Janet Holmes & Jenny Mueller at Columbia College

Janet Holmes & Jenny Mueller
Wednesday, February 17th
5:30p.m.
Hokin Hall
623 South Wabash, Room 109


JANET HOLMES is author of five books of poetry, most recently THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman, 2009) and F2F (U Notre Dame, 2006). She is a founding faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where she also edits Ahsahta Press, an all-poetry publisher.



JENNY MUELLER’s first book of poems is Bonneville, published by Elixir Press in 2007. A graduate of the University of Chicago, University of Utah, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently lives in St. Louis and teaches at McKendree University, where she is an associate professor of English.



This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call (312) 369-8819.

Poetry Center Juried Reading Contest Deadline Extended

Friday, Feb 26
Juried Reading Contest
Submission deadline extended!

New Postmark deadline: Friday, February 26, 2010
First prize: $1,500; Second prize: $500; Third prize: $250

Five finalists receive $50

The Poetry Center invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in the 16th Annual Juried Reading. Eight finalists will have their poetry published in an e-book by Plastique Press as well as on the Poetry Center website, and all eight poets will be invited to read at an award ceremony in the spring.




Mark Nowak, Final Judge

A poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for "regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature," Mark Nowak regularly leads transnational poetry workshops between American and international trade unions. He is the author of Revenants and Shut Up Shut Down, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and finalist for the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award. A native of Buffalo, New York, he is now the Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College in Maryland.

The Juried Reading is open to all poets residing in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Poets may be unpublished or have published no more than one full-length book of poetry. All submissions are blind; the jury and the judge will have no access to identifying information about the submitting poets.

To submit, mail:

1. A cover sheet including your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and titles of poems submitted.

2. Four copies of a packet, independently stapled, of no more than five single-sided, typed pages of unpublished poetry. There is no restriction on the number of poems per page, but the packet should not exceed five pages. Your name should not appear on any of the pages containing poems.

3. 15 jury fee, check or money order made payable to "The Poetry Center." The contest is free for Poetry Center members.

Poems will be accepted by US mail only. Send poems to: 16th Annual Juried Reading, The Poetry Center of Chicago, 37 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL60603. E-mail and fax submissions will not be accepted. No phone calls please.

Visit the Poetry center website for for a list of the 2009 Juried Reading winners and a selection of their poetry.

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New from Virtual Artists Collective

Ink on Snow, Elizabeth Raby
isbn 9780981989846
$15.00
order it here



What unites all the poems in Ink on Snow is the voice of someone brave enough to see closely both the painful and the beautiful--to ask what will satisfy and to trust the words to respond in the way we trust prayers to be answered: not with easy solutions or simple fixes, but with a recognition that what we are looking for will never reveal itself in the way we expect it to. So many of the poems are acts of witness by a speaker who is both detached and passionate, intimate and observant, conscious of her distance from things--tragedies, natural phenomenon, people--and determined to bridge this distance through the agency of a loving and courageous language, exploring the dark energies that inform her life and the world's and in doing so, illuminating our lives and hers.

Christopher Bursk, author of The First Inhabitants of Arcadia

Molly Malone's

Monday, Feb 8
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic (5 minutes per reader)
9:00 -- featured reader

Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073

The Molly Malone's Open Mic with your hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invites you to be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.

Join us in a warm Molly Malone’s welcome for Steven Schroeder...


Steven Schroeder is the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective (a "virtual" gathering of musicians, poets, and visual artists), which has published five full-length poetry collections each year since it began in 2004. He teaches at the University of Chicago in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults and at Shenzhen University in China. He has published extensively in philosophy and religious studies, and has lectured and written on the relationship of poetry with philosophy -- and of both with religion. Steven received his Ph.D. in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago in 1982.

Steven’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in After Hours, AmarilloBay, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Concho River Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cresset, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2005, Georgetown Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Karamu, Macao Closer, Mid-America Poetry Review, Poetry East, Poetry Macao, Rambunctious Review, Rhino, Shichao, Sichuan Literature, Texas Review, TriQuarterly and other literary journals. He has published two chapbooks, Theory of Cats and Revolutionary Patience, and four full-length collections, Fallen Prose, The Imperfection of the Eye, Six Stops South, and A Dim Sum of the Day Before.

$5 if you can, $3 if you can't

Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.

Feel free to forward this notice to your writing pals...we love new faces with new voices.

Tonight!: FUTURE PERFECT Poetry + New Media Series

7:30pm - 11:30pm

Katerina's Street of Dreams

[http://www.katerinas.com]

1920 W. Irving Park Rd.

SAINT CLOUD [http://saintcloud-theartband.com/] appears in concert featuring Richard Fammerée, poet, singer-songwriter, composer, (guitars, piano) [http://fammeree.com/]; poète-chanteuse Carrie Ingrisano (bass, piano) [http://www.myspace.com/carrieingrisano]; Paul Christopher Greene (production, violin, electronica); Meg Thomas (exotic percussion) and Victor Sanders (electric guitar, electronica). Saint Cloud will share new songs/poem-songs/contemporary (fusion/infusion lit rock) art songs.

FUTURE PERFECT Poetry + New Media Series

also presents poets

The editors of RHINO

http://www.rhinopoetry.org/

Virginia Bell

Sarah Carson

Helen Degen Cohen

Carol Eding

Adam Lizakowski

Deborah Rosen

Marcia Zuckerman

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Richard Fammerée, Carrie Ingrisano & Saint Cloud

http://fammeree.com

http://saintcloud-theartband.com/

+

"Street Works: Windows and Walls." a projected exhibit of the exquisite, fine art photography of Susan Aurinko

http://www.aurinkophoto.com/

+

Ballerina Jeanette Aylward

&

Tango masters Stephan Pressling & Sabine Gourgue (just back from So. America!)

FUTURE PERFECT Poetry + New Media Series

will be recorded live for

Chicago Public Radio/Chicago Amplified & UniVerse of Poetry

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/program_amp_archive.aspx?partnerID=33

Featured poets and poets in attendance are encouraged to bring their books & CDS for the "Perfect Book Shop." Artists retain all sales.

Silver Tongue Reading Series

SILVER TONGUE with [JASON BREDLE]
and students of Columbia College
When: Thursday, February 11th @7:00pm
Where: 731 S Plymouth Court



[SILVER TONGUE] is COLUMBIA COLLEGE'S student curated reading series features student's word based work. We're starting off this year with the theme, "Penny Dreadful" because it sounds cool, and has a cool story behind it. Read on:

For those unfamiliar, Vinegar Valentines and Penny Dreadfuls refer to insulting valentines and greeting cards meant to shock and offend that were popular back in the olden days.

FEATURED WRITER [JASON BREDLE] who is the author of three book and four chapter books of poetry, including The Book of Evil [Dream Horse Press, forthcoming] and Smiles of the Unstoppable [Magic Helicopter Press, forthcoming].

Newberry Library Seminars

Register Now for Winter/Spring 2010 Seminars:


# Shakespeare: Problem Plays, Sonnets, and Romances
Tuesdays, 5:45 – 7:45 pm
February 16 – April 20 (class will not meet March 30)
9 sessions, $190
Register Online

Shakespeare’s problem plays or dark comedies—All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida—raise challenging moral issues. The sonnets are among the greatest lyric poems in our language, and his dramatic romances—Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest—are often interpreted as his most profound reflections on his life and art.

David Zesmer is Emeritus Professor of English at the Illinois Institute of Technology.


Vergil’s AeneidWednesdays, 5:45 – 7:45 pm
February 17 – April 7
8 sessions, $180
Register Online

We will examine Vergil’s Aeneid within the social, political, and literary context of first-century Rome. Class discussion will focus on Aeneas as an epic hero and the transformation he undergoes from Trojan refugee to King of Lavinium. We will pay special attention to how the poem raises questions about Aeneas’ heroic character and the glory of Rome.

Jill Connelly holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in classical languages and literature and has been teaching classics for over ten years.




* Emily Dickinson: Her Work and Her Self, Then and Now
Tuesdays, 2 – 4 pm
February 23 – May 4 (class will not meet March 23)
10 sessions, $200
Register Online

Though widely considered one of the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson’s life and work continue to perplex as well as fascinate us. We will explore Dickinson’s poetry in form, content, and context, along with her contested biography, her sources and contemporaries, and her reappearance as a character in modern American drama and literature.

Jennifer Shook is an Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar, Artistic Director of Caffeine Theatre (Chicago’s poetry theatre), and a faculty member at DePaul University.





# Pain, the Passage of Time, and Keats
Wednesdays, 5:45 – 7:45 pm
March 31 – April 28
5 sessions, $140
Register Online

In his poetry and for most of his short life, John Keats lamented the inevitable passage of time and the presence of human pain. Though he died at the age of twenty-five, he came to a reconciliation or acceptance of both in his later poetry. We will trace Keats’ presentation of those concerns in his poetry, including his sonnets and major odes, and in his letters.

William Dumbleton is Professor Emeritus of English, University at Albany, State University of New York. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.


To register and for a complete list of programming, visit:
http://www.newberry.org/programs/currentschedule.html