Cherry Bomb 6.13: BOMB VOYAGE

Cherry Bomb has reached its final detonation! Our last reading in the series, BOMB VOYAGE, featured poet Douglas S. Jones and fiction writer Caitlin Horrocks. There were stars and balloons, and punch, and a dance party.

Grand Rapids, thanks for two years of most excellent literary readings and turnouts. We've been honored and humbled to be a part of this city, and though Cherry Bomb is no more, it's been a good run. Thank you.

Cherry Bomb 4.4: CRUELTY

Cherry Bomb 1.31: 131

Cherry Bomb 11.8: HOT DISH

Cherry Bomb 9.13: GRILL

Season Two kicked off with not one, not two, but four (yeah, we skipped three--you got the idea) blazing-hot fictioneers who blew in from the Windy City. We had couples fighting over a barbeque, took a jaunt to Thailand, hop-skipped-jumped to the red light district of Amsterdam, and wrapped it all up with a look at what the post-apocalyptic populations living in a drained Lake Michigan are up to. There were a few Asian Carps, too--not the fish that keep giving boaters black eyes, but the kind served up by the good-looking bartenders of Corez Neighborhood Eatery and Bar, and there was a full house. We're glad to be back, Grand Rapids, and we hope to see you in November, when it's Almost Dark with Richard Terrill, who reads with our very own CBer Christina Olson. Keep your eyes peeled* for posters!

*ewww, and ouch

Cherry Bomb 11.16: GOOD FOOD

They read, you came. There was wine, poetry, a nearly full house. A Mexican wrestling mask may or may not have been donned at one point. The fine folks of Corez kept the Barolo flowing. The incomparable Matthew G. Frank and Keith (K.P.) Liles took us from the only mosquito in Phoenix to vineyards of Italy to the Marx Brothers Cafe in Anchorage. Thanks for coming out, and we'll see you in February ...

Cherry Bomb 6.24: ISLANDS

The first bomb--ISLANDS--has come and gone. Thanks to everyone who spread the word, came out, and opted to spend a few hours on Cherry Street. If you missed it--live vicarously via the slideshow above. And we'll see you in the fall!

(Pssst! Can't view the above? See the photos here)