Event Page: A Motley Cow Reading, Iowa City

In connection with Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival, MAKE: A Literary Magazine is hosting a reading this Friday, April 2 at the Motley Cow Cafe, 160 N. Linn St.

Doors open at 5p.m. and the readings begin at 5:30p.m.

Click here for the Facebook event page.

Readers include poets Joel Craig, Rob Schlegel and Nick Twemlow, as well as writers Fred Sasaki and Kathryn Scanlan.

MAKE will also be on hand beginning at 2p.m. on Saturday at The Mill for a magazine fair and New Belgium beer tasting. Other participants include the Iowa Review, Hobart, Opium Magazine, POETRY, and Wag’s Revue.
Plus at *3pm*, a reading from Eula Biss, Kiki Petrosino and Colson Whitehead
Followed by Literary Death Match.
FREE
ALL AGES
Thank you, Mission Creek!

Readers:
Joel Craig is the poetry editor of MAKE and the author of Shine Tomorrow (Lost Horse, New Poets–Short Books Vol. III, 2009). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Zoland Annual, A Public Space, The City Visible, and MoonLit, among others. He cofounded and curates The Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago and works as a graphic designer.

Fred Sasaki is a writer and editor living in Chicago. He publishes in or works with Poetry magazine, Stop Smiling, MAKE and other places. He is also the founding organizer of the Printers’ Ball, an annual celebration of literary culture.

Kathryn Scanlan is the nonfiction editor of MAKE and has work in or coming from Noon, No Posit, Everyday Genius, Wig-Leaf, and others.

Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, MAKE, Octopus, Volt, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.

Nick Twemlow’s poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and elsewhere, and a chapbook is due out from Spectacular Books in late 2010. He has worked as an editor for Northwest Review, The Poetry Foundation, and The Canary. He is currently poetry editor of The Iowa Review and coeditor of Canarium Books. He has been a Brown Foundation Fellow and spent a year in New Zealand as a Fulbright Fellow. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.