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Arkansas Literary Festival
Little Rock, AR
April 8-11, 2010

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Rainbow Book Fair
New York City
March 27, 2010

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Coming Out for Equality
Little Rock, AR
October 10, 2009

On Discovering a Childhood Friend is Gay
Flawed Families in Biblical Times
A Right Winger’s Deconstruction of the Golden Girls
We Are Everywhere and Nowhere
Revelations

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Writing Workshop Poems
Little Rock, AR
August 30, 2009

Autumn
David
Eden in Hindsight
First Draft
Holden
Blood
Flying Solo

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Wordsalad
Online Radio Broadcast
July 23, 2009

Desplome
David
Astronaughty

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Little Rock Pride
Little Rock, AR
June 21, 2009

Miss California
Arkadelphia
Rainbow Terror
Perfectly Normal
To You Who Are Struggling

Thanks to the Center for Artistic Revolution for your support at this event.

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Shake – Northern Kentucky University
May 1, 2009

Teenage Boys
Strings
Morning Coffee

Click the audio link below to listen to the performance:

http://poeticgrin.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/shake.mp3

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Arkansas Literary Festival Pub or Perish
Little Rock, AR
April 18, 2009

OPEN MIC: BRYAN BORLAND (Reading Spammed, Of My Science and Her Poetics, and Bite)

SCOTT STANDRIDGE: Scott Standridge is a poet, short story writer, and the former editor of City Slab magazine, From 2006 to 2007 he wrote a new original sonnet every day for a year. His poem “Noir, #28″ was a finalist for the 2008 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. His poetry has also appeared in The Hypertexts, Dreams and Nightmares, and Modern Drunkard Magazine. He lives in Little Rock.

DOROTHY ALLISON: A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Dorothy Allison is one of the best writers working today. Her books of poetry and fiction include Trash, The Women Who Hate Me, Cavedweller, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure and Bastard out of Carolina, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.

OPEN MIC: DONALD STREIT

MAUREEN SMITH MCGOVERN – Maureen McGovern is a painter, poet and actress. A former newspaper journalist and magazine writer, she appeared in the films “The Pigman” and “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.” She lives in Fairfield Bay with her husband, Don

OPEN MIC: LENNON SIMPSON

RANDI ROMO: Randi Romo is an old friend of Pub or Perish, A resident of Little Rock, Randi is very passionate about the struggle for equal rights for our gay and lesbian neighbors and other oppressed people in Arkansas: or, as she put it: a Passionate Queer Chicana Word-Spitting Art-Making Warrior-Woman Activist who is trying hard to be the change she wants to see in the world. Randi is the co-founder and the current director of the Center for Artistic Revolution, a Little Rock arts and culture action group.

CHRISTINA HENRIQUEZ: Cristina Henríquez is a graduate of Northwestern University and the famous Iowa Writer’s Workshop. A resident of Chicago, her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly. She is the author of the novel The World In Half and the short story collection Come Together, Fall Apart.

OPEN MIC: BRE SCHRADER

PAUL LAKE: A native of Baltimore, poet and novelist Paul Lake is a professor of English at Arkansas Tech University. His poetry and essays have appeared in Southern Review, Paris Review, Sewanee Review, Poetry and many others. He is the author of the poetry collection Another Kind of Travel, and the novel Among the Immortals, a literary thriller about poets and vampires. In June of 2008, he published his second novel, Cry Wolf, a political fable about a farm called Green Pastures.

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