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Events Tue Dec 07 2010
Tuesday Funk @ The Hopleaf
It's the first Tuesday of the month, time to warm up with Tuesday Funk at the Hopleaf. Tonight's featured readers are Johanna Stein, Anne Calcagno, Jotham Burrello, Fraser Coffeen, and Naomi Buck Palagi.
- Johanna Stein is a writer/director/comedian, the brains behind this PG-13 porn bloopers spoof and a contributor to Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine.
- Anne Calcagno teaches in the School of the Art Institute's MFA in writing program. She is the author of the short story collection Pray For Yourself, editor of Travelers' Tales: Italy, and a novel about dog fighting in Chicago called Love Like a Dog. Calcagno is a dual national of Italy and the U.S.
- Jotham Burrello teaches in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago where he directs the Publishing Lab. He runs the multimedia company Elephant Rock Productions. When not teaching he lives in Ashford, Connecticut, with his wife and three sons. You can read his essay about moving to New England here.
- Fraser Coffeen is a theatrical blood effects artist (will these talents be unleashed tonight?). He is one of the founding editors of and a regular contributor to HeadKickLegend, dedicated to the world of kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Mixed Martial Arts. Coffeen has worked with numerous Chicago theaters and is the creator of the two-person sideshow act Numbskull, the Human Blockhead.
- Country girl Naomi Buck Palagi now makes her home in northwest Indiana. Her work has been published or is soon to appear in Otoliths, Moria, Spoon River Review, Blue Fifth Review and Wicked Alice, among others. Her chapbook silver roof tantrum is recently out from dancing girl press.
Hopleaf, upstairs lounge, 5148 N. Clark St., December 7 at 7:30pm.