Reading #74 - Tuesday Funk

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Reading #74

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Haiku by Andrew

Poetry Haiku by Andrew

Fall Haiku Action from Andrew Huff

The October 7th edition of Tuesday Funk was super eclectic, and so were co-host Andrew Huff's topical haiku. Nature's fall rainbow: red, orange, yellow and green -- but also grey, brown. Better 52 for the furnace to break at than 32. Often your day job, red

October debriefing

Debriefings Reading #74

October debriefing

Another month cruised by, another Tuesday Funk delighted our senses. Time, how quickly she passes. Sunrise, sunset. We started off with a story of love and Chicago with a twist of death (who could resist such a combination?) by Noel Jones, followed by an excerpt from Lori Rader-Day's

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #74 is tonight!

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #74 is tonight!

We here at Tuesday Funk love to use the weather as a metaphor for the passage of time, and this month is no exception - we're bundled up in our scarves and hip jackets, enjoying the changing colors and various pumpkin-flavored things, and tonight we are going to

Meet Our Readers: Mark Turcotte

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Meet Our Readers: Mark Turcotte

Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is author of four poetry collections, including The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas. His poems and stories have appeared in POETRY, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Sentence, Hunger Mountain, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and other literary journals and anthologies. His work is included in the Poetry

Meet Our Readers: Paul McComas & Maya Kuper

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Meet Our Readers: Paul McComas & Maya Kuper

Paul McComas is an award-winning author (five critically acclaimed books, plus two in process), actor, educator, filmmaker and musician, and a progressive activist who's been honored by his home state of Wisconsin, the Mental Health Association, and the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), on whose National

Meet Our Readers: Noël Jones

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Meet Our Readers: Noël Jones

Originally from Alaska, Noël Jones is a writer and former member of the 2000 National Poetry Slam Champion Team NYC-Urbana, featured in The New York Times and on NPR's "Infinite Mind," as well as at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX. As a

Meet Our Readers: Lori Rader-Day

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Meet Our Readers: Lori Rader-Day

Lori Rader-Day's debut mystery, The Black Hour (Seventh Street Books, 2014), received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Her short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Good Housekeeping, and others. Her next book, the mystery Little Pretty Things, is out

Meet Our Readers: Dmitry Samarov

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Meet Our Readers: Dmitry Samarov

Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design

Tuesday Funk for Oct. 7, 2014

Readings Reading #74

Tuesday Funk #74 - Oct. 7, 2014

This October, the 74th edition of Tuesday Funk will live up to its tagline with a truly eclectic show, featuring Mark Turcotte, Noel Jones, Paul McComas and Maya Kuper, Lori Rader-Day, and Dmitry Samarov -- plus your regular cohosts, Andrew Huff and Eden Robins. The reading gets underway on Tuesday,