Join us for the Bronx Book Fair this Sunday!

MAKE Fiction Editor Kamilah Foreman will man a table!

Did you know there are only two bookstores in the Bronx? The Book Fair is organized as an action against how few bookstores there are in the neighborhood. Adults, families, and kids are all welcome, and attendance is free.

Rain or shine, we’ll be there. Please come out and say “Hi,” and please spread the word.

Thanks! – Sergio Bessa, Lynn Pono, Bridget Bartolini, Andres Santiago, and Mairead Case

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FEATURING LOCALS: Frank Adamo’s Freedomland (Arcadia Publishing), Belladonna, BOMB, Bronx Heroes Comics, Lisa Kahane’s Do Not Give Way to Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx (1979-1987) (powerHouse Books), Mosaic, MAKE, New York Writers Coalition, Porgo Souley, Reanimation Library, Carlos Quispe’s Killer Heights (Printed Matter), Sisters Uptown Bookstore, and Ugly Duckling Presse.

INCLUDING A CHICAGO TABLE w/ WORK FROM: the2NDHAND, Action Books, Another Chicago Magazine, featherproof, Green Lantern Press, Half Letter Press, Susie Kirkwood & Jill Summers, Monsters and Dust, Pocket Guide to Hell Tours, The Printers’ Ball, Public Media Institute (Lumpen, Proximity), and Stop Smiling.

Thursday, June 24 – Greg Purcell & Joel Craig

7pm Myopic Books, 1564 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago

Joel CRAIG’s chapbook Shine Tomorrow is available from Lost Horse Press. His poems have appeared in Lungfull!, GutCult, A Public Space, Zoland Poetry, Rabbit Light Movies, Fence, and others. He is the poetry editor at MAKE: A Literary Magazine, and co-founder and curator of the Danny’s Reading Series—where he lives—in Chicago.

Greg PURCELL’s poetry has appeared most recently in The Agriculture Reader, Lungfull! Magazine, Open City and in the anthology A Best of Fence: The First 9 Years. He organizes the St. Mark’s Bookshop Reading Series and writes about poetry and science fiction on his blog, The Supercollider. With Joel Craig, he co-founded The Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago.

CLMP Lit Mag Marathon Weekend!

New York, New York, June 19 & 20

11th Annual
LIT MAG MARATHON WEEKEND
June 19th and 20th
All events are free and open to the public

New York, NY—The magazines may be little, but the weekend is big,
big, BIG! Itʼs time once again for CLMPʼs annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend, a massive showcase of Americaʼs diverse literary magazines and journals.

EDITORS UNLEASHED!
The Magathon
New York Public Libraryʼs DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, 5th Ave. at
42nd St.
Saturday, June 19th from 4–6:30 PM

The Magathon kicks off the weekend with a celebratory “marathon”
reading. Dozens of editors representing journals of different sizes and styles
will present favorite selections from their latest issues.

MAKE Fiction Editor Kamilah Foreman will read!

BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS!
The GIANT Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works
Housing Works Used Book Café, 126 Crosby Street in Soho
Sunday, June 20th from 12–5PM

Lit fiends can take home armfuls of lit mags discounted more than 50%
at only $2 a copy! Choose from hundreds of magazines from all over the country
and hobnob with many of the editors whoʼll be there in person to meet and
greet.

Proceeds go to Housing Works, a nonprofit organization serving
homeless people living with AIDS, and to The Council of
Literary Magazines and Presses, a nonprofit organization serving
independent literary publishers.

Danny’s Reading Series

Release party reading for Suzanne Buffam and John Beer
Wednesday, June 9th, 7:30PM

Suzanne Buffam’s first book, Past Imperfect, was published in 2005 by House of Anansi Press. The Irrationalist, her second book, was published in the U.S. by Canarium Books and in Canada by House of Anansi Press in April 2010. She’s the recipient of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the CBC Literary Award for Poetry, and her poems have appeared in Boston Review, A Public Space, jubilat, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in Chicago.

John Beer’s first book, The Waste Land and Other Poems, was published by Canarium Books in April 2010. His work has appeared in MAKE (read Oceanic from issue 6 here)Verse, The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Crowd, and elsewhere.

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New and improved No Slander event page

Newbie Associate Visual Arts Editor Caleb Lyons talks shop at the MCA on Tuesday, June 8 at 6pm. Caleb J. Lyons discusses his exhibition of paintings and ceramics during this informal gallery talk. This program is part of the MCA’s monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Workexhibition series.

Lyons’s show of new work will be up at the Museum of Contemporary Art through June 27

It’s been five years since the first issue of MAKE! Remember the night? Friday, June 24. Aaron Michael Morales read from El Camino; Bill Hillman read boxing poems; Christine Hoffman read from her short story Dwelling Marvin Tate and LeRoy Bach performed poems and songs as Group Sex. Throughout the night, Chris Salveter serenaded us and, for a second, Vince Vaughn. There was air-conditing, and it was such a relief.

To celebrate our fifth anniversary, we’re taking five bucks off subscriptions. Visit our online store to support MAKE with you subscription.

ISSUE ONE COVERS
photo by Rachel Jackson	print by Johnathan Crawford	sculpture by Alfonso Nieves	painting by Stacie Johnson

Celebrate the release award-winning Chicago author and MAKE contributor Reginald Gibbons’s collection of Chicago poems and stories,

SLOW TRAINS OVERHEAD

. Gibbons will be joined by gapersblock.com’s Politics Editor, Ramsin Canon. Canon will present a multi-media

Chicago Ward Primer: Celebrities, Scandals & Snacks

Complimentary beer!

Complimentary appetizers from Las Palmas
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Commentary on the real and imagined social, cultural and literary heritage of MAKE’s hometown

Joe Drogos’s newest essay suggests we can only understand our infrastructure and industry if we first let it stupefy us.Take a peek at it and other entries in Joe’s blog, The Silver-Colored Yesterday, one of MAKE’s online features.

Read more here.

MAY 20 Erica Johnson Debeljak at WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST BOOKS

Erica Johnson Debeljak reads from her memoir Forbidden Bread. 7:30 p.m. When: Thursday, May 20, 7:30 pm / Where: Women and Children First – 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago IL 60640 / Cost: FREE /All ages
And for those of a certain age – a Slovenian wine tasting sponsored by Wine Discount Center and featuring

Kogl Sämling “Mea Culpa” 2008

Pullus Laški Rizling 2007

Pullus Sauvignon Blanc 2008


About the author: Erica Johnson Debeljak left her career in the early 90s as a New York City financial analyst to marry Slovenian poet Aleš Debeljak and move to his home country. Unable to pursue her financial career in Slovenia, she became a literary translator (from Slovenian into English), writer, and columnist. Her stories and essays have appeared in the US News and World Report, Glimmer Train (winner of 2007 Family Matters Award), Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Epoch, Common Knowledge, and Eurozine. Her work has been translated into Italian, German, Hungarian, Bosnian, and Slovakian. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans and has published three books in Slovenia, including Foreigner in the House of Natives. This year, her memoir Forbidden Bread was published by North Atlantic Books.

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