Am actually going out a bit this week:
Tuesday I'm taking a baby to
BoggleWednesday I'm reading right near where I used to live when I tried to be a law student (I lived at 240 Mercer, the dorms, best thankfully forgotten time of my life):
The reading will be at Think Coffee, 248 Mercer Street between 3rd and 4th
http://www.thinkcoffeenyc.com/on Wednesday July 26th. Reading begins at 8:00. There
is a $3.00 cover but those who attend the reading will
receive 20% off of coffee/cafe drinks.
Cheryl B.
Cheryl B. is an award-winning poet and writer. Her
work appears in dozens of print and online
publications including; BLOOM, The Guardian, and
Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache. She has received
a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts
and has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts. She is the creator and producer of PVC:
The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show. She lives in
Brooklyn and online at http://www.cherylb.com.
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Rachel Kramer Bussel writes the Lusty Lady column for
The Village Voice, is Senior Editor at Penthouse
Variations, and hosts In The
Flesh Erotic Reading Series. Her many anthologies
including Naughty
Spanking Stories from A to Z, Glamour Girls,
First-Timers, Up All Night, Ultimate Undies, Sexiest
Soles, Secret Slaves: Erotic Stories of Bondage, and
Caught Looking. Her writing has been published in over
60 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004
and 2006, as well as in AVN, Bust, Cleansheets.com,
Diva, Mediabistro,Metro, New York
Post, On Our Backs, Oxygen.com, Penthouse, Playgirl,
Punk Planet, San Francisco Chroncile, Time Out New
York, Zink, and others.
www.rachelkramerbussel.com
http://www.myspace.com/rachelkramerbussel
Kate Hall
A former poetry editor of Stirring: A
LiteraryCollection, Kate Hall's poetry and stories
have appeared in such journals as the Antioch Review,
In Posse, Mudlark, Big Bridge, Disquieting Muses,
Poetry Magazine, The 2River View, Perihelion,
Mississippi
Review, Zuzus Petals Quarterly, Mr. Bellers
Neighborhood and Rattle. She was awarded the Robert
Frost Poetry Prize by Kenyon College where she
graduated Magna Cum Laude and went on to earn a
J.D.from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Lori Jakiela
As a native Pittsburgher, Lori Jakiela (rhymes with
tequila) has a weakness for gigantic deep-fried fish
sandwiches, thinks slippy is a real word, and
sometimes drinks Iron City Beer for sentimental
reasons.
Her hometown, Trafford, PA, is widely thought of as
the birthplace of the chocolate-covered pickle.
Jakiela, who once had a great fear of flying, worked
as a flight attendant at a major airline for six
years. She is currently on leave from the airlines.
She now spends her days on the ground, teaching at The
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where she is
also director of the writing program.
Miss New York Has Everything (Warner Books) was
published in January 2006. The first chapter, "I Am
Not a Zombie But I Played One on TV," was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize. Jakiela's essays and poems have
appeared in DoubleTake, River Styx, Creative
Nonfiction, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The Chicago
Review, 5 AM, Nerve Cowboy, Tears in the Fence, Chiron
Review, Slipstream, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The
Regulars -- a collection of poems and essays – was
published by Liquid Paper Press and was awarded first
prize in Nerve Cowboys 2001 chapbook contest.
www.lorijakiela.com
http://www.myspace.com/lorijakiela
Jolene Siana
Jolene Siana is the author of Go Ask Ogre: Letters
from a Deathrock Cutter (2005, Process Media). She is
an advocate for raising awareness of self-injury and
healing through art and writing. Jolene lives in
Brooklyn and spends her time writing, painting and
photographing people.
http://www.myspace.com/jolenesiana
Sherry Wood
Sherry Wood is a writer from North Carolina. She moved
to New York three years ago to find an agent. Her
first publication was a monthly column, Undecided
Virgin Times, for Qbliss. Qbliss is a nonprofit online
magazine for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender community.
Sherry openly discussed her experiences living on the
streets during 1996 in
Chicago, and her emotional relationship with a street
hustler. Those same experiences are now shared more
extensively in her recently published novel, Everyone
Is Chuckers. Following her column, she wrote a short
story, My Fake Messed Up John Cusack
Interview,published in the literary magazine for
women, Betty Magazine. She also interviewed once
believed street hustler, JT LeRoy, for a Bronx
periodical, Dialect.
Sherry is currently working on a new novel, Mary Jill
Matters, which takes place in 1994, about a troubled
teenage girl learning to deal with the intense
obsession her best friends stepfather develops for
her.
Saturday I'm taking someone (me!) who can't draw to
Dr. Sketchy's