My band Gravey Train, Philadelphia’s premiere moon-themed country folk comedy duo, will be performing with folk sweethearts Potential Gospel, the twangy Endless Mtns. Region, and the inimitable Lauren Scott at No Face Studios on November 3. The event will be a potluck of sorts, so bring some food if you’d like, or just be prepared to eat some. See you there!

My moon-themed country folk comedy duo will be performing our first show live at the EFZRR on August 18th. There will be excellent foods and drinks, great company, and a lot of great performances.

• Sunday, July 14, 2018
• 1:00 PM  4:00 PM

Katie Haegele and Joe Carlough lead this zine making workshop at Tulpehocken Exchange. This is part two of a three part series. Classes will take place monthly, on the third Sunday of each month. Take one class or take all three, it’s up to you.

Date/ Time: Sunday, July 15th from 1 pm – 4 pm.

Location: 47 East High Street, Philadelphia (in Germantown).

Price: $15/ online, $20 the day of the event

Light refreshments will be served.

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What is a zine you may ask? It’s a self published, small circulation book. DIY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine

Katie Haegele is a writer, zine maker, and book critic who lives in Philadelphia. She is the author of the memoir White Elephants, and the essay collection Slip of the Tongue: Talking About Language. Her written works have been published in Utne, Bitch, Adbusters, The Comics Journal, Philadelphia Magazine, The Believer Logger, and elsewhere. Find her online at www.thelalatheory.com/

Joe Carlough has been making zines under the name Displaced Snail Publications for the past ten years. He’s quietly entered the world of DIY publishing, becoming the zine and book maker for such outfits as QuillsEdge Press, Joyful Noise Recordings, and a range of clients from budding poets to Random House authors. He owns three different printers, six unique staplers, and literally tens of thousands of sheets of paper. Find him online at displacedsnail.com

Hi everyone! I'll be in Ljubljana, Slovenia for most of May, and can't help but do a performance while I'm there! Here is all of the information from the official listing:

COLORS is a sound/poetry experience built of repetitive noises and poetry, collected and bound in a full-color zine with accompanying pixel art, created by translating the sound of the poems into visual clutter. The poetry ranges from humorous to sad to paranoid, the sounds from cheerful to grating.

Some of the pieces can be interactive, others are quiet and contemplative. The author creates a hallowed space of words and sound, inviting listeners to lose themselves in the drone of his voice. The piece will be accompanied by copies of the full-color zine for guests to take home.

Joseph Carlough is a poet, musician, and DIY publisher based in Philadelphia, USA. He’s run Displaced Snail Publications for the past ten years, and through it he’s published over 90 of his own zines, including releases such as COLORS, a zine of poetry and visual clutter; Sun&Moon, a curated collection about celestial bodies; and Georgia the Cat, a 120-page work of nonfiction about his dear cat friend. He’s collaborated with organizations such as Microcosm Publishing and Joyful Noise Recordings, musicians such as Kishi Bashi, Hrishikesh Hirway, and Serengeti, and a slew of authors from unpublished to published by Random House. When not designing or bookbinding, he keeps a horror movie review site, Scary Movie Club, plays multiple instruments in the experimental drone band AKNIFE, and runs a bimonthly music and art series with his wife in their home, the East Falls Zine Reading Room. Find more about his work at Displaced Snail Publications, or follow him on Instagram @displacedsnail.

Organisation: Kino Šiška.

Katie Haegele and Joe Carlough lead this zine making workshop at Tulpehocken Exchange. This is part two of a three part series. Classes will take place monthly, on the third Sunday of each month. Take one class or take all three, it’s up to you.

Date/ Time: Sunday, March 18th from 1 pm – 4 pm.

Location: 47 East High Street, Philadelphia (in Germantown).

Price: $15/ online, $20 the day of the event

Light refreshments will be served.

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What is a zine you may ask? It’s a self published, small circulation book. DIY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine

Katie Haegele is a writer, zine maker, and book critic who lives in Philadelphia. She is the author of the memoir White Elephants, and the essay collection Slip of the Tongue: Talking About Language. Her written works have been published in Utne, Bitch, Adbusters, The Comics Journal, Philadelphia Magazine, The Believer Logger, and elsewhere. Find her online at www.thelalatheory.com/

Joe Carlough has been making zines under the name Displaced Snail Publications for the past ten years. He’s quietly entered the world of DIY publishing, becoming the zine and book maker for such outfits as QuillsEdge Press, Joyful Noise Recordings, and a range of clients from budding poets to Random House authors. He owns three different printers, six unique staplers, and literally tens of thousands of sheets of paper. Find him online at displacedsnail.com

Come over and read zines and drink tea! We'll have good music playing, good vibes, and a whole heck of a lot of zines. 

Katie Haegele and Joe Carlough lead this zine making workshop at Tulpehocken Exchange. This is Part I of a three part series. Classes will take place monthly, on the third Sunday of each month. Take one class or take all three, it’s up to you.

Date/ Time: Sunday, February 18th from 1 pm – 3 pm.

Location: 47 East High Street, Philadelphia (in Germantown).

Price: $15/ online, $20 the day of the event

Light refreshments will be served.

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What is a zine you may ask? It’s a self published, small circulation book. DIY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine

Katie Haegele is a writer, zine maker, and book critic who lives in Philadelphia. She is the author of the memoir White Elephants, and the essay collection Slip of the Tongue: Talking About Language. Her written works have been published in Utne, Bitch, Adbusters, The Comics Journal, Philadelphia Magazine, The Believer Logger, and elsewhere. Find her online at www.thelalatheory.com/

Joe Carlough has been making zines under the name Displaced Snail Publications for the past ten years. He’s quietly entered the world of DIY publishing, becoming the zine and book maker for such outfits as QuillsEdge Press, Joyful Noise Recordings, and a range of clients from budding poets to Random House authors. He owns three different printers, six unique staplers, and literally tens of thousands of sheets of paper. Find him online at displacedsnail.com

It's 2018, everybody

So happy flippin' new year! For our first show of 2018, we're pleased to host a few East Falls Zine Reading Room favorites and some exciting newcomers as well. Come to our place on January 27th from 2-5 to hear the West Philly postpunk band Rabbits to Riches, the delicate folk songs of Potential Gospel, and the work of poet and fiction writer Oki Sogumi and poet and arts journalist Amanda Silberling. You'll get a sneak of Joe Carlough's music/video work in progress, and Katie Haegele will debut her new zine, "Dear Everybody." Also, the zine library has gotten an overhaul and should be easier than ever for you to browse. THIS IS SHAPING UP TO BE QUITE THE EVENT.

Please email joecarlough at gmail com or katie at thelalatheory com for the address.

Parking on our street is free, and we're located around the corner from the East Falls train station and half a block up from the K, R, and 61 buses on Ridge Avenue. 

As always, we hope to see you here.

Katie and I will be tabling at the Philly Zine Fest this November with a ton of rad stuff. I'll have PETS1, the debut of PETS2, crow comics, Scary Movie Club merch, DSP Anthologies of Retired zines, DSP mini-zine mystery packs, and much, much more!

The East Falls Zine Reading Room will be hosting a book launch party for our own Katie Haegele's newest release, Cats I've Known. Come hang out, have some drinks and food (pizza?) on us, and celebrate the newest literary project from our favorite author // EFZRR head!

There WILL be a cat-themed cake.

Email joseph @ displaced snail dot com for details. 

K and I will be reading at Coffeehouse Without Limits in Allentown, PA to support the release of her newest book, Cats I've Known. You should come out, it's going to be a great time! I'll be reading from my little book about my first cat Georgia. 

Information pertaining to the second annual Sad Fest at the East Falls Zine Reading Room is coming soon. For now, mark your calendars!

This year, Sad Fest will be followed by Down to Clown, a lighthearted evening of performances at our sister space. 

Catch Katie and I at the Lehigh Valley Zine Fest, where we'll be slingin' zines and makin' friends.

I'll be reading some new-ish material, and maybe even doing a few songs of some kind or other, with Katie Haegele, Taryn Hipp, and Mellen at Coffeehouse Without Limits. Come see us if you're in the Allentown area!

Katie and I will be tabling with some items from our vintage biz, Ghost Flowers, at the Germantown Kitchen Garden on May 13th - just in time to pick up some cool stuff for your mom!

Katie and I will be making the drive down to beautiful Asheville, NC, to set up our zines and books! More complete information about which works I'll have with me will come later, when we're closer to the date and I know more!

Katie Haegele and I will be heading south of the (Pennsylvanian) border to grand ol' Delaware for the Newark Zine Fest! I'll have some wild new zines in store for the events, including a collection of tiiiiny zines and books about people's pets!

I'll be tabling and reading at a zine event at The Waiting Room in West Philly on the 26th. Come on out and see what zines I have and hear me read some really depressing poetry!

Katie Haegele and I will be doing a reading with Cory Kram at the Read & Eat on Ridge Ave in Roxborough, Philadelphia on January 29th. I don't know what I'll be reading, but expect a little music, stories about animals, poems about myself and my crippling self doubt, and a lot of laughs.