RCP will have a table at the Night Market!

Night Market

720 Bryant Ave

Friday 8/16/13

7pm­-12pm

Free


The North Limestone Cultural Development Corporation (NoLi CDC) will be holding it's first 'Night Market' on August 16th, from 7pm to midnight, on Bryan Avenue between Limestone and Loudon Ave. The event is free and open to the public. There will be live music, food, makers and a movie. The Line­up will feature Devine Carama, Wind Sync and other local music acts from 7­10 followed by the film 'Koyaanisqatsi' presented by the Lexington Film League from 10­12.

The Night Market will feature booths by local makers and creatives with a huge selection of art and handmade goods. Food by Bradford BBQ, delicious ice cream by Crank & Boom, and beer by neighborhood brewery West Sixth will be on hand for the enjoyment of the eager crowds of Lexington.

The Night Market is a collaborative community pop­up event inspired by the concept of temporary urbanization. This process involves changing the dynamics of a specific space to further engage the community, and foster relationships between local creatives and the public.

Specifically the Night Market will transform a cut through road designed for cars into a public park designed for people. The event was created by NoLi CDC, WRFL, The Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, the Lexington Film League & Kentucky for Kentucky.

NoLi CDC is a non­profit organization that works to ensure long term vibrancy in the North Limestone neighborhood by creating programming and development that aids in making it a creative, sustainable, and affordable place to live.

RCR#06 Now Available

RCR#06 is a special all-poetry issue that we’re giving to ourselves as a present.  It features work from:

Matt Dennison
Adam Clay
Haines Eason
F. Daniel Rzicznek
Jeremy Paden
Jason Primm
Lisa McCool-Grime
Jesse Morse

Read more about and buy the issue here


The June Report

I just found out that you're supposed to blog more than once a month.  Jeez, the internet is such a greedy place!  Sign of the times, I guess.  Here's a summary of June, 2013, and then maybe tomorrow I'll think of something else to say.


The Midwest Small Press Festival in Milwaukee was a blast yet again, and Karl McComas-Reichl read from Everything is Loose.

- We put out Mikey Swanberg's Scrap Chap, Zen and the Art of Bicycle Delivery.

- Mikey Swanberg created a hype machine that devoured his book after readings at The Peanut Gallery in Chicago and Al's Sidebar in Lexington.

- We began works on our first eBook, an edition of Zen coming out soon.

- Nikky Finney invited Mikey Swanberg and Rabbit Catastrophe to speak at The Twenty, a magical poetry retreat hidden in the mountains of Kentucky.

- We started experimenting with a new look for RCR#06 (but more on that soon).

- I learned to put links into blog posts.





Basically, it was a fucking good month.
 
Robin

Zen is Out of Print...

...At least on our end.  The only way to get a print copy these days is to come to Mikey's reading at the Peanut Gallery in Chicago on June 22nd.  Mikey will be selling the remaining copies along with some specially made broadsides.  The gallery is at 1000 N California Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60622, and here is a link to the event on facebook.  Thanks to all of you who put this thing out of print so quickly!  We hope to see you all there this weekend.  If you can't make it, keep an eye out for the eBook version of ZEN coming soon. 

Zen and the Art of Bicycle Delivery is now available

The latest Scrap Chap, Zen and the Art of Bicycle Delivery by Mikey Swanberg and illustrated by Christopher Dean Hayes, is now available.

The tiny poems of Zen capture those seemingly insignificant moments that occur between strangers: a peak inside someone's cracked door, a girl crying for joy at the coffee shop, a kind word from a doorman.  

Set on the slippery streets of a Chicago winter, the overtly un-zen narrator of these poems navigates through these small moments on a fixed-gear, cataloging them in alphabetical order in an attempt to cycle toward some state of enlightenment.
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                   h

dear boyfriend and girlfriend
living somewhere on north jannsen
i fell down on the ice
and my first thought
was to protect your food
forgive me for for a moment
not being a real human being
i hope you couldn't taste it

You can purchase this book at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, WI;  Morris Bookshop in Lexington, KY, Prospero's Books in Kanasas City, MO, and at rabbitcatastrophe.blogspot.com

Mikey Swanberg is a poet living and working in Chicago.  Christopher Dean Hayes is a artist and musician also from Chicago.