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BONK! 23
SATURDAY, AUG 28th
RACINE ARTS COUNCIL
316 6TH STREET
RACINE, WI
6PM(doors open at 5:30)

Featuring:

• spoken word artist MARIO WILLIS
• writer/translator CJ HRIBAL
• presenter/musician SARAH CORSO & RITA BURGESS

Also, the winning chapbook of the Racine Racquetball Chapbook Tournament (feautred in BONK! last April) is ready and available online. Nick Twemlow’s “Your Mouth is Everywhere” can either be bought here (via the paypal button below) for $7, or you can access a free pdf of the chapbook here: http://racquetballchapbooktournament.wordpress.com/

This is going to be the gnar gnar. Check out the links for the performers; take a look at what tremendous talent we have coming to Racine. Can’t wait to see you there!

Nick Demske:

From John Bloner Jr.

“. . .The missus and I attended our very first Bonk! performance last Saturday at Racine Arts Council. Like BeExposed!, Bonk! proved to not only be tremendously entertaining but also educational, i.e., educational in a chocolate and not a brussels sprout kind of way.

From 12-string guitarist Worth Hawes, who walks the string…s like Leo Kottke, I learned of Philip Simmons, who, at age 35, was dealt the news he had ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. Simmons wrote “Learning To Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life”, of which Publishers Weekly said “offers no easy solutions to dealing with suffering and sorrow, but it does chronicle how the experience of living at the edge can become an extraordinary connection to the eternal.” From Hawes, I also learned that John Stropes is from Racine. Stropes created the world’s only college-level program in fingerstyle guitar. www.stropes.com Bows and salutations to Nick Demske and the whole Bonk! experience...”

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BONK! 18

SATURDAY, MARCH 27th
RACINE ARTS COUNCIL
316 6TH STREET
RACINE, WI
6 PM (doors open at 5:30)

poet JULIE STRAND
poet MAURICE KILWEIN-GUEVARA
musician WORTH HAWES

“The time has come, friends. BONK! 18 goes down this Saturday and it is going to be a really excellent time. The poets and musician we have lined up are stellar, and I’m pleased to announce this Saturday will be the first BONK! event where all the acts will be introduced by a different member of the BONK! community. This month, our BONK! announcers will be Estreya Vasquez, Martice Scales and Rob…I honestly don’t know what Rob’s last name is, so you’ll have to come to BONK! to find out : ) Visit the BONK! site for any further details:

Also, take note that the next month’s (April’s) BONK! is NOT on the 4th Saturday of the month as usual, due to scheduling difficulties, but on the second Saturday of the month (Saturday, April 10th). We’ve got a monster line up for that night as well, but you’ll have to check the BONK! site if you want to know more.

See you at BONK! this Saturday. And, then, see you at BONK! again on April 10th.”

–Nick Demske
BONK! curator

BONK! is sponsored by the Racine Public Library, the Racine Arts Council and Gary’s Music World

Great fiction, creative thoughts, and electric readings by the award-winning author and creator of the PBS film series “Poetry Everywhere. “

Tuesday, March 9
6:30 pm
Racine Public Library
75 Seventh St.

A free event, open to all; no registration necessary. Visit liamcallanan.com.

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From Nick Demske, BONK! curator:

“The full scoop on the February BONK!:

BONK! 17
SATURDAY, FEB 27th
RACINE ARTS COUNCIL
316 6TH STREET
RACINE, WI
6PM
(doors open at 5:30)

• poet RICHARD MEIER
• writer KATIE O’SHAUGHNESSY
• musician CHRISTINA COLON

The time for BONK! has come again and what a stupendous lineup! Please join us this Saturday as we enjoy the fine talents of these three fine artists.

What ever did we do to come into such fortune?!”

SE YOU THERE!!!!

Photo Credit - Jennifer Tomaloff

Nick Demske is the featured literary artist for the first BeExposed! performance series show on Friday, February 19th. Nick works at the Racine Public Library and is curator of the BONK! performance series. He’s also the editor of the online forum boo: a journal of terrific things. Most recently, Nick got the exciting news that his self-titled manuscript was announced as the winner of Fence Books’ 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series, and will be published in the fall of 2010.