Join us for a reading of early early work featuring Chris Mason, Jonah Beram, Matt Williams, and Christophe Casamassima. Material will range from the lurid and campy to the gentle and affectionate. With an introductory slideshow on juvenile writings throughout history by Alicia Puglionesi, and musical interludes by Francesca D’Uva.
Chris Mason
grew up in Minnesota but came to Baltimore in 1970 to go to Hopkins as an undergraduate. He is a member of two bands, The Tinklers and Old Songs. ...
Join us for a reading of early early work featuring Chris Mason, Jonah Beram, Matt Williams, and Christophe Casamassima. Material will range from the lurid and campy to the gentle and affectionate. With an introductory slideshow on juvenile writings throughout history by Alicia Puglionesi, and musical interludes by Francesca D’Uva.
Chris Mason
grew up in Minnesota but came to Baltimore in 1970 to go to Hopkins as an undergraduate. He is a member of two bands, The Tinklers and Old Songs. Old Songs translates archaic Greek poems by Sappho, Archolichus, Alcman, and others and puts them to music. Books of poetry: Poems of a Doggy (pod books, Baltimore, 1977), click poems (shabby editions, London, 1982), Hum Who Hiccp (Narrow Hose, Baltimore, 2011), Where to From Out (Furniture Press, Baltimore, 2012). Tinkler books include The Elements (Shattered Wig Press, Baltimore, 2010).
Matt Williams
is a writer and sandwich-maker who has spent more of his 24 years on earth playing ice hockey and living in Howard County than not. He currently lives in THE PINK PALACE.
Francesca D'Uva
is a natural-born athlete who writes music. She thrives in high-stakes situations, and sometimes imagines that music notes are actually tiny basketballs ready to be slam-dunked.
Alicia Puglionesi
is a historian who studies the development of the mind sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research addresses how people produce knowledge about subjective experience.
