Sunday, September 27th, 2009
1:30-4:30
Evanston Public Library -- Room 108
Church & Orrington
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.
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Leader: Kathleen Kirk
Kathleen Kirk is the author of Selected Roles (Moon Journal Press, 2006), Broken Sonnets (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and Living on the Earth, forthcoming from Finishing Line in 2010 and an honorable mention winner in their New Women’s Voices series. She was an editor of RHINO Magazine for ten years, and ran the RHINO Poetry Forum at the Normal Public Library, in Normal, Illinois. As a graduate student at DePaul University, she was an associate editor of Poetry East. Her poems, stories, and essays are widely published in print and online journals and anthologies, including After Hours, Common Review, Fourth River, Greensboro Review, Fifth Wednesday, Ninth Letter, Poems & Plays, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press, 2008), Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions, 2009), and A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration (edited by Chris Green, DePaul Poetry Institute, DePaul Humanities Center, January 20, 2009). She will read from Broken Sonnets in the RHINO Reads series at Brothers K in Evanston on November 20.
Kathleen’s topic: Reading Poetry Aloud -- as an aid to revision and in service of poetry at public events.
Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of work you want critiqued.
*$5 - $10 donation appreciated
This project has been partially supported by a grant fro Poets & Writers.
For more info: RHINOPOETRY.ORG
