dancing girl press @ Quimby's

Friday, January 15th
1854 W. North Avenue
7pm.

dancing girl press poets Cindy St. John (People in Love Will Read this Book Differently) and Julie Strand (The Mae West Defense) will read from their work.


Cindy St. John lives in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Southern Review, Broadsidedpress.org and The Florida Review.









Julie Strand lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is the Education Coordinator at Woodland Pattern Book Center. Her poetry has appeared in Wicked Alice, Arsenic Lobster, WOMB Poetry, Rock Heals (A Narrow House Weekly) and others.





The dancing girl press chapbook series was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women poets and artists through chapbooks, journals, book arts projects, and anthologies. Spawned by the online zine wicked alice, dgp seeks to publish work that bridges the gaps between schools and poetic techniques–work that’s fresh, innovative, and exciting. The press has published over 50 titles by emerging women poets in delectable handmade editions.

For more info: http://www.dancinggirlpress.com

First Friday Series

Friday, Jan 8
7:00pm - 9:30pm

St.Paul's Cultural Center
2215 W North Avenue

Sid Yiddish
Billy Tuggle
Jenene Ravesloot
and Luis Valadez


Hosted by the Waiting 4 the Bus Collective!

2+ blocks west of the Damen Blue Line stop
Street parking available

Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices

Free Admission

Donation Requested


Warning:

The First Friday Show may, occasionally, be on the second Friday.

Arsenic Lobster

Winter Issue Now Online!!

Wednesday, January 20th
7 pm.

Richardson Library at DePaul University
2350 N. Kenmore

Mark Turcotte & Miles Harvey


Mark Turcotte’s first major reading since moving back to Chicago.

He will be reading with another visiting faculty member, Miles Harvey. Below are bios for Mark and Miles.

Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) is the author of four collections of poetry, including Exploding Chippewas, and is the recipient of Literary Fellowships from the State of Wisconsin, the National Book Foundation’s American Voices Project, and the Lannan Foundation. His poetry or fiction have appeared in POETRY, Ploughshares, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and many other journals. He recently joined the faculty at DePaul as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English.

Miles Harvey is the author of Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America, which received a 2008 Editors’ Choice award from Booklist and a best-books citation from The Chicago Tribune. His previous book, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, a national and international bestseller, was selected by USA Today as one of the top ten books of 2000. He recently joined the faculty at DePaul as an Assistant Professor of English.

It should be a great event.

Charles Bernstein at U of C

Renaissance Society
at the University of Chicago
Cobb Hall, 4th floor
5811 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago IL 60637
773-702-8670
www.renaissancesociety.org




The Renaissance Society presents Charles Bernstein
Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of Pennsylvania

Sunday, February 14, 2010, 2 pm



Highly esteemed poet, professor, and literary scholar Charles Bernstein will do a reading dedicated to his daughter Emma. The reading coincides with the release of All the Whiskey in Heaven, a “best of” Bernstein’s work from the past thirty years. Bernstein explores how language both limits and liberates thought, modulating the comic and the dark structural invention with buoyant soundplay. These challenging works give way to poems of lyric excess and striking emotional range. In addition, the reading will celebrate the recent release of Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, a collection of essays in which poets and critics, Bernstein among them, address the question of what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as 'secular', and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. Their responses reflect a rich sense of how being Jewish influences their aesthetics and practices, and how the tradition of the avant-garde informs their identities as Jews. The reading will be followed by a discussion and reception.





For more information, please contact:

Mia Ruyter

Director of Marketing, The Renaissance Society

mruyter@uchicago.edu
The Renaissance Society
Current exhibition:
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
through December 13, 2009

Please join our email list at
http://tinyurl.com/RSmailinglist

Myopic Poetry Series, January 2010

1564 N. Milwaukee Ave.
7pm.



Saturday, January 23 : Roger Bonaire-Agard & Kevin Coval


Sunday, January 24 : Nick Demske & Michael Bernstein


Saturday, January 30 : Christian Hawkey, Uljana Wolf, & Monika Rinck (IN CONJUNCTION WITH The Chicago Review)


Sunday, January 31 : Robert Fernandez & Anthony Madrid

12th Day: Kenning Editions

KENNING EDITIONS was founded in 1998 to publish KENNING: A NEWSLETTER OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY, POETICS, AND NONFICTION WRITING (ISSN 1526-3428). The newsletter sought to represent non-hierarchically three generations of writers working under radical modernist impulses; to challenge them to publish under the rubric of “progressive social discourse,” in exploration of Williams’ statement regarding finding (or not) “the news” in poems, “men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there”; and to transgress geographic and linguistic boundaries. In thirteen issues, the newsletter featured work by authors such as Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Jackson Mac Low, Nathaniel Mackey, K. Silem Mohammad, Sawako Nakayasu, Leslie Scalapino, Juliana Spahr, and Brian Kim Stefans. It also published symposia, chapbook editions, and more than one broadside insert.

In 2006, KENNING EDITIONS devoted itself exclusively to publishing high-quality trade paperback volumes of new and archival writing by authors whose work reflects the diversity and innovation for which the newsletter came to stand.


For more info: http://www.kenningeditions.com

1.12 the Cafe open mic & Feature

January 12, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 (plus donation for the feature)

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). January 12th has Vito (Vittorio Carli, host of Regina’s Place) as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule, you can always check out. http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

11th Day: Orange Alert Press

For more info: http://oapress.blogspot.com/

Broadsides for Poets

Broadsides for Poets
with Sarah Vogel
Wednesdays, January 6 – January 27
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
$180 + $25.00


If you’ve been yearning to transform your poetry into posters, we have the class for you! In Broadsides for Poets, you will create a two-color 11 x 17 inch broadside featuring a poem of your choosing (or writing) paired with images from the studio’s collection of old-fashioned cuts and linoleum blocks. In addition to exploring the basics of broadside layout, you will be setting metal & wood type, using photopolymer plates, mixing ink and printing on the studio’s Vandercook proof presses. No previous experience is necessary.




Evanston Print & Paper
1125 Florence
Evanston, Illinois 60202
http://www.evanstonprintandpaper.com/

847.475.7674

10th Day: Rose Metal Press

Rose Metal Press, Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit publisher of hybrid genres specializing in the publication of short short, flash, and micro-fiction; prose poetry; novels-in-verse or book-length linked narrative poems; and other literary works that move beyond the traditional genres of poetry, fiction, and essay to find new forms of expression.

In observing the literary community, we have seen that many writers are doing fruitful and exciting work in these hybrid genres, but they have limited opportunities to publish that work because few commercial publishers accept such submissions due to concerns with classification and marketability. Our mission is to focus on supporting these transgressive and unusual works, thereby helping to expand the field of publishing, as well as the range of opportunities open to authors.

Founded in January 2006 by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney, Rose Metal Press plans to put out three beautifully produced titles per year. We also sponsor readings and events to promote our books, hybrid genres, and the independent literary community.


for more info: http://www.rosemetalpress.com/

Sappho's Solstice Salon

Sat, 12/19/2009 - 7:30pm
$7-$10 sliding scale includes
food and wine.

Join us for our second annual Sappho's Solstice Salon for lesbians and their friends. This year we are delighted to present the outstanding spoken word and performance talents of C.C. Carter and the POW-WOW Finer Figure Performance Ensemble, who will be performing "A Sultry, Sexy Season," a provocative blend of dance and poetry garnished with a sprig of mistletoe. DJ SpinNikki will play an eclectic blend of multi-traditional and non-denominational holiday music before and after the performance. We'll be serving mulled wine and other seasonal goodies and collecting donations of cash; hats, socks, mittens, and children's underwear; towels, sheets, and blankets; toiletries such as unused/unopened soap, toothbrushes, shampoo, and feminine hygiene products to benefit Clara's House, a 22-year-old shelter for homeless and battered women in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood that has recently lost its funding and is struggling to stay open. One hundred percent of tonight's proceeds will benefit Clara's House.

Location:
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.
Chicago, Illinois 60640

9th Day: Switchback Books

The way to get where you need to go isn't always straight ahead.
Switchback Books is a nonprofit feminist press publishing poetry by women. Our definition of "women" is broad and includes transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and female-identified individuals. Founded in 2006 by a group of students at Columbia College Chicago, Switchback Books publishes two books a year, one of which is the winner of the Gatewood Prize for a first book of poetry by a woman. Switchback Books welcomes women writers who aren't afraid to look for answers in all directions.

For more information, visit: http://switchbackbooks.com/

Revolving Door Reading Series! Tonight!

Revolving Door Contniues with the poet, John-Franklin Dandridge and guitarist, Vo Era.

Join us for a night of music and poetry at Red Kiva, 1108 W. Randolph. We have two amazing features lined up for his month's reading. We hope you can come out for what promises to be a great night!

Open Mic @ 7:30
Features @ 8:00


John-Franklin Dandridge lives and writes in Chicago, Illinois. He received his M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia College Chicago. His poems have been published in several literary journals and online zines, the latest of which are the Smoking Poet, Spirit’s Journal and Fast Geek Reader.

Vo Era is a professional independent recording artist that hit Chicago's soul music scene in 2003 with a song in his heart and a guitar in his hand. His first performances were received by the wide and receptive audience known affectionately to him as "the subway commuters." With the love and support of his eclectic audience, Vo has since performed at such venues as The Wild Hare, The Cotton Club, Winestyles/South Loop, and many others. Vo Era's unique sound fuses poignantly simple lyrics with funky soulful guitar rhythms. Vo knows how to musically take a common phrase and paint the most colorful and extraordinary picture of life's most relatable occurrences making it easy to identify his acute skill and life experience within his music.

8th Day: Virtual Artists Collective

Virtual Artists Collective began as the idea of a composer (Clarice Assad) passionate about connecting audiences with music of quality. It grew in a collaboration between Clarice and a poet (Steven Schroeder) in which a poem turned into a song. We began to think about how we could make such miracles happen more often, and this led us to the idea of a virtual collective--virtual because we are widely separated geographically, though the internet makes it possible for us to be in touch at the speed of light. Why not use that, we thought, to facilitate the miraculous things that can happen when people connect around the arts we love? This takes us back to some of the things the internet did best in its earliest days, before it became a commercial venture--increasing access, exchanging ideas, bypassing the Market. And it reconnects us with the much older tradition of guilds through which artists and craftspersons provided mutual support and made themselves visible to communities that appreciated and supported art. We hope, too, that it revives and transforms a tradition of patronage that makes it possible for artists to devote attention to art. Patronage has been associated with wealth and, sometimes, elitism--as well as consumption. But we envision a patronage that is more widely distributed, in which small is beautiful, local connections are facilitated, and communities are cultivated through celebration and mutual support. And we do put our hope and our hearts in community. Twenty-first century technology that threatens communities can also be put to work weaving them together; we hope you'll join us and explore the site for other possibilities.


For more info: http://vacpoetry.org/index.html

Waiting 4 the Bus

Monday, Dec 21

7:30pm - 10:00pm

Jaks Tap (the back room)

901 W Jackson

Feature...Robert Lawrence/ Allan Stevo

Hosted by Buddah309 & a whole slew a jamokes

Green Zone Baby, Yeah
Donation requested for feature enhancement

7th Day: StepSister Press

StepSister Press, LLC is an independent publishing company founded by artist Annie Heckman in 2007 to promote discourse on emerging interdisciplinary art, literature, and critical theory projects. Based in Chicago, the press coordinates projects and collaborations with artists and writers around the world. It is committed to progressive inquiry through printed material and online projects. Each book contains the work of at least one contemporary artist.


For more info: http://stepsisterpress.com/

New Monthly 3rd Friday Show

Friday Dec 18th
7:00-9:30

Regina’s Place
3608 W. Wrightwood

Vito Carli presents...
Don Byrum (spoken word/music)
Bridget Clymore (stand up comedy)
Ned Haggard (poetry)
Sid Yiddish (spoken word/throat singing)

Bring your fave Christman and Hanukah poems if you’d like.

This is the 1st of a new monthly 3rd Friday show!

6th Day: Cracked Slab Books

Cracked Slab Books was started to provide an outlet to experimental poetry and poetics in its various forms. With the aim of publishing two works per year, Cracked Slab Books is dedicated to promoting the best new American poets and to introducing English-speaking audiences to interesting international poetry.

For more info and to order:
http://crackedslabbooks.com/crackednew.html

Future Perfect Poetry + New Media Series

Thursday, Jan 7th
7:30 PM
Katerina's
Street of Dreams

http://www.katerinas.com
1920 W. Irving Park Rd.
773-348-7592

Future Perfect Poetry + New Media Series
presents poets
Miriam Ben-Yoseph
Deborah Nodler Rosen
Dina Elenbogen
Lisa Comforty
Helen Degen Cohen

reading from

Where We Find Ourselves: Jewish Women Around the World Write About Home

Richard Fammerée with Saint Cloud

featuring poet-singer Carrie Ingrisano (bass, piano) w/ Christopher Greene (violin, electronica), Meg Thomas (exotic percussion) and Meg Lauterbach (cello, piano) will share new songs/poem-songs/contemporary (fusion/infusion lit rock) art songs

Future Perfect Poetry + New Media Series will be recorded live for

Chicago Public Radio/Chicago Amplified & UniVerse of Poetry

Open to the public, $7 at the door.


Please share this invitation.

Richard Fammerée
http://fammeree.com/

Saint Cloud
http://www.saintcloud.co.uk/

5th Day : Projective Industries

Visit here for info, ordering, and submissions guidelines:
http://projectiveindustries.com/

Bookslut Series

Wednesday, Dec 16
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Hopleaf, Second Floor

5148 N. Clark Street

Join Daniel Nester as he reads from HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE, his debut collection of humorous nonfiction that glorifies all things inappropriate and TMI, and


Kathleen Rooney as she reads from FOR YOU, FOR YOU I AM TRILLING THESE SONGS, an essay collection forthcoming in January 2010--sneak preview!

4th Day: Black Ocean

From early silent films to early punk rock, Black Ocean brings together a spectrum of influences and combines them with a radical social perspective on the nature of art and humanity. We manifest our aesthetic in the books we print, the shows we produce, and the work we promote.

Based out of Boston, New York and Chicago, our intent is to saturate the public with skillful and passionate forms of expression through a wide variety of mediums.

In conjunction with our book releases, we stage parties, concerts, exhibitions and other celebrations around the country. We are committed to promoting artists we firmly believe in, and sharing our enthusiasm for their work with a global audience.

For information and to order, visit: http://www.blackocean.org.

3rd Day: Mayapple Press

Mayapple Press is a small press established in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. We specialize in contemporary literature, especially poetry and works that straddle conventional categories: Great Lakes, women, Caribbean, translations, science fiction poetry, recent immigrant experience, Judaica. Publications are in both chapbook and trade paperback formats.

For more info and to order, visit: http://www.mayapplepress.com/

Molly Malones

Monday, December 14th


7 pm -- open mic sign-up
7:30 -- open mic
9:00 --featured reader
7652 Madison Street, Forest Park
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't

Ralph Hamilton is an editor of RHINO and has an MFA in poetry from Bennington. In Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the Misfit says, “She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life”—and Ralph looks for the same quality in poems: something to slice the world open, to reawaken perception, make it stranger, less certain, make living in this moment keener, more desperate, more delicate, its bruised beauty more manifest. Ralph’s recent publications include A Writer’s Congress: Chicago Poets on the Inauguration of Barak Obama, Talisman: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and the upcoming Court Green.

2nd Day: Swan Isle Press

The Mission of Swan Isle Press:

Swan Isle Press is an independent, not-for-profit, literary publisher dedicated to publishing works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction that inspire and educate while advancing the knowledge and appreciation of literature, art, and culture.

Since its inception in 1999, a special interest of the Press is publishing books related to Spanish and Latin American literature, art, and culture. When possible and editorially appropriate, the Press issues these works in bilingual editions, in the original Spanish with English translations. The imprints for literature with Spanish language or Hispanic cultural content are La Isla del Cisne Ediciones (and El Cisne Negro Ediciones).

The Press' bilingual editions and single-language English translations make contemporary and classic texts more accessible to a variety of readers. Our bilingual editions recognize the still largely unmet publication needs of the important and growing Spanish-speaking population within the United States.

Learn more and order titles at : http://www.swanislepress.com/intro.html

Orange Alert Series

Dec 20th @ 6:00pm
The Whistler
Logan Square 2421 N. Milwaukee


Jeff Phillips
Golda Goldboom
Jamie Calder
Tim Jones-Yelvington

Sunday at WomanMade Gallery

Family Album
WomanMade Gallery
685 N Milwaukee Ave

Sunday, December 13, 2009 / 2-4 p.m

Co-Curator: Toni-Asanti Lightfoot (with readers from Young Chicago Authors) and Shelly Nation-Watson, co-host of Loyola Radio's poetry show, Wordslingers. Other readers include Alice George, Carol Kanter, Gregg Shapiro, and Donna Vorreyer.

1st Day: Cinematheque Press

2009 releases by Philip Jenks & Simone Muench, Adam Clay, Joshua Marie Wilkinson,Ada Limon & more...


Cinematheque is an independent literary imprint in Chicago devoted to the spaces where text, art, & film converge. New & forthcoming projects include limited-edition hardcover books, chapbooks, vinyl records & EPs, essays about film, comics, & other textual & visual ephemera.

Visit: http://www.cinemathequepress.com/index.html to order.

12 Days of Chicago Presses

Since regular poetry reading listings are dwindling somewhat for December as we get closer to the weeks around the holidays, I thought we might do a little something else here on the blog for the next couple of weeks and spotlight some of the amazing presses that the Chicago area has to offer and their titles, all of which are highly giftable for your favorite poetry fan (or even better, YOU!) Starting on the 8th and leading up til the day before Christmas Eve, we will spotlight one Chicago area independent press each week day for your your perusal and enjoyment.

-Kristy

ROCKBOX POETRY JAM

ROCKBOX POETRY JAM
Poetry's Once Monthly Late Night Home


Featured Readers include: John-Franklin Dandridge, Matt Anderson, and a mystery third!

Open Mic to follow

Monday, December 7th, 2009
2624 N Lincoln Avenue
9:30 PM - 4 AM
$3 Drafts, $4 Jameson shots



The Rockbox Poetry Jam is the brainchild of Subterranean's Narciso Lobo and Columbia College's Joe Bly. This reading series and open mic were designed to incorporate the poetry of past and present in an informal conversational setting. We ask our features and open mic poets to indulge us in their own work along with the works that give them inspiration. This "return to sender" style of reading keeps us grounded in the resounding enjoyment of all poetry and enlightens us with the forthcoming work of our peers. Please join us for drinks, music, and convivial discussion!



Love,
Joe and The Rockbox

Poetry Center Holiday Sale!

NOW until Thursday, 5:00pm, Dec 31

Like many non-profit organizations the Poetry Center of Chicago is trying to weather these difficult economic times. One of the ways we raise funds is through our online store. If you love poetry and support the work we do you can help by visiting our store and giving the gift of poetry this holiday season.

20% off Poetry Center Broadsides, Books, CDs, T-shirts, and Hats
Now through December 31st, 2009

Just enter coupon XMAS09 at checkout

Visit the store at: http://www.poetrycenter.org/store

Treat the poetry lover in your life to one of our beautifully crafted, limited edition, poetry broadsides or choose from any of our quality products. The Poetry Center store carries a variety of goods, including superbly mastered digital CD recordings of compiled and individual Poetry Center readings, past and current editions of the Hands on Stanzas anthology, and unique poetry t-shirts and caps. Visit our gallery to browse our collection of broadsides and for a complete catalog of all our products.

Make a Gift of Poetry Today!

This Weekend at Myopic Books

THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays (and occasional Saturdays) at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor
http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html
773.862.4882

Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.
E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com



SATURDAY, December 5 – Lina ramona Vitkauskas & Kristina Marie Darling

Lina ramona VITKAUSKAS is the author of Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press), Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press), and THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press). She is the 2009 recipient of The Poetry Center of Chicago’s 15th Annual Juried Reading award, judged by Brenda Hillman. Her short fiction was also recently featured on Chicago Public Radio’s Vocolo.org. Her work has appeared in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007), The Prague Literary Review, Van Gogh's Ear, The Chicago Review, Aufgabe, Drunken Boat, MiPoesias, Paper Tiger, and elsewhere.

Kristina Marie DARLING is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Night Music (BlazeVox Books, 2008) and Strange Machine (Gold Wake Press, 2009). A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing appears or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Colorado Review, Shenandoah, New Letters, and other periodicals. Awards include residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Prairie Center of the Arts, as well as a scholarship to attend the Squaw Valley Community of Writers' annual poetry conference.





Sunday, December 6 – Jacob S. Knabb, Luis Valadez & Charlie Newman


Jacob S. KNABB’s double-life as Fiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine and lecturer of composition at UIC has led him to cast his demons into a herd of swine he saw by a ravine. He is still waiting to hear them hit bottom and if they ever do he will blog about it at jacobsknabb.tumblr.com.

Luis VALADEZ is from Chicago Heights, Illinois. He's written plays and writes poetry and has written a book called "what i'm on" from the University of Arizona Press and has released a CD called "wat ahm on (ep)" on Cerda/Last Minute Records. He received an MFA in Poetry from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He loves reading here and he's glad to see you.

Charlie NEWMAN has had 4 books and a chapbook published and 3 CDs released. His poetry has appeared in: honeydu, After Hours, Ink & Ashes, milk, Poetry Bay, Locuspoint, exsanguinate, and Saw, among others. He has performed at venues in Chicago, NYC and London, in such events as Insomniacathons, the Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Jam, the Big Sur 40th Anniversary Read, the London International Poetry & Song Festival, the New York Underground Music & Poetry Festival, the U.N. Dialogue Through Poetry, Around The Coyote, WLUW David Amram 75th Birthday Celebration, and many ChicagoPoetry.com events including several Chicago Poetry Fests, Poets Against The War, the 22nd Annual Chicago Blues Festival, and the 21st Annual Printers Row Book Fair. He hosts The Café Tuesday night open mic.




Stay tuned for more, as yet unannounced, readings that are in the works. All best wishes,

—Larry




http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html


Myopic Books — 18 years of innovative poetry in Chicago



(THANK YOU for all of your support in 2009. Here’s wishing you the best for 2010!)

Danny's Reading Series

Danny's Reading Series
Wed., Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Danny's Tavern
1951 W. Dickens


Born and raised in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated in 1970 from Yale University, where he studied with New York poets Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco and spent time with other young writers such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten—a group who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets. Bernheimer also wrote and performed for Poets Theater and produced and hosted In the American Tree, a radio program of new writing by poets on KPFA. This collection includes recent work; brief selections from his first two books; the entirety of Billionesque (The Figures, 1999); and the play Particle Arms, which was produced by the San Francisco Poets Theater in the early '80s.


Karyna McGlynn grew up in Austin, TX. She studied at Seattle University and received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Zell Postgraduate Fellowship in Poetry and a Hopwood Award. Her first book, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, won the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. Karyna’s recent chapbooks include Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007) and Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008). Her poems have appeared in Fence, Gulf Coast, Willow Springs, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse Daily, Octopus, CutBank, and Ninth Letter.

Elbowing off the Stage

Monday, Dec 14
7:00 pm
Monday, December 14, 7:00 p.m.

Manhattan's
415 S. Dearborn St.
312-957-0460

Elbowing Off the Stage community reading series presents poets

Brandi Homan (Switchback Books)
Liz Hildreth (Switchback Books)
Sarah Carson (RHINO magazine)

for a night of purty poiesis.

Come have a drink and hear some poems.

The Encyclopedia Show

Wednesday Dec 2nd
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Chopin Theatre
1543 W Division

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW PRESENTS!

SERIES 2, VOLUME 4: HOCKEY

Chicago Slam Works brings to you The Encyclopedia Show – Hockey, at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division, on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:30 pm. Tickets $6 at the door. All ages. www.encyclopediashow.com

With music, poetry, visual art and spoken word on the topic: Hockey. Featuring (Contributor – Topic):

Javon Johnson (National Poetry Slam Champion) – Black Hockey Player

Mary Hamilton (Quickies) – Billy Coutu

Death From Below (Tim Stafford and Dan Sullivan, HBO Def Poets) – The Philadelphia Quakers

Aris Theotokatos (Louder Than A Bomb Teen Slam Champion) – Chicago Blackhawks’ Cup Draught

Ian Chillag (writer for NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) and Justin White (Visual Artist) – Lord Frederick Stanley

Music by Shanny Jean Maney (Encyclopedia Show Host) – 1980 US/USSR Olympic Semifinal

Art by Claire Niederberger (Young Chicago Authors' Saturday Writing Program Student) – The Original 6 NHL Teams.

Featuring Hosts

Robbie Q Telfer (Author of Spiking the Sucker Punch)

Shanny Jean Maney (Author of Our Brave Faces Were Just Smiles)

with cast regulars:

Kurt Heintz (E-Poets.net) – Fact Checker;

Aaron Enskat (Former Normal Slammaster) – The Fact Checker's Fact Checker;

Tim Stafford (HBO Def Poet);

Joel Chmara (HBO Def Poet);

Mike Slefinger (Actor);

Evan Chung (Musician) - House Band Leader "The Encartagans";

Emily Rose (Poetry Vet and House Manager) - as Jilted Emily Rose.

Tuesday Funk tonight at Hopleaf

Tonight, Tuesday December 1st at Hopleaf we have two fabulous poets in the mix for our December edition of Tuesday Funk. They are both very different and equally amazing. They are Nicolas Michael Ravnikar and Jennifer Scappettone. Their bios are below.

Reading starts at 7pm, upstairs opens at 6:30pm. (The cash-only bar upstairs will be open throughout the reading.)

Hopleaf is located at 5148 N. Clark Street in Andersonville at the southwest corner of Clark and Foster. Hope to see you tonight!

The Tuesday Funk Organizers

(P.S. If you are interested in reading at our future events please shoot me an email at halliepalladino [at] gmail.com with a short bio and a poem or two. Currently we book two to three months in advance and our readings are always on the first Tuesday.)


December Poets Bios:
NICHOLAS MICHAEL RAVNIKAR (BA, University of Wisconsin; MFA, Naropa University) lives in Racine, WI, where he edits the irregularly published webzine, The Bathroom and is organizing with Nick Demske the first annual Racquetball Chapbook Tournament. His writing has appeared in most recently in Otoliths and Boo: A Journal of Terrific Things and is forthcoming in BlazeVOX and unarmed. His first feature-length documentary, Quilts on Barns: The Beauty of Rural Art, wrapped post-production in August 2009 and will be available for free viewing online soon. He's currently working on a documentary titled SMALL PRESS, MIDWEST. Midwest-affiliated writers, publishers, readers and scholars interested in letting him interview them for that project can send an email to nicholasmichaelravnikar@gmail.com. He has facilitated workshops in poetry, video, installation art and journalism in a variety of settings, most recently in conjunction with the Racine Arts Council and Woodland Pattern.

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE, a translator, poet, and purveyor of visual stills and prose, is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009), and of several chapbooks. She is now at work on Exit 43 — an archaeology of the landfill and opera of pop-ups—for the cross-genre publishing project Atelos Press. Excerpts of that book appear in Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse featuring pop-ups and prose by Scappettone, a lyric sequence by Etel Adnan, and an essay by Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009); pop-up scores are now being adapted for performance in collaboration with choreographer Kathy Westwater as LAND. She was guest editor of the feature section of Aufgabe 7, devoted to contemporary Italian experimental poetry, and is at work on a range of translations from Italian, with a focus on the "Babeling deeply felt" of the postwar polyglot author Amelia Rosselli. A selection of Neosuprematist Webtexts, filmed stills, was installed at Infusoria, an exhibit of visual poetry curated by Helen White for the Festival Le Off in Brussels and Het Zilverhof in Ghent in 2009. A range of readings, a talk on poetry and landscape, and a podcast dialogue with Al Filreis are available for download at her PennSound author page. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

Daniel Nester at the Book Cellar

Thursday, December 17, 2009
7:00 PM
4836 N Lincoln



Daniel Nester Reads From How To Be Inappropriate

Dry, offbeat, outrageous and yes, inappropriate, Daniel Nester reads and discusses How to Be Inappropriate, his debut collection of humorous nonfiction that glorifies all things inappropriate and “TMI”, a chronicle of being a twenty-something-becoming-a-thirty-something cutting a swathe through a city inclined to completely ignore his existence the only way he knows how: through impropriety.

Chicago State University

presents

Staceyann Chin
Tue., Dec. 1, 7 p.m.


Poet-activist Chin (The Other Side of Paradise) performs for a World AIDS Day program.

CSU Library Sun Room.
9501 South Martin Luther Kind Drive
Chicago State University

Katerina's

Thursday, Dec 3
7:30 PM
Katerina's

Street of Dreams
http://www.katerinas.com

1920 W. Irving Park Rd.
773-348-7592

Future Perfect Poetry + New Media Series
presents poets

Quraysh Ali Lansana
Judith Valente
Richard Fammerée with Saint Cloud

featuring poet-singer Carrie Ingrisano (bass, piano) w/ Christopher Greene (violin, electronica), Meg Thomas (exotic percussion) and Meg Lauterbach (cello, piano) will share new songs/poem-songs/contemporary (fusion/infusion lit rock) art songs

Future Perfect Poetry + New Media Series
will be recorded live for
Chicago Public Radio/Chicago Amplified & UniVerse of Poetry
Open to the public, $7 at the door.

Please share this invitation.

Richard Fammerée
http://fammeree.com/

Saint Cloud
http://www.saintcloud.co.uk/

Wordslinger Wingding !

Friday, December 4th
7:30pm - 9:30pm
St.Paul's Cultural Center
2215 W North Avenue

W4tB presents the Wordslinger Wingding!
Greg Shapiro
Susen James
Regina Harris- Baiocch
Dean Hacker and Rick Fazio

Hosted by the Waiting 4 the Bus Collective!
2+ blocks west of the Damen Blue Line stop
Street parking available

Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices
Free Admission

Donation Requested

Outrider Press @ The Book Cellar

Friday, Dec 4
7pm
The Book Cellar
4736 N. Lincoln Ave
(773-293-2665).


TallGrass Writers Guild members present a free themed reading,

"Holiday Cookin'-- Turkey, Gravy, Potatoes, and Pie."

Original work on the treats we love -- yum! -- and hate when we step on the scale. Memories of kitchens past, present and imagined encompass the traditional and unconventional

For details: 219-322-7270 or email outriderpress@sbcglobal.net.

Monday Night at Weeds

Monday, Nov 30
9 pm sign up
10 pm first contestant

WEEDS
1555 n. dayton

"Best Off The Wall Poem" poetry contest #5
possible definitions to "off the wall" ;

1) not main stream
2) totally unusual
3) something you'd rather not do in other venues
4) something you'd say "holy shit i can't believe he/she said that"
5) in other words something that is not safe...
6) bizarre

$50.00 prize money
host: gregorio gomez
barkeep: sergio mayora

* so come on by sit right down and sign up between 9 and 10pm...first poet will be on the mike by 10pm; come hell or high water...last poet by 10:45...(which means there's a limited number of slots) and the judges will retire and unanomisly choose a winning poem...

* open mike will continue soon after the last poet contestant reads...

* when the judges makes their determination of a winner...i will announce it and present the "prize money"...

* looking forward to seeing you at weeds.

the ghost who walks

www.geocities.com/weedspoetry

Series A

Series A
Weds. December 2nd
7 p.m.
Hyde Park Art Center.
5020 S. Cornell Avenue


Miekal And and Maria Damon

moriapoetry.com/seriesa.html

Series A is a reading series dedicated to experimental writing.

The Death of Print

The Death of Print
curated by Mairead Case

wednesday, december 2, 2009
black rock bar
3614 n. damen
chicago, il
8:00 pm



"Death

is strictly
scientific
& artificial &

evil & legal)"
- ee cummings

Print is dying - everyone from Clay Shirky to Nelson says so. Blackberries are near-necessary for the board room. Comics are cut from weeklies and newspaper dispensers sit empty, hungry, alone. Moms ask what Twittering is. But luckily, nobody's totally choked yet - there's still time for plotting revolution. This is the part where the phoenix lies in ash and so before he rises, all firey and awesome-like, we're giving him a funeral. A wake.

This Rec Room will feature writers covering other writers (possibly including their younger selves), writers reading favorite books or fanzines or liner notes or old letters or family recipes. Silly valentines, angsty valentines. Uncensored classics. Fairy tales and top tens. There will be a priest. There will be ceremony. Please wear black.

Readers/performers include Megan Milks, Gretchen Kalwinski, Della Watson & Erin Teegarden, Salem Collo-Julin, Ling Ma, Nell Taylor, Miki Howald, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Claire Zulkey & Meghan Haynes, Jacob Knabb & Fred Sasaki, Don Share, James Kennedy, P. Genesius Durica, Samuel A. Love, Marc Fisher, Bert Stabler, Jerry Boyle, Marc Fisher, and Aay Preson-Myint.

Two With Water

Help us celebrate the release of our premiere print issue.



Two With Water [First Dose] Release Party
@ the Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
Tues. December 8th. 7:30 pm.



Performances by:

Rainbo Video, mixed media, The Right Now, soul/funk, Dead Superheroes Orchestra, rock-opera, & ten-speed, garage rock



Denise Dooley, Bobby Evers, & Nick Sarno read from their work.


Tickets $6 in advance, $8 at the door

Available at www.emptybottle.com.



**The inaugural issue features local writers including Kristiana Colón, Denise Dooley, Thax Douglas, Robert Daniel Evers, Rebecca O’Neal, Nick Sarno and additional writing by Benjamin Harmon, R. B. Morgan, Emily Nemens, Robb Todd, and Weslea Sidon. Featured artists from the Chicago area include Nicole Brewer, Bob Dlotkowski, Lillian Martinez, Franco Muscarella, Margaret Page, and Anya Shilko, as well as visual work by Calamity Cole, Bruce Gerlach, Katherine Montalto and Rachel Ourada.


For more information visit www.twowithwater.com.

Tuesday Funk

Please join us on Tuesday, December 1st for the final Tuesday Funk of 2009.
Hopleaf Bar at 5148 N. Clark Street
Reading starts 7:00 PM.
Upstairs room opens 6:30 PM.
Come early to get a good seat.
Cash only at the bar upstairs.



JOTHAM BURRELLO is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago where he directs the publishing lab, a resource for emerging writers. His writing has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Drunken Boat, Oyez Review, Pennsylvania English, the Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. He recently completed his novel, Fall River. He’s a former editor of the journal Sport Literate. His multimedia company, Elephant Rock Productions published the anthology All Hands On, The 2nd Hand Reader, and produced instructional DVDs for writers featuring Janet Burroway, Robert Olen Butler, Joe Meno, Rosellen Brown and others. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two little boys.

A North Side native, NICK KRYCZKA is a schoolteacher in the Chicago Public Schools and a graduate student in History at Northeastern Illinois University. Aside from the obligatory writing of lecture notes for his eager high school pupils and the drafting of thesis papers on obscure moments in nineteenth century American history, Nick has hunched over countless keyboards in third world internet cafes to cobble together accounts of his summertime treks through the remote corners of four continents.

NICHOLAS MICHAEL RAVNIKAR (BA, University of Wisconsin; MFA, Naropa University) lives in Racine, WI,Jo B where he edits the irregularly published webzine, The Bathroom and is organizing with Nick Demske the first annual Racquetball Chapbook Tournament. His writing has appeared in most recently in Otoliths and Boo: A Journal of Terrific Things and is forthcoming in BlazeVOX and unarmed. His first feature-length documentary, Quilts on Barns: The Beauty of Rural Art, wrapped post-production in August 2009 and will be available for free viewing online soon. He's currently working on a documentary titled SMALL PRESS, MIDWEST. Midwest-affiliated writers, publishers, readers and scholars interested in letting him interview them for that project can send an email to nicholasmichaelravnikar@gmail.com. He has facilitated workshops in poetry, video, installation art and journalism in a variety of settings, most recently in conjunction with the Racine Arts Council and Woodland Pattern.

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE, a translator, poet, and purveyor of visual stills and prose, is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009), and of several chapbooks. She is now at work on Exit 43 — an archaeology of the landfill and opera of pop-ups—for the cross-genre publishing project Atelos Press. Excerpts of that book appear in Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse featuring pop-ups and prose by Scappettone, a lyric sequence by Etel Adnan, and an essay by Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009); pop-up scores are now being adapted for performance in collaboration with choreographer Kathy Westwater as LAND. She was guest editor of the feature section of Aufgabe 7, devoted to contemporary Italian experimental poetry, and is at work on a range of translations from Italian, with a focus on the "Babeling deeply felt" of the postwar polyglot author Amelia Rosselli. A selection of Neosuprematist Webtexts, filmed stills, was installed at Infusoria, an exhibit of visual poetry curated by Helen White for the Festival Le Off in Brussels and Het Zilverhof in Ghent in 2009. A range of readings, a talk on poetry and landscape, and a podcast dialogue with Al Filreis are available for download at her PennSound author page. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

Poetry Off the Shelf: Reginald Gibbons

Poetry Off the Shelf: Reginald Gibbons
Oidipous Tyrannos: Oedipus the King

Thursday, December 3rd
National Hellenic Museum
801 West Adams Street, 4th Floor
Free admission


Incidental music provided by Fulcrum Point New Music Project led by Stephen Burns.

Reginald Gibbons retells the story of Oedipus, reading the five odes from Oedipus the King, which capture the apprehension, fear, beliefs, and hope of the townspeople of Thebes as the story of Oedipus unfolds in their midst. Filled with sparkling language, intense and surprisingly modern feeling, and myth, the five odes are among the most beautiful poems of antiquity.

Reginald Gibbons’s most recent book of poems is Creatures of a Day (2008), a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. His new translations of Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments (2008), won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser translation award from the Texas Institute of Letters. With the late Charles Segal, Gibbons translated two Greek tragedies, Bakkhai and Antigone (2001 and 2003). His new book, Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories, will be published in 2010. His novel Sweetbitter (2003) won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He teaches at Northwestern University.

Co-sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and the National Hellenic Museum.

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

Danny's Reading Series

Danny's Reading Series
Wed., Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m.


Poets Kiki Petrosino (Fort Red Border) and Judith Goldman (DeathStar Rico-chet) are the featured readers. 21+.

Danny's Tavern (map)
1951 W. Dickens
Wicker Park/Bucktown

Open Books Grand Opening
Sat., Nov. 21, 10 a.m. and Sun., Nov. 22, 10 a.m.
10 am - 7 pm.
Open Books
213 W Institute Pl


Open Books is thrilled to announce the grand opening of their flagship bookstore location! Join us for two days of author events, story time, puppet shows, tours, promotions and much more. All sales of book purchases go to fund literacy programs for adults and children in Chicago, which take place in our new classrooms above the bookstore. Come experience the joy of reading and writing like you never have before and give back to the community at the same time, all at Open Books. For more information about Open Books and a full schedule of events, visit, www.open-books.org ...



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15th Annual Juried Reading & Award Ceremony

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 6:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue



Poets from all over the Midwest have been selected as finalists for the Poetry Center of Chicago's 15th Annual Juried Reading Competition, judged by award-winning poet Brenda Hillman. Winners will receive awards and read from their work at this annual celebratory event.

This year's winners are:

1st place: Lina ramona Vitkauskas
2nd place: Carrie Oeding
3rd place: Richard Fox


Runners up:

Stephanie Anderson
Patrick Culliton
Ellen Elder
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Megan Levad
Stephanie Sauer

Monkeybicycle

A Monkeybicycle / Knee-Jerk Reading Event

When: Sat., Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Phone: 773-293-2665
www.monkeybicycle.net/event.html

Monkeybicycle and Chicago's newest online literary journal Knee-Jerk Magazine team up for an exciting night of reading and humor, featuring some of Chicago's finest up and coming writers: Billy Lombardo, Aaron Burch, Amy Guth, Jac Jemc, Simon A. Smith, Angi Becker Stevens and the Book Cellar's own Brandon Will. Come meet the readers, and see why everyone should support local artists and publishers.

Start time: Saturday, November 21, 2009 At 07:30 PM
Book Cellar
Ravenswood 4736 N. Lincoln

Rhino Poetry Workshop

Evanston Public Library
Church & Orrington

November 22nd, Sunday
1:30-4:30 -- Room 108

FOURTH SUNDAYS
RHINO POETRY WORKSHOPS
and peer exchange
sponsored by RHINO/the Poetry Forum

COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!

Past leaders and readers and all poets welcome. Drop in, have poems critiqued, and participate in an ongoing discussion of poetry and poetics. Sessions are free* and no registration is required.

Leader: Martha Vertreace


A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody is Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Kennedy-King College, Chicago, IL. She received her MFA at Vermont College. Her several books include Second House from the Corner, Under a Cat’s-Eye Moon, Oracle Bones, Cinnabar, Smokeless Flame, Kelly in the Mirror, Maafa: When Night Becomes a Lion, Dragon Lady:Tsukimi., and Glacier Fire. Light Caught Bending and Second Mourning, published by Diehard Publishers, Edinburgh, won Scottish Arts Council Grants. Named the Glendora Review Poet, Lagos, Nigeria, she was twice a Fellow at the Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat in Scotland. Eastern Washington University chose her as Poetry Fellow, in residence at the Writers Center, Dublin, Ireland. She was a Fellow at St. Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, Wales, on a bursary. She has poems in Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Poets of the New Century (David R. Godine Publisher, 2001). Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein published her poem, “Walking Under Night Sky” in his cassette “Bread & Steel: Illinois Poets Reading from Their Works.” She lives in Chicago with her husband, Tim, and their cats, Fred and Patrick Samuel.

Martha’s topic: Poetry and History: Living Someone Else’s Life

Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of work you want critiqued.

*$5 donation appreciated

This project has been partially supported by a grant from Poets & Writers.

For more info: RHINOPOETRY.ORG

Orange Alert Reading Series

When: Sun., Nov. 15, 6 p.m.


Orange Alert Press hosts Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Laura Pearson, Patrick Somerville (The Cradle), and Kyle Beachy (The Slide); Knee-Jerk magazine cohosts.

The Whistler
Logan Square 2421 N. Milwaukee

This Sunday on Wordslingers

8:00 PM
WLUW
88.7-FM
online at http://www.wluw.org.




Once again, I have the fine privilege of serving as your guest host on Wordslingers, Chicagoland’s longest-running poetry radio program on the air. Join me and Wordslingers producer Shelley Nation-Watson as we explore fresh language arts, where the words we live are not for the meek.

On this Sunday, at 8:00 PM, we’re featuring two new voices for Wordslingers

Live performances by John Paul Davis and slam champion Roger Bonair-Agard, both recently “settled” in Chicago with the Vox Ferus writers group.

Hear all the Wordslingers shows on WLUW, community radio from Loyola University, 88.7-FM or (when streaming services are available) listen online at http://www.wluw.org. Programs go to air totally live on the first and third Sundays of the month, at 8:00 PM, Central time.

hoping to “see” you on the radio!

Kurt Heintz
e-poets network, Chicago
http://www.e-poets.net
http://voices.e-poets.net

Poem Present : Mary Ruefle

Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:30 – 6:30pm
University of Chicago, Social Sciences Tea Room
1126 E 59th Street, #201

Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle is the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006), an art book of "erasures", a variation on found poetry; Tristimania (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2003), Among the Musk Ox People (2002); Apparition Hill (2001); Cold Pluto (2001); Post Meridian (2000); Cold Pluto (1996); The Adamant (1989), winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize; Life Without Speaking (1987); and Memling's Veil (1982).

About Ruefle's poems, the poet Tony Hoagland has said, "Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result (for those with ears to hear) is a poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely to encounter."

She is the recipient of both National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships as well as both an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award. She lives in Vermont, where she is a professor at Vermont College's MFA program.

Rhino Reads!

November 20, 2009
FRIDAY


Susan Slaviero & Kathleen Kirk

Open Mike 6:00 - 6:30
Featured Poets 6:45 - 7:30

Brothers K
500 Main St.
Evanston, IL

Featuring:

Susan Slaviero is the author of two poetry chapbooks: An Introduction to the Archetypes (Shadowbox Press, 2008) and Apocrypha (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Flyway, RHINO, Fourteen Hills, Arsenic Lobster, Caffeine Destiny and other journals. She designs and edits the online literary journal blossombones.






Kathleen Kirk will be reading from Broken Sonnets, her new chapbook (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Finishing Line will also publish Living on the Earth in 2010, an honorable mention winner in their New Women's Voices series. Her work has also been published in The Common Review, After Hours, Another Chicago Magazine, Ekphrasis, Greensboro Review, Many Mountains Moving, Ninth Letter, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Kathleen is a former editor of RHINO and former associate editor of Poetry East.

To order the new RHINO 2009, use PayPal, via our website:
www.rhinopoetry.org