Come join the Consonant Collective at the historic Philadelphia Athenaeum and learn how to make a zine :D

The Consonant Collective will lead a class of poetry students through the process of creating their own vinyl records using a refurbished ~1947 Rek-O-Kut Challenger record maker. This machine, created for use by music studios and pressing plants, uses a sapphire embossing stylus to create the record's grooves, literally pushing the music into the disc. We will first talk about the science behind vinyl records, from audio recording to vinyl pressing, and then each student will record their poetry to a 7” disc.

As part of our residency at the Arts Incubator in Tioga, NY, Joe and Katie will share our work and talk about the creative process behind zine, book, and record making.

Bring a digital recording or come prepared to talk or make music live, and we will cut your performance onto a vinyl record!

The Consonant Collective will do a presentation with our Rek-o-Cut Challenger at Athenaeum of Philadelphia. First we’ll discuss the science behind how sound is transferred to vinyl records, then each participant will get to cut their own record! Sign up on the Athenaeum website. Registration capped at 12 participants.

Philly writer Katie Haegele has been putting out her beloved Cat Party! zine series for 7 years — and now it’s turned into a book! This diverse, lively anthology, published by Microcosm Publishing, collects every issue of the zine plus brand new contributions made especially for the book. More than 50 artists contributed essays, comics, portraits, song lyrics, and photos, all about the beloved cats in their lives, and the pieces range from heartbreakingly personal to totally whimsical (and everything in between). 

Come celebrate the release of this beautiful book! You’ll be able to buy your copy before it’s available in stores, get yourself some cat-themed merch (including records with original music by contributor Joe Carlough!), and hang out while enjoying our catty playlist. It’s gonna be a blast! 

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cat-party-book-release-party-tickets-866855657607?aff

The Consonant Collective will have a table at Princeton Zine Fest, which is being held at Princeton’s public library as a part of New Jersey Makers Day. Come check it out!

As part Fair Use Week, the Consonant Collective will lead a workshop at Swarthmore College on the subject of zine creation in the context of fair use in the arts.

Open Library Day at East Falls Zine Reading Room. Message for address.

In conversation with Joshua James Amberson, author of Staring Contest.

Come out to “Bibliomancy,” a solo show of my poems from “Softening is an invitation just to look.” I’ll have chapbooks for sale and a Divination Station where visitors to the gallery can make their own poems.

Come out and buy some books, zines, cassettes of my music project Spiritbox, and art prints at the West Philly Zine Fest.

Come out and buy some books, zines, cassettes of my music project Spiritbox, and art prints at the Lancaster Zine Fest.

Featuring the music of:

Make Like a Tree featuring Greta Arnarsdottir

Afterpartyangel

Iris Thorarins

Diana Sus

Plus the release of my book Spiritbox

I’ll be appearing with my coauthor Nadine Schneider at Reads & Company Bookshop in Phoenixville. Come chat and get your book signed!

I’ll be tabling at the Pittsburgh Zine Fair with the Kitchen Witch zine and book, every issue of Cat Party! zine, and a few fun surprises.

The East Falls Zine Reading room is opening its archives for a library day. Come read zines and drink tea and play The Zine Game with us!

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We’re opening up our zine library for the first time since the pandemic hit. Come hang out with us and peruse our collection of some 1,500 zines. We’ve missed you!

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I’ll be signing copies of my book Kitchen Witch at the AWP Conference this year. Come find me at the Microcosm booth!