Keggers and CliffsNotes
Grub Street Headquarters
160 Boylston Street
Sunday, September 23, 7:00-9:00 pm
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Sunday night: a time for football, Extreme Home Makeover, and staying in, right? You couldn't be more wrong. Sunday night--at least this Sunday night--is a time to don your favorite college sweatshirt, put on your thinking and drinking caps, and head out to Keggers and CliffsNotes, the latest installment in the Dirty Water Reading Series.

Co-hosted by Redivider, Quick Fiction, Black Ocean Books, and Fringe Magazine, the reading features writers Amy L. Clark, Beth Woodcome, Brian Foley, and Janaka Stucky. In addition to many meaningful words, there will be refreshments, including a real live keg, and some cheesy pizza pies. Audience participation mad libs will round out the rowdy college dormitory experience, so don't miss this one-of-a-kind kegger-n-creativity combo.

Though free beer and pizza are a draw in themselves, the featured readers' accomplishments are equally enticing. Amy L. Clark is a professor of composition at Pine Manor College and has also taught at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Her fiction has appeared in Quick Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and Louis Liard. The poet Beth Woodcome has had work appear in Ploughshares, Columbia Journal of Arts & Literature, and Gulf Coast, and won the 2003 Grolier Prize. Brian Foley is Events Director at Brookline Booksmith, and his work has appeared in Night Train and Chunklet. Janaka Stucky, founder of the Guerilla Poets, was raised in ashram, worked as an undertaker, and won multiple head-to-head haiku championships. Altogether they promise to bring you just as much pleasure as the refreshments, with some pensive moments folded in to keep your brain working.

Post contributed by Kerry Skemp. Image from the advertisement for the reading.