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New Town Revue Makes Threats and Promises…

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Gordon Lamb of Flagpole showed New Town Revue some love in the latest Threats and Promises.

Read ‘Em and Weep:

The next installment of the literature and music series New Town Revue, hosted by Avid Bookshop (493 Prince Ave.), will happen Friday, Apr. 5 and feature writer John Pence, poet Julia Maher and songwriter Jacob Morris. With his newest album, Moths—a title he also performs under, so forgive yourself if this is confusing—released a scant few months ago via Cloud Recordings, Morris is developing a growing audience with his gentle, under-emphasized vocals and alternately salt-of-the-earth/angel-from-heaven compositions. It all starts at 6:30 p.m., so don’t let the sun catch you crying if you’re late.

 

Next Revue: February 8, 2013

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The New Town Revue is thrilled to announce our next reading on Friday, February 8, at 6:30 at Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA.

Caroline Young will be reading poetry, Johnny Damm will share his fiction, and Fabulous Bird’s Peter Alvanos will be playing some songs.

Caroline Young writes poems, makes paintings, and cooks a lot of tofu.  She’s a PhD candidate at UGA and spends the rest of her time with trees. Her writing is out there somewhere.

Johnny Damm’s work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Word Riot, Asian Cinema, and the anthology Don’t Abuse the Muse, and is forthcoming this spring in Timber and The Newer York. He has taught creative writing at Tulane University and Stetson University and been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. He is currently an editor of A Bad Penny Review and Opo Books.

Fabulous Bird frontman Peter Alvanos has played with a variety of bands including Jim White, Casper & the Cookies, The Empties, The Sunshine Fix, The Mod Fathers, Thayer Sarrano, and Nikki Sudden.  He’s currently drumming for Elf Power, who are recording a new album.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Threats and Promises covers New Town Revue

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Thanks to Gordon Lamb from Flagpole’s Threats and Promises for covering the New Town Revue…the entire installment may be read here.

Talkin’ Blues: OK, this is sorta music related, so I’m gonna include it here. The next live installment of the New Town Revue will happen at Avid Bookshop on Thursday, Apr. 12 at 7 p.m. This event occasionally has live music, but is really based around Athens’ writing community, and on this particular date former honorary Athenian, and now actual Athenian, David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven) will read selections from his blog, 300 Songs (located at www.davidlowerymusic.com/300songsblog.cfm). I didn’t even know this blog existed until this very minute, which just shows you can always learn something. Flagpole contributing writer Deirdre Sugiuchi will also read, and her material will be drawn from her “teenage reform school captivity narrative” titled UnReformed. For more information, please see www.newtownrevue.wordpress.com.