Tonight

Columbia College Chicago, The Silvertongue Reading Series & Verbatim Spokenword Present:

Family Business. Poetry as Resistance: An Evening with Ismail Khalidi and Kevin Coval.

THIS FRIDAY Nov. 20, 6pm @ 623 S. Wabash. Columbia College

There is a small open mic at 6. Then Ismail and Kevin at 6:30.

please come out to support.

Ismail khalidi is a poet and playwright born in beirut and raised in chicago. His play Tennis in Nablus has received several awards, including two from the Kennedy Center and will receive its premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Feb. 2010. His other plays include Truth Serum Blues (produced at Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis); Foot; Odd Territory and Final Status. He is a 2009-2010 Emerging Artists Fellow at the New York Theatre Workshop. His writing has been published in Mizna and American Theatre. He lives in New York.

Kevin Coval is the author of everyday people and slingshots (a hip-hop poetica). He has been censored three times in the last three months for poems about Palestine.

Northport

Now Available for Pre-Order from Finishing Line Press.


About Northport:

Self-discovery and loss—these are the touchstones of Allan Johnston’s fine new collection that recalls the countercultural “back to the land” movement of the 1970s. In Northport, the poet guides the reader through the wonder and waste of the past, and to travel with him is to suffer with him; yet it is also a transcendent chance to recover valuable old territory, to make it new again, and to claim as one’s own “all the beauty dancing there.” -- Richard Jones

These are beautifully-made poems of the Pacific Northwest, in Gary Snyder’s tradition of close attention to the world, the moment, and the heft of words. It’s a pleasure to see them in print. -- Alan Williamson

About Allan Johnston:

Allan Johnston’s poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry East, Rhino, and over sixty other journals. He is the author of one poetry collection (Tasks of Survival) and a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Originally from California, he earned his M.A. in Creative Writing and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis, and now teaches writing and literature at Columbia College and DePaul University in Chicago. He currently serves as a reader for the Illinois Emerging Poets competition and is president of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education. In the past he has worked as a sheepherder, shakesplitter, roofer, forest fire fighter, Indian cook, and photographer, among other occupations.

Tomorrow Night at Reginas Place

Friday Nov 20th
7:00-9:30
Regina's Place
3608 W Wrightwood

Carla Evonne Glowacki
Regina Henderson
Terry Jacobus
Iman John-Hassan Jor'dan
Luis Humberto Valadez


plus open-mic less
Hosted by Vito Carli

bring your favorite thanksgiving poems (it's not mandatory)

There will be a monthly show on every third Friday of the month.

Requited Reading Series: Cornucopia of Lit

Requited Reading Series: Cornucopia of Lit
November 21, 2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Mess Hall; 6932 N. Glenwood (Morse Redline Stop)

Requited Reading Series offers its second installment of great lit, just before the holiday. Stave off indigestion and travel anxiety with:

Jason Bredle
H.V. Cramond
Amira Hanafi
Sherrie Weller
Cayenne Sullivan
Laura Goldstein
Lindsey Bell

Please join us for a great mix of poetry and prose! Bring your old books and lit journals for an informal trade. (No rules--just no fights--a friendly exchanging of those used books you have propping up your airconditioner.) Drinks provided!! This event is FREE.

Websites:
requitedjournal.com
messhall.org

Green Lantern Press

Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:30 p.m.
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.


Green Lantern Press Reading
Stephanie Brooks: Love Is a Certain Kind of Flower
Ashley Murray: Fascia
Terri Griffith: So Much Better

Brooks’ chapbook features an extensive index of Love-metaphors used in dime store love poetry collections. Deconstructing Romance, she provides an amusing and sometimes poignant reference of emotive descriptions. Fascia, a short story collection, is a series of Southern vignettes, featuring characters from the silent-movie starlet to the high school prom queen. Terri Griffith’s writing has been featured in several anthologies, including Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class. Her debut novel describes the inner life of a credit union worker as her life slowly unravels.

ACM is hosting a salon!

Sunday, November 22nd.

Doors at 7 pm.
Performances will begin at 8 pm sharp.

The crowd will be capped at 65, so be certain to RSVP promptly.

$10 suggested donation. (but folks can donate as much beyond that as they want).

Location:

2608 W. Diversey
APT 202

RSVP required at: jacobsknabb at gmail dot com

Free booze and yummy cookies

Performances:

Damian Rogers - Poetry
Aaron Burch - Topless Fiction
Paul Genesius Durica - Overhead Projector
Erika Mikkalo - "I am Erika Mikkalo"

*Special Bonus performance by a shocking person of ill-repute*

IPod Set by: DJ S*A*S A*K*I

Adam Zagajewski @ The Renaissance Society

Poetry Reading: Adam Zagajewski
November 22, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 5811 South Ellis

The Renaissance Society presents a poetry reading by Adam Zagajewski, 2pm, Sunday, November 22, 2009

Poet, novelist, essayist Adam Zagajewski, (born 1945) is considered one of the “Generation of ’68” or “New Wave” writers in Poland. His early work was protest poetry, though he has moved away from that emphasis in his later work. The reviewer Joachim T. Baer noted in World Literature Today that Zagajewski’s themes “are the night, dreams, history and time, infinity and eternity, silence and death.” Writing of Zagajewski’s 1991 collection of poems, "Canvas," poet and reviewer Robert Pinsky commented that the poems are “about the presence of the past in ordinary life: history not as chronicle of the dead, or an anima to be illuminated by some doctrine, but as an immense, sometimes subtle force inhering in what people see and feel every day—and in the ways we see and feel.” “Nothing could take the reader in a direction more contrary to today’s cult of the excitements of self than to follow Zagajewski as he unspools his seductive praise of serenity, sympathy, forbearance; of ‘the calm and courage of an ordinary life,’” wrote Susan Sontag.

Zagajewski has won the Prix de la Liberté as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Berliner Kunstleprogramme. In 2004, he won the biennial Neustadt International Prize for Literature, often viewed as a precursor to the Nobel. He has taught at the University of Houston and the University of Chicago, among others. Zagajewski writes in Polish; many of his books of poetry and essays have been translated into English: "Tremor" (1985), "Mysticism for Beginners" (1997), and "World Without End: New and Selected Poems" (2002).

The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
5811 South Ellis Avenue, 4th floor
Chicago IL 60637
www.renaissancesociety.org