The Literati, Child’s Play, and Happy Hour
Do you like books? Do you like fast-paced intellectual discussions? Do you like drinking in bars and—this is an important one—do you like Chicago in the winter? If you do, you're invited to join me next year at AWP 2012.
Read MoreGaelic Revival
This Friday, the Irish Museum and Cultural Center in Kansas City presents Gaelic Revival. From the IMCC’s website: ”Enjoy a unique evening as some of Kansas City’s best actors present a retrospective of three iconic plays staged at Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre. These three plays were originally performed between 1904 and 1926, the period encompassing the Gaelic Revival. Cathleen-ni-Houlihan by William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory (1904) Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge (1907) The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey (1926) Entertaining...
Read MoreWhere the Wild Things Read
As managing editor of Beecher’s Magazine, I’d like to announce that our KU-MFA journal, in association with co-presenters Publishing Genius, are putting on an off-site reading at AWP 2011 on Friday, February 4, at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. in the Great Ape Room. The reading starts at 2 pm. You can check out the fantastic line-up below. Readers: Deb Olin Unferth Alec Niedenthal Joe Young Michael Kimball Stephanie Barber Blake Butler Matt Bell Amelia Gray Rachel Glaser Alexis Orgera Timothy Willis-Sanders We hope to see you there! Did you like this? Share...
Read MoreIndie Lit Roadshow
Beecher’s announces an upcoming reading on Sunday, December 12th, at 5 pm—at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence—as part of the Indie Lit Roadshow 2010. Please join us for an evening of well-mannered frivolity as we sell subscriptions to our upcoming issue, Beecher’s #1, and as we raise money to send our staff to AWP 2011. The readings at the Indie Lit Roadshow will include very short, community-themed writing from KU English Department faculty, and from friends of the magazine, including • Marta Caminero-Santangelo, English Dept. Chair • Joseph Harrington, Director of...
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