Monthly Archives: January 2012

Radio On!

DePaul University has an award-winning student radio station known as Radio DePaul. On Fridays, they broadcast a program called The DePaul Writers’ Series, and tomorrow, between 10 and 11 am, I’ll be on it to discuss For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs among other subjects. Tune in, won’t you?
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Winner winner chicken dinner.

Rose Metal Press is thrilled to announce that judge Randall Brown selected the manuscript Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel as the winner of this year’s sixth annual short short chapbook contest. You can read about the terrific finalists and semi-finalists here. Aaron does not, in fact, win a chicken dinner (that would be gross), but [...]
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A mind of winter

If you live in or around Chicago, you might have noticed that it’s snowing here for the first time since last winter. Winter, as everyone knows, is the second best of all the seasons, so this fact in and of itself is nothing to fret about; however, the inclement conditions mean that this evening’s Poems [...]
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Lucky Friday the 13th

Leigh Stein is coming to Chicago this Friday, January 13, to read from her debut novel, The Fallback Plan, at Women & Children First, and I’ll be reading with her. You should watch her book trailer here, and then this panda photograph will begin to make sense. You should also come to the reading at [...]
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Fame is brilliant?

Do you believe in New Year’s Resolutions? Was one of them to go to more reading series? Might I suggest the P. Fanatics Reading Series hosted by Mason Johnson at Cole’s Bar in Logan Square:
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