October 22, 2011

Improved Lighting Reading Series
presents

poetry readings by
Amanda Auchter
Sandy Longhorn
Tony Presley
Mark Spitzer

& music by
Real Live Tigers

Saturday, October 22, 7:30 pm
Nightbird Books (in the BHK Kafe)
205 West Dickson Street
Fayetteville, Arkansas
FREE!
PLEASE NOTE OUR EARLIER START TIME!

Improved Lighting Reading Series hosts monthly readings, mostly poetry and mostly Saturdays, with occasional musical acts, at Nightbird Books in the BHK Kafe.  Free admission.  Full coffee/wine/beer bar and food available in the café and authors’ books available for purchase through the bookstore.  Curated by Roger Barrett, Kaveh Bassiri, and Matthew Henriksen.  Contact improvedlighting@gmail.com.

Amanda Auchter is the founding editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of The Glass Crib, winner of the 2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award judged by Rigoberto González.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Rattle, Poetry Daily, and others. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches creative writing and literature at Lone Star College, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Faculty Creative Writing Committee.

Sandy Longhorn is the author of Blood Almanac (Anhinga Press, 2006). New poems are forthcoming or have appeared recently in Lake Effect, New Madrid, RedividerSpillway, and elsewhere. She lives in Little Rock, is an Arkansas Arts Council fellow, and blogs at http://sandylonghorn.blogspot.com.

Tony Presley has written, performed, and recorded music as Real Live Tigers since 2005.  His new record Spirit Animal was recorded in Fayetteville, Arkansas with a full band.  Real Live Tigers have played hundred of shows across the US and Europe, and the music has grown and alternated from folk to soul, from country to post punk.  Tony’s fiction and poetry have appeared in zines you will not find, and the Art Amiss Chapbook that you might already have.  Right now, Tony is working on a novel(s), new music, and one day plans to cover Paul Simon’s Graceland in its entirety.  Tony lives in Austin, Portland, and Fayetteville depending on the weather.

Mark Spitzer is a professor of creative writing in the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. Spitzer’s memoirs include His poetry collections include Age of the Demon Tools (Ahadada Books) and The Pigs Drink from Infinity (Spuyten Duyvil). Memoirs include After the Orange Glow (Monkey Puzzle Press) and Writer in Residence (UNO Press). He has translated books by Jean Genet (The Genet Translations, Polemic Press), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (The Church, Green Integer), Arthur Rimbaud (From Absinthe to Abyssinia, Creative Arts), Georges Bataille (The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille, Dufour Editions; Divine Filth, Creation Books) and Blaise Cendrars (Films without Images, Green Integer). Spitzer’s novels include Chum (Zoland Books), CHODE! (Six Gallery Press), and Bottom Feeder (Creative Arts). He has also published the following nonfiction collections: Season of the Gar (U of AR Press), Riding the Unitand Proze Attack (both by Six Gallery Press). Spitzer has been featured on Animal Planet’s River Monsters as an expert on the alligator gar is the Editor in Chief of UCA’s cutting-edge literary annual, the Toad Suck Review.