April 2012 archive

Last Sunday, Last Rites, May Edition!!!

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  • April 29, 2012

Sunday, May 27, 2012
7:00pm in EDT
HI Baltimore Hostel
17 West Mulberry Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

The book release party for Pat King’s “Exit Nothing”! Everyone who shows up gets a copy of this novella! Free! Also we’ll have:

Rachel Demma!
Joe Crespo!
Emily Peterson Crespo!

Free beer & free books & fun? Yeah!

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Mainstreet Rag Poetry Showcase

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  • April 29, 2012

Sunday, May 27, 2012. 6:00pm
MAINSTREET RAG POETRY SHOWCASE @ PROSPERO’S PIT WITH SPECIAL GUEST KEVIN RABAS!
PROSPERO’S BOOKS, 1800 W. 39TH ST., KC/MO, 64111, 816-531-WORD

Associate Professor Dr. Kevin Rabas (MFA, Goddard College; PhD, KU) co-directs the creative writing program at Emporia State and edits Flint Hills Review. Rabas writes poetry, plays, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. He has three books: Bird’s Horn, Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner, and Spider Face: stories. He writes regularly for Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). Rabas’s plays have been produced across Kansas and in San Diego. His work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, and Rabas is the winner of the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry, the Victor Contowski Poetry Award, the Jerome Johanning Playwriting Award, and the Salina New Voice Award.

Show starts at 6PM!
$3 cover.
Open mic after main event.
Bring some!

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$@!# Authors Say

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  • April 28, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Czar Bar, 1531 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO
Beer, books, and a band at a bar, and other b-words that could make this alliterative string super cool. Featured music by Winebox with readings by:
Phil Jourdan (Praise of Motherhood)
Caleb J. Ross (I Didn’t Mean to be Kevin)
Gordon Highland (Flashover)
Brandon Tietz (Out of Touch)
Hampton Stevens (The Atlantic, ESPN Insider)
Hollie Hayes

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