Midwest Tour Dates!

CAConrad, Aaron Kunin, and Magdalena Zurawski Tour the Midwest in March 2009


CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets www.PhillySound.blogspot.com. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com

Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of a
collection of small poems about shame, Folding Ruler Star (Fence, 2005); a chapbook, Secret Architecture (Braincase, 2006); and a novel, The Mandarin (Fence, 2008). Another collection, The Sore Throat and Other Poems, is forthcoming. He is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College and lives in Los Angeles.

MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI was born in Newark NJ and grew up in Edison NJ, but Providence RI feels like home because that's where she started writing and meeting writers and thinking of herself as a writer. Currently, she lives in Durham, NC, where she is studying 19th-century American literature at Duke. The Bruise, out now from Fiction Collective Two, is the winner of the 2006 Ronald Sukenick prize for innovative fiction. It is her first book.


COLUMBIA, MO:
Wednesday, March 4th, 8pm
Cherry Street Artisan Café/Gallery/Theater
111 S. 9th Street, Ste 10

LAWRENCE, KS:
Friday, March 6, 7 pm,
6 Gallery
716 1/2 Massachusetts Street,

IOWA CITY, IO
Saturday, March 7pm
Shambaugh House (Home of the IWP)
430 N. Clinton St

MINNEAPOLIS, MN:
Sunday, March 8, 5 pm,
Magers and Quinn Booksellers, 3038
Hennepin Avenue S.

MILWAUKEE, WI:
Monday, March 9, 8 pm
900 S. 5th Street

CHICAGO, IL:
Tuesday, March 10, 8 pm,
New Wave Coffee,
2557 N. Milwaukee Avenue

CLEVELAND, OH
wednesday march 11! 8:00pm
The Language Foundry
2335 West 11th St #3

CINCINATTI, OH
Thursday, March 12, 7pm
Cy Press Presents
@ 1628 Otte Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45223
BYOB

PITTSBURGH, PA:
Sunday, March 15th, doors: 7pm/show :7:30
Your Inner Vagabond
4130 Butler Street @ 42nd
Pittsburgh PA 1520