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.

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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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!

Now enjoy snacks from TREAT and enter to win gift certificates from TREAT and Jane’s Restaurant

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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.

If you’re in Chicago, then check out the launch of MAKE contributing editor Kathleen Rooney’s latest book, the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm at Women and Children First at 5233 N. Clark Street. She will be joined by co-reader Erika Mikkalo.

This will not be the last…

Chicago Tribune Books editor Amy Guth, Heather Momyer (303 Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, wordriver, PANK, Robot Melon),MAKE co-founder Mike Zapata, MAKE fiction editor Tom Mundt and contributor Ramsin Canon will be reading read at Cafe Wha Who?, 228 W Chicago Ave., on Friday, Jan 15

The reading introduced a new series to be held at the cafe.  Though we totally blew it on announcing this one, we’ll be sure to post info in the future.  EVen if the line-up is not stocked with MAKErs.

A Saturday Evening Pre: Cocktail Hour Reading and Discussion featuring Renowned Writers Stephen Elliott and Luis Alberto Urrea, and Emerging Writer Caroline Picard

Saturday, December 5, 6:30pm  at Bar DeVille

701 N. Damen, Chicago, IL 60622 / FREE

A cocktail hour reading and discussion featuring  novelists and nonfiction writers Stephen Elliott and Luis Alberto Urrea – two of today’s most innovative and honored writers – as well as  up-and-coming  fiction writer and publisher, Caroline Picard.   Each will read from new work and answer questions.

Evening hosted by Jonathan Messinger. Cofounder of Featherproof Books and books editor at Time Out Chicago.

Elliott is touring in support of his recent memoir The Adderall Diaries – described as “genius” by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair.

Urrea’s most recent books are the 2009 novel Into the North and The Hummingbird’s Daughter – culmination of 20 years of research and writing. The historical novel tells the story of Teresa Urrea, sometimes known as The Saint of Cabora and the Mexican Joan of Arc.

The reading will take place in Bar DeVille’s lushly furnished parlor – perfectly suited for a Saturday evening of storytelling and conversation.

Reading attendees will receive a bracelet granting a one-dollar discount on each drink!

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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