Cheryl’s Gone This Thursday, with Danika Myers

The Cheryl’s Gone Reading Series will put on another reading this Thursday, May 21, at 8 pm at the award-winning^* Big Bear Cafe (1st and R NW Washington, DC). Featured artists include

GMU MFA poetry alum Danika Paige Myers
poet Deborah Ager
writer and media artist Marissa Plumb
and music by Marbayduk

And as always, it’s free!

April Cheryl’s Gone

On Thursday April 16, Cheryl's Gone features terrific readers Ed Davis and Sheri Sorvillo, both current GMU MFAers, and Nancy Pearson, a GMU alum who recently published her first book, Two Minutes of Light. The free event is at the Big Bear Cafe.

Cheryl’s Gone This Thursday, with Sara Hov

This Thursday (Feb 26), head to the Cheryl’s Gone Reading Series at Big Bear Cafe, 1st & R Streets NW, Washington, DC.

The night will include fiction from our 2007–2008 Thesis Fellow Sara Hov (get one of her stories here), poetry from Ryan Walker and Zein El-Amine (of UMD’s Jiménez-Porter Writer’s House), and music from Spoonboy (of the Max Levine Ensemble).

Starts at 8 pm. Great night, and it’s free!

Happy Birthday, Cheryl's Gone Reading Series

Celebrate the Cheryl's Gone Reading Series's one year anniversary! Next Thursday, September 18, starting at 8 pm sharp: music, fiction, and poetry at Big Bear Cafe in DC, hosted by poet Wade Fletcher.

Who's on:
• Croniamantal w/ Rod Smith (a full-on 6 piece experimental musical collaboration colliding with the poems of bard Rod Smith!) 

• Michael Kimball (Baltimore fiction writer, and host of the 510 Reading Series, celebrating the release of his new novel Dear Everybody)
• Danika Stegeman (rockin' poet from Fairfax, Virginia, and new poetry editor of Phoebe)

Big Bear Cafe: 1st and R Streets NW, Washington, DC

*all readings are free*

Rion's Back, Cheryl's Still Gone

See Rion Amilcar Scott, recent GMU MFA graduate, no doubt still charged from his experience at the Pan African Literary Forum this summer in Ghana, read his work at Cheryl's Gone this Thursday August 21. Readings and music begin at 8 pm at Big Bear Cafe, 1700 First Street NW DC.

A Midsummer Cheryl's Gone

What: Cheryl's Gone reading series

When: Thursday July 17, 8:00 pm

Where: Big Bear Cafe: 1st and R NW, Washington, DC

The lineup:
Reb Livingston, poet and editor of No Tell Books
Adam Robinson, founding editor of Publishing Genius
Strip Mall Ballads, aka Phillips Saylor Wisor, songwriter of the Shiftless Rounders
Kyle G. Dargan, poet, creative writing MFA faculty at AU, and founding editor of Post No Ills

Looks like a great night! Have fun, folks!