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.

Issue 7 contributor Eula Biss was nominated in the criticism category for her collection of essays Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press).

This book was also among Time Out Chicago’s top ten for 2009.  Also, an essay from the collection appeared in MAKE issue 7.  Basically, we strongly recommend you buy this book.

The current issue of the New Yorker contains an article on contemporary Arabic novels and features Mahmoud Saeed and his novel Saddam City.

From Mike Zapata, fiction editor on issue 4, commenting on Saeed: I’m very happy to see him recognized nationally, as when I met him four years ago he was struggling to figure out how to make his work known here. A novel a year, regardless of his situation, struggling, working, in political asylum, forgotten, found. A real writer.

Saeed’s story Saddam and Khamini appeared in MAKE issue 4 – Sister Cities: The International Issue.

You can read it here in its entirety.

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.

Issue 7 contributor Kembrew Mcleod’s documentary COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS premieres Tuesday, January 19 on PBS’s Independent Lens!

Also check out Mcleod’s alter ego Robo Professor who just finished a dance music video about digital sampling and copyright law, with an interactive component. Here’s the website: http://www.robotainment.net/musicvideo.

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.

Penates of the Underpass

A tiny triangle of Chicago surrounded by interstates was once overseen by St. Jude, Patron of the Hopeless Cause. In a new essay, Joe Drogos looks at these odd blocks and sees the Roman hearthgods and Virgil’s terrified pigeons. Take a tour of this neighborhood and others in Joe’s blog, The Silver-Colored Yesterday, one of MAKE’s online features.

Read more here.

New items are being posted throughout the website. Check out this video! Go to CAM event page for more.

How to Make Paperhouse

by Kirsten Leenaars and Joel Craig
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