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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Two great readings are happening in Chicago tonight – MAY 12.  Four dudes, two neighborhoods – one chance only?

Let’s break it down like this:

Prefer fiction? Head down to 57th St. Books (1301 East 57th Street) at 6:30pm to hear not one, but TWO MAKE contributors read from their new book both out from Coffee House Press.

Aaron Michael Morales

reads from Drowning Tuscon – which includes a story first featured in MAKE. Read El Camino from issue 1.

Travis Nichols

(issue 6 and STEAM, a film with Dean Rank) reads from his new novel about generational divides, World War II, and a quest for truth Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder

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Also, the always impressive Danny’s Reading Series is happening tonight, May 12 at 7:30 sharp!

It will feature poets Jeff Clark (Music and Suicide, 2A) and Geoffrey G. O’Brien (Green and Gray, 2A).

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Danny’s Reading Series

Dara Wier and Michael Robins

Wednesday, April 28th at 7:30PM Sharp.

Dara Wier’s ten previous books include Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005), which was awarded the Poetry Center Book Award. Her work has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and The American Poetry Review. She lives and works in Amherst where she directs the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

Michael Robins is the author of the chapbook Circus (Flying Guillotine Press, 2009) and The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), which received the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and lives in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Special Deal for Danny’s Reading Series Attendees TONIGHT: $25 = 1-year subscription to MAKE (including the current issue featuring new poems from Dara Wier) + a copy of Dara’s latest (hardcover!) book SELECTED POEMS (Wave Books 2009). $15 total savings! One-time only special!

Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:30 sharp

Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W. Dickins, Chicago

Poetry by Travis Nichols and Sandra Lim

Sandra Lim is the author of the poetry collection Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press). She was born in Seoul, Korea, grew up in San Francisco, CA, and is the 2009-2010 poet-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago.

Travis Nichols was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. He now lives in Chicago. An editor at the Poetry Foundation, his writing has appeared in MAKE, The Village Voice, The Believer, Details, Paste, The Stranger, and the Huffington Post. Iowa, his first book of poems, is just out from Letter Machine Press, and will be shortly followed by his first novel, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, due out in April from Coffee House Press.

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Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:30 sharp

Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W. Dickins, Chicago

Poetry by Rob Schlegel and Catherine Theis

Catherine Theis is the author of the chapbook The Fraud of Good Sleep (SUN SUN SUN Press) and co-author of In Fortune (dusie kollectiv) with Jared Stanley and Lauren Levin. Her new poems are forthcoming in Action Yes, LIT, Sonora Review, and Volt and a poem appeared in MAKE issue 3, edited by Kevin Coval.  She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is the recipient of a 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council.

Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.

The Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, November 18th
7:30PM

Poetry by:

Kiki Petrosino and Judith Goldman

JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of Vocoder (Roof Books 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), and a chapbook, “The Dispossessions” (Atticus/Finch 2009). Her work appears or will appear in recent issues of Mrs. Maybe, Wig, Parameter, 580 Split, onedit, Model Homes, Moonlit, West Wind Review, and cannot exist. She was a coeditor in the Krupskaya Collective from 2002 through 2004 and coedits the annual anthology War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino (#4 appeared in June). She teaches as a professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow in the arts humanities core and the creative writing department at the University of Chicago.

KIKI PETROSINO is the author of Fort Red Border, published in 2009 from Sarabande Books. Kiki holds an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Fence, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Verse Daily, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City.

next month:
Wednesday, December 9th

Alan Bernheimer (The Spoonlight Institute, Adventures in Poetry)
Karyna McGlynn (I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, Sarabande)

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

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The Danny’s Reading Series
Wednesday, October 14th
7:30PM

Poetry by Jen Hofer & Patrick Durgin

Jen Hofer’s recent publications include The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008), sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008), and lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007). Her forthcoming books are from the valley of death (Ponzipo), Laws (Dusie Books), one (Palm Press), and a translation of Guatemalan poet Alan Mills’ Síncopes (Piedra Santa). She currently teaches at Goddard College, and in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts.

For MAKE issue 7, Jen interviewed novelist and translator Forrest Gander and Mexican poet Pura López-Colomé.

Patrick Durgin is a poet-critic whose most recent publications include The Route, a collaboration with Jen Hofer (Atelos, 2008), and contributions to Contemporary Women’s Writing, Denver Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Literature, Mark(s)zine, textsound.org and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics. New poems are forthcoming in the “A Tonalist” feature of the literary journal Aufgabe (edited by Laura Moriarty), and a new essay on the work of Lyn Hejinian is slated from Aerial: Contemporary Poetics as Critical Theory. Durgin teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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

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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.

We’re just in time with this one.

The Danny’s Reading Series
Wednesday, December 10th
7:30PM Sharp
Poetry by: James Shea, Laura Goldstein, and Jason Bredle

James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected by Nick Flynn as the winner of the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Mrs. Maybe, and Verse. He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University.

Jason Bredle is the author of Standing in Line for the Beast, winner of the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize, and A Twelve Step Guide, winner of the 2004 New Michigan Press chapbook contest. His most recent book, Pain Fantasy, is available from Red Morning Press. He lives in Chicago.
Danny’s Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the corner of Armitage and Damen). 21+, please bring ID. 773-489-6457
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