No Tim Yu…Yes Anne Shaw

We interrupt your regularly scheduled BONK! blog post to inform you that, due to a wonderful bundle of joy possibly coming a bit earlier than expected, Tim Yu will be unable to join us for this month’s BONK!  And yes, we are heavy weepy with this news.

The lucky-ducky flip side to this seemingly sordid coin?: the one, the only, the revelator Anne Shaw will be coming through town just as we prepare to BONK! it up.  Furthermore, she has agreed to take Tim’s spot this month and so we will be showered upon with poetry amazingness.

As if you needed further convincing,  here is a video of Anne reading for BONK! back in 2009.  May this video fill you with the happiness you’ve been seeking all your life and may we all commune gayly this July 23rd ofr a BONK! among BONK!s.  Enjoy:

BONK! 34–Sat, July 23rd

 

BONK! 34

SATURDAY, JULY 23rd
RACINE ARTS COUNCIL
316 6TH STREET
RACINE, WI
6PM (doors open 5:30)

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FEATURING:

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poet                     Traci Brimhall

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poet                     Timothy Yu

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musicians         Dream Party

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Traci Brimhall’s Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton) was selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), won the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Widely published in major literary journals, she is a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and has received scholarships and fellowships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Disquiet International Literary Program. She holds degrees from Florida State University and Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University where she is a doctoral candidate and a King/​Chávez/​Parks Fellow. She also serves as Poetry Editor for Third Coast and Editor at Large for Loaded Bicycle.

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Timothy Yu is Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, was published by Stanford University Press, 2009. Tim Yu is the author, with Cassie Lewis, of Postcard Poems (Poetry Espresso).  His poetry and criticism have appeared in Interlope, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Shampoo, and Cordite. He maintains a blog called TYMPAN that was last updated in February.

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Dream Party is Matthew Matera and Brandon Seitz. They are “a band composed of the remnants of what would be a glad social outing mixed with the desire to be there in your normal life. dreams come and go, people change and leave….. your dreams are the only thing that are forever…… you will remember them when your dead. its ok………. your friends are always going to be there, for your perfect party…..” You can check out their music at SoundCloud for free.

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So now you know everything that matters.  Come out to the July BONK!  and be yet another step closer to world peace.

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Peace,

BONK!