MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine

Brief readings by Rebecca Wolff, Ish Klein, Lewis Warsh, Simone Muench &
Philip Jenks, Nick Twemlow, Nathalie Stephens, and John High

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Rebecca Wolff's new book is called The King, due out in June. Her others are
Manderley, and Figment. She is the editor of Fence and Fence Books and a
fellow of the New York State Writers... Institute at the University at Albany.
She lives in Athens, New York, a small village on the Hudson River.

Ish Klein is a writer and self-taught film and puppet maker. In 2005, she
was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts Digital Filmmaker Residency.
Her films have screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival, Arlene's Picture
show, the Stuttgart Film Winter and Philadelphia's ICA among other places.
Her poems have been published in Bridge,The Canary, Gare du Nord, and more
recently in Hat magazine, X-connect, big Bridge. Spork and Gut Cult. Her
book, "Union!" will be published February 2009 by the Canarium Press.

Nick Twemlow's poems have lately appeared or are forthcoming in A Public
Space, New American Writing, Chicago Review, Tammy, and Make. He was a
finalist for the 2008 "Discovery"/Boston Review prize, and a Fulbright
fellow to New Zealand in 2005. His chapbook, The Twenty-four Complications,
is due out later this year from Spectacular Books. He co-edits Canarium
Books and lives in Iowa City.

Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and
autobiography, including The Origin of the World , Touch of the Whip, A Free
Man, Avenue of Escape and Ted's Favorite Skirt. He is the coeditor of The
Angel Hair Anthology, editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and
director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in
Brooklyn. A new book, Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005, was published by Granary
Books in 2008.

John High's most recent book of poems is HERE (Talisman House, 2008). He is
editor of CROSSING CENTURIES, an anthology of 20th century Russian poetry,
and teaches in the MFA program at Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Simone Muench's third book Orange Crush will be out from Sarabande next
February, and she is a recent recipient of a 2009 Illinois Arts Council
Fellowship. She is a professor, vegetarian and horror film fan. She
currently collaborates with poet Philip Jenks and their chapbook Little
Visceral Carnival is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press. Poems from the
manuscript have appeared, or will, in Drunken Boat, Canarium, Zoland, Eleven
Eleven and others.

Philip Jenks was born in North Carolina and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He has published two books of poetry, On the Cave You Live In (Flood Editions, 2002) and My First Painting Will Be 'The Accuser' (Zephyr Press, 2005); and two chapbooks, The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt Press, 1994) and How Many of You are You (Dusie, 2006). He has also published poems in Chicago Review, Traverse, The Canary, LVNG, and others.
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MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine in cahoots with Action Books, ACM, Windy City Story Slam, and the The Green Lantern Press present an AWP off-site reading and dance party

with poems and stories from John Beer, Arda Collins, Joel Craig, William Hillman, Dan McCann, Caroline Picard, Greg Purcell, Kathleen Rooney + Elisa... Gabbert, & Abraham Smith.

Music from Paul Cary and featuring poet and performer Marvin Tate with his band, Baby Alright.

John Phillips DJs with his collection of 45s.

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Cost: $8 - includes a copy of the new issue. Must be 21 yrs, with ID


A night of experimental art. Beginning with readings by issue six contributors including Danielle Aquiline, John Beer, Lindsay Hunter, Amy Leach, Michael Robins, & Kathleen Rooney


– Freak appearance by performance art rockers Punk Band.


– A film screenin...g curated by Chicago filmmaker Dean De Matteis featuring experimental shorts from: Jim Becker (Chicago), Luke Boehnke (Chicago), Dana Carter (Chicago), Jim Finn (New York), Caitlin Horsmon (Kansas City), Arthur Jones (New York), Tim Kinsella (Chicago), Keith Kolecki (Chicago), Jodie Mack (Chicago), KJ Mohr & Kelly Hayes (DC) and Kate Sheehy & Danielle Paz (Chicago)


– Closing the night, a musical performance from very special guests, Jim Becker (Califone) and his band: Sam Wagster (The Cairo Gang), guitar,vox; Reid Coker (The Judy Green), piano, organ, vox and percussion; Graeme Gibson (producer/musician for all), bass; Gillian Lisee (Roommate, Fruit Bats), percussion, vox and mandolin, and Ryan Rhapsys (Marvin Tate’s Boogie Band, Euphone) on drums.Read more