Darst, Demske, Göransson, Shea, Workman: 4 November 2011, Minneapolis, MN

Center for Visionary Poetics Presents:

GRAND ELECTRIC SKULL

Readings by Lightsey Darst, Nick Demske, Johannes Göransson, James Shea, and Elisabeth Workman

Music by Dan and Sharon Kaniess and Friends

Created By Sarah Fox

7:00pm - 11:00pm at SPOT ART
1828 Marshall St. NE
FREE

Gambito, Goransson, Kaplan, & McSweeney: 23 May 2011, NY, NY

Poets & Translators at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Featuring TSky Press authors Johannes Göransson and Joyelle McSweeney, with Sarah Gambito and Janet Kaplan

6:00pm - 8:00pm @ Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
Greenwich Village, New York
Cover $7

www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Short, Rabinowitz, Liening & Ladewig: May 15, 2011, New York, NY

Readings by Anna Rabinowitz, Brad Liening, Lily Ladewig and Kim Gek Lin Short

InDigest 1207 Reading Series
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, NYC
7PM

Short & Frey: April 8, 2011, Athens, GA

Readings by Emily Kendal Frey and Kim Gek Lin Short.

Dog Ear Books
UGA
162 West Clayton Street
Athens, GA
8PM

Downing and Haug, 7 April 2011, Amherst, MA

Featuring James Haug and Brandon Downing
8pm @ Memorial Hall
134 Hicks Way
University of Massachusetts

Short, Frey, & Staples: April 7, 2011, Atlanta, GA

Readings by Emily Kendal Frey, Kim Gek Lin Short, Heidi Lynn Staples.

Emory University Bookstore
1390 Oxford Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
8PM

Short, Puckett, Quimba & Tai Amri: April 2, 2011, Philadelphia, PA

New Philadelphia Poets present readings by Tai Amri, Cheryl Quimba, Kim Gek Lin Short, & Michelle Puckett.

Saturday, April 2
Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA
4-6 pm

TAI AMRI is a Jerseyite/Philadelphian Young Adult Friend, born & raised an African-American Quaker. He received a B.A. in Writing & Poetics from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Na...ropa University in Boulder, Colorado, & is currently on a spiritual pause from a M.Div. program at Pacific School of Religion. He believes in the divinity of all beings & the natural r/evolution of all things, but in particular, he pursues his acknowledgement of child-like faith through his involvement as a first grade teacher in Germantown, Philadelphia.

CHERYL QUIMBA is a graduate of St. Mary's College of Maryland, & has been writing poetry since the day she first picked up a crayon & learned how to put letters together. She is currently biding time in the working world until she returns to school, & has plans to teach & continue writing poetry.

KIM GEK LIN SHORT is the author of two full-length collections, The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits & the forthcoming China Cowboy, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her chapbook Run was the 2010 Golden Gloves selection from Rope-A-Dope, & a previous chapbook, The Residents, is available from Dancing Girl Press. You can visit Kim at a reading or in Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband & daughter.

MICHELLE PUCKETT earned her BA in Writing from Naropa University & her MFA in poetry from Mills College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Hot Metal Bridge, Bang Out San Francisco, The Walrus, Flaneur Foundry, A Trunk of Delerium, & Monkey Puzzle Magazine. She works as the Events Coordinator for Tarpaulin Sky & was the recipient of the 2009 Mary Merritt Prize in Poetry.

Short, Klassnik, Marks, & Taransky: March 19, 2011, Philadelphia PA

Readings by Rauan Klassnik, Justin Marks, Kim Gek Lin Short, Michelle Taransky.

A Splitleaves Affair
Robin’s Bookstore
110A South 13th Street
Phila, PA 19107
7 PM

Taylor & Harrison: March 13, 2011, Tucscon, AZ

Shelly Taylor & Jim Harrison
Tucson Festival of Books
Sunday, March 13th 2011
4pm in the Kiva Room on the U of A campus