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