Events
Nightbird Books is excited to be hosting a new book club. This group will primarily be reading literary fiction and is scheduled for the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5:30. Being new, the group is still working out details, so stop in at this first meeting to help get it established.
The first book choice is The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. Book club books are discounted 10%, but you will need to let the bookseller know at checkout that you are purchasing the book for book club.
On the last Tuesday of each month, OPWC presents a featured reader
and open mike. Our headliners comprise writers of regional to national
prominence. Admission is free, tho’ donations welcome. We meet at Nightbird Books, 205 N. Dickson St. in Fayetteville.
Here’s our Facebook page.
Our wonderful children's bookseller, Candice Sisemore, is back on Saturdays. We are celebrating by scheduling two events each month to take advantage of her time at the store.
The second Saturday of each month will be for our middle grades, 4th - 7th.
In March will be working with some fantastic paper crafts books. Since this will be our first meeting, we will also discuss with the kids and their parents what they would like this group to become.
The Improved Lighting Reading Series is back at Nightbird Books!
The first event of 2012 features readings by:
Martin Bemberg, Geoff Brock, Wayne Miller, and Sara Nicholson
and music by Brian Kupillas (of Swimming, Where's Lawrence)
Improved Lighting starts at 7pm, Saturday, March 10.
Our great Sci-Fi Book Club meets the 4th Monday of each month at 7pm.
They are a fun and welcoming group, so give them a try one month. Their
reading selections vary between old school scifi, fantasy, and new scifi
trends. You are certain to find a book you will enjoy.
The March selection is Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear.
Nightbird Books is excited to be hosting a new book club. This group will
primarily be reading literary fiction and is scheduled for the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5:30.
The March book choice is The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.
Book club books are discounted 10%, but you will need to let the
bookseller know at checkout that you are purchasing the book for book
club.
Gerald Sloan, UA professor of music, trombonist (classical, jazz and pop) and, yes, a poet with a collection, Paper Lanterns, just published by Half Acre Press will be the March feature.
An open mic begins at 7pm and the featured performance starts at
7:30pm. An open mic is a vital part of the evening. Each open mic
performer gets up to four minutes to read original works or verse
written by others. Our audiences famously encourage open mic readers.
The main feature as well as the open mikers perform censorship free;
strong language is sometimes used. After the guest reader, a hat is
passed to provide the guest a small stipend and to help fund future
readings.
Join us to meet Crescent Dragonwagon at 7pm, March 28th. We will have all her cookbooks and picture books that are still in print available that night.
Crescent describes herself as "a freelance writer (much published), a cornbread-loving, genre-bending 56 year-old. Writing is work, play, the way I make much of my living. It's occasionally highly anxious-making, always surprising. I teach, and am constantly taught by, writing.
My published work includes fiction (novels, a few short stories),
cookbooks, memoir, poetry, children's books, magazine articles. My
unpublished work contains a lot of rough drafts of the previous, plus
countless other writing pursued for fun, self-knowledge, curiosity,
experimentation, out of pique. There is no limit to what the act of
writing does for the writer. It is a generous discipline."
Most of you around here will know here from her time at The Dairy Hollow House bed and breakfast in Eureka Springs .
Join us to meet more authors from our community. We will gather at our big table and have an informal presentation from the authors and have lots of time to ask questions or visit one on one. At Nightbird Books we feel strongly about the need to provide local authors a venue for promoting their work and hope you will be able to come by.
This month, Brad Carter, author of The Big Man of Barlow and Scott bUtler, author of King Cake Baby will be with us.
“Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will
not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal
as we’ll ever get.” - David Foster Wallace
We're hosting another David Foster Wallace appreciation night
on Tuesday, April 10 at 7pm.
This coincides with the paperback release of The Pale King.
Come read your favorite David Foster Wallace story, passage, or essay,
or just come listen. Once again, we will have cake. Drinks and desserts
will be available from BHK Kafe.
David Foster Wallace is a Nightbird Books favorite.
Invite your friends.
April is National Poetry Month, so recite a poem to your bookseller and get 10% off.
J.P. Cunningham, originally from a small town in Northeastern Arkansas, where his father’s family had lived since 1873 and his mother's since the 1840's, is fluent in Spanish and worked for years in the field of international sales, traveling widely throughout Latin America. Prior to that, he worked as an aide for the United States Congress specializing in foreign affairs and defense. Currently, he lives in Georgia where he works writing fiction.
Cunningham is currently one of six nominees for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the First Novel category, and has advanced to the Second Round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award nationwide contest.
Like cancer untreated, PTSD can kill—if not the body— the mind and
soul. Linda King has portrayed, in real-time, what it is like to live
with full-blown Post-traumatic stress disorder. She hopes to help those who have carried the burdens of PTSD for years, and give the
younger reader hope that will erase guilt and shame.
"Linda King has creatively fused psychology, spirituality and humor
as she takes us on her healing journey in With My Face to the Wind.
While sharing some of her personal tragedies, she weaves in just enough
verifiable psychological content (without causing brain freeze) to
know that she’s done her homework. Her wit and humor shine through just in the nick of time…" Rhonda B. Holmes, Author, The WORD Diet
Nightbird Books is celebrating another year in business by inviting all
of our loyal customers, friends, loved-ones, and dogs to fill up the
bookstore at the same time. Sunday, April 22 at 7pm to be exact.
If you only go to one bookstore birthday party in the month of April,
make it ours. All Ages are welcome. You can also witness the start of
live music at Nightbird. We plan to host all-ages shows all
spring/summer and fall, for $5 covers.
Live music by Swimming, and Wthr Wpns.
Invite your friends!
Sunday April 22
7pm
$5 suggested donation
April is National Poetry Month - recite a poem to your bookseller and get 10% off.
Nightbird Books is excited to be hosting a new book club. It will primarily be reading literary fiction and is scheduled for the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5:30. Clint Schnekloth is facilitating this group.
Book club books are discounted 10%, but you will need to let the bookseller know at checkout that you are purchasing the book for book club.
The April book choice is The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H Cone. Note that this choice is a non-fiction title.
Join us April 26th to meet all three contributors to this fascinating book.
The project whose research led to the publication of Cave Life of
Oklahoma and Arkansas began in the 1970s as a study of Ozark cavefish
and expanded to encompass two states and involve a number of research
topics and collaborators. The authors and their team donned snorkeling
gear, cave suits, and climbing harnesses and descended into caves in
Oklahoma and Arkansas to study, inventory, and photograph this hidden
world.
The result is a comprehensive checklist of the region's
cave fauna, complete with descriptions of these rare animals'
distribution and ecological niches. The cast of characters ranges from
familiar and charismatic species, such as cave crayfish and gray bats,
to rare and bizarre fauna, such as blind salamanders and cave dung
beetles. More than 175 full-color illustrations include stunning,
never-before-seen photographs (from the cameras of Dave Bunnel, Tim
Ernst, and Dante B. Fenolio, among others)of cave animals--even some
newly discovered species. The authors also address conservation of
subterranean biodiversity, discussing not only threats to cave life such
as invasive species, resource extraction, and habitat loss, but also
current methods of preservation and protection, including legislation,
land acquisition, people management, and cave gates. The book's
appendices provide a comprehensive cave bibliography and checklists of
subterranean animals for each cave.
Michael E. Slay is Ozark Karst program director with the Ozark Highlands office of The Nature Conservancy. Dante B Fenolio is a photographer and amphibian conservation scientist with the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Conservation biologist G O Graening teaches at Clifornia State University Sacremento.
Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers
he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the
1950s and '60s, a place and time known for the brutal murders of Emmett
Till, Reverend George Lee, Lamar Smith, and others. Nonetheless, Evers
consistently investigated the rapes, murders, beatings, and lynching's
of black Mississippians and reported the horrid incidents to a national
audience, all the while organizing economic boycotts, sit-ins, and
street protests in Jackson as the NAACP's first full-time Mississippi
field secretary. He organized and participated in voting drives and
nonviolent direct-action protests, joined lawsuits to overturn
state-supported school segregation, and devoted himself to a career that
cost him his life.
This biography of a lesser-known but seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Myrlie Evers-Williams (Evers's widow), his two remaining siblings, friends, grade-school-to-college schoolmates, and fellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father. Extensive archival work in the Evers Papers, the NAACP Papers, oral history collections, FBI files, Citizen Council collections, and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Papers, to list a few, provides a detailed account of Evers's NAACP work and a clearer understanding of the racist
environment that ultimately led to his murder.
Rose Bunch will be at Nightbird Books on Friday, May 4th at 7pm. Rose Bunch, PhD, is a MacDowell Fellow, Fulbright Scholar and native of Northwest Arkansas. Her work has recently appeared in Tin House as the New Voice in American Fiction, New Letters (winner of the Dorothy Cappon Prize in Nonfiction), The Greensboro Review, Poem, Memoir, Story, River Styx, Gulf Coast, and Fugue. Her latest publication, Speed Chronicles from Akashic Books, is a short story collection comprised of 14 authors (including William T. Vollman and Sherman Alexie), concerning the effects of the methamphetamine industry on America.
Join us to welcome Fayetteville's own Geoff Oelsner back to Nightbird Books. Geoff will be with us to celebrate the release of his new book, A Country Where All Colors are Sacred and Alive.
Many of us have experiences that point toward a more holistic, interconnected Reality than we normally perceive. Episodes of telepathy,
spontaneous healings, confirmed intuitions, precognition, attunement to
nonphysical beings, nonlocal awareness, or communion with the natural world--all these can expand our understanding of what ispossible for us and remind us of an undivided spiritual dimension of ourselves.
"This memoir in prose and poetry is an account of my continuing education in such experiences, which can empower us to step forward into more conscious, collaborative relationships with the sentient energies of Nature. These sacred relationships can contribute to environmental harmony right now, and may help downscale our climatic predicament in days to come."
— Geoffrey Oelsner
Expect A Miracle is the compelling story of a young girl growing up in the Deep South during the 1950's. The Arkansas Delta is fertile for plants, but not so much for young girls. Marianne shares provocative memories of her upbringing in a middle class family caught up in the racial attitudes of the place and time. Ironically, the person who matters most in Marianne's young life is her nanny, who happens to be black. With unpretentious candor, Marianne readily admits, "I came from a family that looked good but felt bad."
Marianne Hooker holds a master's degree in social work and has practiced psychotherapy for 23 years. She was one of the pioneers of the Victim Assistance Program in Englewood, Colorado and was featured on NBC's Today Show for her work in cluster suicide prevention. She has worked with homeless women and children, addicts, adolescent sex offenders, victims of sociopaths, and those in need of cult deprogramming.
Improved Lighting Reading Series
presents
literary readings by
Aran Donovan
Zac Henderson
Katy Henriksen
Saturday, May 12, 7pm
Nightbird Books
205 West Dickson Street
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Improved Lighting Reading Series hosts monthly readings, mostly poetry
and mostly Saturdays, with occasional musical acts, at Nightbird Books.
Free admission. Curated by Roger Barrett, Kaveh Bassiri, and Matthew
Henriksen.
Visit us at improvedlighting.blogspot.com.
Author Bios and Links
Aran Donovan is a third year MFA student in poetry and translation at
the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. She likes it there. She is
the 2010 winner of Phoebe journal’s Greg Grummer poetry prize and the
2010-2011 recipient of the Walton Family Endowment for Creative Writing:
Student Author Fellowship in Translation. She is a 2012 recipient of an
Edward Albee Foundation residency. Her poetry has also appeared or is
forthcoming in Rhino, Cider Press Review, Southern Poetry Review, Iron
Horse Literary Review, and Bayou.
Zac Henderson studies both
writing and gender studies as an undergraduate at The University of
Arkansas. He was the 2011 recipient of a Northwest Arkansas Music Award
in the category of Spoken Word, represented the Ozarks at the 2011
National Poetry Slam in Boston and Cambridge, and won the 2012 Felix
Christopher McKean Prize for Poetry
at the University of Arkansas. He has work forthcoming in Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction and Marco Polo.
Katy Henriksen is the classical music and arts producer for KUAF 91.3 npr and the music editor for The Rumpus.
Nightbird Books is excited to be hosting a new book club. It will
primarily be reading literary fiction and is scheduled for the 4th
Tuesday of each month at 5:30. Clint Schnekloth is facilitating this
group.
Book club books are discounted 10%, but you will need to let the
bookseller know at checkout that you are purchasing the book for book
club.
The May selection is The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
Our great Sci-Fi Book Club meets the 4th Monday of each month at 7pm.
They are a fun and welcoming group, so give them a try one month. Their
reading selections vary between old school scifi, fantasy, and new scifi
trends. You are certain to find a book you will enjoy.
The May selection is the John Christopher Tripod Trilogy.
