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  1. Event: Michael Zapruder with Billy Blake and the Vagabonds

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    (This event is the third of three events featuring Michael Zapruder’s Pink Thunder project. Come by Rational Park, 2557 W. North Ave, March 30 at 7p.m. to hear Michael Zapruder and friends perform a full set from the album Pink Thunder. Rational Park also has all 22 Pink Thunder portmanteaus on display for your listening pleasure, through April 12. For more info: www.rational-park.com.)

    April 2, kick off Poetry Month by spending an evening with two poetry/music projects. Members of Billy Blake and the Vagabonds will join San Francisco-based musician Michael Zapruder and friends to perform a few selections from their latest albums, then discuss the process of writing songs around the framework of poems—for Zapruder, from his contemporaries, and for Reid Coker, Kennedy Greenrod, and Saleem Dhamee, the poems of Romantic poet William Blake.

    Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W. Dickens Ave, Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.

    Hosted by writer Fred Sasaki and MAKE Poetry Editor and Danny’s Reading Series curator, Joel Craig.

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    Michael Zapruder is an award-winning songwriter and recording artist, and a co-founder of San Francisco’s Howells Transmitter arts collective and record label. His albums include 52 Songs, This is a Beautiful Town, New Ways of Letting Go, and Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope, which won a 2009 Independent Music Award for Best Folk / Singer Song-Writer Album. His most recent work is Pink Thunder, a collection of free verse pop art-songs made from the poems of more than twenty contemporary American poets. Contributors include Noelle Kocot, James Tate, Bob Hicok, David Berman, D. A. Powell, and Valzhyna Mort. http://michaelzapruder.com/

    Billy Blake and the Vagabonds is songwriters Kennedy Greenrod and Reid Coker, guitarist Saleem Dhamee, bassist Jason Labrosse & drummer Seth Vanek. Inspired by 18th century Romantic mystic, William Blake, the Vagabonds have arranged 15 new tunes from his canonical collections, “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”. Contemporary interpretations of Blake’s classic work, the Vagabonds breathe new fire and meaning into William Blake’s iconic words, helping to re-illuminate his incendiary visions to both casual and most devoted of Blake enthusiasts. Drawing from Stones-y-rock, mellow pop, countrified folk, gospel music and hopping Bo Diddley blues, “Billy Blake and the Vagabonds” are a wholly modern representation of William Blake and his work. http://www.billyblakemusic.com/

    Fred Sasaki is associate editor of Poetry magazine. His most recent writing can be found on VICE. http://www.vice.com/read/fred-sasaki-fund

    Joel Craig is the author of The White House (Green Lantern Press, 2012). His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Fence, Iowa Review, and Typo, among others. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois where he also curates the Danny’s Reading Series and is the poetry editor for MAKE: A Literary Magazine. http://press.thegreenlantern.org/?p=450

    MORE ON THE SPONSORS:

    Black Ocean From early silent films to early punk rock, Black Ocean brings together a spectrum of influences and combines them with a radical social perspective on the nature of art and humanity. We manifest our aesthetic in the books we print, the shows we produce, and the work we promote.
    Based out of Boston, New York and Chicago, our intent is to saturate the public with skillful and passionate forms of expression through a wide variety of mediums. http://www.blackocean.org/

    Danny’s Reading Series at Danny’s Tavern, Chicago, features great poetry and fiction from Chicago and abroad. http://dannys.noslander.com/

    MAKE Literary Productions, NFP is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose purpose is to publish and promote contemporary literary writing and visual art. MAKE is a biannual publication not only showcasing established and emerging talent, but also creating a lasting document of the current writing and visual arts landscape. It is a literary, artistic object in pursuit of a thematic vision.
    http://www.makemag.com/

    Rational Park essentially started in 2007 as a cooperative model for friends running independent creative businesses. After relocating to the current space, it has evolved into a resource not only for the members, but for their larger scale projects and for the community as a whole. They are designers, developers, art directors, illustrators, publishers and musicians. http://www.rational-park.com/

  2. Event: Don’t Forget to Eat, AWP 2013

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    The Baffler and MAKE: A Literary Magazine present:
    Don’t Forget to Eat.

    Friday, March 8
    5:30 p.m. -7 p.m.

    The Plough & Stars
    Cambridge’s storied Irish pub and restaurant
    912 Massachusetts Ave

    Order a bite and a pint while watching performances
    by Ailish Hopper, Christopher Janke, Fred Sasaki, Julia Story, John Summers, and Eugenia Williamson.

    Ailish Hopper is the author of the chapbook, Bird in the Head, selected by Jean Valentine for the Center for Book Arts prize. Individual poems have appeared in journals including Agni, American Poetry Review, The Baffler, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Tidal Basin Review, among other places. She has also received support from the Baltimore Commission for the Arts and Humanities, the MacDowell colony, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo.

    A native of DC, she has degrees from Princeton University and Bennington College, and teaches at Goucher College and in Goucher’s Prison Education Partnership.

    Christopher Janke’s poems have appeared in Harper’s, A Public Space, American Poetry Review, MAKE, and dozens of other journals. Among other projects, he is currently working on a series of poems entitled “of the of of the of” that explore the relationship between words and objects through visual and sculptural reinterpretations of the poems.

    Fred Sasaki is associate editor of Poetry magazine. His most recent writing can be found on VICE.

    John Summers is The Baffler’s Editor in Chief.

    Julia Story’s first collection, Post Moxie, was the recipient of Sarabande Books’ 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and Ploughshares’ 2010 John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and was named one of Coldfront’s Top 30 Poetry Books of 2010. Her recent work has appeared in The Paris Review, Octopus, MAKE, and Salt Hill. A native of Indiana, she now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

    Eugenia Williamson is a freelance writer and book critic, as well as a contributing Editor to The Baffler Her work can be found in The Boston Globe, Bookforum and The Phoenix among other places.

    Billy Blake and the Vagabonds is songwriters Kennedy Greenrod and Reid Coker, guitarist Saleem Dhamee, bassist Jason Labrosse & drummer Seth Vanek. Inspired by 18th century Romantic mystic, William Blake, the Vagabonds have arranged 15 new tunes from his canonical collections, “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”. Contemporary interpretations of Blake’s classic work, the Vagabonds breathe new fire and meaning into William Blake’s iconic words, helping to re-illuminate his incendiary visions to both casual and most devoted of Blake enthusiasts. Drawing from Stones-y-rock, mellow pop, countrified folk, gospel music and hopping Bo Diddley blues, “Billy Blake and the Vagabonds” are a wholly modern representation of William Blake and his work.
    http://billyblakeandthevagabonds.bandcamp.com/

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    The Baffler is a journal of art and criticism appearing every March, June, and October. It’s edited by John Summers with Thomas Frank and Chris Lehmann, published in print and digital formats by MIT Press, delivered to subscribers in all fifty U.S. States, Canada, and Europe, and distributed to fine book stores everywhere. http://www.thebaffler.com/

    MAKE Literary Productions, NFP is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose purpose is to publish and promote contemporary literary writing and visual art. MAKE is a biannual publication not only showcasing established and emerging talent, but also creating a lasting document of the current writing and visual arts landscape. It is a literary, artistic object in pursuit of a thematic vision.
    http://www.makemag.com/

     

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