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Hosted by: Melanie Baldwin-Turner, Jayne O’Connor, Daniel Beauregard, and Alex Gregor Dempsey.

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Atlanta, GA 30312

Next up: Daniel Beauregard!

Daniel Beauregard was born in northern Ontario and raised by a pack of dire wolves. He currently lives in Atlanta and is a reporter for a local newspaper called The Champion. His work has been featured in several publications but mainly appears written in the clouds by aeroplanes.

Come Join N.E.M. art collective for a night of readings, music, new art work and more in celebration of National Poetry Month! Andrew Page has curated another wonderful set of literary geniuses to fill the evening. Lucky’s Public House is a great open space for creative people ran by creative people. This event is free, but donations are gladly accepted!

People you will be staring at:

Daniel Beauregard
Andrew Page
Patrick Milian
Ben Leake
Alex Gregor
Jayne O’Connor

Wednesday, April 25
Luckys Public House
333 edgewood
8 – 11:30 p.m.
Free

First up, Amy McDaniel!

Amy McDaniel (Atlanta, GA) helps run the Solar Anus reading series in Atlanta, where she was born and raised. By writing and teaching, she provides for herself and her dog, Annette. She co-edited From the Second Line, a collection of her students’ essays about Hurricane Katrina.

Molly Brodak is the author of the chapbook The Flood from Coconut Books and the book A Little Middle of the Night which won the 2009 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is currently the Poetry Fellow at Emory University.

Jessica Lindberg lives a few hours north in the Enchanted Land of Rome, Georgia, where she tries to improve the grammar and writing skills of her community college students, the local editorial page staff, and the people who make the signs in Kroger. She studied poetry at Georgia State and is now back for a Lit degree as well because, as it turns out, commuting a few hours a week makes for some decent alone time. She has kids, a dog, a chicken, and much love in her life.

Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the author of three chapbooks–Weed Over Flower, What Her Hair Says About Her (forthcoming), and Dressing the Throat Plate (forthcoming). She is an Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.

Poetry Reading at the Music Room
Tuesday, April 24
8 – 11:30 p.m.

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Normal is boring, and the humdrum ho-hum of everyday slowly drives us nuts. Bring a five-minute, true personal story about your walk on the wild side. We want to hear about the crazy job you took on a lark … about the lover who wasn’t your usual cup of tea (and yet!) … about the time you drove your car off-road, into the snowy field, just to see the tracks.

Maybe your deviance was the quieter kind: You shaved off your hair. You went into a Zen monastery for a month. Both.

Yep, we’re borrowing from Robert Frost this month, and his road not taken. “I shall be telling this with a sigh,” quoth Bob, “somewhere ages and ages hence.” You can tell it on the fourth Tuesday of April.

Regale us with the tale of how you changed everything forever, or maybe changed just a few things for a while, and the mixed blessings, the sweet problems it brought – always does – to your family, friends, and your soul.

See you at Manuel’s.

Bios:

Susan Rebecca White – Born and raised in Atlanta, Susan Rebecca White graduated from Brown University and received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and the James Purdy Prize for outstanding fiction. Her debut novel, Bound South, a Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) bestseller, was shortlisted for the Townsend Award. Her second novel, A Soft Place to Land, was chosen as a Target pick and received wide critical acclaim, from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution to Vanity Fair magazine. Her third novel is slated for publication by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in the spring of 2013. Susan has been teaching creative writing at Emory University since 2009. She was the writer-in-resident at SCAD Atlanta during the winter of 2011.

Jason Mallory is the founder of Scene Missing magazine, which in the publishing world is like being the founder of a newspaper insert of Target coupons, or the founder of a Chipolte bag that’s particularly descriptive of the burrito deliciousness that’s contained within. Come to think of it, at least with the Chipolte bag you get to eat delicious food. Scene Missing Magazine offers no sour cream or salsa, or even guacamole. Jason lives in Atlanta.

Myke Johns, like presumably the rest of you, harbors niche interests. He’s been able to parlay some of into a job as a public radio producer. When he’s not busy being “intrepid,” he’s one of the evil nerds behind WRITE CLUB Atlanta and, despite being older than 19, persists at playing in a rock and roll band called Mice in Cars.

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Jesse Bradley (Orlando, FL) is the author of the upcoming novella Bodies Made of Smoke (HOUSEFIRE, 2012). He is the Interviews Editor of PANK, the Falconer of Fiction at NAP, once interviewed Emmanuel Lewis with a PEZ dispenser, and lives at iheartfailure.net.

Tyler Gobble (Indianapolis, IN) is lead editor of Stoked Journal and a contributor with Vouched Books. He wrote some chapbooks (most recently Goodness is a Fine Thing to Chase, included in The Fullness of Everything anthology with Newgent and Oliu from Tiny Hardcore Press), and he might write more! Sometimes he is stoked and sometimes he feels rowdy. Maybe even both! More at www.tylergobble.com.

Melysa Martinez (Atlanta, GA), originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a freelance writer and online production assistant. Her work has appeared in LA Weekly After Dark, Creative Loafing, Nerve.com, and CBS Radio. Her weekly sex column Are You Shaved? can be read in print in Creative Loafing, or on its site at clatl.com/areyoushaved.

Chrisopher Newgent (Indianapolis, IN) is best described by what he is not. Christopher is not an aardvark. Nor is he meerkat, though he once spent an entire month trying to find a way of becoming one through genetic modification. Christopher has not been published in The New Yorker or Playboy, which is weird. Christopher does not exist at putitinyourface.net. Christopher Newgent’s favorite flower is a dandelion. No one has the heart to let him know that dandelions are weeds. Christopher Newgent is just that nice of a guy.

Amy McDaniel (Atlanta, GA) helps run the Solar Anus reading series in Atlanta, where she was born and raised. By writing and teaching, she provides for herself and her dog, Annette. She co-edited From the Second Line, a collection of her students’ essays about Hurricane Katrina.

Brian Oliu (Tuscaloosa, AL) is originally from New Jersey and currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His collection of Tuscaloosa Missed Connections,’So You Know It’s Me,’ was released by Tiny Hardcore Press in 2011. His collection of lyric essays based off of videogame boss battles, ‘Level End,’ was released in April of 2012 by Origami Zoo Press.

Matt Bell (Ann Arbor, MI) Matt Bell is the author of Cataclysm Baby, a novella, and How They Were Found, a collection of fiction. His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Coasat, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been selected for Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. He works as an editor at Dzanc Books, where he also runs the literary magazine The Collagist. In Fall 2011, he began teaching writing at the University of Michigan.

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