In connection with Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival, MAKE: A Literary Magazine is hosting a reading this Friday, April 2 at the Motley Cow Cafe, 160 N. Linn St.Doors open at 5p.m. and the readings begin at 5:30p.m. Click here for the Facebook event page. Readers include poets Joel Craig, Rob Schlegel and Nick Twemlow, as well as writers Fred Sasaki and Kathryn Scanlan. MAKE will also be on hand beginning at 2p.m. on Saturday at The Mill for a magazine fair and New Belgium beer tasting. Other participants include the Iowa Review, Hobart, Opium Magazine, POETRY, and Wag’s Revue. Readers: Fred Sasaki is a writer and editor living in Chicago. He publishes in or works with Poetry magazine, Stop Smiling, MAKE and other places. He is also the founding organizer of the Printers’ Ball, an annual celebration of literary culture. Kathryn Scanlan is the nonfiction editor of MAKE and has work in or coming from Noon, No Posit, Everyday Genius, Wig-Leaf, and others. Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, MAKE, Octopus, Volt, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa. Nick Twemlow’s poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and elsewhere, and a chapbook is due out from Spectacular Books in late 2010. He has worked as an editor for Northwest Review, The Poetry Foundation, and The Canary. He is currently poetry editor of The Iowa Review and coeditor of Canarium Books. He has been a Brown Foundation Fellow and spent a year in New Zealand as a Fulbright Fellow. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. |
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MAKE Magazine Publisher MAKE Literary Productions Managing Editor Chamandeep Bains Assistant Managing Editor and Web Editor Kenneth Guay Fiction Editor Kamilah Foreman Nonfiction Editor Jessica Anne Poetry Editor Joel Craig Intercambio Poetry Editor Daniel Borzutzky Intercambio Prose Editor Brenda Lozano Latin American Art Portfolio Editor Alejandro Almanza Pereda Reviews Editor Mark Molloy Portfolio Art Editor Sarah Kramer Creative Director Joshua Hauth, Hauthwares Webmaster Johnathan Crawford Proofreader/Copy Editor Sarah Kramer Associate Fiction Editors LC Fiore, Jim Kourlas, Kerstin Schaars Contributing Editors Kyle Beachy, Steffi Drewes, Katie Geha, Kathleen Rooney Social Media Coordinator Jennifer De Poorter
MAKE Literary Productions, NFP Co-directors, Sarah Dodson and Joel Craig