by rudyards | March 21st, 2014
FIRST UP TONIGHT
Gulf Coast Reading Series
featuring Michelle Oakes, Matthew Salesses,
and Layla Benitez-James
(7pm Free)
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
https://www.gulfcoastmag.org/
Gulf Coast is proud to present its 2013-2014 Reading Series, featuring twenty-one readers from the University of Houston’s nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing. All readings are free and open to the public. They begin at 7 p.m. on Fridays in the upstairs room at Rudyard’s British Pub, 2010 Waugh Dr., Houston, Texas, 77006.
Michelle Oakes is a third year MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Laurel Review, RHINO, and Owl Eye Review.
Matthew Salesses is the author of I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying andThe Last Repatriate, as well as two chapbooks and two ebooks recently with Thought Catalog Books. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared inThe New York Times, NPR, Glimmer Train, The Rumpus, Hyphen Magazine, American Short Fiction, and others. He is the Fiction Editor and a Contributing Writer at The Good Men Project. Follow him @salesses.
Layla Benitez-James is currently earning an MFA in poetry at the University of Houston. She is a WITS writer and non-fiction assistant editor for Gulf Coast. Her work has appeared in the San Antonio Express-News, the San Antonio Current‘s flash fiction series, Acentos Review andPlaza: Journal of Language and Literature. She is currently working to translate a collection of poetry by a modern Spanish poet.
FOLLOWED BY
Whole Planet Foundation benefit Featuring Vanity Crimes * End is Now * Space Villains (9pm)
$8.00 cover
All proceeds go to benefit the Whole Planet Foundation.
You can read more about WPF here: www.Wholeplanetfoundation.org
Vanity Crimes (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/VanityCrimes
This is a band who loves to rock, and loves obscure music from different eras. This band has potential to make a name as it stands out drastically from the sound of other local bands making Vanity Crimes a name we know you’ll remember.
Vanity Crime is a four piece that lives in an era when the music was big, loud, original, and most of was created by playing actual instruments. Vanity Crimes is trying to bring back the sleezin’ and pleasin’ of the Sunset Strip, where big hair and eyeliner ruled the world. Do not expect us to look like your average band, we are that little bit of glitter that was left over in the gutter from the days that reminds you of freedom and the love of rock n roll.
End is Now
(Sorry no verifiable info on-line)
Space Villains* (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/spacevillains
Psychedelic Electro Blues Rock.
We make elevator music… For the elevator TO HELL.
