Events
Join us to meet author Donna Barnard on Saturday August 11th at 4pm. Donna Barnard was born on an Oklahoma farm and earned master’s degrees in English and library media. Donna and her husband live in
southeastern Oklahoma where they share a ranch with two cats, two dogs, one horse, and a constantly varying number of cattle. They have three grown children.
When Gwen Collins and Bo Bohanan are married, they not only join their hearts, their lives, and their two ranches but also their faith. In
Okie: The Next 30 Years, author Donna Barnard invites you to catch up with old friends and make some new ones too in this second novel chronicling the beginning years of newlyweds Gwen and Bo as they work their cattle ranch and try to start a family.
Saturday, August 18
8pm
Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St. Fayetteville, Arkansas
The Burning Chair Reading Series
presents - Local Poet Fest
Roger Barrett
Willi
Goehring
Catherine
Hotaling-Donnelly
Katie Nichol
Geoff Oelsner
Milton Vaught
Jessica Weisenfels
Rodney Wilhite
We suggest attendees bring a wine glass, or $3
as a donation to help stock Nightbird Books’ new coffee and wine bar.
Come celebrate locally-grown poetry of diverse styles in a
laid-back atmosphere. Beverages with and
without alcohol will be available for purchase.
The Burning Chair Readings,
founded by Katy and Matthew Henriksen in New York City
in 2004, have organized regular and special literary events in several cities
and now call Nightbird Books and Fayetteville,
Arkansas home. Look for future monthly readings at Nightbird
Books that will bring some of the most exciting emerging poets to share their
work here in Fayetteville.
Roger Barrett self published 8 issues of the
zine Arm Chair Water Boy before they were doomed to the infoshops of
imagination. You can find his other zines—Love God and You are Dead, For
Victoria Forgetting, and We’re More River Piss than Grounded Kid by
asking someone in their 20’s to ask someone in their 30’s. Random poems appear
in Art Amiss chapbooks here and there. A failed stand-up comedian, a lousy
hitchhiker, a regular college dropout, and a singer in the unsuccessful punk
rock bands Kings of New England, Blood Eagle, The Counterlife, and currently in
Escapists, there are so many things that
he can't do.
Willi
Goehring
was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, but has spent the last ten years in
Western Illinois before moving to Arkansas. He received a BA at Knox College
in Galesburg, Illinois and is in pursuit of an MFA in
poetry at the U of A. In addition to writing poems, he likes to sing when he
can.
Catherine
Hotaling-Donnelly is a non-traditional student of English/Creative Writing about to
graduate from the University of Arkansas and has had numerous articles and
columns published in the Ozark
Gazette, The White River
Valley News, The Northwest Arkansas Times and
the Fayetteville Free Weekly.
She has been on the board or has held offices in community groups such as Poets
Northwest and The Ozark Poets & Writers Collective. Donnelly has won
numerous poetry and writing contests and has had her poetry published in the Lamplighter Review and @Urban
Magazine. She has lived on both coasts before getting landlocked in Arkansas. She
currently lives in a Civil War farmhouse on four acres with her husband and
sons, two cats, a pug and twenty-nine chickens.
Katie
Nichol
is a fourth-year student in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas.
She really likes to bake cakes.
Geoffrey Oelsner is a poet, a singer/songwriter,
and a psychotherapist. He has lived in Fayetteville,
Arkansas in the Ozarks bioregion
since 1979. His wife, Leslie Berman Oelsner, is also his musical partner. Native Joy: Poems Songs Visions Dreams
is Oelsner’s first full-length book of poems. He presents his poetry and
original songs in not-for-profit benefit performances, accompanied by
harmonium, dulcimer, autoharp, guitar, and banjo.
Arkansas-born-and-raised Milton Vaught has accepted
that after living in Fayetteville
for the past 16 years, she is now a “local.” She is currently pursuing her
second degree in English/Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
Most of the time, she feels as though she is living On the Grid.
Jessica Weisenfels is a poet of necessity. She provides
shelter to outcasts and animals while mothering two daughters and a
neighborhood of other people’s children and pursuing an English degree and
affordable health care.
Rodney
Wilhite is
originally from Oklahoma and is an MFA
candidate at University
of Arkansas.
H.P. LOVECRAFT night
SUNDAY AUGUST 19
8pm - ALL AGES
Live music in the breezeway by POTIONS and EYES OF IRON
Cthulhu drawing contest inside - winner receives a membership to the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
Come out for a night of music, art, and Lovecraft.
Coffee, and beer available to purchase at Nightbird Books and Cafe.
Didn't
get to go to the beach this summer? Beaver lake was too low? Here is
your chance to imagine the beach party you never had...
Come dressed
in your favorite beach gear. Finally, a party where you can wear a
Hawaiian shirt in public. No shirt, no shoes, service.
Life changing artwork for sale by:
Rival Colors Photography, Jessie Ward, Kayla Moore, Sarah Norsworthy,
Ashley Williams, Sam Houser, Marc Laney, Sheree Barnes, Cheryl Barber,
Stephanie Bolin, Jake Aslin, Kim Abel, Owen Buffington, and Brian Ab
el.
Beachy music by:
Glory Bones, Messy Sparkles, and top secret mystery guests.
(Perfect for dancing, Great for swaying...pretend you're on the beach)
All this and more for $5 at the door.
All Ages - Must be 21 or over to drink
Beer, Wine, and Iced Drinks available from Nightbird Books. Popsicles
by Pedal Pops. Face painting provided by Jessie Ward and guests.
Life is a beach on Sunday, August 26th at 6pm. Bring your friends.
This great book club 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 August selection is State of Wonder by Ann Patchet.
This book is also available as an eBook from Nightbird Books.
On Friday, September 7 at 7:30pm, former University of Arkansas Law Professor Robert Laurence will read from his debut novel Departure Lounge.
The mid-Eighties. No cell phones, no email, no caller ID, no GPS. It was
easier then to pass without notice, to be out of touch, to get lost.
The Berlin Wall still stood, as did the World Trade Center, and Michael
Reid embarks on what even he concedes to be a spate of obsessive travel:
Scandinavia, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, back home to the Ozarks,
then off again to Greece, Eastern Europe and Egypt. Along the way, he
writes letters about what he's seeing and what he's thinking to three
friends: Anna Browning, a mathematician in Tallahassee, who thinks of
Michael less fondly than he thinks of her; Richard Randolph, Michael's
baseball-watching pal, who leads a comfortable--perhaps too
comfortable--life as a law professor in Albuquerque; and Marie Cochran, a
middle-school social studies teacher in rural New Mexico, who is
Michael's on-again-off-again lover. These three all know Michael, but
they don't know each other. And, against the background of Michael's
travels and his letters, their lives become curiously, even
mysteriously, intertwined, changed in ways that Michael himself can't
imagine.
Robert Laurence was the Robert A. Leflar Distinguished Professor of Law
at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He also taught at the
University of North Dakota and Florida State University, and at the
American Indian Law Center in Albuquerque and at the Kulkereskedelmi
Foiskola (College for Foreign Trade) in Budapest. Now retired, he looks
after equally retired racehorses near Hindsville, Arkansas.
Join us at Nightbird Books for the reading and to have your copy of Departure Lounge signed by the author.
Beer, Wine, and drinks available at our new cafe.
Come enjoy a poetry reading by Fayetteville's two most Germanically named poets, Martin Bemberg and Sabine Schmidt. Martin's releasing his new collection of poetry and Sabine will simply be awesome, book or not.
"twenty-four & two" - poems by Martin Bemberg
Following the reading, Spouse Set will make their debut. Spouse Set is Joe Alexander on drums and Bartin Memberg on guitar and the microphone.
Radine Trees Nehring has added a new title to her To Die For mystery series. Each book takes place in a Arkansas location and her newest, A Fair to Die For, is set in the War Eagle Craft Fair.
To celebrate the book release, we are hosting our own craft fair. Radine will be on hand to visit and sign books. She will be joined by local crafters selling some wonderful items, including wooden toys, jewelry, bags, and bath products.
Keep up to date with the event on the Facebook Event page.
You will want to join us for the reception celebrating the release of
Carolyn Guinzio's latest poetry collection. Besides the chance to visit with the author and purchase a book for signing, you will be able to view the short film made for Carolyn's new book that was just chosen for inclusion in Poetry International! It will be screened in Chicago and other cities in conjunction with the issue's release in Winter 2013, but Fayettevillians can catch a sneak preview at the reception.
Join the Facebook invite:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
FREE ALL AGES SHOW
featuring Thunderlizards, The Chads, and WolfWhistle.
3 great Arkansas punk rock bands for 0 dollars.
Starts at 9pm! Great chance to browse books, sample our new coffee and beer selection and see awesome local music.
Hear the Thunderlizards on bandcamp: http://thunderlizard.bandcamp.com
Read the Thunderlizards Fayetteville Flyer profile:
http://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2012/07/03/flyer-profile-thunderlizards/
Meet Ryan Abshire, Ward 2 City Council Candidate, at Nightbird Books on Monday September 24 at 7pm.
Ryan will be giving a short speech in our breezeway, and meeting Ward 2 voters.
Come talk to Ryan about issues concerning Ward 2.
http://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2012/08/01/ryan-abshire-seeks-ward-2-fa...
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 September selection is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller.
This great book club 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 September selection is The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta.
This book is also available as an eBook from Nightbird Books.
Bikes, Blues, and BBQ vendors will be stting up in the Nightbird parking lots, so plan to park on Spring and walk the half block to the store.
We're hosting a First Thursday After-Party on Thursday October 4, starting at 8pm. This will be the reception for Rival Colors Photography, who will be displaying their work in October. Come to Nightbird Books after First Thursday to purchase local artwork, sample our new beer and wine selection, or try a sandwich from Nomad's Natural Plate.
Rival Colors will be selling photographs, and will also have a photobooth set up inside the bookstore.
Rival Colors - http://www.rivalcolors.com
Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/283777805062197
Join us at Nightbird Books on Friday, October 5 at 7pm
for a reading and book signings by Bayard Godsave, and George McCormick.
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Bayard Godsave - Lesser Apocalypses
http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/LesserApocalypsesbyBayardGodsave
Bayard Godsave is an assistant professor of English at Cameron University. His fiction has appeared in The Cream City Review, Confrontation, Another Chicago Magazine, Bryant Literary Review, The Florida Review, and The Evansville Review. He lives in Oklahoma. Learn more about him at bayardgodsave.com.
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George McCormick - Salton Sea
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Coffee, Beer, and Wine available at Nightbird Books
Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/436813106354088/
Join us Saturday, October 6 at 1:30pm
for a Local Author Spotlight featuring Jessica Greene & Ali Williams.
Great chance to discover new local authors.
Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/481413275222984/
Saturday, October 6
8pm
The Burning Chair Readings presents poetry by
Adam Clay, Jessica Baran, Keith Newton, and Johnathon Williams.
The Burning Chair Readings, founded by Katy and Matthew Henriksen in New York City in 2004, have organized regular and special literary events in several cities and now call Nightbird Books and Fayetteville, Arkansas home. Readings feature poets of emerging talent and established reputation from Fayetteville and across the country.
Author Bios
Jessica Baran is the author of the poetry collection Remains to be Used (Apostrophe Books, 2010) as well as the chapbook of prose sonnets Late and Soon, Getting and Spending (All Along Press, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in Harp & Altar, BOMB Magazine, Sink Review and the Tusculum Review; her art criticism has appeared in Art in America, Art Papers, and the Village Voice, among other journals. She lives in St. Louis, where she’s the art writer for the Riverfront Times and co-curator of the fort gondo poetry series.
Adam Clay is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.
Keith Newton’s writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, 1913, Harvard Review, and Typo, among other journals, and his chapbook of poems Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City was published in 2009 by Cannibal Books. He is co-editor of The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press, 2010), a selection of writing from the online magazine Harp & Altar, which he founded in 2006. He lives in Brooklyn.
Johnathon Williams is the author of The Road to Happiness (Anitlever Press, 2012). He works as a writer and web developer from his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He’s a founding editor of the online magazine Linebreak and the co-editor of Two Weeks, a digital anthology of contemporary poetry.
The debut of a new book club focusing on poetry.
Wednesday October 10 at 6pm, Join the Poetry Book Club as they
discuss The Best American Poetry 2012, edited by Mark Doty.
The Poetry Book Club will meet every Wednesday in October starting October 10.
After October, the club will meet once a month.
A Night of Flash Fiction from the Wednesday Night Workshop
Join Northwest Arkansas writers Tom Wilkerson, Renata Shelton,
Barbara Jaquish, Iris Shepard, Susan Bull,
Erik Thornquist, Roy McCann, Martin Jardon, Susan Idlet and others for a
night of flash fiction. These self-contained narratives of 600 words or
less, developed in Gabrielle Idlet's Wednesday Night Writing Workshop,
compress the elements of the traditional short story into explosions of
prose. Surreal, sensual, disorienting, moving, each of these works
delivers the satisfaction of a complete narrative with the intensity of a
microburst. Saturday, October 13th, 7 p.m., at Nightbird Books, 205
West Dickson Street in Fayetteville
UA Students for Gender Equality invite you to share your story -- about reproductive rights, affordable health care, sexual assault, domestic abuse, and other topics related to gender and reproductive justice, through spoken narrative, poetry, visual art, song, etc. Join us for an evening of talking back, speaking out, healing, and hope. All are welcome to attend this event, but please respect survivors. Disrespect will not be tolerated. Donations will be graciously accepted, and half the proceeds will go to Peace at Home Family Shelter.
Please email uarkgender@gmail.com to sign up to tell your story. You must sign up in advance to speak.
Saturday, October 20 at 8pm
Live music by Shawn James & William Blackart & Willi Goehring
in the Nightbird Books Breezeway. Come join us for a night of music.
This is an all ages show.
Shawn James - http://www.shawnjamesmusic.com/fr_home.cfm
http://www.facebook.com/ShawnJamesSoul
http://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2012/09/21/shawn-james-releases-officia...
William Blackheart - http://www.facebook.com/william.blackart
Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/356332771118464
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 October selection is The Best of H P Lovecraft.
This title is also available as an eBook from Nightbird Books.
MONDAY OCTOBER 22
9pm - All Ages!
Live music in the Nightbird Books Breezeway BRAINSTORM (Portland, OR) w/ Sw/mm/ng
Listen to BRAINSTORM's new record Heat Waves here:
http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/brainstorm-heat-waves
BRAINSTORM - Beast in the Sky http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/07/18/brainstorm-beast-in-the-sky-stream/ Pre-order BRAINSTORM'S record Heat Waves (out Oct. 2): https://www.tenderlovingempire.com
BRAINSTORM on NPR : http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/09/04/160558653/song-premiere-brainstorm-flat-earth
Sw/mm/ng (Fayetteville, Ar.)
http://swimmingforever.bandcamp.com/
Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/213162485481474
This great book club 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 October selection is The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K Shipler. It is not a fiction selection, but is the One Book, One Community choice. Scheduled events are happening around town and can be found on the U of A website.
Join us at Nightbird Books on Saturday, October 27 at 2pm to celebrate the release of Calvin White's The Rise to Respectability: Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ.
The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church
of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious
impact on African Americans and on the history of the South.
It explores the ways in which Charles Harrison Mason, the
son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal
faith that celebrated charismatic forms of religious expression
that many blacks had come to view as outdated, unsophisticated,
and embarrassing.
Calvin White Jr. is assistant professor of history and director of the African and African American Studies Program at the University of Arkansas. He teaches African American and southern history.
On Sunday, October 28
5pm
Music starting promptly at 5:30pm
Nightbird Books presents an early, all ages show featuring Shannon Wurst.
Shannon Wurst Bio:
Shannon Wurst is among the rare breed who can make you sit upright and wonder aloud, "who is that?" She is unquestionably arresting."
-Sing Out Folk Music Magazine, John Lupton
While staying true to the musical traditions set forth by those from so long ago, Shannon Wurst is a a modern twist. By pairing old with new, her music has a truly timeless sound. This sound can strike a chord with just about anyone. Ignited by her passionate performance, Shannon Wurst captivates her audience!
Those traditions that are evident in her music come from a place of not only inspiration, but also firsthand experience. Growing up in a musical family in Alma, Arkansas (affectionately dubbed the Spinach Capitol of the World), she's no stranger to picking parties and house concerts. Considering her musical upbringing, it's no wonder that Shannon's music makes you feel as if you are in her living room, and she is singing only to you.
Shannon is a true artist: an entertainer, a storyteller, and a songstress. In 2009, many took notice of this rising star. Shannon was a finalist in the 2009 Kerrville New Folk Songwriting competition, named one of Folk Alley’s Best Artist, and was the winner of the Walnut Valley New Song Contest at the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield, Kansas. She also was commissioned by the Department of Arkansas Heritage to write and perform songs about Arkansas for school children. Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion Radio Program picked her as semi-finalist for the program's Talented Twenties Contest. She also was named 2010 Female Singer/Songwriter of the Year in the Northwest Arkansas Music Awards.
She has also had the distinct honor of being invited to open for Robert Earl Keen, Yonder Mountain String Band, Carlene Carter, and RailRoad Earth. In addition to all of this she has been touring around the country in support of her well-received album "What's More Honest Than A Song?
"What's More Honest Than a Song?”, Shannon's sophomore album is mostly original music with guest musicians such as 3 Penny Acre, Still on the Hill and Putnam Smith. The album was released in March 2010, and has been #3 on the Arkansas Music Chart, #15 on the Folk DJ charts, and #23 on the Roots Country Chart. The album has made a mark by the limited edition hand packaged flowers seeds that were included in the first 1,000 copies.
Shannon Wurst delivers engaging entertainment, dynamic vocals, and a down-home presence that will make you sit up and listen. Her songwriting provides you with a portal into the life of not only this up-and-coming artist, but also a peek into others' stories. Shannon Wurst is a modern day pioneer, creating her own path and sound.
http://www.shannonwurst.com/home.cfm
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