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November’s Poetic Offerings

by Editor

POETIC OFFERINGS Thai Joe’s Monday Night is everlasting… I picked up the 21st edition of the Poet’s Monday Grab Bag, from the Lady of Poet’s Monday, JoAnn Chang at poetry night this fall. Only $5. Chang is the official non-editor of the donation publication and the owner of an amazing voice…piercing. Chang is “Publisher & […]

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Art – Music – Film – Stage

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Riverwest musicians on “Stringzology MKE” – International Film Fest – New! Hotcakes Gallery – Flying Fish will Fly No More – New Cafes: Art Bar Cafe and Green Dragon Cafe – Bucketworks – WI Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series – A Black Woman’s Burden: Her Journey from Pain to Freedom – Prophecy’s “Visions of Destruction”

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Flanagan’s Wake

by Dan Knauss

by Thomas Patrick and Daniel Patrick

Me and me second cousin, Daniel Patrick, trekked over the big pond to Grapplin City in County Sligo for the wake o’ Flanagan, our fourth-cousin, twice removed. Everyone was there, even that old fekkin’ ‘oor, Mary Babs, an’ too many tongues went a-waggin’ about her and Flanagan, not to mention most o’ the men o’ Grapplin.

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Getting Schooled in Late Night Catechism

by Dan Knauss

by Dan Knauss and Sonya Jongsma Knauss

Late Nite is not nostalgic in the sense of presenting an idealized vision of “the good old days,” just as it isn’t about mocking the past. A traditionalist and an iconoclast, Sister has little respect for nuns who gave up the habit, but she thinks women should be allowed to be priests, and as a kind of penance for her past sins, she makes children’s chairs from broken rulers. A good deal of impromptu humor arises from her invitation to survivors of Catholic schools in their 40s on up to share their stories about ruler-wielding nuns.