There Will Be Glitter In Chicago!

What are you doing the night before Printers' Ball? Douse yourself in glitter--or don't, cause that stuff's impossible to get off--and come see readings by LAURA RELYEA, MARVIN TATE, M. SHELLY CONNER, PETER JURMU, and JAMES TADD ADCOX. Reading hosted by Chicago's own CURBSIDE SPLENDOR PUBLISHING LAURA RELYEA is the author of All Glitter, Everything (Safety Third Enterprises), the editor-in-chief of Vouched Books, and the Whipcracker and Momentum Chief of the Inman Park Squirrel Census (about which more here: http://www.squirrelcensus.com/). She lives in Atlanta. MARVIN TATE is a notorious poet and Soul Man who has performed widely, including on National Public Radio's This American Life, Def Jam Poetry, The Heartlands in SanFrancisco, the Chicago Blues Festival and the Eindehoefen Museum in the Netherlands. His most recent book is The Amazing Mister Orange (Curbside Splendor Publishing). M. SHELLY CONNER is a queer Womanist writer, an educator, and a proud Southside Chicagoan. She is the Executive Director of the start up nonprofit Quare Square Collective, Inc. (www.quare2collective.org) for queer artists of color in the Midwest. She hosts the monthly Quare Square Open Mic. PETER JURMU is the editor-in-chief of Artifice Books. Along with Cassandra Troyan, he runs the reading and performance series ARTIFICIAL EAR in Chicago. JAMES TADD ADCOX is the author of The Map of the System of Human Knowledge (Tiny Hardcore Books), and a forthcoming novel, Does Not Love (Curbside Splendor Publishing). Unfortunately, due to a scheduling conflict, Cassandra Troyan, who was originally slated to read, will not be able to make it.