Saturday August 27, 2011 6pm - 8pm
Racine Arts Council - 316 6th Street
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BONK! is a monthly performance series held in Racine Wisconsin.
AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER attended the University of Maryland before entering the world of factory life for fifteen years. During that time, he wrote and published poetry, short fiction, and freelance journalism, while also founding 7th Son Press and Blind Alleys, a literary journal. Weaver later earned a BA in Literature through ...Excelsior College and an MA in Brown University’s graduate writing program, focusing on theater and playwriting. His first book of poetry, Water Song, was published in 1985. Since then, Weaver has published several more collections of poetry, including The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005; Multitudes; Sandy Point; and The Ten Lights of God. His full length play Rosa was produced in 1993 at Venture Theater in Philadelphia. His short fiction appears in Gloria Naylor’s Children of the Night and in Maria Gillan’s Identity Lessons. Weaver has been a Pew Fellow in poetry and also taught at National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts as a Fulbright Scholar. Currently, he is the Alumnae Professor of English and director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center at Simmons College in Boston. In addition, he is Chairman of the Simmons International Chinese Poetry Conference. (http://www.poets.org/poets.php/prmPID/170)
JIM OSBORNE has been retired for 19 years, but remains active as a poet, writing for fun (except when he has an axe to grind). He has studied English, poetry, fiction writing, ceramics, and furniture building at UW-Whitewater and UW-Parkside. He describes most of his poems as light fantasy about the simple things in life.
RG PRODUCTIONS produces and performs authentic Old Time Radio classics as well as original shows such as the NATF Award-winning Rebecca Diamond, Private Eye. They have performed with live music and sound effects in many venues, including Kemper Hall in Kenosha, the Kenosha Public Museum, the Rhode Center, PM&L in Antioch, IL, and Cutting Hall in Palatine, IL. The cast includes experienced stage and voice actors and musicians who have performed professionally all over the country.