Fourth Thursdays
BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts
7PM @ The Raven
BIG TENT in AUGUST
Thursday, August 27
7PM @ The Raven
Act 1: Karen Ohnesorge poetry
Act 2: Katie Oberthaler prose
Act 3: Diane Glancy poetry
The 2009 Ad Libri Per Aspera Tour
Iain Ellis & Daniel A. Hoyt
SATURDAY AUGUST 15 2009 7PM @ THE RAVEN
Iain Ellis and Daniel A. Hoyt met at The Replay Lounge in August of 2000. During the next four years, they shared many rounds at the Replay, hours and hours on the basketball court, and multitudes of conversations about popular culture. They both withstood hugs by Bob Pollard (on the same night!), and years later, they each settled down and wrote books. This summer, they will read from their books in Wichita and Lawrence. (The state of Iowa wanted no part of them.) Iain will play a few tunes, too, and after the reading, they might encourage people to go out for a few drinks.
Daniel A. Hoyt’s short story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction and was published in May of 2009 by the University of Massachusetts Press. His short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Meridian, and other literary magazines. Dan, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2004, lives with his wife, Sarah McGreer Hoyt, in Berea, Ohio, where he is an assistant professor in the English Department at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Born in Manchester and raised east of London, Iain Ellis spent his formative years playing, performing, and consuming a heavy diet of punk rock music and football. In 1986, the young man went west to find his dreams in Bowling Green, Ohio. Instead, he picked up a PhD in American Culture Studies, writing his dissertation on 1980s American Punk Culture. In 2000, he traveled further west, settling in Lawrence, Kansas, where he currently teaches English and Youth Culture Studies at the University of Kansas.
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Imagination & Place: An Anthology, published by Imagination & Place Press, the Committee on Imagination & Place of the Lawrence Arts Center
This eclectic anthology offers poems, essays, and fiction that broaden the conversation about place and its relation to the natural world and human culture. Edited by The Raven’s own Kelly Barth, it features works by Harley Elliott, Benjamin Grossberg, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Linda Rodriguez, and others.
Front cover painting(detail): Josh Adams, Untitled, 17″ x 17.875″, oil on panel, 2008.
Check out what is new and what will be coming out this Autumn by perusing the New & Forthcoming Mysteries page. Remember to telephone us before you come in if you are looking for a particular title in case there has been a last minute delay in publication. We are excited to see gobs of new books by familiar authors as well as some good new writers. Many authors in all genres have been productive this year and the publishers’ Fall 2009 lists are fantastic. See you at The Raven!