Chirp Release Event

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We here at Ursus Americanus Press are psyched to be releasing Greg Zorko’s new poetry chapbook, Chirp, into the world! Come celebrate with us at Uncharted Books on September 1st at 5 PM to celebrate a book of humorous and heartfelt poems that mystify before placing themselves right in front of your nose. These poems are an awkward square dance in socks on a freshly waxed VFW floor, a sleepy Midwestern interstate made magic by a party of horses, a lump rising in the throat of a baby bird.

We will bringing a box of books and cooler of beers, so bring yourselves, your friends, and some cash (and your beers (or your IDs for our beers (sorry))), and let’s hatch this book together!

Readings from:
Greg Zorko (Madison, WI)
Bree Jo’ann (Indianapolis, IN)
Katie Burke (Chicago, IL)
Evan Fusco (Chicago, IL)

Greg Zorko was born in 1990 in Albany, New York. He is the author Ghost in the Club (Metatron, 2016). He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Bree Jo'ann is a hyperactive pixie dream girl from the hood. She has a super useful Fiction Writing Degree from Columbia College Chicago. Her book “Black Glitter” was recently published by Monster House Press. Her work has appeared online in Peach Magazine, FAF Collectiveand Radioactive Moat’s Deluge. It has appeared in print in PRINTtEXT’s Didactic. She lives with her son and her husband in Indianapolis, IN. She vacations at the elaborate, rambling mansion inside her head. Sometimes, she tweets @how2baradwytch.

Katie Burke is a writer living in Chicago and she is doing her best. Her work can be found in The Fanzine, Crabfat Magazine, Witchcraft magazine, and on Twitter @confirmedrump.

Evan Fusco is a Chicago based interdisciplinary artist whose work engages with the body as a site of mutability, and how language and conversation contributes to our plurality. They have shown work in varying contexts such as in student shows, digital spaces, zine fairs, and independent art spaces. They were one of the recipients of the first year of the Creativity Works grant at the Cleveland Institute of Art. They have performed in multiple SKNDLSS runway performance shows, curated a small number of group exhibitions, and have self published multiple poetry books. Recently they were in a two person show with Elise Parisian at Apparatus Projects and curated a show called Welcome to Your Body at Zakaib projects both in Chicago, IL. They are currently attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies.