Sunday, October 21st, 4pm
at Cara & Cabezas Contemporary (1714 Holmes St., KCMO, 64108)
Free! But please support the writers by buying their books!
Jim MCCRARY has published a dozen poetry books including
West of Mass (Tansy Press, 1992), All That: The Collected Chapbooks (Manypenny
Press, 2006) and a series of DIY titles including: Dive She Said, Hotter Than
and Now, (Hog Oil Press), My Book, Oh Miss Mary, Mayaland, Es Verdad,
ReVeiled (Really Old Gringo Press) and Po Doom and Not Not from Hank's Original
Loose Gravel Press which he co-publishes with Steven Tills. His work has
appeared in scores of magazines ranging from Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse,
The Continental Review, Galatia, Texture, Avec and House Organ. He has a BA and
MA from Cal State Sonoma where he studied with David Bromige. He was awarded a
Phoenix award from the city of Lawrence, KS for his 'contributions thru
literature to the community'. He co-curated the wildly popular Poetry Slam at
the Flamingo, a topless dance bar just over the city limits in North Lawrence.
Today he helps Megan Kaminski and Sorcha Highland run a poetry series in the
basement of a downtown Lawrence dive bar...The Taproom
(www.taproompoetry.blogspot.com).
David OHLE’s novel, Motorman, was published by Alfred A.
Knopf in 1972 and re-released by 3rd Bed Press in 2004 with an Introduction by
Ben Marcus. Its sequel, The Age of Sinatra, was published by Soft Skull in
2004, followed in 2008 by The Pisstown Chaos. In 2009, two novellas, Boons and
The Camp were published by Calamari Press under one cover. He has edited two
non-fiction books, Cows are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of
the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers (Watermark Press, 1991) and Cursed From Birth: the
Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. (Soft Skull, 2006). His short
fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, the Paris Review, TriQuarterly, the
Missouri Review, the Pushcart Prize and elsewhere. He has taught fiction
writing at the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Missouri in
Columbia and currently both fiction and screenwriting at the University of
Kansas in Lawrence.
Katie TWISS is the author of several books of fiction
written strictly for her mother, all at the age of six, all having to do with
cats. She is from Kansas City, Missouri by way of Tulsa, Oklahoma by way of
Fremont, California. She is a senior in printmaking and creative writing at the
Kansas City Art Institute. She spends a great deal of time driving long,
unnecessary distances for fun and drinking copious amounts of tea.
