The Latino Writers Collective, a group of Latino poets and fiction writers who live and work in the Kansas City area, will read from their new short fiction anthology on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Latte on Lincoln. Admission is free.
Open mike takes place the first half-hour of the program, followed by featured reading and book release of "Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Heartland" from Scapegoat Press. Linda Rodriguez, author of "Heart´s Migration," an award-winning book of poems from Tia Chucha Press, and author of the cookbook "I Don´t Know How to Cook Mexican" from Adams Media, will be reading from her work, as will Miguel M. Morales, Xanath Caraza, Jose Faus, Maria Vasquez Boyd and others.

THE LAST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH!!!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER @ 7:30PM
The LOOSE CHICKS are back!
Jillian Erickson and Roberta Miles will be presenting an hour long performance based on their experiences through life. This juicy, gutsy look at life through the eyes of two femme fatales will be presented at the Latte on Lincoln, 4229 N Lincoln on September 25th at 7:30pm.
Jillian Erickson is a performance artist, monologist, poet, writer, pain in the ass…She moved to Chicago to do exactly what she is doing and couldn’t be giddier. She is co-producer, co-director, and performer for the all female cabaret BEAST WOMEN 2009 and is working on her fourth series.
Roberta Miles, best known to Chicago audiences as a jazz singer and painter, is rapidly gaining a reputation for her irreverent autobiographical monologues that make up a tell-all expose of her quirky, edgy life. These monologues are the basis for her one-woman show, which debuted summer, 2009 at the StrawDog Theatre. There is a suggested donation for this event.