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Thanks to some real poets Ida Stewart, Michael Ford, and Jeff Fallis for reading on Purple Cow last Saturday, “a little bit about October” and little bit about ghosts, Halloween, autumn, death, monsters, axe-murderers, cemeteries and more!

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Everybody come to WUOG’s Birthoween tonight at Cine at 8pm to experience a once in a lifetime performance of HALLOWEEN: LIVE! Halloween Live is a screening of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic “Halloween” with its soundtrack, dialogue, and sound effects recreated by a cast of local musicians and voice actors. Following Halloween Live will be performances by two local bands, THE AGENDA and BAMBARA!

WUOG is off-air this weekend due to UGA Fall Break. Purple Cow will be back Nov. 7 with a marathon poetry reading of new and selected works by Ed Roberson. More info to come!

Happy Halloween,

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Spooky poetry readings by Ida Stewart, Michael Ford, and Jeff Fallis on Saturday’s Purple Cow! Ida, Michael and Jeff are all graduate students in UGA’s Creative Writing program, and each of them plus other local writers will be reading at A VOX Reading Series Event, Head Lines: News-themed Stories & Poems tonight at Athica from 6:30-8:30.

Ida Stewart’s poems have appeared recently in The Laurel Review, Unsplendid, Country Dog Review, and MAYDAY Magazine, and she has a story forthcoming in Staccato. A West Virginia native, Stewart holds an MFA in creative writing from The Ohio State University. She’s currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing and literature at the University of Georgia, where she’s also co-curator of the VOX Reading Series. The poems comprising her book-in-progress, Gloss, engage with the mountainous Appalachian landscape and the landscape of language—both of which are riddled with twists and turns, ups and downs, tensions, and hidden veins of richness to be mined.

Before moving to Georgia in August, Michael Ford lived for ten years in New Orleans, where he attended the University of New Orleans. He is the author of two books of poems, Carbon (Ugly Duckling, 2006) and Olympia Street (Trembling Pillow, 2008). His recent poems are attempts to make up for all the math classes he skipped in high school. A poem and a blog.

Jeff Fallis’ poems have appeared in The Oxford American, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Seneca Review, Quarterly West, Pulse Berlin, the Arkansas Review, the Everyman’s Library anthology Blues Poems and Ploughshares. A poem.

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The latest in the VOX Reading Series! Check it..

This Saturday’s reading will feature Creative Writing graduate students Ida Stewart, Michael Ford, and Jeff Fallis. A more detailed intro to their work and the upcoming reading to come soon..

Some interesting word-art events going on around town: Words 4 Life AIDS Benefit Oct. 21 from 8:30-12am at New Earth Music Hall and The Art of Reading Poetry Aloud with Bill Bray on Oct. 22, 7:15pm at the SLC Room 267.

Read about the newly discovered planets yet?

Lots to do and see.

We’ll be seeing you around,

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…for online streaming:
The VOX Reading from Oct. 13 with Rusty Morrison and Barbara Jane Reyes
Selected readings from the Cafe Apollinaire event on Sept. 22 with UGA undergraduate writers

The next Purple Cow show will feature work and conversation from UGA graduates in creative writing Ida Stewart, Jeff Fallis, and Michael Ford. Stay tuned for more info on the show!

As it’s Alumni Weekend here at WUOG, some lovely former WUOG DJs are riding the airwaves, so that’s why there was no Purple Cow today…

Hey, hope to see you at Cine tonight for the latest in the VOX Reading series.

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VOX Reading – Rusty Morrison and Barbara Jane Reyes
Tuesday, October 13
8 PM Cine, 234 W.Hancock Ave.

Visiting Poets Rusty Morrison and Barbara Jane Reyes will be reading on Tuesday, October 13, at
CINE at 8 PM. This event, part of this year’s VOX Reading Series, is free and open to the public.

Rusty Morrison’s the true keeps calm biding its story won the James Laughlin Award from the
Academy of American Poets, the Northern California Book Award, and the Ahsahta Press Sawtooth
Prize. Whethering won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has received the Poetry Society of
America’s George Bogin, Alice Fay DiCastagnola, Cecil Hemley, and Robert H. Winner Memorial
Awards, as well as the 2008 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry from Cutbank, the University of
Montana’s literary magazine. Her poems, essays, and/or reviews have appeared in American
Poetry Review, Bomb, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Pleiades,
New American Writing, Rain Taxi, Volt, Verse, and elsewhere. She has taught in the MFA Creative
Writing Program at the University of San Francisco, and was recently the Poet in Residence for a
semester at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga CA. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishing
(http://www.omnidawn.com).

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She
received her BA in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She
is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books,) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press),
which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her third book,
entitled Diwata, is forthcoming from BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2010. Her chapbooks, Easter Sunday,
Cherry, and West Oakland Sutra for the AK-47 Shooter at 3:00 AM and other Oakland poems are
published by Ypolita Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, and Deep Oakland Editions, respectively.
She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland. Visit her online at
http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/.

1. Tomorrow the show will feature work from poet Rita Dove. Dove will be visiting UGA Oct. 8-9, giving reading after reading after reading. For more specific information check out the UGA English Dept’s handy event calendar.

1.2 So we’ll be reading some of her stuff, and then you can go see her read live yourself next week! Good timing, we know.

2. Highlights from the recent Cafe Apollinaire poetry event at Cine will soon be streaming from our site!

3. Also, thanks to our Publications Director, there are some pretty cool Purple Cow posters floatin’ around WUOG. You’ll soon get to see how the mysterious “purple cow” looks in 2D! (Spoiler alert: it’s purple.)

4. Finally, don’t forget to tune in tomorrow at Noon

End of news update.

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