Cheryl’s Gone

The first Cheryl’s Gone of 2010:

Thursday, January 21 - 8pm

featuring:
Chris Nealon (poems)
Mike Scalise (essays)
Gerald Maa (poems)
The Fall Catalogue (music)

Hope to see you there!

Here’s a a little sneak preview of our (partial) Spring schedule! We’re making progress with the open slots (mostly music) and hope to add more to this soon, but for now we thought we’d share a little of what the upcoming months will look like at Cheryl’s Gone…

January 21st
Chris Nealon, Mike Scalise, Gerald Ma

February 18th
James Belflower, Maureen Thorson, Laura Scott

March 18th
Susan Tichy

April 15
Elizabeth Arnold, Christy Zink, Dan Gutstein

Don’t miss the final Cheryl’s Gone reading of 2009…

Thurs Dec 17, 8pm

Sally Keith, Karen Anderson, Casey Smith, & Maureen Andary

Sally Keith’s new poems will appear (or have) in: A Public Space, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Literary Imagination, and Black Clock.  She is the author of two collections of poetry, Design and Dwelling Song, and teaches at George Mason.

Karen Leona Anderson is the author of “Punish honey,” chosen by Evie Shockley for Carolina Wren Press in 2009.  She received an M.F.A from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an M.A. from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. Her work has appeared in ecopoetics, jubilat, Verse, Indiana Review, Fence, Volt, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Casey Smith teaches writing, poetry, and print culture history at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Recently he has collaborated on poetry projects with visual artists, Vesna Pavlovic, Nilay Lawson, and Kerry McAleer-Keeler, and he has something in the works forthcoming with Ward Tietz. To the best of his knowledge, he has not been subjected to alien abduction.

In 2008, cabaret artist Maureen Andary was awarded a Young Emerging Artist grant by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to produce her debut album, “Nostalgia”, and was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Mountain Stage New Song Contest, one of the premier showcases of emerging musical talent in North America. Maureen sings classic jazz and blues as well as original songs that are inspired by the chord changes of 1930s pop music. A native Washingtonian, she has been nominated for two Wammies by the Washington Area Music Association this year and performs as part of the indie pop duo The Sweater Set.

November 19th

Ken Jacobs (poems)
Alison Hennessee (fiction)
Kevin Stoy (poems)
Mercury Fools the Alchemist (elements of free improv, noise & electronic new age)

December 17th

Sally Keith (poetry)
Casey Smith (poetry, etc.)
Karen Anderson (poetry)
Maureen Andary (singer/songwriter - of The Sweater Set)

Bios + flyers soon…

Hi everyone,

Buck Downs has been added to Thursday’s lineup, replacing Dan Gutstein. We hope to reschedule Dan sometime in the winter months. Everything else is the same. New flyer up soon…

Thursday 9/17 @ Big Bear - 8pm

Buck Downs
Lindsay Bernal
Jennifer Cho
Stripmall Ballads

Featuring Dan Gutstein, Jennifer Cho, Stripmall Ballads, +1 TBA

More soon…

Join us this Sunday for a special edition of the Cheryl’s Gone Reading Series…

Sunday, August 16 - 6pm

Zachary Schomburg
Emily Kendal Frey
Joe Hall

Zachary Schomburg lives in Portland, OR. He is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009), and is a co-editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books.

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College. She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour Press, 2009) and, with Zachary Schomburg, TEAM SAD (Cinematheque, forthcoming).

Joe Hall’s poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Versal, Cimarron Review, Handsome, Face Time: A Cygist Press Anthology and others. Founder of the DC reading series Cheryl’s Gone, his first book, Pigafetta Is My Wife, is due out from Black Ocean Press in 2010.

Our next event will be a special Sunday poetry reading featuring Zachary Schomburg, author of “The Man Suit,” Emily Kendal Frey and the triumphant return of Joe Hall. We’ll start at 6pm, at Big Bear.

We’ll be back on our normal Thursday schedule in Septmeber.