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Essays Videos Reading #54 Bohan Mary Pat

Video: Mary Pat Bohan can't carry your baggage too

  • William Shunn

William Shunn

28 Feb 2013
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At our Not Your Parents' Valentine's Day Edition of Tuesday Funk, Mary Pat Bohan read her personal essay "Brutally Honest," and it went just a little like this...

And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, March 5th, 2013, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an evening with Mairead Case, Lania Knight, Dana Norris, Zoe Zolbrod, and 2nd Story's CP Chang!

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Tuesday Funk #170 May 5, 206

Tuesday Funk #170: May 5, 2026

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Tori Rego is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She currently lives in Chicago where she hosts the monthly reading series Written on a Napkin. Her poetry chapbook, Briefly, Gently, was recognized as a finalist for the Chicago Reader's Best New Poetry Book by a Chicagoan in 2024.
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