Red Rover Series, November 14th

7pm
Orientation Center
2129 N. Rockwell
corner of Milwaukee/Rockwell

left side of the Congress Theater building
http://orientationcenter.wordpress.com


Featuring:
Chris Cuellar
Judd Morrissey
Stephanie Strickland

CHRIS CUELLAR is a sound and text artist interested in experimental work that maneuvers the spaces between different media. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Writing from the Art Institute of Chicago. Past performances include two sound-poetry compositions for the Austin New Music Co-op in Spring of 2008, and participation in the inaugural events for the Abandoned Practices Summer Institute at SAIC in 2009. A self published collection of spam poetry is available at lulu.com, and a new public work for LED display entitled 'Pleas' is currently on exhibition at MVSEVM Gallery in Humboldt Park.

JUDD MORRISSEY is a writer and code artist whose works of electronic literature, performance, and installation are widely and internationally presented. His most recent work, The Last Performance [dot org] (2009), is a networked collaborative writing, archiving, and text-visualization project created in collaboration with Chicago's now-disbanded Goat Island Performance group. Past digital literary works include The Jew's Daughter (Electronic Literature Collection, 2006) and My Name is Captain, Captain (Eastgate Systems, 2002). His current project, The Precession, will include a poem of 26,000 fragments in 209 parts, visually mapped to coordinates of celestial bodies. Morrissey is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Writing, Art and Technology Studies, and Performance.

http://www.judisdaid.com

STEPHANIE STRICKLAND's fifth book of poems, Zone : Zero from Ahsahta Press, includes two interactive poems on CD. Her explorations of digital lit include two recent essays, “Born Digital,” at the Poetry Foundation website, and “Poetry and the Digital World,” in the special ELN issue on Experimental Literary Education. She and Judd Morrissey both presented digital work this past May in Barcelona at the e-Poetry 2009 International Festival. Recent print poems appear or are forthcoming in P-Queue, Volt, 1913, Zoland Poetry, Octopus, Sous Rature, and The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, 2009. She is working on a book-length series of poems, “Huracan's Harp.”

suggested donation $4

Red Rover Series is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.

Email ideas for reading experiments

to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

Big Table Workshops

The Poetry Center of Chicago
Big Table Workshops
Spring Sessions now open
Register Today!

Classes begin January!

The Poetry Center is pleased to announce the Spring, 2010 Big Table Workshop Series. Beginning in January, these 8-week intensive workshops meet for 1.5 hours each week and feature Introductory, Advanced, and Master classes. Enrollment for Spring sessions is now open.

As many of you know, The Center has hosted a members-only writing program called, The Big Table Poetry Group. This special program has been a tremendous success and we recognize the need to provide a high-quality, competitively valued program that can help people gain concrete writing skills in a non-academic setting.

Not everyone has the time or ability to attend an MFA program. We hope to fill the bridge for those who want to take their writing skills to the next level, working with highly qualified, exceptional poets, but who maybe aren't ready or can't afford a full-time writing program.

Formerly our 1-day Master's workshop series with visiting poets were $75 for members and $95 for non-members - today, we're launching an entire 8-week workshop program for $350* - the per workshop cost is now just $43.75, nearly half the price of our former 1-day Masters' workshops.

The Big Table Workshops are competitively priced!

The 92nd Y in New York offers a 9-week workshop for $400
The Virginia G Piper Center for Writing at Arizona State offers
8-week workshops for $400 to $500

In looking forward, we are thoughtful about our origins and place in today's Poetry world. We were founded through the outreach and impact of both a literary magazine and a small but dedicated reading series. Both efforts were about bringing poetry to a larger audience. We firmly believe that the delivery of high-quality poetry workshops achieves the same goal. We want to encourage new generations of poets and poets of all ages to continue and further their own education.

Please sign up today and tell a friend. Workshops are open to the public. We urge you to sign up early, in the past our workshops have sold out quickly.

NOTE: Members receive a 10% discount and donors at the $1,000-level are welcome to register for one workshop at no cost.

more details at http://www.poetrycenter.org


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This month at Woodland Pattern

Woodland Pattern Bookstore
720 East Locust
Milwaukee



Wednesday, November 11, 7pm
NEW PROSE SERIES

Timothy Yu is the author of the chapbook Journey to the West (Barrow Street) and the critical book Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (Stanford University Press). His poems and prose have appeared in SHAMPOO, Chicago Review, and Another Chicago Magazine. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American writing, Timothy Yu juxtaposes the works of experimental language poets and Asian American poets—concerned primarily with issues of social identity centered around discourses of race. Yu delves into the 1960s social upheaval to trace how Language and Asian American writing emerged as parallel poetics of the avant-garde, each with its own distinctive form, style, and political meaning.

From its provocative reevaluation of Allen Ginsberg to fresh readings of Ron Silliman, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and John Yau, along with its analysis of a new archive of Asian American writers from the 1970s, this book is indispensable for readers interested in race, Asian American studies, contemporary poetry, and the avant-garde.

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Saturday, November 14th, 7pm.

Eileen Myles is a poet (Sorry, Tree, Not Me etc.) who writes fiction (Cool for You, Chelsea Girls) and whose The Importance of Being Iceland/travel essays in art, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant will be out in July from Semiotext(e)/MIT. She ran St. Mark's Poetry Project in the 80s. She conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the US in 1992. She is a Professor Emeritus of Writing at UCSD. She writes for Parkett, The Believer, Vice, The Nation, The Stranger, AnOther Magazine and is blogging all summer on the Harriet site. The Inferno/a poet's novel will probably be out next year. She lives in New York.

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Bio-Poetics: Science, Language and Poetry
with Marie Larson
Sunday, November 15, 1-4pm
$30 / $25 members

In this workshop we'll investigate the many ways scientific enquiry serves as raw material for writing poems. Looking towards biology, astronomy, chemistry and quantum physics this workshop will explore how the strange beauty of scientific knowledge, theory and language can feed the content and lyric of our poems. We'll also explore how scientific ideas can lend a language for discussing poetic structure. How is a poem a living organism? How is it a black hole? A membrane? Through writing exercises and looking at work by writers working from science, we'll widen and shift our poetic vocabularies and perception of the phenomena around us.

Marie Larson holds an MFA in poetry from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in GAM, DIAGRAM, Shampoo, Bombay Gin, and Fact-Simile. She also has work forthcoming in the anthology Chicken Boa: Notes on Skrilla (Mitzvah Chaps). Larson's review of Lila Zemborain's mauve sea-orchids appeared in issue 37 of Jacket Magazine. Her current project, Blight, looks to press against the taxonomical membrane of what it means to be human.

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Friday Nov. 20 7pm
Redletter reading with Nick Demske, Michael Bernstein, Jill Wohlgemuth, with open mic.

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Sunday, November 22nd 2pm.
John Koethe's 95th Street Book Release Reading



Tonight poet John Koethe reads from his newest poetry collection, Ninety-fifth Street. Koethe received the Kingsley Tufts Award for Falling Water (1997), the Frank O’Hara Award for Domes (1973), and the Bernard F. Connors Award. His poetry has been included in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry. He has been granted fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also received a lifetime achievement award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers.

ETA Creative Arts presents Haki Madhubuti

Book release event for new collection of works by one of Chicago’s premier
poets and activists:

Haki Madhubuti

ETA Creative Arts Foundation is hosting renown poet and activist Haki R. Madhubuti for a poetry reading, discussion and signing of his latest release LIBERATION NARRATIVES: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS 1966-2009, the most complete collection of the poet’s work to date.

Emerging from a long tradition of social activism via the Black Arts Movement, Haki R. Madhubuti’s work helped define and sustain a movement that added music and brash street language to traditional poetics. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Dr. Madhubuti has been a pivotal figure in advocating a strong black literary tradition. Chronicling a tumultuous period in American history, his poetry provides an overview of emerging black culture as the work borrows language from black consciousness, hip-hop, political speeches, and motivational talks.

Thursday, November 19, at 6:00 p.m.

ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 7558 S. South Chicago Ave. Chicago http://www.etacreativearts.org/

Haki R. Madhubuti is one of the nation’s most well known African American poets and activists for art and education as powerful weapons in the struggle for social equality. The long anticipated LIBERATION NARRATIVES: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS 1966 2009 is expected to stand for at least a decade as the most comprehensive collection of Dr. Madhubuti’s poetry.

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE
a c o mm u n i t yr e a din g se r i e s

featuring:

Todd McCarty
+
a special night of
Poetry Grab Bag:
bring a poem to get in;
if your poem's pulled from the bag
it's your turn to read!


Monday, November 16th
7:00p.m.
Manhattan's Bar
415 South Dearborn
312.957.0460

Paces away from the Jackson/Library-State/Van Buren
BlueRedPurpleOrangePink&BrownLines

Tell yer friends.



ToD d mCcA rtY is an M.F.A candidate at Columbia College Chicago where he's currently pursuing a degree in Creative Writing—Poetry. He is also an assistant editor for the literary journal Court Green. While living in Boulder, Colorado, he worked as Graduate Academic Advisor for Naropa University’s Department of Writing and Poetics. He also worked for Naropa’s Audio Archive Project and as a producer and host for KGNU radio. His poetry has appeared in 580 Split, Bombay Gin and Columbia Poetry Review.

Visual Art Poetry Workshop @ Hyde Park Arts Center

We'll explore the galleries of the Hyde Park Art Center to write poems inspired by visual art and artists. Come prepared with notebook, pen or pencil, and a desire
to share your work in a collaborative, stimulating environment.

Led by award winning poet Valerie Wallace, MFA.

Sunday, Nov 8 4 pm - 5 pm
FREE
Space is limited -- call 773.324.5520 or stop by the Hyde Park Arts Center
at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue to register.

BAC Street Journal Release

BAC Street Journal
Sun., Nov. 8, 2-5 p.m.


The second issue of BAC Street Journal, the literary arts magazine published through the Beverly Arts Center, will be introduced as a special event that includes an open reading plus a sale of used books to raise funds for the magazine.


Beverly Arts Center
Beverly, 2417 W. 111th
773-445-3838