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Reading by Rebecca Lehmann and Forrest Anderson at the Warehouse - July 7, 2007 Rebecca Lehmann is a PhD student in creative writing/poetry. Forrest Anderson studies creative writing/fiction and is editor of the Southeast Review. Download Mp3

Reading by Julianna Baggott at the Warehouse - June 26, 2007

Death lurks all around us, in many guises. A young Julianna and her mother avoid a brush with potentially fatal grocery store mop bucket only to face more dangers at home, in this hilarious and touching excerpt from a work-in-progress. Download Mp3

Reading by the Blue Door Poets at the Warehouse - April 17, 2007

Check out these poetry All-Stars as they play their game! In order of appearance: Timothy Welch, Tana Jean Welch, Frank Giampietro, Valerie Wetlaufer, Meridith McDonough, Kara Candito, Becky Lehman, Rebecca Hazelton and Fayaz Kabani. Download Mp3

Reading by Joann Gardner at the Warehouse - April 10, 2007

JoAnn Gardner stands and delivers. An assortment of poems both newly penned and from her recent book La Florida, take us from North to South, from Bear Trap Gap to a James Brown concert. Download Mp3

Reading by George Pelecanos at the Warehouse - April 3, 2007

George Pelecanos reads from his book, Drama City. Newsweek Magazine has noted, "Pelecanos has the first-rate writer's ability to entertain you and break your heart on the same page," and you can hear the truth in these words when you listen to him read the stories of three ex-addicts and their daily struggles to stay on the straight and narrow. Download Mp3

Reading by Sheri Allen and Jay Snodgrass at the Warehouse - March 27, 2007

You can’t taste the macaroons that Sheri Allen brought to her reading, but through her descriptive poetry you can almost smell the fish at the market, see the colors of the falling fruit.

Jay Snodgrass reads from his new book The Underflower. Psalms and symbols and enthusiastic audience anticipation. Download Mp3

Reading by Mark Bibbins and Thisbe Nissen at the Warehouse - March 20, 2007

"That which does not kill us is merely waiting--it will," says Mark Bibbins. In the meantime, he entertains us mightily with such poems as, "Groupie," "Redemption," "The Devil You Don't," and others from his book, Sky Lounge.

In Thisbe Nissen's story, "In the Church of the Fellowship of Something," a bride is attempting to swap out a bloody tampon before her wedding ceremony, without tainting her mountain of white tulle, when the tornado alarm sounds. Enough to give anyone pre-wedding jitters! Download Mp3

Reading by Amber Pearson and Derek Phillips at the Warehouse - March 13, 2007

A highly recommended night of poetry.
Amber Pearson waxes poetic on wax crayons, Minnesota, and introduces us to her new character, 'It."
And the audience claps after every one of Derek's poems. ("Damn it!") Download Mp3

Reading by Roxane Beth Johnson and Steve Watkins at the Warehouse - February 27, 2007 Download Mp3

Reading by Sandra Simonds and Melvin Sterne at the Warehouse - February 20, 2007
Sandra Simonds read poems about travel, including "Ode to the Adventure Writer," and "Prose Poem written at the Okay Corral."

Melvin Sterne reads his story "Fault Lines," and a never before heard excerpt from his work-in-progress. Download Mp3

Reading by Carl Phillips at the Warehouse - February 06, 2007

Carl Phillips reads a selection of poems, including "Summer," "Cloud Country,"
"Forecast," and "Riding West." He shows us more than cowboys and storm clouds, and tells us "Don’t blame me, if I’m everything your heart has led to." Download Mp3

Reading by Richard Bausch at the Warehouse - January 30, 2007

Richard Bausch is the kind of guy who tells you a few stories before he reads one, and then he tells a story about the one he's reading--which only makes it better. His tale this night is called 'Nobody in Hollywood,' and chronicles the adventures of Ignatius, beginning with the lines, 'I was pummeled as a teenager. For some reason I had the sort of face that asked to be punched.' How could you pass this up! Download Mp3

Reading by Doug Cox and Eric Lee at the Warehouse - January 23, 2007

Says Doug Cox, "If you don't like pinball you ain't a friend of mine, and if you don't like sonnets, you’ve got issues bigger than that." Don't worry though, because Doug will make you like sonnets, and poems about graphic T-shirts, Mohawks being in bands and maybe even love.

Take note of Eric's first poem, which warns: Eric Lee poems may be habit forming, can cause multiple side effects and should, in fact, only be taken under medical supervision. So, listen at your own risk. But listen! Download Mp3

Reading by Matthew Zapruder at the Warehouse - January 16, 2007

"See," says Matthew Zapruder, reading from one of his poems, "I can't put three words together without lying." but that is lie, too, because his poems are full of truths, if not in the words, then underlying them. This reading features new work as well as selections from his most recent collection, the Pajamaist. Download Mp3

Reading by Erin Belieu and Diane Roberts at the Warehouse - January 9, 2007

Erin Belieu reads from her newest poetry collection, Black Box, from which she pulls such gems, "I Heart Your Dog's Head," "The Birthmark," and "In the Red Dress that I Wear to Your Funeral." At times unsparing in her observations, Belieu never forgets that "it's best to keep two hands on your sense of humor."

Diane Roberts reads to us from a work in progress. Set in the 1980's in which she introduces us the character of Judith, a southern belle who, after winning a scholarship to Oxford must navigate the English lifestyle and lexicon. Download Mp3

Tony Levenstein and Barry Faulk - Ali Baba, November 30, 2006 Download Mp3

Michael Garriga and Bob Shacochis read stories by Barry Hannah - Warehouse, November 28, 2006 Download Mp3

Reading by Sandy Longhorn and Todd Pierce at the Warehouse - November 14, 2006

Sandy Longhorn reads from her collection of poems, Blood Almanac, in which she explores what she terms her twin obsessions: The landscape of the Midwest, and the landscape of memory--each, seen through her poet's lense, as "dazzling as any city skyline at dusk."

In this short story from his collection, Newsworld, Todd Pierce introduces us to a shy understudy who suddenly becomes a central character in his school's play 'Columbine, the Musical," and must try to find the spirit of a child-murderer Darrin Klebold in his own heart. Download Mp3

Writers Harvest with James Kimbrell and Mark Winegardner - November 2, 2006

Two-fer-the-price-of-one!
First, James Kimbrell eloquently recollects the good cars, and bad haircuts of yesteryear, as well as the hot checks and dead people’s hand-me-down clothes from his childhood, reading from his collection, My Psychic.

Then, In two excerpts from The Godfather’s Revenge, Mark Winegardner shows us a roof-top mob meeting from the point of view of new-to-the-job-capo, Eddie Paradise, before revealing the story of what happened on the day Sonny Corleone brought Tom Hagen home to the family. Download Mp3

Reading by Morri Creech at the Warehouse - October 24, 2006

In these poems from his collections, Field Knowledge and Paper Cathedral, Morri Creech tells us about angels and devils, hell and snakebites, about the opposing forces of grace and gravity, and "the terrible acts by which love is painstakingly known." Download Mp3

Reading by Katie Burgess and Tom Bligh at the Warehouse - October 17, 2006

A young woman strives to create a better world in which common
citizens, and convicted child molesters who rent in their
neighborhoods might live in peace, maybe even trade gardening tips,
in Katie Burgess’ short story, "Bonny Best."

In this excerpt from Tom Bligh's recently completed novel, Never Played With, the son of toy a manufacturing giant travels to a collectors' convention where he tries to come to terms with his past and his estranged brother. Download Mp3

Reading by Sami Levy and Steve Kistulentz at the Warehouse - October 10, 2006

In her short story, "The Outlaw of Marriage," Sami Levy shifts the marriage paradigm and creates a world, where the view on relationships has gone the way of cars: Why buy when you can lease? As the term of her monogamy contract comes to an end, Janet must decide what to do when she fears that her driver might be planning to trade her in...

Ninety passengers, six crewmembers, ninety-six lives ending as the airliner, "Belinda," begins her ill-fated approach into the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. With prose that cinematically zooms in, out, and leaps from person to person to vacant seat, Steve Kistulentz gives us glimpses into the minds of ninety-six people, thinking, remembering, and re-acting as their unremarkable flight becomes the evening's news. This is the opening chapter to Steve's novel-in-progress, Contingency. If you have recurring dreams about plane crashes Steve Kistulentz will creep you out. Download Mp3

Reading by Anthony McCann at the Warehouse - October 3, 2006

Anthony McCann, steps off the Poetry Bus to read us selections from his two collections, Father of Noise, and Moongarden. Strange, and funny, and beautiful, McCann's poems bring us wildebeests and elks and wild dogs and Jesus. (And as a special bonus, McCann delivers, courtesy of a class of 7th graders in Ames, Iowa, "Eels.") Download Mp3

Reading by Ken Foster at the Warehouse - September 26, 2006

Like a Haley Joel Osment for the canine set, Ken Foster sees dogs. Next to roads, at truck stops, pictured on flyers tacked to phone poles—Ken notices the fur covered population that most people find invisible, and he stops when most people would walk by. In The Dogs Who Found Me: What I’ve Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind, Ken introduces us to Valentino, the lovable Pit Bull, outlines the nuances of lost-dog-flyer art, and tells us about the day in traffic he narrowly missed hitting a pedestrian in his efforts to save a dog. Download Mp3

Reading by David Vann at the Warehouse - September 19, 2006

In his new, unpublished memoir Crocodile: Memoirs from a Mexican Drug-Running Port, David "the ATM Machine" Vann, faces off with Gordo, "the Numero Uno Bandido," numerous local henchmen, and other creatures "smaller than a person, bigger than a cockroach," as he valiantly attempts to regain his lost outboard motor. Does he ever find it? He doesn't say—but we do know that he doesn't have to go to Mexican Prison, which is "really great!" This is the prequel to David's bestselling memoir: A Mile Down: The True Story of A Disastrous Career at Sea. Download Mp3