October 25th
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.
Leader: Tony Trigillio
Tony Trigilio is the author of the poetry collection, The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006); the chapbooks, With the Memory, Which is Enormous (Main Street Rag Press, 2009) and Make a Joke and I Will Sigh and You Will Laugh and I Will Cry (e-chap, Scantily Clad Press, 2008); and two books of criticism, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) and Strange Prophecies Anew (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000). With Tim Prchal, he co-edited Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). He teaches at Columbia College Chicago, where he also co-edits the poetry journal Court Green.
Tony’s topic: Documentary Poetics
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
