The night-before-Halloween student reading at the Heineke Showroom downtown showcased some wonderful writing and even more wonderful costumes. Among the taxidermy, antique iron stoves, and handmade rifles were the following:
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February Student Reading
Tonight at 7 PM three first years will start off the spring semester student readings at Night Heron Books. Jess White will be reading her non-fiction (maybe some stuff on Cambodia (I hope (I’ve been lucky to hear her talk about some of her adventures there))!), Jeff Tatay will recite his poetry (man versus nature, nature versus man, cool anthropogenic things), and Ryan Oberhelman will read his fiction (maybe he’ll read a story about the Dust Bowl/life on the plains). We hope to see you there!
Reading is Fundemental
the oral tradition.
celebrating april fools day in style.
so this is what we’re doing tonight
and you?
save the date
University of Wyoming MFA Student Reading Series presents…
Valzhyna Mort & Michael Zapruder
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 7:00 pm
Second Story Books
Laramie, WY
come out & you will see these things.
Valzhyna Mort
Mort, born in Minsk, Belarus (former Soviet Union), in 1981, made her American debut in 2008 with a poetry collection Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press), co-translated by the husband-and-wife team of Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Pultizer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright. There is an urgency and vitality to her poems; the narrative moves within universal themes—lust, loneliness, the strangeness of god, and familial love—while many poems question what language is and challenge the authority that delegates who has the right to speak and how. The New Yorker writes, “Mort strives to be an envoy for her native country, writing with almost alarming vociferousness about the struggle to establish a clear identity for Belarus and its language.” Her new book of poetry, Collected Body, is due out from Copper Canyon in 2011. She lives and teaches in Baltimore, Maryland.
Michael Zapruder
For years, Zapruder played lead guitar in other people’s bands until the 1999 release of his album 52 Songs. For his ambitious debut, Zapruder composed and recorded a song a week for an entire year. Every album since has marked his evolution through the restless development of his arrangements, recording techniques, and unique lyrical approach that earned him the 2009 Independent Music Award for Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album. Zapruder’s most recent album, the soon to be released Pink Thunder, is a collaboration with poets touring on the rock-esque Poetry Bus. He lives in Oakland, CA.
the oral tradition.
we were all precocious once.
the oral tradition.
come out come out wherever you are
some of these things are not like the others
our last first//friday@secondstory until the spring semester, friday night’s event was pretty fucking rad. perhaps it was the poetry of kate northrop, or the music of rob joyce, or all that talk about evil knievel and parasites courtesy of kelly herbinson. or maybe it was the fresh, soft-wood aroma emanating from the flooring stacked in the corner of the bookstore (still under construction as it is converted to a coffeeshop). despite the fact that there were so many memorable moments, one thing we did not remember was the department camera — so we’ve pieced together a collage of friday’s event from camera phones and fbook for your viewing pleasure.
rob joyce drew a crowd of his own. unfortunately, not all of them had chairs.
the people: pensive or sleepy?
the mural: bear vs. wolf w/boner tail?
kate northrop performs for us a poem in two voices.
was she at the reading?
this is what it sounds like when doves cry.
reversecowgirl.
tonight tonight
date night?
creative writing @ the university of wyoming 
