Cheryl’s Gone

June 16, 2011 - 8pm
Cheryl’s Gone presents…

Adam Marston (poetry)
Christina Liva  (fiction)
Katy Bohinc (poetry)
& Mercury Fools the Alchemist (music)

@ Big Bear Cafe
1st and R NW
Washington, DC

Adam Marston enjoys overpowering his mouth and nasal cavities by eating Dijon mustard made with white wine on pepper jack cheese and wasabi almonds, and then bleaching the taste with mouthfuls of grapefruit juice. Video games are cool. Gucci Mane is cool. Poetry is cool. Fiction is cool. He wants to start a blog of some kind. Podcasts are cool.

Christina Liva is a short fiction writer and ex-urbanite currently taking refuge on a small farm in Virginia. She holds a B.A. in literature from Georgetown University.

Katy Bohinc studied mathematics and comparative literature (french, english & mandarin) at Georgetown University. She is working on a manuscript.

Mercury Fools the Alchemist is “Chamber psychedelia” from a trio: avant classical bass (Daniel Barbiero of Nine Strings, Mindbreath Trio, etc), ambient guitar (Rich Sheehe of Field Shaman), and a homemade “stone age synthesizer” dubbed the “springamajig” (Jeff Bagato, aka Tone Ghosting) produces chimerical cacaphony for mystical journeys.

May 12, 2011 - 8pm
Cheryl’s Gone presents…

Art Taylor (fiction)
Lauren Bender (poetry)
Jennifer DePalma (poetry)
& music from LunaSol (folk duo)

@ Big Bear Cafe
1st and R NW
Washington, DC

Lauren Bender lives and works in Baltimore, where she is 1/3 of Narrow House and the whole director of the Show&Tell Series at Minás.

Art Taylor’s short fiction has appeared in several national magazines, including Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and North American Review; online at Fiction Weekly, Prick of the Spindle, and SmokeLong Quarterly; and in various regional publications. His story “A Voice from the Past” was an honorable mention for the 2010 Best American Mystery Stories anthology. His story “Rearview Mirror” won the 2011 Derringer Award for Best Novelette. He regularly reviews mysteries and thrillers for the Washington Post and contributes frequently to Mystery Scene, among other publications. For more information: www.arttaylorwriter.com.

Jenn DePalma lives and works in Washington DC. She is an active member of the now defunct D’Steele Society of Advanced Poetics. She is half of the art collaborative the YAY team.

LunaSol is a female folk-rock band born in the beautiful Bay Area of Northern California in 2006. After meeting in law school, Lara and Heidi began performing together at local coffee shops and events in Berkeley, CA. After finishing law school in 2007, the band briefly separated until Heidi and Lara joyfully reunited in Washington, D.C. in 2008. LunaSol has since given several performances at Dahlak and Busboys & Poets in Washington, D.C., singing a mixture of folk-rock favorites and original songs by Lara Eilhardt. Listen online at http://www.myspace.com/lunasoldc.

After serving you a big slab of dude flesh in March, Cheryl’s Gone returns in April with SOMETHING DIFFERENT. That is our MO. Please:

Thursday, April 21st @ 8:00 PM

Big Bear Cafe

1st & R

Washington DC

Debrah Morkun’s first full length book of poetry, Projection Machine, was released by BlazeVox Books in April 2010.  She lives in Philadelphia where she is a founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets and curates the Jubilant Thicket Literary Series.  Visit Debrah at www.debrahmorkun.com .

Tania James was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Her debut novel Atlas of Unknowns was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in One Story magazine, the New York Times, and Guernica, among other publications. She lives in Washington DC and teaches creative writing at George Washington University.

Kyoko Mori is the author of seven books for both teens and adults: Shizuko’s Daughter; One Bird; Stone Field, True Arrow (novels); Fallout (poetry), The Dream of Water and Yarn (memoir); and Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures (creative nonfiction).

Join us at 8 PM @ Big Bear Cafe (1st & R NW)

David Berrigan will be presenting Spanish and homophonic (I think?) translations of his father’s Sonnets.

Jamie Gaughran-Perez will be dispensing free knuckle-sandwiches. More on Jamie:

Jamie is co-director of Narrow House, a Baltimore-based small press and literary arts organization, along with Lauren Bender and Justin Sirois. He spends his days in D.C. as a creative director and strategist for Threespot. And you can also find him playing bass in Sweatpants (the band, not the article of clothing). His work has been published in various places in print and online. He eats a lot more than you’d expect.

Arielle Bernstein will teach squares how to have a good time. Here are her qualifications:Arielle Bernstein is a writer living in Washington, DC, She received her BA in Philosophy and English Literature from Brandeis University and received her MFA in Creative Writing from American University. Her thesis was a collection of short stories and essays, entitled, Love and Hunger.

Finally, Greg Reinfeld will be striking the strings of a steel-stringed instrument with one hand at regular intervals of time while the other hand presses down on the strings at the other end of the instrument. Sounds will also move from his diaphragm, up his throat, and out of his mouth.

Hey Check Out What We Know About Our Spring Schedule.

Feb 17
David Berrigan
Arielle Bernstein (prose)
Jamie Gaughran-Perez
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Music

March 17
Rauan Klassnick
Buck Downs

Jeff Bagato

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The Sweater Set

April 21
Kyoko Mori
Debrah Morkun
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Some other Stuff

May 12
Art Taylor
Lauren Bender
Jennifer DePalma
Lara Eilhardt

June 16
Katy Bohinc

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A lot of other stuff

Cheryl’s  Gone is pleased to have done some shepherding of this event into existence. Get away from the conference and come see what not a bar in Adam’s Morgan looks like. The full run down is below–hope to see you there.

Location: Big Bear Café, 1700 1st St. NW
Cost: free
Website: http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu
Description: Join us for readings from Ahsahta Press authors and a few of our friends from Bateau Press and elsewhere. Readers are Carrie Adams, Dan Beachy-Quick, Susan Briante, Julie Carr, Ryan Flaherty, Paul Hoover, Kirsten Kaschock, Farid Matuk, James Meetze, Rusty Morrison, Allen Peterson, Brian Teare, Susan Tichy, and Jessica Young.

Ben & Sandra Doller, Nichole Tong, & Stripmall Ballads

Thurs Nov 18 @ 8 PM

Big Bear Cafe

1st & R NW

Sandra Doller’s first book Oriflamme was published by Ahsahta Press in 2005. Her second collection Chora is forthcoming from Ahsahta in 2010. Sandra Doller is the founder & editrice of a fancy magazine & press, the curiously named 1913.

Ben Doller’s first book of poems, Radio, Radio, was selected by Susan Howe as winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award. His second book, FAQ:, was published by Ahsahta Press in March 2009, and his third book, Dead Ahead, is forthcoming from Fence Books. He is a new faculty member of the George Mason MFA program. Wherever he lives, he lives with his lady, Sandra Doller and their boxador, Ronald Johnson.

Nicole Foreman Tong completed her MFA at George Mason University where she was granted a Thesis Fellowship for poetry. Her writing has been awarded a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Lyric Poetry and a Pushcart Prize nomination.  Her manuscript _I Am Not the Flood_ is a compilation of ekphrastic poems that take their cues from the artwork of Doris Salcedo, Kiki Smith, Joseph Cornell, Alice Neel and others.  Nicole teaches reading, writing, and literature courses at Northern Virginia Community College.

Stripmall Ballads is the latest musical manifestation of Phillips Saylor. A devout student of the American roots music tradition, Phillips got schooled on the road, spending his formative years playing shows to hobos under Maryland’s rail road bridges, taking up claw hammer banjo and shape note singing in New England and breathing in harmony from the pews of Alabama and Georgia’s Primitive Baptist churches. His professional work to date includes touring and collaborating with some of New folk’s greatest acts, including Sarah Harmer, The Be Good Tanya’s, Carolyn Mark, Baby Gramps, Jolie Holland and The Lonesome Brothers, picking and singing everywhere between East Tennessee and Edmonton. Phillips speaks his experience through a varied and dynamic catalog of songs on banjo and guitar.

http://stripmallballads.blogspot.com/