Wednesday, January 28, 2009

FINAL WEEK: Chicago Festival


WHEN DOES IT OR YOU BEGIN?
(MEMORY AS INNOVATION)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin
at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL

FINAL WEEK
Memory’s Place: Alternative Sites and Histories
featuring documentary, sound work, performance art, and stories

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 at 8pm
Tisa Bryant
Duriel Harris
video by Bryan & Jake Saner
video by Chi Jang Yin
talkback with Tony Trigilio

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 at 8pm
Tisa Bryant
Amina Cain with Rachel Tredon
ThickRoutes Performance Collage
video by Bryan & Jake Saner

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 at 7pm
Amina Cain with Rachel Tredon
Duriel Harris
ThickRoutes Performance Collage
video by Chi Jang Yin

FULL SCHEDULE ONLINE

TICKETS $12
$10 students, seniors, & working artists/writers

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

A Writers' Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama's Inauguration




The ascendancy of Barack Obama to the United States presidency has inspired artistic expression around the world, so it’s not surprising that an anthology of poetry in celebration of the 44th president’s inauguration would emerge. DePaul University will commemorate the occasion when 20 poets included in “A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration” read from the work at 6 p.m. on Jan. 20 in the DePaul Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., Room 314.


The anthology was published by the university’s Humanities Center and the DePaul Poetry Institute and was edited by Chris Green, poet and visiting fellow of the center. Fifty poets answered when Green put the call out just days after the election of Obama, asking writers to create poems that would help capture the historic moment.


“I was at home watching the election returns and wishing that I was downtown in Grant Park,” recalled Green. “I felt I needed to do something more.”


Green says the idea to create an anthology of poems marking Obama’s election crystallized the next day while he toured “1968: Art and Politics in Chicago,” an exhibition of DePaul’s Art Museum that focused on the civil unrest surrounding events that unfolded during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.


“I was struck by images of Grant Park during that time—the bullying by the National Guard—and the contrast of the peaceful, powerful images from the night before when some 250,000 people from all walks of life gathered in Grant Park to witness the election of Barack Obama. I thought of bringing different writers together.”


Among the poets included in the anthology are Kevin Coval, Reginald Gibbons, Susan Hahn, Parneshia Jones, Richard Jones, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Haki Madhubuti, Elise Paschen, David Trinidad, Judith Valente and Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody.


Award-winning author Stuart Dybek offered the following note on the book jacket: “These poems celebrate both the hope embodied in the man, Barack Obama, and a renewed hope for the promise of American democracy. So natural an act as praise seems a wondrous release after the necessity to protest the previous eight years of disastrous American policy.”


Green, who holds a master of fine arts degree from Bennington College in Vermont, writes in the preface: “Politics is cruel, but poetry is pure and each poem here is naked as an eagle. Some are heavily perfumed, healthy with hope; others lace promise with intricate worry.”


For a limited time, “A Writers’ Congress” will be offered gratis. To order a copy, e-mail your name and mailing address to aperson@depaul.edu. Limit one book per person. Please allow two weeks for orders to be shipped.


Media Contact:

Roxanne L. Brown
rbrown11@depaul.edu
(312) 362-8623

Monday, January 26, 2009

PolyRhythmic Tuesdays at The Spot

POLYRHYTHMIC "Without a Trace," a mid-winter residency at The Spot
near Uptown, Tuesdays thru February...
The Green Room @ The Spot, 4437 N Broadway @ Montrose
10 pm, $3, 21 and over, open mic for poets, singers, puppets, ringers
and you, plus featured performers:

Jan.27 RICH EXPERIENCE! "Keytarist, Hilariator"

Feb.3 NIKKI PATIN Performance poet/burlesque artist/ vocalist/media
commentator/ poetry slam champion/ PolyRhythmic co-founder

Feb.10 JAMAAL VS MAY Author/ teacher/ performance poet from Detroit

Feb.17 BIG POPPA E slam legend from Northern California & WONDER DAVE
MPLS slam master, international slam competitor.

Feb.24 SEAN CONLON Hampshire College spoken word organizer &
performer/ Hampshire County, MA slam master, national slam competitor

...and then the return of "Safe Smiles" in March!

myspace.com/polyrhythmicchicago
Helltrane since 2001

Friday, January 23, 2009

sunday @ women & children first







Time: Sunday, January 25, 2009 4:30 p.m.

Location: Women & Children First

5233 N. Clark St.

Alice George & Brandi Homan


Tonight we celebrate the release of new works by two acclaimed Chicago poets. Alice George is a widely published poet, whose new collection, This Must Be the Place, explores materials spanning folklore, fairytales, politics and science, inviting readers into an imaginative world of unusual range and intimacy. Of Brandi Homan’s new volume, poet Joan Larkin raved, “I love Brandi Homan’s poems in Hard Reds. They ride language like a daredevil, talking tough while they strip down to their unabashedly hungry heart.”

WEEK THREE: Chicago festival

WHEN DOES IT OR YOU BEGIN?
(MEMORY AS INNOVATION)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin
at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL

WEEK THREE
Memory’s Encounter: The Language of Position
featuring experimental literature, creative lectures, and multimedia presentations

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 at 8pm
Karen Christopher
Quraysh Ali Lansana with collaborators
[G Baker, Preston Poe, Craig Nakamoto, Shanta Nurullah]
Vanessa Place
Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël)
video by Cecilia Vicuña
talkback with Ed Roberson

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 at 8pm
Teresa Carmody with Vanessa Place
Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) with
Christine Stewart
video by Gaelen Hanson
video by Cecilia Vicuña

SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 at 7pm
Teresa Carmody
Karen Christopher
Quraysh Ali Lansana with collaborators
[G Baker, Preston Poe, Craig Nakamoto, Shanta Nurullah]
Christine Stewart
video by Gaelen Hanson

FULL SCHEDULE ONLINE
LINKS HALL BLOG

TICKETS $12
$10 students, seniors, & working artists/writers

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

WEEK TWO: Chicago festival


WHEN DOES IT OR YOU BEGIN?
(MEMORY AS INNOVATION)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin
at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL

WEEK TWO
Collective Memory: Collaboration is Group Work
featuring collaborative projects, translation, visual art & community organizing

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 at 8pm
Patrick Durgin with Jen Hofer
John Keene with Christopher Stackhouse
Laurie Jo Reynolds with collaborators
[Amy Partridge, Stephen F. Eisenman
& Tamms Year Ten]
video by Temporary Services
talkback with Terri Kapsalis

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 at 8pm
Tradeshow
Jen Hofer with Dolores Dorantes
John Keene with Christopher Stackhouse
Jennifer Karmin with collaborators
[Mars Caulton, Joel Craig, Lisa Fishman, Krista Franklin, Chris Glomski, Daniel Godston
& Lily Robert-Foley]

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 at 7pm
Tradeshow
Jen Hofer with Dolores Dorantes
Jennifer Karmin with collaborators
[Kathleen Duffy, Brandi Homan, A D Jameson, Lisa Janssen, Erika Mikkalo, Ira S. Murfin
& Timothy Rey]
video by Laurie Jo Reynolds
TICKETS $12
$10 students, seniors, & working artists/writers

Monday, January 12, 2009

PolyRhythmic at The Spot starting January 20th

PolyRhythmic's weekly open mic show resumes Jan. 20 at The Spot


This just in kiddies! The owners of The Spot (4437 N Broadway) have graciously allowed us to have our open mic show upstairs in the "green room" while Trace is shut down for renovations. There will be no show January 13, but we'll get it up and running January 20th, and we really want people to come.

Things are basically the same except for the venue.

PolyRhythmic Without a Trace
Tuesdays @ THE SPOT
4437 N Broadway
sign-up starts @ 10 pm
4 minutes to do your thing
21 and over please


Love,
Elizabeth, Drew, Bill, Billy, and Zeeshan

Friday, January 9, 2009

Myopic Reading

Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor

http://www.myopicbookstore.com/mynews/

contact Larry Sawyer for booking requests
...larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com


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Sunday, January 11 – Elizabeth Marino, Erin Teegarden & Daniel Godston

Elizabeth MARINO is a published poet and educator, who has lived in England and traveled extensively from her home base in Chicago. Her well-received chapbook, <>Heart: A Spiritural Journal <<(Ora Valley, AZ) will include one of her poems. Print publications include: the anthologies >>Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazon y la tierra<< (MARCH/Abrazo Press) and >>Breaking Mirrors/Raw Images <<(4:30 Poets); print magazines After Hours, Strong Coffee, Nit & Wit, the NAB Gallery Pamphlet Series. and Envisage (U.K.). As a member of the She Laughs Collective, she contributed to the spoken word CD >>Elements of Life, Love and Action>>, produced by Mars Coulton. She is a graduate of the UIC Writer's Program. To find out more about Elizabeth's work, visit voices.e-poets.net/MarinoE.

Erin TEEGARDEN is the co-founder, co-organizer and emcee of the reconstruction room reading series (www.recroomers.com). Currently, she teaches Literature at Columbia College and is a poet-in-residence at Children's Memorial Hospital through Snow City Arts. She received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA from Indiana University. She is the founder and former managing editor of the University of Pittsburgh's first online literary journal. She is also a former recipient of the Associated Writing Programs' "Intro Journals Award," and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: pms (poemmemoirstory), Conte Online, Lorraine and James, nanomajority, the Bellingham Review, Eye-Rhyme, Sunspinner, Poetry Motel, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, and Pittsburgh's City Paper, among others.

Daniel GODSTON teaches, writes, and creates music in Chicago. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Chase Park, Versal, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, Eratica, California Quarterly, after hours, Moria, Horse Less Review, Smoking Poet, Sentinel Poetry, and is forthcoming in The Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. His poem “Mask to Skin to Blood to Heart to Bone and Back” was nominated by the editors of 580 Split for the Pushcart Prize. In February 2007 he curated the Forth Sound Back event, in the Red Rover Series. He works with the Borderbend Arts Collective to organize the Chicago Calling Arts Festival.


Upcoming

2009 Schedule

SATURDAY, Feb 14 - Special AWP Reading in conjunction with milkmag.org and coconutpoetry.org. Readers so far include: Amy King, Bruce Covey, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Reb Livingston, Natalie Lyalin, Gina Myers & Jen Tynes (Note: THIS SATURDAY READING BEGINS at 8:00)

Sunday, April 5 - Oni Buchanan & Donna Stonecipher

Sunday, April 19 - Karen Leona Anderson & William Allegrezza




[Thank you for supporting the Myopic Poetry Series.]

fourth sundays

FOURTH SUNDAYS

RHINO POETRY WORKSHOPS

and peer exchange



sponsored by RHINO/the Poetry Forum



COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!



Evanston Public Library

Church & Orrington

1:30-4:30 -- Room 108



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Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Leader: Greg Grummer



Greg Grummer has been published in numerous small presses, including Rhino, APR, Ploughshares, Hunger, Fence, Indiana Review, Fine Madness, and more, and will be appearing once again in RHINO 2009!. He's a graduate of the George Mason MFA program in poetry. He lives in Milwaukee where he and his sister run the family business marketing hand papermaking kits and supplies. He has a five year old son Jack, who, someday, all this (whatever that might be) will belong to.



Greg's topic: Titles... the various issues involved in the title of a poem.



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



*$5 donation appreciated



This project is partially supported by grants the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.



For more in: RHINOPOETRY.ORG



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FOURTH SUNDAYS

RHINO POETRY WORKSHOPS

and peer exchange



sponsored by RHINO/the Poetry Forum



COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!



Evanston Public Library

Church & Orrington

1:30-4:30 -- Room 108



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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.



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Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Leader: Greg Grummer



Greg Grummer has been published in numerous small presses, including Rhino, APR, Ploughshares, Hunger, Fence, Indiana Review, Fine Madness, and more, and will be appearing once again in RHINO 2009!. He's a graduate of the George Mason MFA program in poetry. He lives in Milwaukee where he and his sister run the family business marketing hand papermaking kits and supplies. He has a five year old son Jack, who, someday, all this (whatever that might be) will belong to.



Greg's topic: This. This is that.

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

*$5 donation appreciated



This project is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.



FOR MORE INFO: RHINOPOETRY.ORG

Molly Malone's

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.


Monday, January 12, join us in welcoming poet and musician Dan Godston

Dan Godston has taught poetry and other art forms through The Poetry Center of Chicago and several other organizations. He also teaches literature and composition classes at Columbia College Chicago. His poetry and fiction have appeared in After Hours, Chase Park, Versal, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, California Quarterly, and other magazines. He is a composer and jazz trumpeter, as well as a heck of nice guy.

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

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

7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic
9:00 -- featured reader


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.

cool stuff

WHEN DOES IT OR YOU BEGIN? (MEMORY AS INNOVATION)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video

Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin
at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL

WEEK ONE
Individual Memory: A Celebration for Hannah Weiner
featuring performative readings, butoh dance, & installations

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 at 8pm
Judith Goldman with collaborators
[John Beer, Lisa Janssen, Julia Klein & Monica Westin]
Nicole LeGette
Jenny Roberts
Timothy Yu
video by Abigail Child
talkback with Laura Goldstein
opening night reception with festival artists

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 at 8pm
Lee Ann Brown with collaborators
[A D Jameson, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Sarah Merchlewitz,
Anni Rossi, Aurora Tabar, Rachel Tredon & Miranda Torn]
Roberto Harrison
Nicole LeGette
Jenny Roberts

SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 at 7pm
Lee Ann Brown with collaborators
[A D Jameson, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Sarah Merchlewitz,
Anni Rossi, Aurora Tabar, Rachel Tredon & Miranda Torn]
Judith Goldman with collaborators
[John Beer, Lisa Janssen, Julia Klein & Monica Westin]
Jenny Roberts
Timothy Yu
video by Abigail Child

TICKETS $12
$10 students, seniors, & working artists/writers

FULL SCHEDULE ONLINE
http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml

WEEK ONE: BUTOH WORKSHOP
January 10 from 11am-3pm
Topography of the Subtle Senses
with Nicole LeGette
$35

tallgrass writers guild (a contest)

Outrider Press' Literary Anthology/Contest Guidelines Sponsored by Outrider Press in affiliation with TallGrass Writers Guild

Working title: Fearsome Fascinations. We interpret broadly; can mean fascination with the paranormal as well as snakes and spiders, and dangerous/extreme sports, addictions and the allure of Forbidden Fruit: Bad Boys, Vamps, flirty married bosses, vices, etc. Especially interested in poetry. Previously published material and simultaneous submissions OK. $1000 in cash prizes for First ($500 each for poetry and prose) as determined by the judge, tentatively scheduled to be Diane Williams. Also: 2nd and 3rd places, and Hon. Mention. All winners receive Featured Reader status at the Kick-Off Reading at Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair, the nation's third largest book fair of its kind (depending on CTPRBF scheduling). Each published contributor receives a free copy of the anthology. Entry fees for each category are $16, reduced to $12 each for TWG members. Required entry form for the 2009 Anthology/Contest is part of COMPLETE GUIDELINES available from or , replacing (at) with @.

Poetry: Single-page poems to 28 lines – single spacing OK for poetry. Prose poems may be treated as prose at judge's discretion. Reading fee for 1-4 poems: $16US/$12US- TWG member. For 5-8 poems per person: $32US/$24US- TWG member. For 9-12 poems: $48US/$36US, etc.

Prose: 2500 w
ord limit per entry; sections from longer works accepted. Reading fee for each entry: $16 US/$12US-TWG member. For 2 prose entries per person: $32US/$24US- TWG member; for 3: $48/$36, etc.

NO LIMIT ON NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS IN EITHER CATEGORY

DEADLINE: Postmarked no later than 2-27-09. Mail submissions to: TallGrass Writers c/o Outrider Press, 2036 North Winds Drive , Dyer, IN 46311. FOR COMPLETE GUIDELINES: < outriderpress( at)sbcglobal. net> or replacing (at) with @ or 219-322-7270 or toll-free 866-510-6735

woodland pattern

SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, JANUARY 10, 11, 17, 18: CREATING AN ENSEMBLE VOICE: A WORKSHOP IN COLLECTIVE MUSICAL IMPROVISATION, DIRECTED BY HAL RAMMEL; 1-4PM

Creating an Ensemble Voice: A Workshop in Collective Musical Improvisation
Directed by Hal Rammel

Saturdays and Sundays, January 10, 11, 17, 18; 1-4pm ($75/$70)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

This workshop is open to musicians of all musical experience and background: classical, jazz, folk, rock, experimental or electronic, amplified or acoustic, amateur or professional, experienced or novice.

Participants will be required to bring a musical instrument on which they have reached a reasonable degree of comfort and dexterity. Musical instruments may be commercially manufactured or homemade.
The voice may also be considered an instrument in this context. If your instrument is amplified bring your own amplification.

Participants will extend their skills toward freely improvising outside of conventional ideas about musical structure and style; or, in other words, they will explore music that follows the sound rather than proscribed formula or expectation.

This workshop will take place over 4 sessions exploring group improvisation and will culminate, for the final session, in a performance by the ensemble in the gallery at Woodland Pattern Book Center on Sunday, January 18th, at 2:00 p.m.

Hal Rammel has been involved in music and the visual arts for over 40 years. As a composer and improviser he utilizes instruments of his own invention. He has taught musical instrument design and construction alongside composition and improvisation with unconventional sound sources at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Experimental Sound Studio, and, under the auspices of Meet the Composer in the 1990s, for A. E Burdick Elementary School in Milwaukee. He is the curator of music programing at Woodland Pattern Book Center and hosts Alternating Currents on WMSE (91.7 FM) every Sunday night.

Call Now to sign-up! 414.263.5001

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14: NEW PROSE SERIES: FRED ARROYO READING; 7PM

New Prose Series
Fred Arroyo Reading

Wednesday, January 14, 2009; 7pm (FREE)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

Fred Arroyo is the author of The Region of Lost Names: A Novel (University of Arizona Press, 2008). He is currently working on new fictions and completing a book of essays, Close as Pages in a Book. Initially, Arroyo grew up on the east coast in a bilingual community, and when his family moved to the Midwest his sense of language, identity, and place became defined and, strangely, more fleeting. His writing and life is driven by a hunger for words. In Spanish there is the word anyoransa (a deep sense of longing and nostalgia). Nostalgia and possibility, memory and longing — they make life and fiction credible and mysterious.

"The Region of Lost Names begins in the earth and ends by the sea. Between these two points are characters as memorable as the worlds they inhabit, from the fields of Indiana to the mountains of Puerto Rico. Fred Arroyo has written a lovely, wrenching book that is sure to make a mark in the regions where our names and origins are found.

--Pablo Medina, author of The Cigar Roller: A Novel

"A haunting and beautifully written story of honor and regret."

--Carla Trujillo, author of What Night Brings

Selected by LatinoStories.com as one of the 2009 Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch (and Read)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16: REDLETTER READING SERIES & OPEN MIC: JACK SPICER BOOK RELEASE READING HOSTED BY KARL SAFFRAN; 7PM

Redletter Reading Series & Open Mic
Featuring a Jack Spicer Book Release Reading
Hosted by Karl Saffran

Friday, January 16, 2009; 7pm $3/$2 open mic
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

An evening of readings and performances in celebration of My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31: 15TH ANNUAL POETRY MARATHON & BENEFIT; 10AM-1AM

15th Annual Woodland Pattern Book Center Poetry Marathon & Benefit

Saturday, January 31, 2009; 10am-1am ($8/$7/$6)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

Every year, on the last Saturday of January, over 125 poets, writers, and performers show their support for Woodland Pattern by participating in its Annual Poetry Marathon & Benefit. Each writer presents five minutes of work to a packed house and raises pledge money benefiting Woodland Pattern programming.

Hundreds of People faithfully turn out for this vibrant community event. Last Year's Marathon drew an audience of over 500 people, and featured over 125 readers from across the nation. Through the funds brought in by each reader and the generosity of donors, we were able to further support programming for Woodland Pattern during the calendar year of 2008. We expect to have another great turn out in 2009 and hope that you can be a part of our legacy!

Participating in the Marathon is one way you can invigorate the literary arts community in Milwaukee. It is not to late to sign up to read, become a donor, or bring a friend along to witness the action. Hope to see you on the 31st, your spirit and energy is important as we kick off another year of great poetry and art at Woodland Pattern.

FEATURING:
Young Poets Hour from 10am-11am
Don't miss the first hour of this year's marathon! We will feature students from Woodland Pattern's writing workshops and our Woodland Creatures Poetry Camp. We are continually impressed by their imagination, honesty, and energy. Please show your support and join us in celebrating Milwaukee's young and promising poets.

Women of Milwaukee Hour from 9pm-10pm
This hour will feature talented women writers from the Milwaukee area. Last year's Women of Milwaukee hour packed the house. Make sure you show up early this year if you want to get a good seat!

Collaborations Hour from 10pm-11pm
This hour will feature writers, artists, musicians, singers, and song-writers. Come see how these talented artists weave words with other forms of artistic expression to make successful collaborations.

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/marathon_2009.shtml

UPCOMING EVENTS
January:
Thurs. 1/8: "Voices of the Future" Group Poetry Reading by South Division High School Students, hosted by Jelena Trkulja; 6-8pm FREE
Sat. & Sun. January 10, 11, 17, 18: Creating an Ensemble Voice: A Workshop in Collective Musical Improvisation, directed by Hal Rammel; 1-4pm
Tues. 1/13: Still Waters Collective Salon for Teens; 6-7:30pm FREE
Wed. 1/14: New Prose Series: Fred Arroyo Reading; 7pm FREE
Fri. 1/16: Redletter Reading Series & Open Mic: Jack Spicer Book Release Reading hosted by Karl Saffran; 7pm
Sat. 1/31: 15th Annual Poetry Marathon & Benefit; 10am-1am

DONATE NOW! and become a member of Woodland Pattern
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/membership/index.shtml

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events, send a message to us at woodlandpattern@sbcglobal.net with
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Monday, January 5, 2009

Waiting 4 The Bus

Featuring Laura Dixon
Featuring Dan Godston
Hosted by Buddah309
Open mic.
Food n drink.
7:30 in the pm
Jaks Tap
901 W. Jackson
Waiting 4 the Bus is a Poetry Green Zone
suggested donation to benefit our features