical response, Mike & Bryan Rojsuontikul’s mutual reflections on Mr. Rogers seem to steal the show.

Which is still showing at the Hamiltonian (1353 U St. NW).