OUR FLOW IS ON HIATUS
Dancing on the Monster’s Teeth: A Reading
Celebrate new chapbooks by Heidi Czerwiec, Saara Myrene Raaapana, and Carolyn Williams-Noren, all released by {dancing girl press & studio}, with a reading at Boneshaker! BYOB, free and open to the public.
About the readers…
Heidi Czerwiec is moving to Minneapolis next summer. She’s a poet,
essayist, translator, and critic who teaches at the University of North
Dakota. She is the author of Self-Portrait as Bettie Page and the editor
of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North
Dakota Poets. Her chapbook A Is For A-ké, The Chinese Monster was
recently published by Dancing Girl Press. It is a narrative sequence
imagining the life of A-ké, a young man with a parasitic twin who lived
for real in Canton, China leading up to the First Opium War with Britain.
“To get a hundred million parts, you must ransom one whole.” In the
world of Saara Myrene Raappana’s Milk Tooth, Levee, Fever, coming in
2015 from Dancing Girl Press, the surest way to save yourself—whether
you’re a goddess e-mailing her estranged mother, a waitress watching a
hostage situation unfold, or a tourist being offered blood to drink— is
to be brave enough to break. Saara’s poems have appeared in such
publications as 32 Poems, Blackbird, [PANK], Subtropics, The Gettysburg
Review, and Verse Daily. Born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in southern China and
edits Cellpoems, a poetry journal distributed via text message.
Carolyn Williams-Noren’s chapbook from Dancing Girl Press, Small Like a
Tooth, is not afraid to complain about babies. Carolyn’s "babies” are
now eight and ten years old. Her newer poems are not about babies, and
can be seen this fall in Tupelo Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Water~Stone
Review, and Jaggery. Carolyn created and tends the Little Poetry
Library at 39th and Lake outside the Blue Moon Café. She lives in
Minneapolis, and works as a communications consultant and adult
education tutor.
BYOB! Chapbooks for sale!
We are slated to go BEYOND this theater of animated calculus…
Our Flow Is Hard is teaming up with the unknown. Come listen to three poetgoddesses glow in the dark: Cynthia Spencer from Washington and local magics Lara Mimosa Montes and Feng Sun Chen. We’ll enter a house full of motley tongues and furry machines. It will be a house full of puppets and dolls, sounds and limbs in motion, talking loud and making sounds with meaning. We’re sure some light will bend, and we’ll leave in the form of prisms.
an event * B E Y O N D
Sat. Sept. 19th 8 pm @ House of Balls
1504 South 7th Street, Minneapolis 55454 (just over the fence from the Cedar-Riverside Lightrail Station)
Other performances include:
- ABNA (A BITCH NAMED ANGEL) - Nicholas Heimer Le Pti Chameau
- Musical DUO Elaine Evans ~ Paul Metzger
- Rah Diavola => FIRE EATING
- Psychadelic music BROKEN MOON - Chris Dunn and Friends
- DJ Chris Dunn
- …and more surprises!
Organized in conjunction with Moonear Khar and secret others.
Join us for the magical mystery revolution. If you use fb, RSVP here.
You’re not Josie Grossie anymore, so why not come to prom this Saturday, July 11? At Flow Prom, ruffles and side ponytails are highly encouraged.
You can RSVP on Facebook or Eventbrite! No ticket is necessary, but a donation to cover the cost of the venue is much appreciated.
Greetings, Clash of 2015! The time has come at last for PROM! Do you remember PROM? Miss/ed it? Want to re/live it? Our Flow is Hard presents a prom for the ages. Bring a date or come stag; form a new clique or climb the social ladder! At FLOW PROM, everyone is KING and QUEEN. Come for the FLOW and stay for the dancing. THIS IS OUR YEAR.
ENTRY: $3-7 pay-what-you-can (cash) at the door ($5 suggested) .
ATTIRE: Your favorite vintage, contemporary, or weird prom attire is requested. Extra points for a prom dress or tux made out of poetry!
FOOD/ALCOHOL: Snacks & punch will be provided. No alcohol can be served at the event… it is prom, after all. But there are lots of restaurants where you can pre- or post-game. Also, it is prom… be creative.
SOUNDTRACK: We’ll be playing your favorite 80s/90s/00s prom hits! If you have a request, send it to ourflowishard@gmail.com or post it on our Facebook wall!
OPEN MIC: Share your own prom king/queen acceptance speech! Give a poetic toast! Or whatever. Bare your soul, tell a dirty joke, shout out to your friends from the ____ club. Everyone is welcome to have a turn, whether you identify as ‘poet’ or not.
Prom season is coming. Sorry not sorry for the mixed references.
ARE YOU READY, MINNEAPOLIS?
Girl Friday: An AWP offsite reading presented by Our Flow is Hard, Weird Sister & Dancing Girl Press
Honey
205 E. Hennepin Ave.
Friday, April 10
7-9/9:30pm
With a Turnt Up! dance party at 10pm!!
join us to celebrate THE 8TH HOUSE in PURGATORY 3/20
We know you have many choices when it comes to Friday night events at AWP, but we hope to entice you to our reading by presenting you offerings of booze, food, and performances by:
A.T. Grant
Emily Brandt
Juliana Delgado Lopera
Kelly Morse
Kimberly Ann Southwick
Morgan Parker
Zayne Turner
more TBA!
PLUS, a dance party starting at 10pm! (21+)
What are you waiting for, RSVP on Facebook! Unless you don’t have a Facebook; in which case, well done, but come anyway.
