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Infectious.

Every once in a great while, I have a need to achieve TOTAL SOCIAL MEDIA SATURATION with something because it is that awesome. Friends and assorted Tumblr-knowers, an event tomorrow is just that awesome thing. It is Ag47’s annual showcase, 7-10 pm, at the Hairpin Arts Center (2800 N Milwaukee). There will be live poetry and artmaking and performance. There will be some weird blobs that look really cool. There will be PBR. Most importantly, there will be an opportunity to show some fantastic teenage girls that their community values their creative expression. If there is ever a thing that deserves TOTAL SOCIAL MEDIA SATURATION, that should be it.

whatmountains:

LOVE SYMBOL PRESS PRESENTS
POETRY IN A BOOK STORE FOR
YOU DIAMONDS. THIS PARTICU
LAR READING IS HOSTED IN CA
HOOTS WITH CURBSIDE SPLEN
DOR AND CHICAGO WRITERS
HOUSE, WHO HAVE TEAMED UP
TO BRING YOU A WHOLE WEEKE
ND OF LITERARY EVENTS SUCH
AS THE BELOW FRESHNESS:

Friday Chicago Writers House Publisher’s Reading

Sunday Curbside Splendor Pop-Up Book Fair at the Empty Bottle


FOR APRIL WE ARE MADE OF METEORS A
ND METEOR POETS ARE FALLING FROM T
HE SKY LATELY. I MEAN CHECK OUT THIS
LINEUP: Kathleen Rooney + Dylan York +
James Tadd Adcox + Daniela Olszewska
+ Cassandra Troyan + METEORSHOWER
+ POEM + POEM + POEM + POEM + POEM

I read at this reading series last month and it was rad, plus I just read James Tadd Adcox’s book “The Map of the System of Human Knowledge” and it was rad, so I am pleased to recommend some rad stuff here in Chicago to you!

My friend Eli who works on Cards Against Humanity had this game from the 1890s, “Peter Coddle’s Trip to New York.” It’s basically Mad Libs with predetermined phrases. I made some poems from it.

a thought on rereading Achewood

The alt text on this comic pretty much describes how I ever write anything: first I do something meandering and strange, hoping to get to something even stranger. (And I’m kind of bad at both editing and managing time, so sometimes I only get around to the first thing.)

I told you that story so I could tell you this one. Although I can only aspire ever to make something as wholly bizarre and fully realized as that pair of Achewood storylines. Anyway, it sticks in my head.