WI Library Association, cream city Friendlies reading, Java Nets writing workshops + November Conversant

Dear all,

Here are some upcoming events where you’ll find me:

Thursday, Nov. 6, 4:30-5:15pm:

Thanks to Nick Demske for inviting me, with Dasha Kelly, Marco Jaimez & Evan Maruszewski to represent BONK! Performance Series at the Wisconsin Library Association. We’ll be performing & chatting about “Turning Local Weirdos Into Artistic Powerhouses One Library Program At A Time” on the Collaborations & Innovations track: http://wla.wisconsinlibraries.org/events-conferences/annual-conference/programs-thursday

 

Friday, Nov. 7, 7pm:

I’ll be emceeing our 1st cream city Friendlies Reading (UWM vs NMU), hosted by cream city review, Fri, 7pm, Union Art Gallery! Midwestern Friendlies is an initiative to build strong community and networks across writers in graduate creative writing programs in the Midwest. This event matches University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee writers Mollie Boutell, Sherri Hoffman & Soham Patelwith Northern Michigan University writers Cory Ferrer, Robin McCarthy &Becky Pelky. Free and open to the public!

 

Saturday, Nov. 8, 10:45am-12pm

I’ll be facilitating a writing workshop as part of Java Scripts, a monthly community writing workshop hosted by Still Waters Collective at CityNet Cafe (306 E. Wisconsin Ave):

Join us every second Saturday for a casual, coffee house writing series to stretch your imagination, exercise your pen and connect you with new neighbors. Whether you’re a committed writer or a never scribe, we  invite you to get inspired this year! A new facilitator will lead a writing prompt and circle discussion each month.

There’s no admission cost, but we insist that everyone supports the venue with the purchase of a beverage or food.

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Also, in editing news, happy to announce that The Conversant‘s November issue is live, featuringAngela Buck‘s selection of Nada Gordon from Leonard Schwartz’s Cross-Cultural Poetics Archive; Celeste Guzman Mendoza on Ai for our Intersecting Lineages series; Rachel B. Glaser w/ Natalie Lyalin; Philip F. Clark w/Francisco Aragón; Omnidawn Publishing‘s Rusty Morrison withJoshua Corey; Metta Sáma‘s Female Aesthetic(s) Symposium (Part 2) w/Racquel Ima-Writer Goodison, Monica Hand, Patricia Spears Jones, Tracy Chiles McGhee & Arisa White; Caleb Beckwith‘s interviews w/F. Gordon Faylor as well as William V. Spanos, The People‘s Mathew Timmons & Ben White w/Janice Lee & Jared Woodland; rob mclennan w/George Stanley;David Koehn w/Jim Daniels; Radio Free Albion’s Tony Trigilio w/ Peter Davis;Mary Cappello w/ Peter Covino; and Sasha Steensen w/ Martin Corless-Smith! Also, a welcome to our new audio/video editor, Cassie Nicholson!