Reading #81 - Tuesday Funk

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Reading #81

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Haiku by Andrew

Poetry Haiku by Andrew

Cinco de Haiku

At the May 5 edition of Tuesday Funk, co-host Andrew Huff read six topical haiku. It snows in April. You have lived here long enough, you should know by now. Still, it would be nice if flowers and fruit tree buds were safe from freezing. Frost advisories make for depressing

Debriefings Reading #81

May Debriefing

We may not have had margaritas, but we had great writers, and isn't that really what Cinco de Mayo is all about? Maggie Kast started off the night with an essay about making fudge and an excerpt from her newest novel. Jenny Drai followed it up with passages

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #81 is tonight!

Reminder: Tuesday Funk #81 is tonight!

Come celebrate Cinco de Mayo the traditional way - with some awesome writers! Join Wesley Chu, Jenny Drai, Melissa Franic, Maggie Kast, and Jack Silverstein PLUS your faithful co-hosts Andrew Huff and Eden Robins, for some sweet cerveza and literatura action! Our readings take place at Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N.

Meet Our Readers: Jenny Drai

Participants Reading #81

Meet Our Readers: Jenny Drai

Jenny Drai is the author of Letters to Quince (winner of the Deerbird Novella Prize from Artistically Declined Press), and two poetry chapbooks: The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow (Black Lawrence Press) and :Body Wolf: (Horse Less Press). In addition, three full-length collections of poetry are forthcoming:

Meet Our Readers: Jack Silverstein

Participants Reading #81

Meet Our Readers: Jack Silverstein

Jack M Silverstein is a staff writer for Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. He enjoys meeting new people, so start a conversation with him @readjack. Please join Jack and all our great readers on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, upstairs at Hopleaf at 7:30 pm. This 21-and-older event is free.

Meet Our Readers: Melissa Franic

Participants Reading #81

Meet Our Readers: Melissa Franic

Melissa Franic is a writer and educator born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago to an Italian-American mother and a Yugoslavian-born father. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Goddard College, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Anthropology from Northern

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Participants Reading #81

Meet Our Readers: Maggie Kast

Maggie Kast is the author of The Crack between the Worlds: a dancer's memoir of loss, faith and family, published by Wipf and Stock. Her first novel, A Free, Unsullied Land, is forthcoming from Fomite Press in autumn 2015. "The Hate that Chills," a story excerpted

Meet Our Readers: Wesley Chu

Participants Reading #81

Meet Our Readers: Wesley Chu

Wesley Chu is the author of five novels and a 2015 nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His debut, The Lives of Tao, won the Young Adult Library Services Alex Award and was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction. His

Tuesday Funk for May 5, 2015

Readings Reading #81

Tuesday Funk #81: May 5, 2015

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with some live lit at Tuesday Funk! Your favorite eclectic monthly reading series returns to the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St. in Chicago, on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, with guests Wesley Chu, Jenny Drai, Melissa Franic, Maggie Kast and Jack Silverstein! Plus, our