Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Molly Malone's

Monday, Jan 11

7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic (5 minutes per reader)
9:00 -- featured reader

Molly Malone’s
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL

Hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova

invite you to be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.

Feature Erin Teegarden

Erin Teegarden teaches literature at Columbia College Chicago and facilitates the writing lab and Poetry Club at American Intercontinental University Online. She also works for the nonprofit Snow City Arts, teaching creative writing to patients at Children's Memorial Hospital. She is the founder and former managing editor of the University of Pittsburgh's first online literary journal, and is the co-founder and current organizer of the reconstruction room, an innovative reading and performance series in Chicago. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Little White Poetry Journal, eye-rhyme, Sunspinner, PMS (poemmemoirstory), Bellingham Review, Conte Online, nanomajority, preling, and Pittsburgh's City Paper, among others. She received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003, and a BA from Indiana University in 2000.

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