Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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.
Monday, May 23, 2011
The Final Detonation
We're just three weeks away from the very last Cherry Bomb, and we've got quite a show in store for our swan song. Join us on Monday, June 13th for a grand finale of fiction, poetry, spiked punch, and awkward slow dancing.
Our featured reader of the night is Caitlin Horrocks, local professor and nationally noted fictioneer. She'll read from her hot-off-the-press collection, THIS IS NOT YOUR CITY, and impress us all with her noted beatbox skills. OK, maybe not the beatbox. But her fiction est incroyable. Also on the bill is Kalamazoo poet Douglas S. Jones, author of the fantastic chapbook NO TURNING EAST.
After that, we push back the tables of the Bar Divani ballroom and get our prom on. That's right, Bombers, we're going to have ourselves a CHERRY PROM. So dress smart, rat up your hair, and get that curfew extended.
Who knows? You might get elected Prom Queen!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
April is the Cruelest, We Mean, Awesomest, Month
As promised: more on our April line-up. Joining fiction writer Darrin Doyle are W. Todd Kaneko and Randy Wyatt. The whole shebang goes down on 4.4, so be sure you swing by the back room at Bar Divani and check out these guys:
Featured poet W. Todd Kaneko lives and writes in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches at Grand Valley State University. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. He doesn't drive a racecar, he doesn't practice law in New York City or Hawaii, and he doesn't know Jeet Kune Do. Admittedly, he would be a lot cooler if he did at least one of these things. But he writes.
Before finding his way to writing, he played music in Seattle where he also worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. His stories and poems can be seen in Puerto Del Sol, Crab Creek Review, Portland Review, Southeast Review, Blackbird, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. His current projects include a couple of poetry manuscripts, a book of stories, some hypertext fiction, and other nonsense of that sort.
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Featured playwright Randy Wyatt is a director, playwright, literary manager and improv coach. His plays include Sonata Blue (Coda Theatre Project), The Face of the Earth (ArtWithin), 9x9x9 (The Flowershop Project), Said and Meant (Whole Art Theatre), Mint (Kennedy Center American College Theatre Fest Region 5), and many others. His plays for children include Brave Little Tailor; Rising Sun, Rising Moon; and Intergalactic Chuck. His adaptation Alice in Wonderland (and back again) was produced by Magic Circle last year and won the first ever Grand Award for Theatre for Young Audiences. Randy's work has been published by Heinemann, Applause Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Playscripts, Inc., and commissioned by Magic Circle Theatre and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. His plays have been published and produced internationally, most recently at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and an all-girls school in New Zealand.
He earned his MFA in Directing from Minnesota State University in Mankato and is a member of the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis as well as the Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas. His recent directing credits include These Shining Lives, Nevermore, Life is a Dream, Any Other Name, Writer 1272, Sun Stand Thou Still, Guys and Dolls, Esperanza Rising, Hecuba and Dimly Perceived Threats to the System. He currently serves as the Literary Manager for Actor's Theatre of Grand Rapids and is the Theatre Program Chair and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Featured poet W. Todd Kaneko lives and writes in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches at Grand Valley State University. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. He doesn't drive a racecar, he doesn't practice law in New York City or Hawaii, and he doesn't know Jeet Kune Do. Admittedly, he would be a lot cooler if he did at least one of these things. But he writes.
Before finding his way to writing, he played music in Seattle where he also worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. His stories and poems can be seen in Puerto Del Sol, Crab Creek Review, Portland Review, Southeast Review, Blackbird, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. His current projects include a couple of poetry manuscripts, a book of stories, some hypertext fiction, and other nonsense of that sort.
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Featured playwright Randy Wyatt is a director, playwright, literary manager and improv coach. His plays include Sonata Blue (Coda Theatre Project), The Face of the Earth (ArtWithin), 9x9x9 (The Flowershop Project), Said and Meant (Whole Art Theatre), Mint (Kennedy Center American College Theatre Fest Region 5), and many others. His plays for children include Brave Little Tailor; Rising Sun, Rising Moon; and Intergalactic Chuck. His adaptation Alice in Wonderland (and back again) was produced by Magic Circle last year and won the first ever Grand Award for Theatre for Young Audiences. Randy's work has been published by Heinemann, Applause Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Playscripts, Inc., and commissioned by Magic Circle Theatre and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. His plays have been published and produced internationally, most recently at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and an all-girls school in New Zealand.
He earned his MFA in Directing from Minnesota State University in Mankato and is a member of the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis as well as the Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas. His recent directing credits include These Shining Lives, Nevermore, Life is a Dream, Any Other Name, Writer 1272, Sun Stand Thou Still, Guys and Dolls, Esperanza Rising, Hecuba and Dimly Perceived Threats to the System. He currently serves as the Literary Manager for Actor's Theatre of Grand Rapids and is the Theatre Program Chair and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Friday, March 11, 2011
April is the Cruelest Month
... But not when it brings you another Cherry Bomb!
We're back on 4.4: CRUELTY with three writers for you: playwright Randy Wyatt, poet W. Todd Kaneko, and headlining fiction writer Darrin Doyle. More on the cocktail and other folks soon, but for now, to get you thinking about April things:
We're back on 4.4: CRUELTY with three writers for you: playwright Randy Wyatt, poet W. Todd Kaneko, and headlining fiction writer Darrin Doyle. More on the cocktail and other folks soon, but for now, to get you thinking about April things:
Darrin Doyle is the author of the novels The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin’s Griffin) and Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet: A Love Story (LSU Press). His short fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cottonwood, Night Train, Puerto del Sol, Harpur Palate, The Long Story, and other journals. He believes in Bigfoot, enjoys playing stringed instruments, and teaches at Central Michigan University. Learn more about him at www.darrindoyle.com.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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