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Writers and performers Elwin Cotman and Kim Vodicka at SubRosa

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Date:
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Time:
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
SubRosa
Email:
Phone:
(831) 426-5242
Location Details:
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

Indescribable... Indestructible...
The Jack Daniels Sessions EP Summer Book Tour 2011!

Join writer and performance artist Elwin Cotman for the west coast launch of his debut short story collection, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP!

Also appearing is writer Kim Vodicka, a performance/sound lyric poet out of New Orleans who will be traveling with her chapbook.

Both are emerging artists, and are also dynamic and experienced performers.

Published by Six Gallery Press, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP is a collection of folktale-based works which address America's complex racial dynamics. Rather than offer mere escape, these stories tackle the often hard lessons of history head-on.

According to Michael S. Begnal, author of Ancestor Worship: "Mr. Cotman's interests are wide-ranging. Punk rock intersects with D.C.'s Dominican community, African-American folktale intersects with Greek myth, Goth teen suburban angst in 1990s Ohio sits side by side with racist atrocity in the pre-Civil Rights South, and magic is going on. Yeah, there's magic in some of these stories, but the real magic is in Cotman's words themselves--stark and deadpan one moment, lushly descriptive the next."

A storyteller in the traditional sense, Cotman has traveled the country, enthralling audiences with his unique mix of fiction, music and song. Having honed his skills in the Washington DC open mic scene, he has gained a reputation as a dynamic mixed-media performer. A former resident of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers Cooperative, Cotman has also been published in The Front Weekly, The Fairfield Review, Outsider Ink and The Dirty Napkin. http://www.lookmanoagent.blogspot.com/

Kim Vodicka began writing when the novelty of nail biting faded (~age 13). Alas, her hard(ly) work(ing) has paid off, as she is currently an MFA in Poetry Candidate at LSU. Kim has been published in Shampoo and Ekleksographia.
Added to the calendar on Mon, May 23, 2011 11:08PM
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