Tuesday, February 23rd at 7:30, Zach Schomburg and Emily Frey collaboration, Karyna McGlynn, with musical guest Oh!

WHAT THE HECK! We have an amazing line up for you guys this month:

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Emily Kendal Frey and Zachary Schomburg will be reading from their new collaboration Team Sad.
Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009) and The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and several chapbooks including, most recently, collaborative work with Emily Kendal Frey which includes Team Sad (Ciematheque Press 2010). A DVD collection of his poem films, Little Blind Thing, was just released by Poor Claudia. He co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine. He teaches at Portland Community College and Portland State University.

Emily Kendal Frey is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour, 2009) and THE NEW PLANET (Mindshare, forthcoming). Collaborative work with Zachary Schomburg includes TEAM SAD (Cinematheque 2010), FEELINGS USING WOLVES (Small Fires, forthcoming) and OK, GOODNIGHT (Future Tense Publishing, forthcoming). She teaches at Portland Community College.

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Karyna McGlynn’s first book, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, won the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. She is the author of several chapbooks including Alabama Steve and the forthcoming collaboration Small Shrines (Cinematheque Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in Fence, Octopus, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Lumberyard and Forklift, Ohio. Karyna was recently the Claridge Writer-in-Residence at Illinois College. She currently teaches at Concordia University and edits L⁴: The Journal of the New American Epigram with Adam Theriault in Austin, TX. Read more at her mildly outdated website: karynamcglynn.com.

3. Musical guest Oh is FANTASTIC. Not only is she a delight to look at, but her music is hauntingly charming. OH is currently finishing up a demo and going on a short tour to New York and Europe. Her music has been described as “pop rocks in slow motion”, a description we like very much. She plays a drum machine, a couple toy keyboards and sings. Watch kick ass videos and then come see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLgdh0QeuME and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_xSTgthnZU.

When: Tuesday, February 23th at 7:30
Where: 3968 SE Mall St., Upper Floors

As always, everyone is welcome. You'll find friendly listeners with bottles of wine. If you like, bring something to eat, drink, and share; any donations accepted! Bring something to put on the merchandise table.

See you Tuesday!

J &D