Reading #163 - Tuesday Funk

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Reading #163

A collection of 7 posts

Catherine-Esther Cowie

Debriefings Reading #163

October 2025 Debrief

The 163rd edition of Tuesday Funk was on one the first cool nights we've had this fall, but the live lit kept us warm inside.

Participants Jaggi Jitesh

Meet the Readers: Jitesh Jaggi

Jitesh Jaggi is a dancer and poet from India. He ended his career in Finance one day when he lost all his data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet and realized that he just didn't care. That tipping point led him to becoming a storyteller

Chef/percussionist/writer Alan Lake

Participants Lake Alan

Meet the Readers: Alan Lake

Chef/percussionist/writer/reprobate and lover of all things beautiful & delicious, Chef Alan Lake's culinary career includes East Bank Club in Chicago; Sunset Marquis in W. Hollywood; Izakaya Hiwatta in Ichinomia Japan and legendary nightclub Purpur in Zurich, Switzerland. Working around the world for over four decades,

JH Palmer and friend

Participants Palmer J.H.

Meet the Readers: JH Palmer

J.H. Palmer is a Gapers Block alumna. She has performed at numerous storytelling venues in Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, and New York City, and she produced a nonfiction literary series called That’s All She Wrote from 2012 to 2017. Her work has appeared in Hypertext Review, Chicago Story Press,

author Miles Harvey

Participants Harvey Miles

Meet the Readers: Miles Harvey

Miles Harvey’s collection of short stories, The Registry of Forgotten Objects (Mad Creek Books, 2024) won the Journal Non/Fiction Prize and the Society of Midland Authors award for best work of adult fiction. His nonfiction includes The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020) and The Island

Meet the Readers: Esther Cowie

Participants Cowie Esther

Meet the Readers: Esther Cowie

Catherine-Esther Cowie was born in St Lucia to a Tobagonian father and a St Lucian mother. She migrated with her family to Canada and then to the USA. Her poems have been published in PN Review, Prairie Schooner, West Branch Journal, The Common, SWWIM, Rhino Poetry and others. Her debut

Tuesday Funk #163 on Oct. 7, 2025, featuring readings by Esther Cowie, Miles Harvey, Alan Lake, Jitesh Jaggi, and JH Palmer

Readings Reading #163

Tuesday Funk #163: October 7, 2025

Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Oct. 7 for readings by Esther Cowie, Miles Harvey, Alan Lake, Jitesh Jaggi, and JH Palmer!