Red Rover Series Experiment #84: In Defense Of ___________
Red Rover is celebrating their 10th anniversary tomorrow night (!) with the experiment "In Defense of_____" for which I have written (& will be reading from) a very distracted defense of distraction.
Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #84:
In Defense Of ___________
Red Rover Celebrates 10 Years!!!
by asking local writers to defend
any issue/topic with their own writing
Featuring:
Cean Gamalinda
Marcy Rae Henry
Nathan Hoks
Daniela Olszewska
Anne K. Yoder
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
CEAN GAMALINDA is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Sometimes called (alternatively attributed to James Brown) "the hardest working man in show business", he holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera. His trademarks include his excited manner, his Bronx accent, his wit, and his irreverent ad-libs.
MARCY RAE HENRY was born and raised in Mexican-America. She is a director of dramatic performances and a mediocre musician who writes fiction, nonfiction, and spoken word. Her 2006 publication, The CTA Chronicles, received a City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant. Audrey Niffenegger says, “Marcy Henry has written the true Chicago, the true El, stuffed with humans, source of strange encounters and disturbing memories. Her gorgeous writing captures the transience and the beauty of the city.” Henry’s novel, Cumbia Therapy, received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and will be published in fall by Around the Block Press. She is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Fine Arts at Harold Washington College.
NATHAN HOKS is the author of two books of poetry, Reveilles and The Narrow Circle, which was a winner of the 2012 National Poetry Series and published by Penguin. He is an editor and letterpress printer for the micro-press Convulsive Editions, and he currently teaches in Truman College’s Communications Department and in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Creative Writing.
DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of four books of poetry, including Citizen J (Artifice Books, 2013) and How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). She self-identfies as a Chicagoan.
ANNE K. YODER's fiction, essays, and criticism have been published in Fence, Bomb, and Tin House. She is a staff writer for The Millions, co-editrix of Projecttile, and a member of Meekling Press. She lives in Chicago, where she’s at work on a novel.
Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. Founded in 2005, the over eighty events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.
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