Don't forget.

Roxane Gay.

Tonight.

Gage gallery.

Reception 4:30pm.

Reading 5-6pm.

I'll see you there.

Seriously,
Jess

You Guys.

I just spent a lot of time on the Internet with Roxane Gay.
The Internet is a beautiful thing.
Try it.
Start here,
http://therumpus.net/author/roxane-gay/

And get excited!

NOT this Thursday, but NEXT Thursday!

Roxane Gay is COMING to us!

That's Thursday February 28th 2013, 5pm. Hummus at 4:30pm.

Yes!

Do it!

Bring a friend!

Be strong my doves!

~Jess

PS: The Internet just told me that to jess is to band a baby eagle's broken wing. I'm thinking I'll slip that into my Roxane Gay small talk.

Do These Pants Make Me Look Short!?

I don't know!

You'll have to ask Kyle!

Check it out:

Interview!

Kyle interviewed!

And drawn, like, they drew Kyle!!!

http://theshortform.com/interview/kyle-beachy

~Short, it's the new long, yes.

End of Semester Reading

Let us take a moment to reflect on the talented voices we’ve heard during the various events this semester, hosted by the Roosevelt Reading Series:

Amelia Gray, with her brilliant oddness.

Billy Lombardo, realist extraordinaire.

China Miéville, who taught us the metaphorical magic of cephalopods.

Kathleen Rooney, her poetry an exploration into mustached milieus.

The graduate reading, where we said goodbye to five graduating MFAers.

And lastly, upcoming this Friday, the End of Semester reading, which will be a perfect opportunity to celebrate a hard-fought semester, and hear some great writing.

The Roosevelt Reading Series is proud to announce its last reading of the semester, featuring no fewer than eight current MFA candidates. The featured readers will be sharing the newest of the new, the freshest of the fresh, served up at the always-hip Book Cellar!

The reading will be held at the Book Cellar, Friday, December 7, starting at 7pm and likely ending around 8. Free and open to the public, invite your friends!

Feel free to email Interim Director of the MFA Program Peggy Shinner at pshinner@roosevelt.edu with any questions. Hope to see you all there!

What do

Cleopatra







Tim Moore






And Jack London




All





Have in common.......................?!






They all graduated of course!







So, come to the graduate reading tomorrow at 5pm at the gage Gallery!








Actually this is what they sound like when they cry,

Jessica Anne

Graduate Reading Line-Up

The Roosevelt Reading Series is proud to present our line-up of graduating MFAers, who will be reading from their theses Monday, November 26, from 5-6pm in the Gage Gallery. Join us in congratulating our graduating classmates!

 

 

Christina Kloess is a writer working and writing in Chicago. She graduated from Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, with a bachelor's degree in writing and in theater. Her three-and-a-half years of study in Roosevelt University's Fiction Writing program have been accompanied by a few successes--she was the recipient of the Friends of Chicago Writers award in 2009, and her short story, "The Hardest Button" (recently retitled "The Iniquitous Conception and Birth of Baby") appeared in 2011's 30 Under 30, a short story collection from Starcherone Books. Her thesis, Moms and Dads, Bones and Hair, is a collection of 9 short stories rooted and based and written around fairy tales and folklore. Christina continues to work and write and write and write in Chicago, and plans to do so until the end of time.

 

 



Mark Magoon writes poetry, short-fiction, and secret songs that he sings only for his dogs. He and his beautiful fiancé live in Chicago. His thesis, The Upper Peninsula Misses You, is a book of poetry told through two tales. The dual narrative unfolds through factual, measured section breaks. The poems are personal, almost confessional—they linger on familial relations, the complex emotions that come with those relationships, and the attachment of place. The book focuses on fracture and decline—family, mortality, morality, mental health.The Upper Peninsula Misses You explores the exactness where place and people meet at reality and mesh of memories, and what happens over the years as everything is marred.

 

 

Timothy Moore is a winner of the 2012 Chicago Reader fiction contest and the 2nd place winner in the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation's Writing Competition. He also is an editor at Ghost Ocean Magazine. His thesis is a novel titled Yellow Winter.

 

 

 

 

Jenna Tackett is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program. She received her Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Central Arkansas. She has work published in The Vortex and forthcoming in the Nerdfighter Anthology. When she's not writing, she is busy reading young adult fiction, singing loudly, making videos, designing the campus newspaper, and drinking coffee. Her thesis is a young adult novel titled Greying.

 

 

 

Congratulations, Graduates!

Kathleen Rooney Reading!

 

The RU reading series is proud to present our next reader, Kathleen Rooney, who is celebrating her new novel in poems, ROBINSON ALONE. Not to be missed: the book reads like a sensory exploration of a past in which every detail is consequential, like a wild party which hasn’t let up for one hundred years. The book is an experience in perspective and imagination. Come, hear, enjoy!

 

 

The reading will be held Monday, November 12, at the Gage Gallery. Doors open at 4:30, with the reading from 5-6. Free and open to the public, tell your friends!

 

China Mieville. Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You.

I'm telling you.
This is serious.
We are not doves for this.
Monday.
November 5th.
2012.
5pm.
Library.
Oh my God.

(Be soft my little goats, a river of gray milk will lead you to your home.)

Link to your Facebook, Twitter, or other social media outlets!

Kathleen Rooney’s New Book: Robinson Alone

Writer-in-Residence for Roosevelt’s MFA program, poet, and essayist, Kathleen Rooney is proud to announce the release of her latest novel in poems, Robinson Alone, out now from Gold Wake Press! The project is based on the life and work of Weldon Kees, and has been ten years in the making. Join me in congratulating Kathleen Rooney!

 

About the book:

 

The Nebraska-born poet, painter, critic, and musician Weldon Kees traced a brief, bright path through midcentury America before vanishing in 1955, an apparent suicide. Among the poems he left behind are a particularly unsettling four that feature the mysterious Robinson: both a prototypical member of the smart set—masking his desperation with urbane savoir-faire—and an alter ego for the troubled Kees himself.

 

In Robinson Alone, Kathleen Rooney performs a bold act of literary mediumship, conjuring Kees through his borrowed character to sketch his restless journey across locales and milieus—New York, San Francisco, the highways between—and to evoke his ambitions, his frustrations, and his skewed humor. The product of a decade-long engagement with Kees and his work, this novel in poems is not only a portrait of an under-appreciated genius and his era, but also a beam flashed into haunted boiler-rooms that still fire the American spirit, rooms where energy and optimism are burnt down to ash.

Watch the trailer, and get your copy of the book!

 

Kathleen will be giving several readings throughout the Chicagoland area. The launch reading (with Hannah Gamble) will be held at Women&Children First on Friday, November 2 at 7:30pm, and/or at Frugal Muse (my favorite bookstore in the suburbs) on Friday, November 9 at 7pm. For a complete list of readings, click here.

 

Congrats to Kathleen on her success!