MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine – and on-line Art Collective – Leantos.com – present an evening of poetry and music: Date/Time – Saturday February 24, 2007 from 7 to 9pm; Place – Under the Volcano (12 E. 36th St., NYNY)! Featuring the following exceptional line-up of New York and Chicago-based talent:
Ryan Lawrence Armstrong currently spends his time between bustling, food crazed Manhattan (GM Pure Food and Wine) and the small rural mountain town of Lexington, NY. Ryan was educated at a series of West Coast colleges, and has been writing and had been enjoying keeping his wee gems under wraps until he agreed to make them available to the entire world at Leantos.com. He and his lover, JT, love to cook, read and pursue the ideal gay aesthetic.
Joel Craig lives in Chicago, and works as a graphic designer and deejay. His poems are published or forthcoming in Fence, Iowa Review, Spoon River, MoonLit, the Zoland Poetry Annual, and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. He is co-founder and curator of The Danny’s Reading Series. He likes riding his bike, techno, and a good backyard Barbecue.
Paul Killebrew was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of the chapbooks Forget Rita (Poetry Society of America 2003), Buenos Dias, Cap’n Crunch (A Rest Press 2005), and Inspector vs. Evader (Ugly Duckling Presse 2006). He’s currently finishing law school at NYU. Paul’s also done residencies in 2003 and 2004 with the Slovenian Writer’s Association in Ljubljana, and he will be participating in the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival in Medana, Slovenia this summer.
Greg Purcell’s first manuscript, The Fundamentals, awaits judgment as a finalist for the 2007 Walt Whitman Award. His poems have appeared in Fence, McSweeney’s and New American Writing. Founding curator, with Joel Craig of the Danny’s Reading Series, Greg was born in Kalamazoo, MI and now works at St. Mark’s Bookshop, in New York.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of four books of poems: A Hummock in the Malookas, which won the 1994 National Poetry Series and was chosen by Publishers Weekly as a “Best Book of the Year” for 1995; Satellite; A Green Light which was short-listed for the 2005 Griffin Prize); and Nice Hat, Thanks which was written collaboratively with Joshua Beckman.
Mason Proud is a musician, world-traveled gypsy, and bon vivant living and working in NYC. With an on-going monthly residency at one of NYC’s most revered venues, Kenny’s Castaways, with his band Vanilla Sativa Mason will be accompanied by sax and playing an utterly new version of his crowd pleaser “The Water”. His work is featured at Leantos.com.
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