This Fall

During Fall 2009, WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT will host readings at Kelly Writers House on Saturday afternoons featuring poets DARA WIER and BEN KOPEL; and poet ANDREW ZAWACKI and fiction writer JOSH HARMON.

More details soon.

We Feel Like It

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WATCH: a video recording of the event via KWH-TV

on Saturday, March 21
Heather Christle and Natalie Lyalin
read poetry
w/ Cecilia Corrigan
@ 4pm
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104

Natalie Lyalin is the author of the forthcoming book "Pink and Hot Pink Habitat" (Coconut Books). She is the co-editor of GlitterPony magazine. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two cats.

Heather Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Her poems have recently appeared in Boston Review, 6X6, Fou, and No: a journal of the arts. Octopus Books will publish her first poetry collection, "The Difficult Farm," later this year. She lives, studies and teaches in Western Massachusetts.

Cecilia Corrigan is a poet and a Penn undergrad.

*TUNE-IN TO A LIVE WEBCAST ON KWH-TV!*

And, We Feel Like It

on Saturday, May 3
Eric Elshtain & Matthias Regan
read poetry
@ 7 pm
The Writers' House
111 Church St.
Iowa City IA 52245

Eric Elshtain is the editor of Beard of Bees Press.

Matthias Regan is a founding member of the Critical Aesthetic Freedom Foundation (CAFF) & co-editor of Rubba Ducky Press. His chapbooks include The Most of It, Utility, Codebookcode, Huckabee Goes Electric, Another Sharp Turn (w/ Topher Hemann) & Death Blossoms. To receive future books for free write to him at: CAFF Collective PO Box 269164 Chicago IL 60626 or Caffcollective@gmail.com

We Feel Like It, Again

On Sunday, February 24
Mark Leidner & Shannon Burns
read poetry
@ 7 pm
Frank Conroy Reading Room
Dey House
507 N Clinton St
Iowa City IA 52245

Mark Leidner is from Tifton, a small town in south Georgia. His poems have appeared in SKEIN, Apostrophe Cast, and La Petite Zine, and his chapbook, The Night of 1,000 Murders, was just released by Factory Hollow Press. He currently lives in Iowa City and teaches at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Shannon Burns is the author of the chapbook, Preserving the Old Way of Life. She was born in Springfield, Missouri and lived near there for 21 years. Now she lives with her mother and her brother in Louisville, Kentucky where she is a student at the University of Louisville.

We Feel Like It

On Sunday, November 4th
Dorothea Lasky & Caryl Pagel
read poetry
@ 7 pm
Frank Conroy Reading Room
Dey House
507 N Clinton St
Iowa City IA 52245

Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. Her first book, Awe, was just released by Wave Books. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry and visual art at Heath Elementary School, The New England Institute of Art, and Munroe Center for the Arts. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series (along with poet, Michael Carr) and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Caryl Pagel's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Octopus Magazine, Coconut, Parcel, New Orleans Review, Tarpaulin Sky, and Denver Quarterly. She is from Chicago, where she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, worked for the Illinois Arts Council, and co-founded the Powell's North Reading Series. She currently lives in Iowa City where she works for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.