Visiting Writers Series


Spring 2013

01.31 Emily Barton & Melanie Rae Thon *
03.14 Lysley Tenorio ^
03.28 Clark Coolidge *
04.25 Matthew Zapruder & Brenda Shaughnessy +

* at Memorial Hall
^ at The University Club
+ at The University Museum of Contemporary Art

Upcoming events at Flying Object

Jubilat/Jones reading series

Ducks Beware! Dad’s Home, Max!

by C.S. Ward


Maya Malachowski Bajak

The cow is lying in a mud lot next to a boat
that has been beached some hundred miles inland.

The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi

translated by Emily Toder

cover art: Daniella Brahms
cover art: Daniella Brahms

from The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi & Other Stories
by Edgar Bayley
translated from the Spanish by Emily Toder
forthcoming, Clockroot Books, fall 2010

Two Short Fictions

by Ryan MacDonald


Red Bandit  Steve Snell

Dante in Chelm

by Dan Dov Zeller

raiford under construction (detail) by Kimberly Hennessey
raiford under construction (detail)  Kimberly Hennessey

This is a true story. Ask my mother, may she rest in peace, my father, wherever he is, or my brother, who cannot speak a word and has never told a lie in his life.

Variations on an Animal Kingdom

by Heather Christle


just a bird with a broken wing  Kimberly Hennessey

People love to come up to me and say
“Hello, you enormous, vibrating bird,”
but they are just confusing me
with my invention, an invention
I regret.