The Danny’s Reading Series
Wednesday, June 10th
7:30PM

With Dorothea Lasky and Joshua Marie Wilkinson

In the forthcoming issue of MAKE (just a few more weeks!) Dorothea Lasky talks with Univ. of Chicago’s George M. Pullman Professor Lauren Berlant about being an educator and the role of affect in both Berlant’s work and her own.  She is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010) and several chapbooks.  Her poems have also appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Laurel Review, Puppy Flowers, and Columbia Poetry Review, among other places.  She has been educated at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Harvard University, and Washington University.  Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.  She can be found online at www.birdinsnow.com.

Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s 2 new books are just out: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth, from Tupelo Press, and 12×12, a collection of conversations, poetry, and poetics, from Iowa, which he co-edited with Christina Mengert. He lives in Andersonville and Athens, Georgia.

Danny’s Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the corner of Armitage and Damen), 773-489-6457, 21+, please bring ID.

From issue 7 contributor Jen Hofer: Visual artist Hillary Mushkin and I collaborated on Precipitation, an animated video that is part of the Oog series, an online multimedia opinion feature for the nationally distributed Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It can be viewed this week here. After that it will be in the archives. An image from the piece is above, along with another example of Hillary’s superb work, from a new untitled series of drawings featuring cute kids and gilded neoclassical symbols of power. You’ll find more of Hillary’s images on her website, and in the near future another of our collaborative projects will be published in the journal area sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

Also, Poet and translator Sawako Nakayasu and I collaborated on a cross-continental text translation titled Or Mountains Or Mountains. Please visit the work, beautifully designed and hosted by Jessica Bozek and Eli Queen. More of Sawako’s fantastic work can be found on her website.

Come see us! We’re sharing tables 327 -329 with Green Lantern Press and Featherproof Books.

New tote bags in the works and fest-only deals on subscriptions and individual copies.

You’d rather trade a pine cone, two rabbits feet, and a roll of Scotch tape than use cash?  We’ll consider your offer.