Fri July
24
Get it all started at Perch's Art, Song + Moonshine Series
PERFECT PAIRING: raucous poetry followed by polite comedy:
FREE READING AT PERCH, 7 PM:
Barbara Birdsong has a SWEET back porch/large performance area outback, her Art, Song & Moonshine events are the real deal. This Friday sees her bringing more award-winning writers from their amazing work + REAL SANGRIA, for FREE - need we say more? Perfect way to get the weekend started people: seriously - the readings in this town are often off-the-hook, and a great way to get into that OTHER frame of mind needed for your upcoming killer weekend --
WRITERS =
Pushcart Prize winning poet and Auburn faculty Keetje Kuiper's first book, Beautiful in the Mouth was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions; she is currently a member of the Auburn faculty, and editor of Southern Humanities Review.
Fiction writer Anton Discalfani is winner of numerous awards for her first novel The Yohnahlossie Riding Club, including Slate's Book of the Year as well as being nominated for the Flaherty-Dunnan prize for 1st Novel; Discalfani is also fiction editor of Southern Humanities Review.
Poet Rose McLarney collection of poems, Its Day Being Gone is the 2013 National Poetry Series winner. Rose has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and won the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry and Alligator Juniper’s 2011 National Poetry Prize.
The perfect way to get your contemplative mind
ready for:
THE BELLWETHER VARIETY SHOW!!
Fat Daddy's 10 pm
musicians extraordinaire Catfish Jenkins + Brennen Reese in tow
SECRET STAGES / BIRMINGHAM (Fri + Sat)
For those of you willing to hit the road it's going to be a killer weekend in B'Ham, so get over and support our own: Capt. Kudzu, RMVBM, & The Acrostics.
[Fri nite = Capt Kudzu, Sat = RMVBM, Acrostics]
Full schedule at: www.secretstages.net
Sat Aug
1
WAVERLY'S 8TH ANNUAL WICKLES PICKLES TOMATO SHOWDOWN!!
After a nice night of poetry, fiction, sangria, mordant yet polite comedy (and/or possibly driving to & fro from Birmingham) what better way to prepare for the Lord's Day than by stuffing your face full of bacon, lettuce, and the mighty southern tomato - accompanied by the amazing talents of Ms. Rachel Wilson, The Loon Band, TRAVELLER (Robert Ellis, Cory Chisel, Jonny Fritz & friends) followed by the incomparable Tony Brook Band.
